SSCX Only!

ADVICE PLEASE

Need some advice as I am helping a friend to find the right bike/frame:

• 700c CX frame
  
• disc only
  
• steel
  
• horizontal dropouts with 135mm width.
  
• nice forks (i.e. no ugly unicrown style)
  
• off the peg
  
  

Only one that ticks all the boxes so far is the All-City Natural Boy Disc, but that seems to be sold out everywhere.

Any other ideas?

on one pompetamine with nature boy (or similar) forks?

yeah that might be one way - but the on one is more on the cheap side - he can spend up to 700 on the frame

He could spend that money on bomb wheels?

http://www.transitionbikes.com/2014/Bikes_Rapture.cfm

That's an interesting one, keep it coming!

The surly straggler.

^ nice as well, but the geo looks more slack somehow, compared to all city natural boy disc and rapture cx?

something's different, can't tell what

I find Surly geo really odd

Tiny headtube.

Any reason for not running a bb30 pf30 crossframe with eccentric bb to deal with chain tension?

Why use workarounds when you can buy a perfect frame and get everything right from scratch?

What's the scope for a hybrid frame with drops?

Because EBB is better than horizontal dropouts when dealing with discs.

Can't help but feel that spending top dorrah on an otp steel cx frame is a bit odd.

Although BB30 and PF30 isn't very common when dealing with steel.

Otp steel, yah.

Tonic magnum would be rad but a bit out of the price range.

I'm thinking of using a trek 7.1fx for cx

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SingledotCX

I had a raz on this earlier today. It's a parts-bin build but I'd like to get it sorted for the local races.

It features 38x18 which is nice now (but I think too stiff for the mud) and ghetto-sealed cabling from the hive-mind that is the Current Projects thread (thanks @Murphys_Law).

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Minimalism incarnate.

Looks rad. Closeup of the ghetto-sealing?