http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: PlanetX no more (in Edinburgh) en Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:39:48 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182208 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:07:30 +0000 Mandopicker101 182208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wingpig - yes they use Yodel for packages over a certain value (a couple of innertubes = Royal Mail; new tyres = Yodel) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182189 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 14:00:01 +0000 Nelly 182189@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wish they were still open, I would be returning the merino cardigan which has turned into a 'Small' after two washes having started out XL.</p> <p>Not really acceptable, given all my Endura merino washes just fine.</p> <p>Baa </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182184 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:36:25 +0000 wingpig 182184@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I finally got round to poking at the Schwalbe Winter I took off the back of the sparebike after it flattened overnight the other week - no visible huge rents in the tube and no actual protruding studs on the inside of the tyre, but you can see where they'll start to wear through; plan is to boot it with the impenetrable carcass of an Armadillo before re-using next year. Twelve studs disappeared, most commonly in patches of two or three, probably where I had some wheel-lock when braking.</p> <p>Also still not received my (spare, battery, so fortunately not urgent) lights, redirected to Sheffield when Edinburgh closed and then lost in the post on their first retry. Don't Planet X use Yodel for deliveries? My wife had some texts or emails from them at the end of last week claiming they'd delivered something but I didn't twig until today that it might have been their second attempt. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182183 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:36:03 +0000 Darkerside 182183@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Reminds me; I'm in the middle of a right faff trying to extract a refund from PlanetX for a spiked tyre they failed to deliver at the end of January. They're claiming it was delivered to a flat that doesn't exist.</p> <p>Probably just an isolated incident, but I won't be buying from them again... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182179 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:46:23 +0000 Mandopicker101 182179@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe worth speaking to Schwalbe then, direct? </p> <p>I'm rolling on Rubinos at the moment, 'thrilling' at this time of year, but at the least I'd prefer my tyres aren't actively out to get me... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182177 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:34:48 +0000 kaputnik 182177@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can google around and find plenty examples reported on "other" forums over issues with Marathon-type tyres and their beads. Whether or not this is more or less common than for other types of tyres, I have not had the chance to scientifically test. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182172 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:18:39 +0000 HankChief 182172@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>One of mine had the wire beading sticking out - not bought from PX though.</p> <p>I tried to to 'fix' it but this resulted in the spectacular downhill blow out which wrote about in December on a previous thread. </p> <p>Seems to be a few that have this defect... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182171 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:12:47 +0000 Mandopicker101 182171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Galaxy - yes, these were Schwalbe Winters (700x30c I think), bought in November last year from PX. </p> <p>Having had 'issues' with tyres and my rims in the past, I did look quite carefully at the bead etc on the Winters and didn't notice anything obvious. Admittedly I was checking for any hint of studs coming through the carcass. </p> <p>That said, I've had a couple of punctures whilst rolling with the Winters. At the time I put them down to pinch-flats caused by the craters on the road into Musselburgh. One was definitely a rubbish inner turbe where the seal around the valve just went. I'll check both tyres when I get home tonight... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182128 Mon, 02 Mar 2015 08:59:30 +0000 CycleCommute.CC 182128@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mandopicker101 - were those the spiked tyres from PlanetX? Only reason I ask is that I also had a wire bead poke out and pucture me on one of mine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182071 Sun, 01 Mar 2015 00:03:27 +0000 Mandopicker101 182071@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I swapped out the winters on Thursday evening prompted by a bizarre rear-wheel 'moment'. </p> <p>Basically I thought I'd somehow punctured, stopped and found the rear still had air (just not enough). So I topped it up a bit and then set off gently. About 100 m further on the rear wheel suddenly locked up and I was trying to brake and steer the bike to the kerb. </p> <p>I've had all kinds of random, bizarro stuff happen to my bike. So imagine my surprise when I found the tyre 60% dismounted fromn the rim and the innertube wrapped python-like round my cassette. Deciding this wasn't fixable at the roadside, I shouldered my bike and trudged home, treating this as a bit of 'cross practice. </p> <p>Back at the Ranch, or in the Ranch kitchen when milady wife wasn't looking, I surgically excised the innertube from the bike, even having to Stanley knife a section off the brake-block (brake block was INSIDE the innertube). </p> <p>On inspection, the tyre looked fine...apart from a very short (3cm?) piece of wire poking out of the tyre, which I took to be a piece of the bead. I carefully trimmed this off - the sidewalls look untouched.</p> <p>Back on the 28mm Rubinos and positively flew home on Friday night. Skinny rubber, how I've missed you... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182054 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 18:30:39 +0000 gembo 182054@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Did not put spikes on this winter but my routes largely main road. Paths often gritted. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182048 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:45:49 +0000 Instography 182048@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Only had them on for two days and regretted both of those. There was one day when I wished I'd had them although got by fine without them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182043 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:48:52 +0000 DaveC 182043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It was icy on Wednesday! I'm sticking to spikes for a few more weeks. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182032 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:45:54 +0000 SRD 182032@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good question. Some folk already have. </p> <p>I was planning on end February until we got this 'cold spell' forecast. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-182030 Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:59:46 +0000 Ed1 182030@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it time to take winter tires off yet? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177854 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 17:11:31 +0000 fimm 177854@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Aha! Retul is the system that was used by the person Boyfriend went to - I can't remember where he went, but it was somewhere in England. