Planet X Offers

peanut1978
peanut1978 Posts: 1,031
edited November 2009 in Road beginners
do planet x always have good deals on their bikes?
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  • Legshaver
    Legshaver Posts: 75
    I think so. Where else can you find a bike with such a great spec at their prices?
  • oldwelshman
    oldwelshman Posts: 4,733
    ribble
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    oldwelshman wrote:
    ribble

    Ribble is just not cool though
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  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    redddraggon wrote:
    oldwelshman wrote:
    ribble

    Ribble is just not cool though

    And Planet X is?

    Given the choice i'd have a ribble over an planet x anyday.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:
    Given the choice i'd have a ribble over an planet x anyday.

    Not Everyone has taste I suppose, at least it makes the world interesting.
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  • amaferanga
    amaferanga Posts: 6,789
    The Ribble Sportive that you see advertised in the mags looks cool, but unfortunately in the flesh with standard spec (the £899 spec) it looks very ordinary IMO.
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  • Infamous
    Infamous Posts: 1,130
    Legshaver wrote:
    I think so. Where else can you find a bike with such a great spec at their prices?
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  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    I got a Ribble Nero Corsa and really rate it. In truth I don't think that there's much difference between Ribble, Planet X, Focus or the cheaper end Treks, Konas etc. Deda make the Nero Corsa for lots of people for instance. P.X & Ribble bikes are certainly close. What sets them apart as companys is cusotmer service, in which P.X is more highly rated. P.X is seen by some as cooler because of a mild form counter-culture branding & an element humour perhaps. Personally that makes no difference to me or to most people I guess.
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  • fungus_the_muffin_man
    fungus_the_muffin_man Posts: 1,608
    redddraggon wrote:
    Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:
    Given the choice i'd have a ribble over an planet x anyday.

    Not Everyone has taste I suppose, at least it makes the world interesting.

    Yours must be very bland if you prefere a boring, uninteresting unimaginable colour scheme on a boring looking frame.

    Personally the Ribble Grand Mondo is a serioulsy lovely looking bike and looks much 8) than anything PX have to offer. Although I'll admit the Ti frames do look pretty smart.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    The problem with Ribble, is that Ribble = Boring Blue Winter Trainer. It's going to take them awhile to lose that association for me.

    The Planet X Carbon frames looking shockingly awful that is granted, but I was talking about what the companies offer as a whole.
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  • Gesmi
    Gesmi Posts: 35
    If you get on the PX newsletter mailing list they do seem to have a regular stream of cracking offers. ULtegra full carbon bike recently for £899, great if you can get it on the company Bike to Work scheme. And, at the other end of the scale, I recently bought a cracking Long Sleeved jersey with nice features like extra zzip pocket and PX symbol on the zip, race cut, good materials, etc. Under £20 with their offer. Carbon bottle cages are often good value, too.

    It's like a lot of these things, a matter of personal taste!
  • Mossrider
    Mossrider Posts: 226
    Planet X don't do Campy, Ribble do. Nuff said!
  • giner1961
    giner1961 Posts: 135
    Ha Ha
    Never forget been in a race and the guy in front of me his Campy rear mech exploded and went in to his rear wheel destroyed the rear end of his bike, brand new Colnago saw him some weeks later and had to throw his Colnago away as it was wrecked (no replacable hanger) campag?
  • Shezzer
    Shezzer Posts: 229
    Mossrider wrote:
    Planet X don't do Campy, Ribble do. Nuff said!

    Good point ... Planet X it is then!! :D
  • nickwill
    nickwill Posts: 2,735
    Mossrider wrote:
    Planet X don't do Campy, Ribble do. Nuff said!

    I thought you could only buy 'Campy' in the US! :wink:
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  • stronginthesun
    stronginthesun Posts: 433
    how long as that planet x frame been around ? didnt raleigh use it about 5 years ago ?
  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    I believe Massi and Cinelli still use it.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    alfablue wrote:
    I believe Massi and Cinelli still use it.

    They aren't same frame, quite possibly the same factory with the same materials, but definitely a different mould.
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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    Ah, probably the wrong model, I am pretty sure the Massi M-Carbon is the same mould

    massi.jpgSLProCarbonDuraAce7900.jpg
  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    FdeJ were using the planet x tt frame - in the tour a couple of years back. I forget what it was badged as.
  • stronginthesun
    stronginthesun Posts: 433
    raleigh airlite ?
  • pabloweaver
    pabloweaver Posts: 444
    redddraggon wrote:

    The Planet X Carbon frames looking shockingly awful that is granted, .

    This.......



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  • APIII
    APIII Posts: 2,010
    alfablue wrote:
    Ah, probably the wrong model, I am pretty sure the Massi M-Carbon is the same mould

    massi.jpgSLProCarbonDuraAce7900.jpg

    They look hideous
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Shezzer wrote:
    Mossrider wrote:
    Planet X don't do Campy, Ribble do. Nuff said!

    Good point ... Planet X it is then!! :D

    You can get PX with Campag for £999 (made up) at GB cycles.
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  • Chip \'oyler
    Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
    APIII wrote:
    alfablue wrote:
    Ah, probably the wrong model, I am pretty sure the Massi M-Carbon is the same mould

    massi.jpgSLProCarbonDuraAce7900.jpg

    They look hideous

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    cougie wrote:
    FdeJ were using the planet x tt frame - in the tour a couple of years back. I forget what it was badged as.

    Cadel Evans used the frame in the 2007 TdF (after Vino was DQed, Evans took a TT stage win too on it)
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  • Anonymous
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    Chip \'oyler wrote:
    APIII wrote:
    alfablue wrote:
    Ah, probably the wrong model, I am pretty sure the Massi M-Carbon is the same mould

    massi.jpgSLProCarbonDuraAce7900.jpg

    They look hideous

    +1

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  • Scrumple
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  • a_n_t
    a_n_t Posts: 2,011
    redddraggon wrote:
    Ribble = Boring Blue Winter Trainer.

    must be one of the best pound for pound bikes out there!

    i won this years club handicap racing on that frame!!
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  • Scrumple
    Scrumple Posts: 2,665
    must have been the wheels wot won it then?

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