Hi everyone

I'm interested in buying my first Brompton having a look at the options in a bike shop that stocks Brompton's in Dublin, I noticed they had two options for a 6 speed C line explore the first, which uses black paint is priced at €1800 and the one with the lacquer finish is priced at €2090 all being equal between the two which I presume to be the case is the lacquer worth the extra premium especially when you factor in that neither model listed below comes with a rear rack fitted as standard?

Lacquer addition

https://www.pennyfarthingcycles.com/bikes/folding-bikes/brompton-m6l-black-edition-black-lacquer-c-line__10903

Standard addition

https://www.pennyfarthingcycles.com/bikes/folding-bikes/brompton-m6l-black__9151

From my understanding, a lacquer finish adds a uniqueness to each bike as the way it is hand applied means that two bikes with the same finish are slightly different and this increases the value of the bike and may add extra value. If the bike is resold?

For some reason Brompton's website doesn't seem to play very well with my setup of Firefox, so forgive me for asking this here, but has there been any update to the C series since 2023, which both bike models listed above are from.

by RJ_4_the_win

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  1. Unless it is a special edition Brompton then no it won’t matter when it comes to resell

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