Brompton improves on a good thing with the G Line of bicycles

It mightiness not beryllium instantly obvious, but the Brompton G Line is the archetypal large redesign of the iconic British folding bicycle successful its astir 50-year history. It’s adjacent bigger than the motorboat of its first e-bike in 2019, virtually and figuratively.

The G Line is disposable arsenic a standard bike with an internally geared Shimano Alfine 8-speed hub oregon arsenic a 4-speed e-bike with derailleur. Both models diagnostic bigger 20-inch wheels with abdominous grippy Schwalbe tires, hydraulic disc brakes from Tektro, wider handlebars, and a framework geometry that much intimately resembles full-size bicycles.

It each adds up to what should beryllium a little twitchy thrust that’s suitable for much varied terrain connected a motorcycle that’s easier to work implicit clip fixed the enactment of non-proprietary parts and casual to find 20-inch tires and tubes. The lone tradeoff would beryllium a somewhat larger and heavier motorcycle that’s inactive lighter and folds up smaller than conscionable astir immoderate different bike... but an archetypal Brompton.

Brompton’s selling the G Line arsenic an all-terrain motorcycle which is fascinating fixed its long-standing relation successful supporting multi-modal metropolis commutes. It claims the G Line is “the astir versatile motorcycle successful the world... for the metropolis and beyond.”

The caller G Line launches conscionable arsenic GoCycle — Brompton’s smaller cross-town e-bike rival — announced its plan to instrumentality connected Brompton with its ain lineup of 20-inch non-electric foldables. 

The modular Brompton G starts astatine £2,399 / €2,849 portion the electrical G commencement astatine £3,499.00 / €3,999. It’s unfastened for preorder successful the UK and Europe with deliveries already slipping to respective weeks. Those tax-inclusive prices would equate to astir $3,170 for the modular G Line bike, oregon $4,500 for the electrical G, erstwhile Brompton puts them connected merchantability successful the US sometime successful 2025.