New carbon bikes into UK

(hard to see the shape of the chain stays but what’s the Q factor on yours?).

One of our Q factors is current UK stock

Errrr

In what way was Sheldon Brown an inspiration for this?

Why is your website registered to Iceland?

TBH I'd delete and start over, sorry.

I run a 52 front cog onto 11 rear to avoid spinning out

Shit fixie skidders say>>>>

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Cable tie mounts have been in use for years and I have them on a road bike for winter use.

Ok, no.

You're basically open up for issues by recommending cable ties that likely to wear onto the frames and potentially damage it.

Biggest problem; brakes.

If the brakes mediocre, then it's not gonna be a good seller, gotta invest in a good combinaton of cable housing and brakes calipers, think Jagwire compressionless and Shimano flat mount calipers.

Or try and get a job lots of Juintech mechanical/hydraulic to keep cost down, they're cheaper as a set than a stand alone TRP HY/RD.

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Brakes are cable onto hydraulic calipers which I prefer for durability.

Cables does not equal more durable, both have pro and cons, biggest factor is braking power determine the bike.

I'm not a 1x fan for anything on-road; I run a 52 front cog onto 11 rear to avoid spinning out and 1x are never going to have the ratios for that.

You're selling the bikes to others, not you.

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I run a 52 front cog onto 11 rear to avoid spinning out...

Let get back to this, you average 33mph?

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'Compressionless' isn't something Mr Young would agree with but I take the marketing point.

It's not the marketing point, it's the big difference in braking performance and confident.

A low compression housing mean there will be more flex in the housing before engaging the brakes, compressionless mean it will have minimal flex so you'll able to perform emergency stop without the levers hitting the bar and provide greater range of modulation and adjustablity.

Seriously, if you don't put compressionless housing, your bike isn't any difference to a disc brakes bicycle from 2008 that felt spongy and weak.

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This is great.

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I think the problem here is this bike is a 3* bike and we are all bike snobs

WHOIS basically doesn't work any more cos of GDPR

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXLRTIRIV1/planet-x-london-road-titanium-sram-rival-1-bike
(I have a PX bike btw so might be your target audience)

By Q factor I mean how far apart the pedals are
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qfactor(bicycles)
Your man Sheldon recommend a very small one.

At 52x11 with a 56mm tyre a cadence of 130 gives you 85kph. (Have I got this right GBTester?)
Do you think a lot of your customers will be spinning out?

I still don’t get why you spec’d 700x60 tyre clearance on a bike at the ‘road end of gravel continuum’ to me that’s full blown adventure tourer/29er clunker territory which still begs the question of why no mounts.
How many people in the market for a light/fast road bike that they might take down a canal path if they’re feeling frisky will be running 2” tyres? This is a serious question.

It’s almost like you got a bargain deal on some knocked down/mis-ordered frames and are pulling a fast one trying to flog them on.

Sorry to sound harsh but the more I look/consider the build the more jarring it gets.
No ones taken the piss or told you to give up as far as I can tell. I think we’re all just very confused.

It’d make sense if the whole affair was just an A-level product design project.

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Why not address our concerns and questions publically?