Planet X Titanium?…. anyone?

maviczap wrote:

guycoz wrote:

I’ve just got my Tempest in Large. I’m just under 6′ and it fits me well, if a little on the smaller side of what I expected. If you want minimal saddle-bar drop, I’d size up rather than down.

Thanks, that was what I was going to do. However I stumbled upon a Kinesis Ti Gf disc on eBay.

Top tube is 55cm and headtube is a healthy 15cm, I’d have probably prefered the next size up, but the headtube was only another 1.5cm taller, and the top tube was over my usual size, long legs shorter body

It has all the elements I was looking for, although twice the price of the tempest, but including the forks.

So hopefully that’ll do for me?

I’d say so – fine bike, I’ve never seen a bad review and it was on my list for a long time as the do-it-all, keep forever bike.

Then I fell out of love with disc brakes and couldn’t find the rim-braked version in time, and settled on a Bowman Layhams instead.

I’ve just got my Tempest in

I’ve just got my Tempest in Large. I’m just under 6′ and it fits me well, if a little on the smaller side of what I expected. If you want minimal saddle-bar drop, I’d size up rather than down.

maviczap wrote:

So to resurect this thread, I’ve been looking at getting a Tempest V3, as they’ve just reduced them to £610 from £899

But here’s my dilema, what size to go for?

My Usual size is a 55/56 road frame, with a 110mm stem. I’m 5’10

So going by their size chart, I should go for the medium, but its headtube is only 125mm. As I’m not that flexible in the spine, I prefer a taller headtube, so the large with a headtube of 155mm is the  headtube length of most of my bikes. But the top tube is 57 on the large.

So go for the large, with an inline seatpost & shorter stem, or go for the medium?

I’ve had a frame with a short headtube & I couldn’t get on with it, and I’m not a fan of riser stems?

Similar Reilly frames have taller headtubes thier medium is 140mm, but twice the price of the Planet X

The Pickenflick has a 155mm headtube, but I prefer the Tempest v3 as it has flat mount calipers

Help!!!!!

Other than the reach the important relationship to get right is saddle setback. Pop the geo of your current bike and the Tempest in to one of the online geometry trackers and see which works best. In my experience my fit is more sensitive in terms of placement of saddle over the BB than the reach.

See if you can get the reach to bars where you want it and the saddle in the same place relative to the BB.

This probably won’t affect you but the days of long-setback seatposts seem to have come to an end – the only one I’ve found readily available with more than about 30mm is the Nitto S83 which has around 45mm (currently on sale at PlanetX…)

Brant is back at Planet-X as

Brant is back at Planet-X as off last month, so it’ll be interesting to see how things progress.

I was considering one of thier carbon bikes last month, but too many recent tales of woe pushed me towards Merlin instead.

I’m 5′ 11″ and hired a Planet

I’m 5′ 11″ and hired a Planet X Pro Carbon in size L when I was in Lanzarote a couple of years ago and it was spot-on for me if that helps at all.

Tslater wrote:

Tslater wrote:

Rob I’m thinking of buying a planet x hurricane and 4 months after you posted above Ithere still arent any reviews. Are you still happy with the bike, and particularly the brakes? I’ve not read the greatest things about mechanic disc brakes, the Avid BB5 in particular…. lots of adjusting required etc. I suppose they could be on the list for an early upgrade.. Thanks Tom

BB5 brakes have been around forever and while they “work” when set up correctly, setting them up is a b#stard of a job, and you need to do it every five minutes.  The problem is they have one moving and one fixed (adjustable) pad, so the pad on the moving side actually has to bend the disc towards the other pad.

I replaced the BB5s on mine with TRP Spyre (where the pads grip the disc from both sides) and they’re a million times better.  Five minutes to fit them too: fit loosely, connect the cable, pull the brake lever to centre the caliper, tighten the bolts.

Stiphodon wrote:

I have an PlanetX Pickeflick. Have bikepacked around 2000kms on it, mostly on road with some gravel. I love the bike, handles well with sram force.  However, it has formed a large crease in the upper end of the downtube where it meets the headtube. I cant for the life of me figure out how it happened. I’ve contacted OnOne numerous times over a few weeks with no response from the company, which is a bit dissapointing from a support point of view

Pop over to singletrackworld.co.uk and see whether you can track down Brant in the forum, if he’s still involved with the company, he should take an interest in this.

I was doing some research

I was doing some research about the tempest before I was looking to buy one and like folks here, didn’t find much. Now that I’ve had it a few months, I’ve put some pics and some notes about it up here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/wyllie/sets/72157689621217540/with/41259679502/

I have modified it since receiving it by:
1) adding a 400mm carbon in-line seat-post (to replace the 400mm carbon aero lay-back one that it came with)
2) putting a shorter stem on
3) putting my Pacenti Forza / Hope Hub wheels on that I use for commuting (the Fulcrum 700 they came with remain with gravel tyres on for off-roading)
4) Adding Time Atac XC8 carbon pedals (the bike didn’t come with pedals and I’m a long time Time user)

Very pleased with it. About 9.5kg on the scales (size large). About 2kg lighter than my previous Boardman team CX and feels incredibly different. So much better. Feels incredibly responsive. Probably both a combination of the titanium frame (Boardman was alu) and improved groupset (was running Apex 1x before). Hydraulic brakes so much better too.