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As above, silver only but all sizes. Bargain.
I know there's a few folk on here been looking at them, this could be all the justification you need!
http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRPXLONROD/planet-x-london-road-frameset
Hmm, that is almost cheap enough to make me replace my Kaffenback from with one. Tempting.
Can you put road brakes on this? Is that a thread on the fork/seatstay for the caliper? Thinking of replacing my Defy frame....
Can you put road brakes on this?
No, that hole is for mudguard fitting. The drop to the rim is huge
Damn good deal!
Your Defy frame will be nicer though anyway surely Kryton?
damn planet-x and their random price movements (I paid the more expensive price 🙁 )
why is the geo wrong? reach is longer than TT!
At 5'10" I am either medium or large. Does the frame come up small, quite short seat tube, stand over of large is same as my medium Fargo. Large has good stack for me. Anybody 5'10" with one?
Brian
Replacing my Kaffenback with one of these, good PSA! Fancy something lighter that does the same job. Now I just need to sell my two Kaffenback frames!!
I'm 5ft 10" and I have a just received medium sized full bike. I ordered the flat bar as a commuter bike with a view to sticking drops and shifters on at a later date along with some knobbly tires for some CX/Adventure.
Compared the geo against my 54cm Supersix Evo, which fits me perfectly and the medium London Road looked the closest match. I know the Supersix is race geometry and this isn't a race frame so I looked for the few measurements that were most important to me.
ooof! Really? Sorely tempted,
I'm assembling a sort of hack-cross effort out of old parts at the minute, can't really justify a new frame but it is very tempting...
You Buggers!
Grim what size are ur kaffenback frames please?
Having only ridden mountain bikes, I'm a little out of touch with this kind of thing but would love to give one a go.
Could anyone give a rough idea of how much it would cost to build a complete bike around the frameset?
Looking at budget components and second hand where possible but have no idea how much I should expect to pay for wheels, brakes etc
Would I be able to build one up easily enough for sub £500 or would it make more sense just to go for a complete build? ( http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLDNRDAPEXFB/planet-x-london-road-argento-sram-apex-flat-bar-urban-bike)
I have a used medium of the old style cream/brown ones that don't take disc brakes, and I have a small black one of the newer ones that do take discs that's never been used (don't ask!)
It's one like this rather than the latest one:
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You could buy the frame for £150, Sora groupset for £190 from Ribble (brakes would be surplus though). That would leave £260 for a wheelset, tyres, bars, stem, seat & post, plus the all important set of disc brakes. Probably be closer to £600.
I'm 5'11" and have the large running a 110mm stem and compact drops with a couple of spacers under the stem.
Your Defy frame will be nicer though anyway surely Kryton?
I don't know, it's only the basic alu one. But the LR might have given me a CX / school run option if I could have swapped all the fear.
Bloody typical ! ... only bought a lime one last week ! 😯
Only thing id say is watch the top tube length , i have a small pinnacle arkose as well and the london road is 20mm shorter on the top tube which i hadnt noticed 🙁
Swap your fear, Kryton - you'll feel better for it. 🙂
Would you be able to run 29er wheels on this frame?
Yes, its got loads of tyre clearance.
That new stealth black colour looks pretty nice...
Is there anybody who is 6'2" with one of these? The size guide puts me at either the large or X-large frame size and just wondered how they size up.
not worried about clearance so much as is it 135 spacing not 130?
Damn. I have my heart set on the green one.
hebdencyclist - Member
Damn. I have my heart set on the green one.
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Oh yes.....
Hmmm... buy silver one for £150, get it powder coated at Triple S for £60, any colour I like...
Hmmm...
Hmmm...
My freshly built SS london road
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Looks like a road groupset on the built bike, so may indicate 130mm rear? Anyone confirm. PlanetX/On One are crazy in the lack of technical details they include on their web site, after all most people are having to buy without actually trying the frame. Needs accurate reach and stack as well as frame hub widths.
Looks like large if flat bar and medium with drops at 5'10".
