Wanted to celebrate British watchmaker's day in the most British way I could.
Christopher Ward x Brompton collab. While it's not really a collab it should be and I rode the bike to the end of the block but I got tired so I came back home. Bollocks!
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Hello everyone I have been collecting watches for over 25 years now, I have way too many but I honestly love them all no matter what brand they are. I've recently left social media and now find myself...
San Francisco, CA, USA
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7.25” / 18.42 cm
One of their electric models will have you sorted ….kinda like a mecaquartz bike..
One of their electric models will have you sorted ….kinda like a mecaquartz bike..
I can add one I guess lol
Love the brand name on it
A Brompton! Here's mine.
Now for a completely tangential and gratuitous story:
After years of pondering, I finally decided to upgrade my Brompton, and ordered this one... in early March, 2020. We all know what happened a couple of weeks later; that's how clueless we were and how quickly it came. I had been told that it would take six weeks, two month tops for it to arrive. Then the world came crashing down and ground to a halt, and I though, I'm never going to see this bike. But miracle of miracles, it made it through pestilence and mayhem across the Pond to these shores just a month late in early June. I guess they kept building bikes during lockdown. Civilization as we knew it wasn't going to crash and burn after all.
I'm glad I ordered mine when I did, before they revamped their lineup with all the A Line, C Line etc. etc. claptrap nonsense. Mine was pretty much bespoke, the old school way, and two tone; you could mix and match all the parts and colors.
So I got my pandemic bike. And the watch thing started for me as lockdown crashed down on us, as something to pay attention to that wasn't all pestilence, mayhem, and death. So now I have a box full of pandemic watches. All watches are pandemic watches to me, in a sense.
Now back to your regularly scheduled watch obsessing.
A Brompton! Here's mine.
Now for a completely tangential and gratuitous story:
After years of pondering, I finally decided to upgrade my Brompton, and ordered this one... in early March, 2020. We all know what happened a couple of weeks later; that's how clueless we were and how quickly it came. I had been told that it would take six weeks, two month tops for it to arrive. Then the world came crashing down and ground to a halt, and I though, I'm never going to see this bike. But miracle of miracles, it made it through pestilence and mayhem across the Pond to these shores just a month late in early June. I guess they kept building bikes during lockdown. Civilization as we knew it wasn't going to crash and burn after all.
I'm glad I ordered mine when I did, before they revamped their lineup with all the A Line, C Line etc. etc. claptrap nonsense. Mine was pretty much bespoke, the old school way, and two tone; you could mix and match all the parts and colors.
So I got my pandemic bike. And the watch thing started for me as lockdown crashed down on us, as something to pay attention to that wasn't all pestilence, mayhem, and death. So now I have a box full of pandemic watches. All watches are pandemic watches to me, in a sense.
Now back to your regularly scheduled watch obsessing.
Cool build! It's honestly the most comfortable bike I've ever ridden. I love it!
Cool build! It's honestly the most comfortable bike I've ever ridden. I love it!
After I got the first one, I decided there would always be a Brompton in my life. It gets me to work every day. Actually, it gets me pretty much everywhere.
I assume in grand British fashion it rained!
Brompton World Championships, Blenheim Palace. Watch is Timex Ironman Triathlon. I still have the watch - and the bike.
A word about the BWC: there are 600 riders, and it’s a Le Mans-type start. The hooter goes and you run to your bike; after unfolding it you ride through the timing gates and the race is on. Two laps of the park. There are riders with dogs in baskets, and there are Tour de France stage winners. Round the back of the course things can get a bit… fierce. Dress is jacket & tie - no Lycra allowed. On this occasion it was a bit warm - “Above sixty degrees, old boy” - so gentlemen were allowed to remove jackets. But not ties.
A word about the BWC: there are 600 riders, and it’s a Le Mans-type start. The hooter goes and you run to your bike; after unfolding it you ride through the timing gates and the race is on. Two laps of the park. There are riders with dogs in baskets, and there are Tour de France stage winners. Round the back of the course things can get a bit… fierce. Dress is jacket & tie - no Lycra allowed. On this occasion it was a bit warm - “Above sixty degrees, old boy” - so gentlemen were allowed to remove jackets. But not ties.
I'm gonna search for a video on this race, it sounds wild!
Jolly good show old chap 🧐
What strap is that? Really eye catching
What strap is that? Really eye catching
It's perlon