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How to adjust the P / T line Brompton locking block
This is a short video showing how to adjust the advance locking block on the P line and T line Brompton folding bike
What's the locking block?
It helps keep the bike locked in the folded position - so when you pick up the bike it stays folded
If it is adjusted / set up badly then one of two things can happen
1/ the bike unfolds when you pick it up (when you don't want it to)
2/ the seat post doesn't go down correctly (it catches) when you are trying to fold the bike
We show how it can be adjusted to run as designed
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You looked great in your office attire.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you! And thank you for watching!
Hallelujah! You have eased my life a lot by giving this news to the P-Line public.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for watching. So glad it helped!
@user-us6by2nq6x
Жыл бұрын
@@brilliantbikes 😀🚲
@user-us6by2nq6x
Жыл бұрын
Hey ho & cheers from the continent, Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪, Roluf.
You looked great missing your train 😂
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! And thank you for watching!
I'm so pleased to see that you and your Brompton only travel first class 🙂🙂
Hello, I am sure this video is going to be super helpful to lots of people for many years to come... Great stuff... Take care. Paul,,
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!! We hope so too!
Thanks for this - very helpful.
@brilliantbikes
10 күн бұрын
Glad it helps! Thanks for watching!
So HAPPY to see this video. I was upset with my P-Line … wanted to sell it. But now, I will fix it. I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, all of them. ❤
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
So glad it helped! All the best with sorting your P line out. Thank you for watching!
I haven’t got a Brompton but I thoroughly enjoy you videos. Thanks
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
You mean you haven’t got a Brompton yet. 😀. Thank you for watching!
I love your videos! So informative and best of all entertaining! We need girls like you over here in the States! ❤
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks! And thank for watching !
Finally I understood how it is possible to keep the P-line folded even with the seatpost half way up. I wonder whether this block could be retrofitted to the old C-line as well.
@darwiniandude
Жыл бұрын
That's what everyone wants to know :) I suspect not, due to cable routing, and the screw... there is likely nowhere to fit the screw into on the older models. However I've been looking at my Brompton and I'm confident it should be possible to make _something_ to fit into that space, to get the same result.
@BadByte
Жыл бұрын
By the Brompton part digram and checking my own C line. Short answer No. Long answer maybe but at your own risk. What Brompton part Q102709 (Brompton Advance Rear Frame Locking Block) connects to is the "front fender bar" on the C line and it is "dented" to give clearance for the seat post when down and judging by the diagram on the P line this rear triangle part has been changed into an L laying long side down and welded to triangle for rigidity and with a M4 hole at just where the fender ends to give space for the new Locking Block I guess a a skilled hobby welder might be able to do it or maybe cutting the front fender bar into a half pipe. Seems like a lot of work for marginal gain.
Extra upvote for those great shoes!
@brilliantbikes
11 ай бұрын
Thank you so much! My favourite, but rubbish to walk in! Thanks for watching!
How I needed this video a few months ago. Thanks for taking the time to make this vid.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching and I hope you managed to sort it!
Now I know what the problem is!!!!! Thanks so much.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching and so glad it helped
A missed train is bad, especially given how few run an hour through Sunningdale these days plus great cycling 👠 as well
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!! It’ll take another 30 minutes ish! Not the best chose of shoes for riding in!
All joking aside, these videos are really useful.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
So glad it was helpful, thank you for letting us know and for watching
I have learnt something! Adjusted my T Line. The standard e-hook should also be adjustable. I have an after-market arriving soon that will remove "the gap" (pardon the pun).
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks for watching. Hope the hook works nicely
As an owner of a now outdated, oldtimer, 2019 SuperlightM6LXBrompton (For now close to 9 kilos, even with my mudguards on my bike (I'm a Dane)! Try to beat that with a T line, for double the price and less gears! Okay, I have changed much to titanium, along the way, adding to its high price, but still with 2 gears more for extremely steep roads!). But my locking system works every time, if wanted (I also have a position for constantly being unlocked)!!! But I have an elastic, black Velcro band round the frame and inside the wheel also, for security when folded, which I leave on the bikes frame during ordinary use also. No problem! Finn. Denmark 😄
@brilliantbikes
11 ай бұрын
Many thanks for watching and for your comments!
