The Pompino is reincarnated!

My daily e mail from Planet X/On One has announced another new frame in their line up, looks to be the reincarnation of the much loved (by many) Pompino:

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FROOMU/on-one-mulo-frame

Not my cup of tea but some may be interested, nice colour though.

Had it been geared capable, that could have made a decent off road/gravel commuter. And cheap !

I think the Rujo and Kaffenback covers those bases within their line up. Can’t see the full geometry for the Mulo so hard to see how it compares.

Shame it’s rim brakes!

Shame it’s rim brakes!

I’m sure they have about 12 other options for discs, with all different names on the downtubes.

This with disk brakes please (an EBB would be nice to make mudguard fitting easy, but I’d still buy it with track ends or sliding dropouts.

Had it been geared capable, that could have made a decent off road/gravel commuter. And cheap !

There’s already two nigh on identical steel gravel/cx/adventure frames in their lineup.

Saw it the other day and was half tempted briefly, but if you want a Canti/V-braked SS 700C bike you can pick up a whole Charge Grater for not much more than the asking price of that bare frame if you shop about.

Plus it’s a weird half modernised version of the old Pompino, with a tapered head tube and apparently embiggened tyre clearance, but still having 120mm spacing and rim brake mounts, which is fine I guess but they’ve not got a matching fork available yet or a full build option which is a bit shit TBH…

And actually What I would probably be more interested in now would be a similar slot dropout frame but 135mm spaced with disc mounts (a pompetamine basically) there must be loads of people with an old 135/100 spaced, 29er/700c disc wheelset knocking about spare these days…
No doubt they’ll be flogging one of those shortly too…

Oh dear. Could have been so great and a very popular, just like the original pompino is now. Unbelievable it’s 200 pounds without a fork. Also as other commenter said I’m not sure why it’s 120mm and no disk option.

No idea why planet x/on one make their range so complicated. Puts me off buying a frame from them. Never know which to buy at what time, what is the real price, what they’re really made of.

Oh dear. Could have been so great and a very popular, just like the original pompino is now. Unbelievable it’s 200 pounds without a fork. Also as other commenter said I’m not sure why it’s 120mm and no disk option.

To be fair:
£200 is ridiculously cheap in the current market, that’s less than the cost increase in most manufacturers!
120mm is still the de-facto for singlespeeds with rim brakes.

120mm disk would be a cool option though, and has cheap/easy availability (just spin on an ISO adapter to any fixed/free track hub) compared to 135mm fixed+disk which is limited to Surly Ultra New or Phil Wood hubs.

120mm is the right call, fixed gear is what this pussy generation needs.

Forks could be tricky, I’m in the market for a nice set of rigid 700c forks with clearance for bigger than 700x40mm AND canti mounts. Haven’t found any to-date.

I also think rim brakes are appropriate for singlespeed, simple cheap and light, should withstand more neglect than disc brakes. Sure they maybe don’t work quite as well but then singlespeed doesn’t work as well as 11 speed so who cares 😎

tapered head tube and apparently embiggened tyre clearance, but still having 120mm spacing and rim brake mounts,

I don’t know why bother with a taper head tube personally for a bike like this but 120 mm is track hub spacing and compatible with a flip flop hub. There are one or two 135 flip flops but 120mm is standard.

I don’t know why bother with a taper head tube personally for a bike like this but 120 mm is track hub spacing and compatible with a flip flop hub. There are one or two 135 flip flops but 120mm is standard.

Tapered headtube just gives broader fork compatibility (doesn’t quite look as nice though IMO).

120mm disk would be a cool option though

120mm disc hub ain’t a standard really though is it, you can get screw-on disc mounts, but spread those dropouts another 15mm and your golden, loads of hub options.
And yeah 120mm spacing is fine, I have a couple of bikes with slot dropouts and 120mm hubs. But if I’m running fixed I don’t really want canti bosses, if I’m running SS with a freehub, I’d maybe want Canti bosses, but it would probably make better sense these days to have 135mm spacing and a disc mount (like the pompetamine originally offered) because there are Freehub/disc options galore in 135mm still…

The thing is it’s not 2006 anymore, all the hipsters are riding gravel bikes now, and if you want to sell a SSCX/Gravel bike/frame I reckon it needs to offer disc braking as an option at least, which means 135mm spacing. If you still want to fix/flipflop a bike with 135mm you can buy a bolt on sprocket from VeloSolo it’s probably as cheap to do that as buy a track hub…

Basically They’ve revived the wrong product, changed it’s name for no reason and modernised the wrong bits. Otherwise it’s great, I quite like the colour…

but spread those dropouts another 15mm and your golden, loads of hub options.

Almost none if you want to run fixed and a rear brake though. And the cheapest is £125.

Whereas a spin on adapter on a 120mm hub is easy to do, and cheap/tough track wheels are ten a penny (or a track hub is ~£25). The screw on adapters are £1 on aliexpress, you could throw one in the box with every frame to cover all bases!

Basically They’ve revived the wrong product, changed it’s name for no reason and modernised the wrong bits. Otherwise it’s great, I quite like the colour…

But yea, otherwise that sums it up well.

If they brought back the pompetamine I’d buy it, just begrudgingly having to rebuild the rear wheel onto an expensive hub.

singlespeed doesn’t work as well as 11 speed

Give it time – you’re assuming I clean my bikes 🙂

Give it time – you’re assuming I clean my bikes 🙂

Haha! Mine is just a vast rotating ellipse of hardened Putoline now 😂