Feel free to visit the shop and order. It uses a purely mechanical design utilizing a patent pending planetary gear set which makes it undetectable to the bike's electronic gizmos and gives you full control over the choice of speed at which you want to ride your bike. No more pushing through pudding after hitting the speed limit, virtually no maintanace and no worries.
Just you and your e-bike - the way it was meant to be! Please forgive the lack of sleep and forethought, but I need to ask for your help and understanding just once more. As the webshop's domain says: it's a test environment and a work in progress.
I used them on two holidays to the Alps Col de Joux Plane, Colombiere etc and braking is fine, but only 'fine'. They're not as powerful as plain old Ultegra level. Also, the individual components that make up the brakes do feel a little delicate apart from the actual main CNC part , the grub screws are tiny and prone to round off if you're not careful. However, they are very light indeed. The extra weight is a small penalty for the confidence they bring.
Yep they have the usual barrel adjuster on mine anyway. Well I've just ordered a set, will try them on the Roubaix and If I don't like them I will put them on Gti Junior's Triban 3 as the standard brakes are a bit ropey. You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads. Planet X brakes - performance difference between CNC and forged. Replies Bib shorts - views on these planet X jobbies?
Replies 9. Replies 8. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies. Weight Weenies Forum Skip to content. Quick links. Forum rules. Post by petal on Fri Jul 17, am Cheaper than Dura-ace calipers and lighter? You get what you pay for would be my guess. Interesting colours they have. Technical Director at www. Post by Ravenmore on Sat Feb 26, pm Sorry to bump an old thread but I'm installing a set right now and was looking for installation tips.
The cable keeps slipping when I grab the levers hard enough. I'm guessing that I didn't tighten the little bolt inside the barrel that holds the cable tight enough? Btw, they are coming with the Swiss Stop green pads now.
Post by Ravenmore on Sat Feb 26, pm Oh, and mine weighed in at grams - 10 grams lighter than the listed Not sure if that makes much sense!!! Post by tinchy on Sat Apr 06, pm thanks guys! Post by juanacity on Sun Apr 07, am I like to think that I am for the most part pretty competent at working on my own bike and usually feel like I actually do a better job working on my own bike than most bike shop mechanics just because I am willing to spend lot of my own time to get things JUST right.
That being said, I was pretty frustrated with setting up my Planet X brakes and couldn't get them really well centered despite spending quite a bit of time on them there is some weird brake arm travel asymmetry on these when you use the fine adjustment screw on the caliper arm to extremes.
Then I met some Planet X people at a bike show and they showed me a method to help centering that I haven't noticed mentioned online or at least didn't understand.
RIck's method above is pretty spot on, but in between steps 3 and 4 you can take a 13mm spanner wrench and rotate the entire brake assembly around the main fixing bolt as I tried to show in my crappy picture below. Using this I am now able to set up the brakes so that each pad is equi-distant from the rim without braking, and then each pad contacts the rim at the same time during brake lever pull-ie properly centered.
The performance of these brakes seems pretty great so far. On a side note-the brakes have a somewhat interesting design feature that I'm not sure is intentional. No matter how poorly centered I had the brakes, they never really seem to push the rim off center under actually braking loads.
Seems to me that upon contacting the rim, the arms are essentially self centering under load. Post by wojchiech on Sun Apr 07, pm I've found a way to get these brakes centered nearly perfectly when installing similar to what juanacity did with the spanner wrench and system did with the 2mm screws , except my method just requires a 4mm hex wrench - the trick is to loosen the mounting bolt, then use the 4mm wrench to hold the brake centered in place at the Ti center bolt while at the same time tightening down the brake mount bolt preferably with a ratchet type wrench.
As the brake mount bolt gets tighter, the turning force might move the brake a bit if you're not holding the 4mm wrench in place tight enough, but you just have to use the 4mm to re-center the brake and keep tightening the mounting bolt until it's secure. If you did it right little to no adjustment of the side spring tension bolt is needed.
Post by CharlesM on Mon Apr 08, pm 5 minute set up and zero cable length concern but that might be different with different cables. Zero issues in use. Post by stubob on Mon Apr 08, pm One thing that helped me get them dialed in was to squeeze the brake levers a couple times and re-adjust. I don't know if it's stress-relieving the bolts, or the spring, but it took a couple go's to get them to return to center correctly.
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