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Delving into the muddy world of CX at last, after a few borrows of a mate's bike last winter. Gonna get rid of the current winter bike and get an extra set of wheels so I can go on and offroad.
Soooo...
Without thinking about the extra wheels right now, I'm looking at a whole load of choices. Thinking around £1000-£1300ish. Actually struggling to narrow it down much - I like the idea of something like the Viner from Planet X because I do like carbon: http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBVIPRESRIV/viner-super-prestige-sram-rival-11-hrd-cyclocross-bike
But obviously the advice I hear a lot is 'don't bother with cheap carbon, go for quality alu'. I'm not sure I totally buy that - the Viner is just a rebadged Chinese open mould, and I'm really happy with my own open mould bike.
Other options I've stumbled across: Canyon - https://www.canyon.com/en-gb/road/inflite/2016/inflite-al-9-0.html - really decent components for the money. Does that mean the frame's heavy as fuck? Can't see a weight listed.
Eastway - http://www.wiggle.co.uk/eastway-balun-c1-105-2016/ with the platinum discount, that's £880. Could harvest the components onto a better frame at that price.
Definitely want hydro brakes if I can. 105 is good enough for me, though better components are always nice.