Bicycle touring Japan - Bicycle repair
This blog post is about how my brompton gets fit for the next weeks of touring through Japan.
The days in Tokyo I have used to get my poor brompton seen by a brompton specialist just to make sure everything is still in order. Well, now I have a new rear tire (the profile was quite worn down), and even more importantly new rubbers on the brakes, which were very worn down. Plus apparently the "bottom bracket cardridge" needed to be exchanged due to some manufacturing error. I hadn't heard about that recall, but this got fixed immediately as well.
And here it is, all fixed in front of its much more colourful cousins:
The days in Tokyo I have used to get my poor brompton seen by a brompton specialist just to make sure everything is still in order. Well, now I have a new rear tire (the profile was quite worn down), and even more importantly new rubbers on the brakes, which were very worn down. Plus apparently the "bottom bracket cardridge" needed to be exchanged due to some manufacturing error. I hadn't heard about that recall, but this got fixed immediately as well.
And here it is, all fixed in front of its much more colourful cousins:
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