‘How fast can you fold your Brompton?’. That’s the sizing-up question of Brompton aficionados. The folding bike equivalent of ‘how much do you bench?’ for body builders.
Unfortunately, a search for ‘fastest Brompton fold ever’ doesn’t get you a neat official table or ranking. So here is a few of the fastest folders and un-folders out there. We’re only counting those recorded using an official timer.
7.3 seconds (Brompton Korean Folding Contest 2011)
7.19 seconds (Brompton World Champs 2011)
The Brompton Boss is pretty fast too:
8.96 seconds (CEO Will Butler-Adams at BWC2013)
We did also find this one, which is super-fast but not timed officially there are a few people questioning the result in the comments!
5.96 seconds (Someone’s front room)
We better get practicing! Let us know how you get on.