Nice video. I like technical content when you focus on one aspect of Bromptons. However, if you were a proper commuter in London, you’d have been wearing trainers to catch the train! 😊
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Wry true! Not those silly heals! Thanks for watching!
@wrong-unkim9080
Жыл бұрын
If she were a proper London commuter she would have been on platform one; she was obviously pretending to be a Reading commuter where outrageous shoes are the thing!
Back with another one of those block rockin' turns
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Lol! Thanks for watching!
Wow, I've been looking for this for a few weeks, didn't know why it happened to me
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
So glad it helped and hope it’s all sorted now. Thanks for watching!
looking very dashing in the suit :) only issue i have with my p-line to date is the free hub is too loud !
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks for watching! Ah the hub noise, some people pay for the extra noise, as generally it’s a sign of better engagement 😀
Hi, really cool video thanks. I'm buying a P line at the end of the month, could you please do a video showing how to adjust the four gears please?
@brilliantbikes
10 ай бұрын
That’s a great idea! Thanks for the suggestion!
I noticed this problem when I first got my p-line back a year ago. Then I added a spacer to the screw so that it would both tighten and hold the seatpost in place (added 1-2g of weight of course😗)
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
So glad you sorted it! It really annoyed us!
What an absolute faff. I’ve never had a problem with my older Brompton unfolding thank to that wee plastic hook that goes around the chain stay.
@darwiniandude
Жыл бұрын
I believe on the previous models it's not the hook that stops it unfolding so much as the stop disc, the adjustable stopper behind your rear brake which touches the bottom of your seat pole when you lift the bike. However if the seat is raised, the bike does unfold. This new design is based around the idea that you can have the seatpole halfway up and wheel it around by the seat pole. It's a different placement of the same type of idea: something to press against the seatpole.
@RustyKnorr
Жыл бұрын
@@darwiniandudeIt’s called a seatpost. 🤦♂️
@darwiniandude
Жыл бұрын
@@RustyKnorr since the 80's here in Australia I've always called it a seatpole, that's what people I knew called it. At least you knew what I meant.
@theotherstevesteve
Жыл бұрын
@@RustyKnorrthe seat post presses against a rubber stopper which stops the hook unhooking. Unfortunately the old rubber stopper appears not to be flawless as I have managed to loose another one :-(
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks all for watching!
Excellent! Thank you!
@brilliantbikes
10 ай бұрын
Thank you for watching!
Probably not very practical shoes for riding a Brompton (or any bike) but they do look great!
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
They were my favourite shoes when I had an office job. Now I realise they are not even any for walking in! Thanks for watching!
Very useful again.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much!!
Great video. I have no interest in bikes folding or non but liked it
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks for watching!! We really appreciate it!
0:02 😍that outfit!!!!
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
😂 thank you and thank you for watching!
my brompton P line ‘s locking block is too close even when I fully rotated adjust volt. what should i do? it keeps bumping everytime i put down sitpost ..
Sounds like the train is laughing at you at 0:15 🤣
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
It was, as was I!!! Thanks for watching!
The future... who knows? It is very intriguing that third cable capacity. The P Line triangle doesn't have the two welded points necessary for the standard chain pusher underneath and the derailleur spring above, so it cannot use the old/standard derailleur gears, so it is not compatible with standard 2/6 speed. But the P triangle does have the cable pulley fitting welded/brazed on so you could use a regular hub, so you can use a P Line with hub gearing as long as you route the cable through the stopping block. So you wonder... at some point in the future is there going to be a bike that uses the P Line triangle and hub gearing and will there be a 2-speed version of the 4-speed derailleur so use alongside a hub... so, possibly a six-speed bike with a P Line triangle... why, I don't know, when you can use a superlight titanium triangle and existing C Line derailleur+hub setup, but it's pretty tantalising, some kind of hybrid next generation P Line...?
