Tripster ATR finally built up – lush!

That’s sneaky that DrP!

As they say on the internet, pictures or it didn’t happen! 😈

The Tripster is just a johnny-come-lately upstart…..

That Van Nicholas doesn’t have disc brakes and only has clearance for up to 37mm tyres.

This thread is 3 years old, I reckon the other bikes are the ‘come latelys’!

I remember a guy from Reilly (Nerve then) looking at my tripster in a bike shop and not knowing it was mine remarking it was a ‘piece of shit’. Well they seem to be making something remarkably similar now…….

DrP was one of our illicit pre-ordererers… Don’t tell them or show anything!

Video and full release next week. I’m really excited about this bike! Any questions do ask.. Bruce (Kinesis UK)

Is this one if those moments where I lift my head from the sand, realise what’s going on, apologise, and sulk away slowly…???!!

(I didn’t realise it wasn’t out!!!)

I’ll keep schtum

DrP

Only joking DrP (you’ll have online exclusive!) it took us way longer than we ever thought to change what we wanted, the price has increased because of the things we added to make it the sort of bike we all wanted to be proud of riding. I’ve followed this threat for ages and it’s great to see some love continuing. Sadly we were slow to launch as our factory couldn’t get the rear dropout to our standard. Now it’s certainly a frame I’m proud of having a hand in designing, it seems ages since we sent frame drawings so nice to finally have a complete bike to show to the world next week!

Bruce

To add to that… Add I stated above, the extra touches really are great..the sort of things I found myself wishing for from time to time – flat shoulder section, extra bottle mount etc…

I hope the top tube/steerer interface is a bit, erm, beefier 😉
I’ve only 8 month’s warranty left!

DrP

Someone must have the v1 geometry chart downloaded. Could that someone post it? I’d like to have it for my archives.

Isn’t it still on the website

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and only has clearance for up to 37mm tyres.

1.75″ Marathon Mondials fit fine.

This thread is 3 years old, I reckon the other bikes are the ‘come latelys’!

Check the date on that photo above.

whitecitadel – haven’t tried G-Ones but have been running One Pros and S-Ones on my Tripster.

Both are nice and fast, and I have put about a thousand miles on the S-Ones with little wear apart from one puncture (fixed with a tubeless repair kit and good for 200 miles so far).

I was tempted by some G-ones for summer exploring but honestly i think I’ll just stick to the S-ones as they are great off road when it’s dry.

Just looking at the Scwalbe site and it seems the S one is no more, but they do have two versions of the G one.

The G one ‘speed’and the G one ‘all round’

Looks like they have just been renamed to “g one speed” but nothing else has changed.

Scotroutes – fair enough but your link is to a different bike……

Scotroutes – fair enough but your link is to a different bike……

And start a van-nicholas-finally-built-up-lush thread. See how it goes.

This is for a frame with a FREE HEADSET and £50 OFF any Fork, images are only a guide

The point is that there are a number of similar bikes/frames out there for folk that don’t want to spend as much as a new Tripster costs.

Ok.. here we go then:

I think like many I am struggling to see how a £1500 Tripster frameset has turned into a £2180 frameset (£1850 frame, £280 fork, no headset so add £50 for that as well). Adding the thru axle, internal routing and those bottom bottle bosses really jumped the price!

I guess next week you will announce a special launch bundle with frame and fork for £1600 for singletrack members who have been waiting all year for this frame? 😉

You can say that again, the road.cc preview was Feb 3rd!

I totally missed that, now’s a good time to go shopping for “old” and “obsolete” 2016 tyres then 😆 😉

I am kind of arriving at the same conclusion that S-One (or the artist now known as G-One Speed) is the right tyre, if I had two wheels I would go for a second set with the G-One 40mm on though!

You could say that… if you hadn’t noticed the 60-622 (29 x 2.35) version! Jumbo!

I’m still pretty pissed off that when I called Kinesis a couple of months back before I bought my Tripster frame and enquired about he new V2 which had been mentioned at the start of the year by Road.cc, I was told that there wasn’t a new version of th frame being released and if there was it wouldn’t be until the middle of next year at the earliest.

The bloke then went on to tell me that he’d never seen or heard of a thread on STW about the the Tripster, despite it being linked to on the Kinesis website, and that I shouldn’t believe anything I read on the internet!

I’m still pretty pissed off that when I called Kinesis a couple of months back before I bought my Tripster frame and enquired about he new V2 which had been mentioned at the start of the year by Road.cc, I was told that there wasn’t a new version of th frame being released and if there was it wouldn’t be until the middle of next year at the earliest.

unless you are gagging for internal routing and those extra bosses then I wouldn’t worry about it. If you really want a thru-axle just change your rear hub to 10mm and add a DT RWS 10mm skewer.

The reason this page is 70 pages long is that the V1 is a brilliant bike at what was a brilliant price for what you got. I very much doubt the V2 would have done the same coming in at that price.

Interesting reading they have increased the gauge on the V2 downtube, why is that? As that’s where mine and DrP’s cracked.

Looks like the V2 fork has the same rake as the V1, would be interested to find out if the 12mm axle will stop the brake rub i get.

unless you are gagging for internal routing and those extra bosses then I wouldn’t worry about it. If you really want a thru-axle just change your rear hub to 10mm and add a DT RWS 10mm skewer.

I was wanting the internal routing to run Di2. The bolt thru axles I wasn’t too bothered about.
Don’t get me wrong, I still like my V1 but I’m not too keen on having external Di2 or drilling the frame to run it internally.

