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Form the latest mailshot:
https://flic.kr/p/2dCv5gf
Looks good but realistically what are the chances of all three of us buying one? (It's like Sick! bikes in reverse...)
Epicyclo would be 1. What about the other 2?
Just got to bait the hook and wait....
I'd be the 4th who waited untill they were selling them at cost rather than full price.
Having said that I've bought a vagabond and singlespeeded it so it would have to be both good and cheap to justify a swap just to ditch the tensioner (an on one doofer ironically).
I reckon Kerley would have a fixed one...
What a tool...
Usual Brant and PX contempt then, i like how they made a "monstercross" bike with what look like 33c tyres and a headtube so short that it needs a stem that points at the moon, they didn't make it very well...
Plus knowing PX is will have a 31.8 seattube and a 1 1/7th headtube.
Funny how Pinnacle, Genesis etc have successfully managed to sell them, not just 3?
That looks proper shit - frames too small, forks too long, tyres too skinny, silly stem and inline seat post - the pointy-up saddle is the final piece of purgatory. Probably weighs a ton and rides deader than a doornail! Even if it was £99 I wouldn't buy it.
Being honest Scud the email doesn't read like that to me.
Seemed a fun enough mailout.
And that bike is just part of their past, not a current model, they were just trying to show the route that led to the current Full Monty.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/146501625@N06/32508920298/in/dateposted/
What about a woman with clean fresh skin ?
Today only, £500. Next week £450 🙂
So they full context article goes back over the PX history, the reason for that is that was when PX meant good quality bikes for a fair price, when they had a hand in design and you could understand their sales/ customer service, the Inbred etc were good bikes and the first decent bike for many..
That bares little resemblance to the PX i've had dealings with over the last few years, design now is "we'll have 2124654 from the catalogue please, and don't worry about the R&D or glitches we'll get the customers to sort those out"..
I give you all the bike locks on their website, the mailshot said, "these haven't actually past European testing yet but when they do pass the tests, they'll go up in price so buy them now..."
Or the container of Giro helmets they bought from Europe bypassing the importers, then when they started failing, and people starting going back to the actual importer, they were quite surprised about where they were all coming from..
Personally for me:
- A Holdsworth SS road bike with paint that fell off when you looked at and stays weren't square so wheel sat at an angle.
- A Fatty Trail frame where the seatube was too big, so it needed a Coke Can shim to keep seatpost up.
- A Reverb seatpost that failed and when i sent it back they denied having received it, and kept this up for two months despite Post Office supplying name of who signed for it there, would not give me a refund after two months, they sent me back out another fault Reverb.
- A rear light that worked....once, then would not hold charge.
And the best part, when i mentioned the above on a Facebook post, one of their staff took it upon themselves to send me a load of abusive FB Messages, when i contacted PX, didn't want to know, they said he was on long-term sick, so that was OK then?
They've just become the Sports Direct/ DFS of bikes, shame really as they did make some great bikes (as the mailshot alludes too) and if you're lucky and get one that works now, then again they represent good value, unless anything goes wrong with it and you have to deal with customer services.
Today only, £500. Next week £450
🙂 Hooked the fish, reeled them in and then slapped down the advert 🙂 Quality budget advertising!!
What about a woman with clean fresh skin ?
I wish you'd used the photo with the better cut out. I get to work with people with clear fresh skin. It is nice.
Hooked the fish, reeled them in and then slapped down the advert
Yeah I knew I should just walk away, not even look. But the worm was so juicy....
TBF Brant's not really wrong you'd have a thread started by one or other of us going "Ohhhh Look at this frame, it's only Twenty three pence!" a few of us would gush about how awesome it looks for the money and then the same misserable gitswould come along with their annecdotes of PX/OO Customer service/product failures...
Half of us will then sither as we mull the "PX-QC gamble" over, then the price goes up by a tenner and we just move on muttering about hare shirts and the state of the UK ecconomy. The other half get drawn into the argument about Quality and OO/PX VFM and distracted from the original point and never buy one either... The three they might actually sell are probably not sold to actual STWists, at least not until they're 2nd hand...
That said, looking at that photo I still like the idea of a New Pompetamine (not a pompino or a kaffenback); 135 spaced slot dropouts with disc mounts, to takea 27.2 seat post, but now with up to the minute Grrrravel tyre clearances (~700x45mm+) and a 44mm head tube. Obviously even if they make that, I'll probably not actually buy it...
hare shirts
Sounds warm. Does it shrink as bad as their merino?
