In an period when the setting can closely affect buy habits, bicycle possession is a sustainability play.

The worldwide bike market, based on SkyQuest Know-how Group, will develop over the following 5 years by 6.1% to $89.8 billion as extra folks transfer away from vehicles for numerous causes.

Now in 46 nations and producing 100,000 bikes a 12 months, the U.Okay’s largest bicycle maker, Brompton, is on an awareness-building mission. A worldwide advertising and marketing marketing campaign and information artistic platform, “ab ra ca dab ra,” are simply the beginning.

“We’ve bought completely different ranges of consciousness all through the world,” world advertising and marketing director Shelly Pearce advised Adweek. “It’s an thrilling alternative now to have the ability to actually clarify to folks what Brompton can carry to their lives—it’s way more than only a bike.”

The corporate has simply produced its 1 millionth folding bike this month and has its first retail companion in John Lewis, one of many U.Okay.’s greatest shops.

Following a wholesome interval of development through the pandemic, the corporate has seen income squeezed by rising inflation. This led to the worldwide brand-building marketing campaign.

What makes a Brompton Bike?

Underpinned by the idea of “transformative freedom” and highlighting the “magical engineering” behind its customary and electrical folding bikes, the model goals to attach with “city outsiders,” described as “folks with an city mindset residing and exploring town exterior.”

The product-led model marketing campaign, developed by artistic company ScienceMagic alongside the model’s in-house staff, references the imaginative and prescient of founder Andrew Ritchie when devising the concept of the Brompton Bike in 1976. He described it as “a magic carpet” to take folks throughout London.

That is mirrored in breaking apart the enduring magic phrase into 5 syllables—”ab ra ca dab ra”—as a motorbike unfolds in 5 motions, in addition to different five-word phrases resembling “love out-doors and in” and “watch me fold in 5” throughout 4 brief movies.