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177848 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 16:07:00 +0000 steveo 177848@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was fitted for my racer by Tri-center and very comfortable it is too, well as comfortable as a road bike gets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177846 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:55:27 +0000 LaidBack 177846@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/16093092649/"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8575/16093092649_043251263d_n.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/16093092649/">Edinburgh Bike Fitting 2 colour3</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/66067108@N08/">LaidBackBikes</a>, on Flickr</p> <p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/16277453891/"><img src="https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8603/16277453891_0f8826130a_z.jpg"></a><br /> <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/66067108@N08/16277453891/">EBF - work in progress</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/66067108@N08/">LaidBackBikes</a>, on Flickr</p> <p>EBF will be open shortly in a completely re-furbished back room behind arch in our shop. Very interesting system using Retül technology. The owner Douglas Shaw is a Sports Science graduate from University of Edinburgh. Great to see a new niche business.</p> <p><em>Fimm - I couldn't possibly comment! </em></p> <p>Sorry to hear about the employees at PlanetX - I did use it for click and collect recently. However I've used Evans and EBC more often just as they had more. EBF was not employed by PlanetX and is separate operation. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177845 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:33:47 +0000 ARobComp 177845@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've had a bike fitting and it was highly useful. The system they had (which is actually owned by <a href="www.edinburghbikefitting.com">http://www.edinburghbikefitting.com</a> ) also has a "jig" system called Muve or something which allowed people to come in and be measured for any new bike before they bought it to ensure that they would fit the bike. </p> <p>So certainly more for those who spend a lot on a bike and do sport cycling, but an excellent experience. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177824 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:16:32 +0000 fimm 177824@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Bike fitting is more usual among "serious" cyclists and triathletes. There are some who would suggest that it is for people with more money than sense... this could be why it is so popular with triathletes, who tend to have a <em>lot</em> more money than sense...<br /> ;-)</p> <p>(I've never had a bike fitting, but Boyfriend Of Fimm has) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177822 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:55:13 +0000 Charlethepar 177822@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Big shame. Planet X were very visible in their support for the NYD Triathlon. That shop had been The Tri Centre before it was Planet X. Don't think that Tri interests are now very well served in Edinburgh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177793 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:11:56 +0000 Cyclingmollie 177793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>what is bike fitting?</em></p> <p>It's a service offered by some bike shops. You sit in a frame which can be adjusted until your "ideal" bike position is found: reach, saddle height, saddle set-back etc. There are differing theories as to what the ideal position is and everyone is different. I've not done it but I hear good things about it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177789 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:06:53 +0000 stiltskin 177789@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>^ they measure you up on an adjustable rig so that they can get the correct dimensions for your bike. Either to see what sort of frame size you need or for a custom bulid. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211&page=2#post-177786 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:55:40 +0000 Ed1 177786@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what is bike fitting? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211#post-177784 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:44:03 +0000 condor2378 177784@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>As many others here, I always intended on going in but never got around to it, which perhaps played a part in the demise. </p> <p>Sad to see it go as in it's previous incarnation as The Tri Centre the used to do biweekly free open water swims up at a loch in the pentlands during the summer, they even used to bring the wetsuits. I understand they were one of the few places in Embra which also did bike fitting. Sad indeed. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211#post-177742 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:59:37 +0000 Cyclingmollie 177742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I only discovered them back in December. They were like a well kept secret. I'm on this forum a fair bit and I don't remember them being described as anything special. I was amazed at how much cheaper they were than other bike shops. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211#post-177741 Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:45:23 +0000 gkgk 177741@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think I saw a job ad for this planet x store not so long ago (months, not years) and it was not zero hours. Not much redundancy pay after such short employ, maybe.</p> <p>I liked to click &amp; collect from the shop. Very handy. Really, the shop could be in an ex-policebox, one knowledgeable guy with a big laptop, ready to advise and assist in putting a purchase through and hold the delivery for me! I suppose there's always the Ed Bike price match.</p> <p>The uni "guaranteed hours" can be 100 hours per year, then no sick pay or pension contributions on the (often) big chunk of hours worked over that first 100. It's "zero hours max". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211#post-177735 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:05:33 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 177735@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it's not zero hours then it'll be redundancy, so yes, there are pretty detailed rules around it (having been through it, and had to advise colleagues - most basically finished up at the end of the week it was announced). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211#post-177733 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:57:22 +0000 SRD 177733@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i've certainly heard people say zero hours worked for them. tougher when you have family etc, i think. </p> <p>anyway, was more thinking about the lack of notice to customers - no 'closing down sale' or similar. (even that package delivery company gave people time to collect their parcels from depots. ) and hoping that employees had some notice or payment in lieu that their time there was over. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=14211#post-177732 Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:52:59 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 177732@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Certainly more prevalent, but usually in the big guns (and then only about a quarter of employers). For smaller companies their use is much less likely. They're a hideous idea, certainly, and Planet X might have used them of course. </p>