Its like nothing has changed though, same old guerilla marketing from 2005, same old at the expense of being offensive about someone (it was a "bikepacking keyboard warrior" last time), same old Brant.
Anyway I thought STW Towers took a dim view of suppliers advertising their products on the forum? Oh maybe not.....
scotroutes
Epicyclo would be 1. What about the other 2?
🙂
Would have if I'd seen that original monstercross frame advertised.
My idea of a perfect bike is one I can ride all day on the road, but able to take tyres that can handle mtb type surfaces (or in other words, nice juicy 2+" tyres).
That would be the perfect bike for poking around the best bit of Scotland, eg part round the North Coast 500, get fed up off the traffic and go native on the gravel and rough roads for the rest of it.
A fat Pompino.
Oh maybe not…..
They are allowed a right to reply when others post about them though, yes?
Linking to the original ad seems fine when others are commenting on an out of context extract from it, no?
Not really, as it was a baited trap from the start. Be rude about STW forum users, guaranteed will be mentioned on STW forum, jump in with link. Same old, same old.
My idea of a perfect bike is one I can ride all day on the road, but able to take tyres that can handle mtb type surfaces (or in other words, nice juicy 2+” tyres).
That would be the perfect bike for poking around the best bit of Scotland, eg part round the North Coast 500, get fed up off the traffic and go native on the gravel and rough roads for the rest of it.
A fat Pompino
I agree and I'm looking to see whats out there atm. I should never have sold my Gryphon 😆
That looks proper shit – frames too small, forks too long, tyres too skinny, silly stem and inline seat post – the pointy-up saddle is the final piece of purgatory. Probably weighs a ton and rides deader than a doornail! Even if it was £99 I wouldn’t buy it.
Shall we put you down as a maybe then? 🤔
Not really, as it was a baited trap from the start. Be rude about STW forum users, guaranteed will be mentioned on STW forum, jump in with link. Same old, same old.
Well I enjoyed reading brants link, not sure it was rude, I thought it was funny. It's their job to get us talking about their brand so well played.
The stw forum has been so slow recently it was nice to read something new and interesting.
Rude? I think that could easily be defended under "fair comment" if it went to libel trial.
They’ve just become the Sports Direct/ DFS of bikes
They wished.
Evans have become the Sports Direct of bikes (Mike Ashley), and CRC the DFS (market leader, with constant sales).
To my knowledge, Brant has yet to come along on here and speak about a customer's finances.
So he's cool, some of you lot are quite often huge bellends and attract the piss taking.
Also, never folded a Brant bike in half.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty funny myself!
To my knowledge, Brant has yet to come along on here and speak about a customer’s finances.
He might, if the person involved had divulged the info first, or simply been economical with the truth in the lead up to the details being discussed?
Also, never folded a Brant bike in half.
Ridden any down the 50/01 line?
Also, never folded a Brant bike in half.
Yeah but did your brother while yours was still in the box...
Nope never had a PX bike fold in half...
As above had a Fatty Trail where seat tube was so big it needed a shim to get seatpost to stay up..(at the same time a whole container of London Roads had same problem)
A Holdsworth where the stays were so badly aligned the wheel rubbed and the paint fell off in chunks on whole frame and the decals looked like they had been run off photocopier that morning
A raw Mk2 Scandal where the first brake hose mount was so hard up against the headtube, you couldn't physically kink the brake hose enough to use it...
And been abused by the staff over FB messenger when they'd had a drink..
Love 'em, brilliant company!
A modern Scandal in raw, lovely.
He might, if the person involved had divulged the info first
You mean the bit where someone else divulged who it was.
And both bikes had not been ridden on the 50 to 1, whilst many square edged hits in reds will actually put more force through the frame than the 50 to 1 line will.
Both bikes folded on features that were no bigger than anything found in any UK red.
So I'll stand by my point, at least Brant can build a ****ing bike
and neither of them were your bike?
Which furthers my point that Cy is an arse. It wasn't even the person in question who had annoyed him.
Have you apologised to your brother yet?
A raw Mk2 Scandal where the first brake hose mount was so hard up against the headtube, you couldn’t physically kink the brake hose enough to use it…
Oh aye. I had one of those (briefly). Opened the box, saw the mess they'd made of it, sent it back.
Which furthers my point that Cy is an arse.
Who gave you your (well, you know what I mean) money back after your little tantrum. Gotcha.
Cockwomble said:
some of you lot are quite often huge bellends
We know a thread about that....
Wow!
Brant plays this forum like a fiddle and you are star struck?
Yup. 😎