Making the Brompton Your Own: Colors

You’ve chosen your Brompton essentials for optimum functioning and fit. Now comes the fun part.Each year, Brompton offers a selection of muted and more flamboyant colors. For many people, color selection is the most delightful (and frustrating!) aspect of building a custom Brompton.

Premium Finish

Each year Brompton offers a trademark lacquer finish which shows off the the quality and craftsmanship of the hand-brazed frame. Currently Flame Lacquer and Black Lacquer are offered on certain bikes The Flame Lacquer is vibrant copper-tinted clear-coat over the metal frame, and Black Lacquer is a smoke-tinted clear coat.

Each bike made with the Lacquer finish has a unique appearance due to variations in the surface coloration of the metalwork and brazing. The look is somewhat industrial in character, with natural variations between individual bikes. The Lacquer finish uses the same powder coating process as the other frame color options (with the plastic powder having no pigment), and it gives identical durability and protection from corrosion. The steel frame parts on all Brompton bicycles will age and a patina will form over time; the purpose of the raw lacquer finish is to allow the natural aging and altering of the bicycles appearance to be visible, and this will happen differently for every example. The phosphate treatment the Brompton steel undergoes prevents any cosmetic corrosion from becoming structural.

The premium finish may not be combined with any other, so the main frame and the extremities will share the same finish.

FLAME LAQCUER

Black

CLOUD BLUE

HOUSE RED

RACING GREEN

MATCHA TEA

Standard Colors

The standard powder-coat colors for the upcoming season are Black, Cloud Blue, British Racing Green, House Red, Cloud Blue and new Matcha Green. There may be additional seasonal color introductions.

P-Line Brompton will be available in two metallic finishes: Black or Storm Gray.