Brompton

Brompton is a British bicycle maker founded in London in 1975, when Andrew Ritchie designed a compact folding bike for getting around the city, building it in a workshop under a railway arch. Every frame is still brazed and assembled by hand at the London factory, where each bike is quality-assured before it leaves.

The range has grown from the original steel folder to lightweight titanium and larger-wheel models, plus an electric version with its own app. The fold, which shrinks the bike small enough to carry onto trains and into offices, remains the core of the design, and more than a million people now ride a Brompton.