VELORUTION IS PRIVILEGED TO OFFER 2 OF THE FIRST VIC LEE CUSTOM BROMPTONS, OF WHICH ONLY 500 HAVE BEEN MADE. Brompton Bicycle has collaborated with Vic Lee, a designer from Clerkenwell, Central London, to create a limited run of gloss black Bromptons, featuring a motif inspired by a love of their home city. Vic’s design of an exclusive white decal will be applied before the parts are given three further coatings of clear lacquer, and then returned to Brompton’s west London factory for assembly. The designer [...]

The launch of the Brompton Oratory Jacket has caused something of a stir in the cycling world. The jacket is supposed to solve the bike clothing dilemma – taking you from bike to boardroom to bar. Yet since when is a crumpled beige jacket, asks Tom Robbins of the Financial Times, appropriate for the boardroom? Equally – Copenhagenize has quite convincingly argued that if you are riding an appropriate bike on the right of infrastructure any clothes will do. Nevertheless the jacket did win Gold [...]

A review of wind-proof hairstyles, by Kathryn King of Bikeminded. The shots below were taken at hairdresser Kell Skött, who is running a Brompton-inspired competition (closing date: 31st October).