Comments on: Beijing: Arrival http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beijing-brompton-diary-part-one Fri, 11 May 2012 19:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Clever Cycles » Blog Archive » My relaxing weekend down south or a truck, bikes, trains, a plane, and iPhone http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-68378 Clever Cycles » Blog Archive » My relaxing weekend down south or a truck, bikes, trains, a plane, and iPhone Wed, 23 Jan 2008 01:19:01 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-68378 [...] the trusty personal jetpack: a Brompton folding bike! A Brompton is the hero of so many of my travels. With iPhone providing navigational support, I rode to the nearest Caltrain stop and headed north [...] [...] the trusty personal jetpack: a Brompton folding bike! A Brompton is the hero of so many of my travels. With iPhone providing navigational support, I rode to the nearest Caltrain stop and headed north [...]

]]> By: Clever Cycles » Blog Archive » Return of Return of the Scorcher http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-66439 Clever Cycles » Blog Archive » Return of Return of the Scorcher Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:50:51 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-66439 [...] for riding a bike as part of traffic. It’s a yearning survey of the bicycling societies China and the Netherlands, both of which have powerfully shaped our own aspirations for reclamation of [...] [...] for riding a bike as part of traffic. It’s a yearning survey of the bicycling societies China and the Netherlands, both of which have powerfully shaped our own aspirations for reclamation of [...]

]]> By: Cleverchimp blog » Blog Archive » Bikey pics from Europe http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-21535 Cleverchimp blog » Blog Archive » Bikey pics from Europe Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:28:12 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-21535 <p>[...] Dean and I are back from Europe—London and Amsterdam mainly. We’ve been back for a while; blogging has been a low priority, or rather the prospect of writing up the trip properly has kept me procrastinating. Another difficulty is that while candor and dish are part of why people read blogs, our trip was driven by a business agenda that I can’t yet disclose completely. [...]</p> [...] Dean and I are back from Europe—London and Amsterdam mainly. We’ve been back for a while; blogging has been a low priority, or rather the prospect of writing up the trip properly has kept me procrastinating. Another difficulty is that while candor and dish are part of why people read blogs, our trip was driven by a business agenda that I can’t yet disclose completely. [...]

]]> By: Todd http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-12791 Todd Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:19:00 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-12791 <p>Unary, I had no trouble placing the folded bike on the x-ray band at <span class="caps">PDX.</span> Your results may vary, of course.</p> Unary, I had no trouble placing the folded bike on the x-ray band at PDX. Your results may vary, of course.

]]> By: unary http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-12789 unary Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:27:23 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-12789 <p>Hi Todd,<br /> This is a fascinating account. I was raised in Beijing, and have been visiting periodically. Everytime I am torn between pride in their achievement, and sadness in the disappearance of what I used to call home. <br /> A techinical question: how did you get it into the Xray at security? The Xray at Ohair has a metal box infront of it that is sized to carry on limit. An brompton won’t fit in. Did you go through a special line with your claimer of “stroller”?</p> Hi Todd,
This is a fascinating account. I was raised in Beijing, and have been visiting periodically. Everytime I am torn between pride in their achievement, and sadness in the disappearance of what I used to call home.
A techinical question: how did you get it into the Xray at security? The Xray at Ohair has a metal box infront of it that is sized to carry on limit. An brompton won’t fit in. Did you go through a special line with your claimer of “stroller”?

]]> By: Todd http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-2662 Todd Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:28:38 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-2662 <p>Cartelli, you tip the bike to balance on the 2 skate wheels to move it, where it can turn very nimbly, like a hand truck. Four fixed wheels would make turning harder; besides, the Brompton rear rack doesn’t have clearance for easy-rolling skate wheels on the back (only the smaller “EZ wheels”).</p> Cartelli, you tip the bike to balance on the 2 skate wheels to move it, where it can turn very nimbly, like a hand truck. Four fixed wheels would make turning harder; besides, the Brompton rear rack doesn’t have clearance for easy-rolling skate wheels on the back (only the smaller “EZ wheels”).

]]> By: Cartelli http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-2616 Cartelli Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:38:33 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-2616 <p>Hello, I’m the guy in the brompton-talk yahoo group.<br /> About picture two: wouldn’t four skate wheels make the transport easier? Were you confortable in moving the pack around?</p> <p>Thank you</p> Hello, I’m the guy in the brompton-talk yahoo group.
About picture two: wouldn’t four skate wheels make the transport easier? Were you confortable in moving the pack around?

Thank you

]]> By: Todd http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-701 Todd Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:25:02 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-701 <p>No. They thought it was nifty. I had the Brooks saddle in my messenger bag to prevent it being scuffed. That did look like some kind of Klingon weapon in the x-ray, so they made me show them that. Stay tuned for more “bikes not allowed” Brompton tricks, including a showdown with the People’s Liberation Army on Tiananmen Square.</p> No. They thought it was nifty. I had the Brooks saddle in my messenger bag to prevent it being scuffed. That did look like some kind of Klingon weapon in the x-ray, so they made me show them that. Stay tuned for more “bikes not allowed” Brompton tricks, including a showdown with the People’s Liberation Army on Tiananmen Square.

]]> By: Mike C http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/03/19/beijing-brompton-diary-part-one/comment-page-1/#comment-700 Mike C Sun, 19 Mar 2006 22:55:09 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=94#comment-700 <p>I know there’s been a fair amount of talk about this on the Brompton list, but it still astonishes me in this era of post-9/11 paranoia (when until a short while ago you couldn’t even bring a 20-gram set of fingernail clippers onto a flight in the US), people are able to bring 25-lb Bromptons through the security screening. Did they give you any extra attention, or even look at you funny, when you sent it through the X-ray machines?</p> I know there’s been a fair amount of talk about this on the Brompton list, but it still astonishes me in this era of post-9/11 paranoia (when until a short while ago you couldn’t even bring a 20-gram set of fingernail clippers onto a flight in the US), people are able to bring 25-lb Bromptons through the security screening. Did they give you any extra attention, or even look at you funny, when you sent it through the X-ray machines?

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