Planet X handbuilt wheels

bikeit65

I will soon be getting the Planet X RT58 but am not keen on the wheels that come with the bike so Planet X are willing to upgrade the wheels that come as stock to the wheels below for an extra £50, so anyone here buy these wheels from Planet X how do the perform.
I was going to get some wheels from UGO but im at the top end of my budget.

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/WBA ... t_wheelset

woody1545

If they're willing to do those wheels for £50 extra, will they do these for £100 extra?

http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/WPS ... lset_(pair)

diamonddog

Ask them to about PX Model B's 1650gm or C's (higher spoke count), they may do them for free or less.

Grill

Dude, for about 30 quid more I was able to have Ugo build up Archetypes on 6800 hubs. So smooth...

cycleclinic

For that money I can think of several option for the £270 mark. Miche 11 speed hubs are a very good option (planet X obviously can buy the 6800 hubs for less than I can) and lighter. Good rims would the Ambrosio Evolution, Ambrosio Excellence, Mavic Open Pro. Velocity A23 and Archetype would be a tad more expensive.

£270 for 6800 hubbed wheels seems very cheap. Planet X will buy them cheaper than I can but a good wheel builder will spend 3 hours on a wheel set. They are either not paying there wheel builder much in which case he won't spend much time on them or Planet X are making hardly anything on them. Maybe Planet X wheels are of the highest standard - I would not know something has to give at this price -margin, quality or after sales service.

charlie_potatoes

Grill wrote:

Dude, for about 30 quid more I was able to have Ugo build up Archetypes on 6800 hubs. So smooth...

Wow 80 quid? That sounds too good to be true.
I bet Ugo is going to be busy dealing with enquiries today.

matt-h

I bought some Ambrosio excellence on 105s earlier in ther year from Planet X.
Had a couple of issues with the wheels going out of true, loose spokes and then a broken spoke.
LBS said they were cheap spokes that were to long and therefore couldn't get the correct tension.
I did however only pay £179 for the pair,but a couple of trues and a rebuild later probably didn't save me anything.

Hopefully these will be better for you.

Matt

ugo.santalucia

matt-h wrote:

I bought some Ambrosio excellence on 105s earlier in ther year from Planet X.
Had a couple of issues with the wheels going out of true, loose spokes and then a broken spoke.
LBS said they were cheap spokes that were to long and therefore couldn't get the correct tension.
I did however only pay £179 for the pair,but a couple of trues and a rebuild later probably didn't save me anything.

Hopefully these will be better for you.

Matt

Yes, but these new ones are built by a LEGEND... I have gone all the way to page 5 on google trying to find any mention of this other alleged racing and wheel building legend, then I got bored... and called it yet another "planet X legend"

patrickf

Does Paul Curran not build wheels for them anymore? I know he has recently opened his own shop in Stockton so maybe not.

desweller

ugo.santalucia wrote:

matt-h wrote:

I bought some Ambrosio excellence on 105s earlier in ther year from Planet X.
Had a couple of issues with the wheels going out of true, loose spokes and then a broken spoke.
LBS said they were cheap spokes that were to long and therefore couldn't get the correct tension.
I did however only pay £179 for the pair,but a couple of trues and a rebuild later probably didn't save me anything.

Hopefully these will be better for you.

Matt

Yes, but these new ones are built by a LEGEND... I have gone all the way to page 5 on google trying to find any mention of this other alleged racing and wheel building legend, then I got bored... and called it yet another "planet X legend"

You mean you've not heard of good old Pete Spowage?

Good old Pete.

Petey Petey Pete.

Old 'Spowy'.

Pete 'Wheels' Spowage

'The Spowageator'

No, I've not heard of him either.

adamfo

ugo.santalucia wrote:

matt-h wrote:

Yes, but these new ones are built by a LEGEND... I have gone all the way to page 5 on google trying to find any mention of this other alleged racing and wheel building legend, then I got bored... and called it yet another "planet X legend"

I think Mr Spowage is third from the left