Maybe on the next bike 😀

Well mines done (hope it was the right choice 🙄 )

anyway here you go:-

Spec

Tripster V1 Frame – 51cm
Full Ultegra 6800
50/34 Chainset
EC70 SL Bars
EA70 Stem
EA90 Post
SLR XP Saddle
King Stainless cages
Shimano Pedals either road or XT if off-road
Hope 20Five wheels with Schwalbe Pro one 28mm Tubeless and 11-28 Cassette

or

Hope Tech XC with Schwalbe X- Ones and 11-32 Cassette

Weight = 19.5lbs in the slick/20Five wheel build

Here is a ‘just finished it and get a quick picky in before it’s dark shots’

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So it’s mudguards, Rack, lights, pump and Garmin mounts fitted after Tea, ready for the commuting duties

Flame away STW Massive !!!!!

Short legs, long arms. Do you drive an Alfa as well :0)

That looks top Vortexracing 8)

Notmyrealname – I don’t understand why they told you that – Upgrade Bikes have had it in their brochure since May! I can see why you would be 👿

Why do Kinesis only offer 1 year warranty on their frames, anyone know?

3 year warranty on Titanium. But then I’d not want to pay £1800 for a titanium frame that is only warranteed for 3 years. Suggests to me that Kinesis arent confident in their product?

Maybe Bikerbruce would care to comment?

2 things wrong with that bike above – the King cages are steel rather than titanium and the bars aren’t flared.

Short legs, long arms

yip, it’s a nightmare making sure a frame will fit. The stack is the one thing that I need to keep an eye on.

It was the same with my Genesis Equilibrium.

and this Smuggler I have just bought.

Ickle legs 🙁

The Ti king cages are a fortune, hence robbing the stainless ones off my Summer bike.

and the bars will never be flared. 😀

well guards and rack fitted, plus all the other paraphernalia.

ready for some dark cold 5:45am mornings to work

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and ready for some light touring with some front rollers on next year, when we have those 2 days of summer 🙄

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A quick shakedown ride suggests maybe a shorter stem may be in order. Other than that its comfy and silent. Those brakes are very good.

Bloody lovely bike Sir.

That’s ace Vortex, classy build.

I only saw 1 year on the Kinesis website PDF for frames from July 2016:
http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/files/techdocs/FRAME-INSTRUCTIONS-WEB.pdf

But their FAQ says 3 years on all frames:

Maybe BikerBruce would care to comment?!

David/Vortex that looks excellent 8)

You have pretty much implemented what’s in my head, right down to the Tubus Airy.

Are you running Dynamo lights? That looks a bit like a Revo but I don’t see any cables out the back.

Am very excited… Not only has my V2 frame arrived, but Kinesis have published the geo chart today and I’d ordered the right size 😉

Sadly as much as I love building my own bikes, I just don’t have time at the moment due to work so it’s in the shop. Fortunately I totally trust the mechanic there; have to say that as I know he’ll read this sometime 😉

Build will mostly be from current bike, a Cooper CX (fantastic bike that’s taken me on some great adventures, but there were a few niggles, all of which are addressed by the new Tripster). TRP fork. Ultegra hydraulic. Tune hub’d wheels for the road, Hope hub’d wheels for off-road and dynamo wheel for touring. PDW Full Metal Fenders and Tubus rack (both of which are superb).

Having seen the frame in the flesh (as it were), am really pleased. Can’t wait to have it back!

Are you selling g the cx cooper?? If so what size?

karnali – yes I will be; as a frameset with Chris King headset and Lynskey fork. It’s a Lynskey small, but it’s the equivalent of a 54cm in just about every other manufacturer! http://lynskeyperformance.info/cooper-cx-frame-only/ My email should be in my profile if you’re interested.

You have pretty much implemented what’s in my head, right down to the Tubus Airy.

To be honest it was Somafunk,hummerlicious and takeiteasy that gave me the inspiration.

and that Airy is a lovely bit of kit. I got it form Acycles (£116 posted)

Are you running Dynamo lights? That looks a bit like a Revo but I don’t see any cables out the back

No just a std set of cateye cheapies and a Exposure Toro

Great price on the Airy… post Brexit vote you need to buy first think later!

https://www.acycles.co.uk/tubus-airy-bag-rack-7072.html
£146 now…

Somafunk, hummerlicious and takeiteasy probably who filled my head with ideas, been waiting so long for this V2 frame now I have forgotten where I started…

I took advantage of a 15% off promotion, may be worthwhile waitng to see if it comes back. Plus of course Top cash back for another 5%. 8)

I just had to add £4 worth of stuff, as it only applied to purchases over £150.

The only thing I would like to change is the PDW guards to some black ones, but it appears that they only do the smaller ones in black and not the city guards that fit on these. 😥

The other plus point is that if you attach the stays for the PDW’s to the rack, I got away with the std stays and did not have to order the long ones. That’s said mine is a small (51) frame.

Still only tried it for 1/2 hour, I was hoping to commute to work tomorrow but the 40+MPH winds have put me off that 🙁

Looks great, Vortex. Really nice build.

p.s. I would suggest getting some sort of chainstay protector. The chain slap started to drive me nuts, as well as marking the frame.

The chain slap started to drive me nuts, as well as marking the frame.

Duly noted, I’ll get some heli-tape on it, cheers for the heads up

@votexracing – glad you included a head on shot of the handlebars, as it kind of confirmed my suspicions that the area where the cables/hoses emerge from the shifters would be “chunky”. Currently building my Kinesis Racelight 4S disc, and only have the shifter cable attached, at the moment, but was concerned that they don’t really hug the bars. Probably going to be chunkier when the brake hoses go in.

Looks like this doesn’t really get in the way of the various hand positions – how do you find it?

P.S. My first road bike build, so probably being paranoid.