Brian.
If anyone's looking for a cheap build, I've got my original boardman cx team wheels and brakes going spare. Only done 300 ish miles.
135mm rear spacing , 100mm front
That's really nice stumpy_m4. I have just enjoyed SS all winter and just swapped to gears and new wheels for the summer on my 29er, so have a spare set of SS suitable wheels as long as frame takes 135mm. Could you confirm which it is please?
Brian
*must...not...buy*
Thanks. Which rear chain tensioner did you use?
Got wheels, cranks, stem, bars, brake levers, seat pin, saddle, chain, pedals.
Just bb7's, gear cables, bar wrap, tyres.
Oooo. Nice cheap fun bike.
Brian
@ brianp , yeah 135mm, just checked 🙂
and i used an on one doofer for tension, id prefer something that pushed up rather than down, so im on the look out for another
This is tempting. Does it come with a headset? If not which one would fit?
Anyone know if the frames includes a Headset? Once I start totting up additional items vs stuff in the garage that won't fit a London Road, the cheapest frame/fork stars becoming less of a bargain.
Headset not included, bought the £40 fsa caged bearing one from planet x which was utter junk and an absolute bitch to get the crown race on, so much so i ended up chipping the forks !!!!!
in the end i got a lifeline (sealed bearings) one from wiggle for £19 which is excellent quality
I'd be all over that if it wasn't for the gross silver colour on the cheap one.
I am slowly building up the justification in my head now, it would be a "long term build", flogging off stuff to cover the costs, by winter I could have it setup running 1x9/10 old XT cranks, pair of spare hubs rebuilt with 622 rims, cheapest finishing kit I can find... I could happily live with silver. And it removes many of the headaches I was going to have getting an old steel MTB frame talking to discs and 700c wheels... The kaffenback fork I bought for that project could go on my commuter fixie before winter meaning I get a better front brake for that too...
DH bike will be going on eBay in pieces, Parts from the SS too (the PX would replace that for winter duties)...
It's looking like my drop barred bikes will outnumber my flat bared ones by quite a margin... How did that happen?
It's looking like my drop barred bikes will outnumber my flat bared ones by quite a margin... How did that happen?
yep same here 3 to 1 now !
Yep Same ratio here (or will be)...
Trigger pulled (cringes) on a silver in large.
Bargain-cross here I come!
@dknwhy - Could I have a few details about your brakes & wheels - and how much would you be after for them?
Still just thinking it over at the minute but with wheels and brakes sorted at a reasonable price I'd have no reason not to buy one!
@lennyhenry they're the standard ones off my cx comp (tektro lyra calipers and rotors)
Spec [url= http://www.boardmanbikes.com/cx/cx_comp.html ]here[/url]
One of the rotors is stuck on the hub as one of the bolts rounded.
£90 plus postage or collection from Croydon.
Also got the boardman 31.6 seatpost and saddle that you can have for £15
Now it's ordered I am thinking about it's future use, anyone got any photos of a London Road kitted out for bikepacking/touring duties?
grum how much for small frame??
stumpy_m4 - Member
Headset not included, bought the £40 fsa caged bearing one from planet x which was utter junk and an absolute bitch to get the crown race on, so much so i ended up chipping the forks !!!!!
in the end i got a lifeline (sealed bearings) one from wiggle for £19 which is excellent quality
This is interesting, I thought at first that only that one particular headset form FSA would fit. Good to know that there are other options out there! 🙂
Do you mean this one? [url= http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-1-18-15-intergrated-headset-with-alloy-cap/ ]Link[/url]
karnali - probably about £100 but I'd have to check out about how much postage would be. Whereabouts are you? I'm in W Yorkshire. I need to check if I've fitted a headset too - have a feeling I have.
Fancy something lighter that does the same job.
I'd double check this, Kaffenback ([url= http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRPXKBD2/planet-x-kaffenback-2-frameset ]link[/url]) frame weight quoted as 2.2 kg and London Road ([url= http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRPXLONROD/planet-x-london-road-frameset ]link[/url]) frame and forks weight quoted as 2.3 kg.
