How a Brompton fold-up bike is built in 2 mins скачать в хорошем качестве

How a Brompton fold-up bike is built in 2 mins

Behind the scenes at the Brompton factory in London, UK. This video shows you how the bikes are built, in under 2 minutes. Building a Brompton is a labour intensive task. It takes a factory of 115 skilled people, some 1,200 parts and six hours to custom build each individual bicycle. Every stage is inspected to meet the high standard and all the engineering, brazing, and assembly is done under one roof in West London, just a stone's throw away from where the bike was first conceived by owner Andrew Ritchies in 1975. The first stage involves the brazing of raw metal to form the main frame, rear frame, front frame and the handlebars. Brazing is used instead of welding to ensure the bike is not weakened by the process. Many of the parts are specially designed and unique to the Brompton. A large number of the tools and machines have also been specially designed or adapted for building the fold-up bikes. The parts are then sent away to be painted and are inspected on their return. This process is one of the only ones not done on site due to space restrictions. Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/go... Get the latest headlines http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Telegraph http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Like us on Facebook   / telegraph.co.uk   Follow us on Twitter   / telegraph   Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/1028913550727... Telegraph.co.uk and    / telegraphtv   are websites of The Daily Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.