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Hmmzis

The bar tape looks a bit botched and cheap. The pain job is great though.

Muckers

iwillhtfu wrote: »

She's beautiful to me (Bar tape is possibly changing to black though )

My ex frame. Nicely pimped up but I had Sram red bar tape on it. Looked well too. Good luck with it, you got a bargain there.

iwillhtfu

Muckers wrote: »

My ex frame. Nicely pimped up but I had Sram red bar tape on it. Looked well too. Good luck with it, you got a bargain there.

She's being spoilt rotten. She'll be ready for the road as soon as new inners/outers show up. I may well have to order red tape just to see how it looks.

Vizzy

^^^^^^

Have you got the gate there in case she makes a bid for freedom ?

iwillhtfu

Bikes on one side. Rug rats on the other. You can never be to careful That's her bedroom in the background

Bloggsie

never mind the bike, which is nice(bar the handle bar tape) for me its the use of quality toilet roll that makes this OP the daddy!

iwillhtfu

Bloggsie wrote: »

never mind the bike, which is nice(bar the handle bar tape) for me its the use of quality toilet roll that makes this OP the daddy!

My arse deserves a touch of quality it gets enough abuse on the saddle.

Alek

Such an impractical colour scheme for mud I'd see a bit more teal in it too.

Lusk_Doyle

Did anybody run discs during the cx season?

Eamonnator

Lusk_Doyle wrote: »

Did anybody run discs during the cx season?

Well, I more walked them, than ran them.
I have nothing to compare them to, as the only CX bike, I ever sat on, had discs.
But, they were great, mechanical set up. It appeared to me, that there was less clogging, than there would have been with cantis.

Alek

I did. Why?

(I have no comparison to cantis though)

Lusk_Doyle

Alek wrote: »

I did. Why?

(I have no comparison to cantis though)

I want to know how they compare to cantis. Will you get a cantis setup and report back? Cheers.

The tax man

I ran discs this season. I can say this much, they stopped me when I needed them to and they didn't make that horrible canti noise while doing so.:D

Alek

After comments from other people riding cantis ("they offer suggestion of braking" - dave_o_brien) I'd stick with my discs

and they didn't make that horrible canti noise while doing so.

Mine squeal like pigs on the road when its wet. Suprisingly no noise in the mud.

On the other hand, I have different rotors on my CX wheels.

Lusk_Doyle

I like everything about this except the saddle position.

lennymc

diamond back made good bikes back in the day iirc.

R1_Pete

My Planet-X RT58 Carbon.
In the end I upped the cranks and pedals to Ultegra so its full matchy matchy, and held out for the Matte black..

So glad I did. Only one half decent spin on it so far but going to ring the neck off it this weekend

Bloggsie

yes bar the one in the top RH corner the brickwork is vey good!

Eamonnator

R1_Pete wrote: »

My Planet-X RT58 Carbon.
In the end I upped the cranks and pedals to Ultegra so its full matchy matchy, and held out for the Matte black..

So glad I did. Only one half decent spin on it so far but going to ring the neck off it this weekend

Lovely bike. Very stealthy.
Are there any Planet X decals on it?

Thargor

R1_Pete wrote: »

My Planet-X RT58 Carbon.
In the end I upped the cranks and pedals to Ultegra so its full matchy matchy, and held out for the Matte black..

So glad I did. Only one half decent spin on it so far but going to ring the neck off it this weekend

Do you cycle on flat pedals with those black resin toe clips screwed on to them? How do you find that? Im thinking of trying other options like that again, starting to hate SPD.

Alek

I used to cycle with those plastic half-clips made by Zefal. They're very good for what they are, keep your shoes in position on the pedal and release easily in case of a fall, but they're no match for SPDs

I may still have a spare set, need to check, PM me if you're interested

R1_Pete

Eamonnator wrote: »

Lovely bike. Very stealthy.
Are there any Planet X decals on it?

Cheers Eamonn, there is a small PX Decal on the headtube and one faint one on the underside of the downtube, neither very noticeable..

R1_Pete

Thargor wrote: »

Do you cycle on flat pedals with those black resin toe clips screwed on to them? How do you find that? Im thinking of trying other options like that again, starting to hate SPD.

I just recently (2 cycles ago) swapped them for SPD on both my commuter bike and the PX, still getting used to the SPD and wouldnt rule out the flat/resin combo for commutuing as its really felxible, any shoe etc, and easy to get in and out of, but so far im loving the SPD's on the weekend bike, ive yet to comute with them though..

They were just on in that picture for testing until the SPD arrived..

P

Scrappy600

Eamonnator wrote: »

Lovely bike. Very stealthy.
Are there any Planet X decals on it?

I'm guessing the design hasn't changed since '14......very understated graphics, hardly notice them
As mine appears

iwillhtfu

So just to update since last pic she's gone entirely dark now including crankset thanks to a bargain on Rose, black jagwire road pro cable kit,stem and bar tape. Happy chappy and already building up a new winter bike

arybvtcw0eolkf

^^^ Sweet

Muckers

iwillhtfu wrote: »

So just to update since last pic she's gone entirely dark now including crankset thanks to a bargain on Rose, black jagwire road pro cable kit,stem and bar tape. Happy chappy and already building up a new winter bike

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very nice.

Muckers

My new self build just finished yesterday. Looking forward to giving it a run out at the weekend.

Eamonnator

Gorgeous.
The red outer cables tie it all together nicely.(just like Lebowski's rug)

iwillhtfu

Muckers wrote: »

My new self build just finished yesterday. Looking forward to giving it a run out at the weekend.

I'm looking forward to taking it off your hands already