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Could you let me know how I can order a Tempest with Rival 22 for 1.299 as well please.
Is it sufficient to order a Rival 1 and followup with an e-mail?
Cages are Ti ones I’ve had for years. PX actually used to do a stainless steel version.
I picked the G Ones up from eBay as new take offs, £50 for the pair.
@brant
Could you let me know how I can order a Tempest with Rival 22 for 1.299 as well please.
Is it sufficient to order a Rival 1 and followup with an e-mail?
No. Don’t do that. Email me on brant@planetx.co.uk and I’ll get someone to arrange a spec but pretty sure it can’t be £1299.99.
Quick update. Took mine off-road to local woods. It was great. Even after I crashed it 🙂 Felt lively on the dirt, not as harsh as my old alloy CX bike. Did drop pressures to low 40s. Not sure I’d want to go much lower.
Also changed the stock stem for a 90mm 5mm rise Bonty one. Much prefer that on and off road.
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I wrote a thing. It does include some predictable swearing at my inability to stop buying bikes!
@Alex, thanks for the link, genuinely made me lol. As someone with a...cough...few...bikes and having just purchased a 'gravel' bike of sorts (650b road plus) I related to many a sentiment.
Enjoy your new bike.
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Have since swapped out stock tyres with 40mm g-ones for exploring and have Hunt Gravels with 35mm Gravel-king for Commute/Road.
I wrote a thing. It does include some predictable swearing at my inability to stop buying bikes!
Liked that.
Haven't got the Tempest, but have got the Pickenflick which is a very similar-riding bike by the sounds of it, and which I have fallen in love with ...
Thanks both. I’m quite excited at the prospect of exploring everything that I don’t need to drive too. There are loads of little woods and old lanes I’ve looked at on a map, but never really got round to riding. Certainly going to spice up my ‘working at home’ days 🙂
I've got one on the way too, but not home to play with it for another 2 weeks!
Looks great Neila, any other stock changes apart from the Brian bars & the seat post?
Kept mine stock, but I like the look of the flair on those bars.
Serious question, is it a road bike thing that the cables all go to the same side of the head tube, thereby rubbing ugly patches into it or paint off of it, rather than around the head tube as on MTB's?
I fully expected to be getting rid of the bars but I’m actually quite liking them. The angle of the hoods looks more extreme than it feels but I haven't had any problems comfort or control wise.
Panzerjager, I had to swap out the +17 degree stem for a 90mm 6 degree as it was just too high rise for me. The Brian bars are stock and very comfortable. I have got some new Matt black SKS Blumels waiting to on for winter commute mode. Fanastic bike and service from Planet X, this is my third (previous being a Pompetamine and a Pro Carbon for my wife)
@letmetalktomark - that’s a large. 90mm stem but not the 17 degree one it shipped with. I’m 5ft11 in ‘gibbon’ configuration. So short legs/long torso. There’s another fella on here of similar height/dimensions who I had a few PMs with. He went medium.
I’ve very glad to have gone large. It doesn’t feel stretched at all. Normally with large, standover tends to be the issue, but this is fine.
I went for the L too, 5'11" with 32" leg. Sizing is perfect.
Anybody buy a Space Chicken in the sale? If so, what’s it like?
I would. But then I’m probably not the best person to ask 🙂
😂
Anybody with a large weighed it yet? Curious.
Has anyone else had any luck ordering the 2X11 version, I had a message back saying they could do it and how much it would be last week, I replied, but it's gone a bit quiet since then? Does anyone know the phone number? Thanks
Has anyone else had any luck ordering the 2X11 version, I had a message back saying they could do it and how much it would be last week, I replied, but it’s gone a bit quiet since then? Does anyone know the phone number? Thanks
2x11 is fiddly but possible now on L and XL for £1350.
Forward me your email and I'll find out why we're avoiding selling people things they want.
Cheers
brant@planetx.co.uk
Thanks Brant - that's great - will send an e-mail
I got 2 2x11 bikes early on, but now it seems PX feel that was a mistake and I ought not to have been allowed them? How does frame size affect what gears you can put on?
I got 2 2×11 bikes early on, but now it seems PX feel that was a mistake and I ought not to have been allowed them? How does frame size affect what gears you can put on?
No, it's not that.
1x Gravel bikes are incredibly popular.
