Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

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Acquired Tektro RX6 from Condor. Came home to install them and stripped BOTH (yes both) nuts of the rear brake ..

Will take it to @edscoble at LCW tomorrow morning to get them out.

They look like they will work for the clearance now just hope the cable pull works with the levers.

Excellent, more challenge.

Bring it on.

Felt F85x on sale with Wiggle for £664!:

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/felt-f85x-tiagra-2015/

Tiagra 10 speed, tapered steerer, disc brakes, etc

I've been looking at that Felt, seems good value. Anyone got one, any good? Not sure I can get past the awful colours though..

There are two colourways...

Yeah kinda as bad as each other. Decided on the 'Snozberry. It's going to be mud coloured most of the time anyway!

You're going to need a LOT of mud ;-)

I fancied the army green version, but their last 57cm one disappeared from stock while in my basket, so I went for the last Snozberry one in that size.

But at least they taste like snozberries...

Great deal!

Looks like RX6 has resolved all the issues; great braking, clearance for 35c tyres and mudguards .. thanks @edscoble and LCW!

I have some 32h hubs that I want to build up for a cx wheelset. Should I go for tubular rims (Major Toms), or tubeless compatible (Hed Belgium)? Purpose is for racing. I need to be able to run low pressure in muddy conditions. Canti not disc brakes.

I see more grief with tubeless than tubs - but a lot of US pro's are having great succes tubeless, so the devil is in the detail.

Cheap deep Chinese crabon tubs

Or stans Grail

Major Ts are nice but too shallow for mud

Cheap deep Chinese crabon tubs

Can you canti brake on them sufficiently?

Aren't stans grail disc only?

Braking? Doing it wrong!

Yeah soz obvious flaw is obvious

I have some Kinesis forks off my condor tempo frame which cracked :..(

Superb condition anyone want them for £80 ?

Uncut steerer and tektro mini v installed.

These forks are lovely, super stable and massively improved handling of the bike.

Pics HERE

Dat HT

Rip condors

very interested PM coming

My f85x arrived. First thoughts are it's fucking heavy and brakes are crap but otherwise rides nice. Might take the shit disc brakes off and get some cantis.

Mine arrived on Monday - hasn't been outside yet, cos the saddle, bars & stem need changing and the weather's been too nice for spannering.

For riding local trails and weekend touring, the Focus Mares Ax 1.0 2016 or Giant TCX SLR 1 2014?

Focus- SRAM Apex, hydro brakes
Giant, SRAM Rival & hydro brakes.

How do you want to mount your luggage? The Mares has rack mounts.

The Giant has a recommended luggage weight of 14kg. I'm not sure why, perhaps because of the funky D shaped seatpost.