Need to establish if Kaffenback page the 'frame' weight includes forks or not as the product is a frame set and not just a frame.
The kaff frame weight does NOT include forks
I had a pompetamine, it weighed around 2.7kg, plus 1kg for the forks.
How capable are these frames for off road / CX style use?
cookeaa - MemberIt's looking like my drop barred bikes will outnumber my flat bared ones by quite a margin... How did that happen?
because 'mountain biking' has become something that needs 160mm travel, dual compound tyres, full face helmets, kneed pads, chairlifts, and a speed-emo sound track.
most of us don't need any of that for the mix of quiet roads and mellow bridleways that our local off-road riding incorporates.
IIRC my L Pompetamine was 2.3kg
'd double check this, Kaffenback (link) frame weight quoted as 2.2 kg and London Road (link) frame and forks weight quoted as 2.3 kg.
SURELY it has to be considerably lighter than a Kaffenback with the matching forks? 😯
It is - the Kaff weight is frame only.
@ sherma75, yeah that's the one ,fits soo much better than the fsa one from planet x and half the price
Good to know, thanks stumpy! 🙂
Anyone know if the P-X frame stickers on this are easily removable, or whether they are under a clear coat? Thinking of getting one and doing a "stealth" build as a gift.
My understanding is that they are under a clear coat...
..funny, you get the idea of PX having a container full of each size :lol:.
Ordered a large today will build up to a great 1x9 or 1x10 commuter/cx bike - .
Hey cookeaa I commute the A4 also, try not to cramp your style (I'll dive off down the towpath if I see you about 😉 )
@ flyby wire - Don't worry, I have very little style to cramp....
Most of My commuting will still be on the fixie I expect it's what it was built for, but I might start to use the London Road to go via the Kennet tow path as that almost takes me door to door with absolute minimum traffic, got a feeling it might take me a while to build it up though.
that's ok then 🙂
mmm silver, not first choice but ok - thinking about it owned a 1985 raleigh striker,1995 kona hei hei, 2005 giant trance all silver (!)
yep might be Sept when built but could be sooner - versatile 29er for commute at present
Bloody hell mine came already! Delivery people just let themselves into my porch and left it there. 🙂
Fancy posting a photo? How's the silver colour? I'm super curious to know what it looks like when not in a photo shoot à la Planet X web site! 😉
Amazing what you can be arsed to do when you are supposed to be working....
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I quite like it. Might find some horrible turquoise bar tape to match the logo colours. 😀
I've been trying to resist...looks nicer than stock photos.
Anyone planning a flat bat version (basically swapping out an old mtb frame)
I was thinking about building one up as a flat bar bike, and then moving to road groupset/bars when I find things that are on sale.
That does indeed look really nice!
Yes, planning a flat bar commuter here also
Grum, those pics just cost me 150 quid. P-X should use your lucd or pay a percentage...
Grum or others can you weigh it?
What wheels are people putting on it?
Wheels wise I am torn between just buying something like [url= http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/WPSHOEMRX05/shimano-wh-rx05-road-disc-wheelset ]these (another PX bargain)[/url], or taking the perfectly functional pair of spare 32h hubs from my now defunct SS mtb, and rebuilding them with some cheap 622mm rims, like rigida taurus' cheaper, possibly more robust, but more faff, and heavier...
Im liking the silver more than my lime one 😳
I bought one and also the shimano wheels above. Will be fitting a sora triple group set and on one midge bars, don't really know why but I've always fancied giving them a go!! Also got continental cyclocross speed tyres and some bright blue bar tape to finish it off!!
Can't wait for it all to arrive.......
Used my flat bar commuter today for the first time and it was ace. Really comfy. The Lime Green is amazing. Do feel I will stick drops on it after summer.
Grum, those pics just cost me 150 quid. P-X should use your lucd or pay a percentage...
🙂
Al I have no means of weighing - feels pretty light though.