Tempest is flat mount
Most of our other bikes are post mount.
We sell LOTS AND LOTS of bikes.
Best selling gravel bike is Space Chicken - a 1x flat mount bike.
We don't have any 2x flat mounts in.
We do have some adaptors but they only work on larger frames.
We are getting more flat mount brakes because of our new flat mount 2x road frames.
Then we'll do 2x tempests as a stock bike on the web.
Ah cool, thanks for explaining. Fiddly indeed.
Ah cool, thanks for explaining. Fiddly indeed.
I don't want to write "doing custom bikes like this is a right pain in the arse" as it looks ungrateful.
But it's MUCH easier for EVERYONE if we have a bike that has customisable options online for people to buy. We don't in this case as we can't offer it "cleanly" - but when we can, we certainly will!
As the OP, can't believe this is thread has reached 3 pages! And I don't even own or have ordered a Tempest (much as I'd like to!)
(I do have a Pickenflick though, which is not dissimilar, and is ace!)
@brant ... Can I have a free one (not bothered whether 1x or 2x) for generating all this business for PX/OO?
@brant … Can I have a free one (not bothered whether 1x or 2x) for generating all this business for PX/OO?
I'll buy you a pint* if you're in town
*offer if 1 pint from pumps 1-4 at Vocation and Co, or 1/2 from pumps 5-16, or a 1/3 from pumps 17-20.
@brant - do you only stock 172.5mm cranks? Would ideally be after 170mm or 165mm
@brant – do you only stock 172.5mm cranks? Would ideally be after 170mm or 165mm
Occasionally have 170's in. Never have 165's. If you really need those, my only advice is buy and swap out.
Rival22 Tempest will be available to preorder from tomorrow all being well.
Anybody with a large weighed it yet? Curious.
My L weighted 22.5lbs in old money. Stock except saddle is now a charge spoon, My dodgy ebay scales tho tend to be approximate to the tune of a 1lb either way!
It weighs more now I've added a funky Birzman combined pump/Co2 inflater and my polaris bottle thing with tube and multi tool. Very strange riding without a pack!
Large was sub 10kg on my cheap Amazon luggage scales. Now nearer 9kg with Chris King/Stans Arch wheels with G One tyres and SRAM S900 Carbon cranks with Garbaruk direct mount ring.
So it’s heavier than my xc bike but lighter than the Sonder Al it replaced.
Can anyone confirm it can take panniers please? Super tempted as my choice for my pan European touring/bikepacking trip
Yeah plenty of mount points out back for rack and mudguards. The fork won't take a rack however.
What tyres and wheel combos has everyone settled on? At the moment I have a set of those cheap Prime Race wheels with road tyres, and I can't decide between the stock Fulcrum 700c Racing Sports or a nice set of 650b Mavic Crossmax SL Pros which I have lying around, for off-road duties.
Are there mudguard mounts on the fork? Looks like they're at the bottom so might foul on the disk brake? Was looking at the XLA SL Rival 1 but this might be a better long term choice...
Yes there are mudguard mounts behind the axle and a hole in the back of the crown. Might foul the disc brake but you can usually bend the guard stays to suit.
Anyone got pictures of a small build ? ... any issues with toe overlap on the small frames ?
Front centre is listed as 599mm on the small. So you can measure/compare?
https://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/bikes/gravel-adventure-bikes/tempest
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Front centre is listed as 599mm on the small. So you can measure/compare?
https://www.planetx.co.uk/c/q/bikes/gravel-adventure-bikes/tempest/blockquote >Cheers Brant, measures same as my Arkose then, according to tinterweb 🙂
Huge longshot here but anyone bought one of these or a rival 22 build on a spur of the momenent purchase and since thought I could do with not having it, size small or medium, if so drop me a message please
Another longshot, but has anyone bought a large and feels they should have got a medium? I've got a medium and feel it's just slightly too small
mlpinto - I went through the same deliberation when ordering mine, but the words from somebody else earlier on in this thread about being able to fit lay-back seatposts and longer stems to a smaller frame being possible, whereas you cant make a big frame any smaller etc etc.
Out of interest, how tall are you? I'm 5'11 and originally ordered a large but changed my order to a medium just before it was assembled. I'm glad I made the swap as the medium feels spot on for me now.