@brilliantbikes
10 ай бұрын
Yes. We can’t wait to see it!
Perfect timing
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Phew! Thanks for watching!
Yeah. I was carefully holding my folded P-line for months in fear of unfolding it accidentally. 10 minutes at a Brompton shop solved it.
@brilliantbikes
11 ай бұрын
So glad it’s sorted! Thanks for watching!
Hello ❤ very nike vedio 👍👍👍
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching
Fabulous legs, btw.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks! And thank you so much for watching!
I'm curious as whether the usual road vibrations will gradually losen the bolt so it would need to be regularly readjusted?
@fernandomagalhaes2957
Жыл бұрын
I made the same thought. How attentive must I be? Good question.
@codak29
Жыл бұрын
Use blue threadlocker to prevent loosening from vibration.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
In theory they should not as it has lock right on it. I think I know led it when I fitt f the rack.
Lovely
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thank you and thank you for watching!
Is this on the 2022 model? I’m having a similar issue
@brilliantbikes
3 ай бұрын
Many thanks for watching. It’s on all P / T lines
aah, that explains why I'm struggling to get the seat post down, I thought it was just me being a plumb
How did that make you miss your train ? The carriage was empty, so just carry it on half folded and fold it back up when you were on.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Lol! We were trying to make a bit of a point. I was not getting the train 😀
So let me get this right, Brompton have changed something and made it worse?
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching Not made worse - it's just different on the P Line compared to the C Line. The same thing can happen there but the adjustment is different - so we thought we'd show how to adjust this one should it happen
Жыл бұрын
It's actually better. You can push your folded bike with seatpost halfway up and it does not unfold (if properly adjusted.) C-line requires seat post to be all the way down in order to prevent unfolding.
nice classy heels! Can you ride the bike with them?
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Lol! I forgot how hard they are to walk in! It’s been 2 years post office job, when I wore them every day! Nope I never ride in them, just wore them for fun. Thanks for watching!
Ok, cheeky confession. Though a tinkering geek, I clicked on this video because of those calves.. 😅🤭
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Lol! Many thanks for watching! My confession, the calves only look like that due to many many hours on the bike!
@Jermeister
Жыл бұрын
@@brilliantbikes It shows! Keep it up! 🙏
I cannot adjust the screw that easily… it takes a lot of force..
@brilliantbikes
3 ай бұрын
We have not found it is hard at all, is it screwed al the way in? Thanks for watching!
Another informative video, not sure about the acting though 😂😂. Ps Brompton must be watching, they posted a tyre video before you, a few days ago, but it's dreadful in comparison, mumbling man & poor sound quality & poorly edited & poor explanations, nice to see you are back, get the tyre video done 👍
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Many thanks!!! We have the tyres ready! Now just to film it!
All that crust of the sand stuck in the bolt when adjusting😆
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
Riding in that skirt?! Seriously?! Lol
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Good point… and sorry I did not attempt it! Thanks for watching!
I've been riding this bike for about a month kzread.infoUgkxwC0IIeIomGQVeBWg-kKJaToZkLEFIA2W and a half now and I think it's fantastic. It helps me get to work on time every day since I'm able to fit it inside of public transportation rush hour. The price is great too, people are always shocked when they ask me how much I paid for the fold up and I tell them "200". It's easy to fold and installation when it ships is insanely easy. All you have to install when the bike arrives is one foot pedal, everything else is done for you. I do recommend you carry some sort of wrench to tighten any loose screws on the handle bar and seat whenever they get a little bit loose. Other than that I think it's a fantastic bike. Easily fits in the home, can fit inside a car trunk and can even fit in subway rush hour.
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
We don’t sell used bikes. So please ask who sold it to you. Thanks for watching.
Hello ❤ very nike vedio 👍👍👍
@brilliantbikes
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching