A Brompton Reborn: How to Future-Proof a Decades-Old Foldable Bike
Good design involves technical ability, industrial know-how, creativity, innovation, adaptability, and a generous helping of luck to pull the strands together. Getting it right the first time almost never happens. Converse came close with the Chuck Taylor All-Star, of course, first launched in 1922 and barely altered since. Then there’s the Sharpie marker pen, which hasn’t changed since 1964. In London, in 1975, a Cambridge engineering graduate, Andrew Ritchie, came up with a ludicrous concept