{"id":734,"date":"2006-11-13T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/13\/review-planet-x-kaffenback-great-commuter-frame\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:30:00","slug":"review-planet-x-kaffenback-great-commuter-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/13\/review-planet-x-kaffenback-great-commuter-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Planet X Kaffenback &#8211; Great commuter frame."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4662\/2674\/1600\/kaffenback-rack.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4662\/2674\/320\/kaffenback-rack.1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have been commuting on the Planet X Kaffenback frame now for a while and I have to say it is awesome as a commuter. I have thought for a long time that the commuting bike of choice is a cross bike. Mountain bikes are just too slow on the road, and road bikes, or their wheels, are too delicate for commuting.<\/p>\n<p>Now my commute is half on dirt and half on roads. If I choose to mix it up I can even hit some more trails on the way too or from work and I have been doing that on the Kaffenback.<\/p>\n<p>Planet X is the road division of On-One the UK equivalent of Soma. Redstone Cyclery carries these bikes and I can&#8217;t recommend Dave at Redstone enough.<\/p>\n<p>The build on the kaffenback is top notch, the paint seems tough enough, the front fork does not flex, the rear end is a little flexy, but hey this is not a race bike. Its quick for dodging pot holes or parked cars, and its nimble enough to navigate it down some steep dirt trails too.<\/p>\n<p>The Kaffenback has two sets of eyelets on the rear dropout, for fenders and a rack, canti mounts. But it does not have a built in cable stop for the rear brake, so you have to use some sort of hanger. It has a sort of modified wishbown seat stay set up. So when you mount fenders, be prepared to do some modifying, I had to bend the fender mount, drill a hole in the fender and the mount the fenders by putting an allen key through the hole in the fender I just drilled. However the rack mounts perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>I am running a 1&#215;8 sti setup on the bike now, but I am thinking of trying the moustache bar again&#8230; Maybe a 3 speed bar. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;d say its a nice frame for the money, and a great commuter. If you are usin it for cross, this thing is heavy! If I jump on my cannondale optimo cross with 9 speed dura ace and carbon bits, well the cannondale feels like a ferrari and the kaffenback feels like a subaru.<\/p>\n<p>I Documented the build over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/E2HZ9Q0OX3ES9J6CH6\/?ALLSTEPS\">instructables.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been commuting on the Planet X Kaffenback frame now for a while and I have to say it is awesome as a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}