Bo and Blo's Pirate show

This great photo of a Brox Compact with a matching trailer is from the Velovision web site report on the 2006 York Cycle Show



And there are more details and many wheeled mad vehicular goings on at the Bo the Clown web site



Just wonderful, and another eight wheeled combination.

Brox Against the War

15th February 2003


South Bank - with guest rider...


22nd March 2003


Hyde Park

"Brox on Scrap Duty"

Somewhere in The Lanes, Brighton.



By GravityKarma

Can't work out any more details, but this machine has clearly been well used...

Moss Solar

Moss Solar created this modified machine.



A solar powered Brox Compact!

I can't help thinking that it's not the most elegant solar powered vehicle I've seen, but at least it solves the problem of mounting wing mirrors on a Brox.

The builder is also into electric boats...

Brox Compact for Sale

Robin over at Hackney Permaculture is having to sell his Brox Compact.



Visit the advert here if you are interested.

Promobikes

Possibly the biggest current users of Brox Compacts are Promobikes



They've even fitted some out with TV screens!

The Brixton Cycles "Old Shop Van"

Brixton Cycles is a workers' co-operative bike shop



Photo by Brixton Cycles.

Another machine with blue hubs...

Firebrox

Probably the most well known Brox Compact in the UK, Firebrox is the main sound system for the London Friday Night Skate.



I caught up with it at the original 2007 London Freewheel. Note the striking blue wheel hubs.

The machine is heavilly modified to help carry the 2kW PA system, with 52 gears and from odd forum posts it seems the hard work it goes through results in it needing a significant amount of maintenance, there is a detailed post covering the problems here.

This is version 3 of the sound system, I think version 2 was this one, built of wood, photographed back in 2003.



and this was the first attempt.








Firebrox on Flickr.

Gardening Brox

Updated - see comment from Robin - this machine is up for sale.

Found on the Hackney Permaculture Blog - bought secondhand in 2009, it is the former BikeFix shop Brox - see below.

and a lovely image of it filled with flowers



Strangely it only seems to have a single brake lever.

Rob Brock, the inventor of the BROX

Rob Brock, the inventor of the BROX died back in March 2009.

There is a tribute to his life and work on the VeloVision web site.

The Bikefix Shop Brox

This was a photo of the Bikefix shop Brox, out with a soundsystem and DJ on the back at a London Critical Mass ride in April 2004.



I was getting a bit of stick that day from the shop crew for turning up on my Brompton....

This is my Brox Compact

The image is from the Bikefix web site.

This was my Brox Compact at Bikefix before I collected it. I had to wait when I turned up to collect it because they wanted to take photos of the new design. Mine had turned up with the new fiberglass mudgards which are much more robust than the earlier ones, and give the machine a more solid look along with the striking blue wheel hubs.

It was built by Kingsmead Associates, in Canterbury, though I think it is no longer in production.

It's a great machine to ride, I just regret not having more excuses to use it.

I bought it back in 2002, just in time for Croydon Car Free Day, 22nd September, and ended up carting a trike home, in addition to the trailer - 8 wheels in total.



Carbusters published this photo...

It wasn't the only one in Croydon that day



Sadly world events soon took over and only 6 days later on the 29th the machine was pressed into service in the anti-war cause, involving a 20 mile round trip to central London and the fitting of a set of lights.



At the end of the march I met another Brox rider with his young familly who told me stories of taking it on the train to Cornwall, they just turned up with a cycle booking and got it on the train.