Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

I raced last season on a 1x11 setup with a raceface narrow-wide ring and correctly sized chain and never once dropped the chain.

What cranks did you use?

Ultegra 6600, you can get 110 and 130 bcd narrow-wide rings

You will need new bottom bracket.

If your current crank set works, just buy a narrow wide single ring. You might need shorter crank bolts if removing the inner ring.

Or just keep the original inner ring as a spacer ;)

I put mine on a double chainset, used a 40t narrow-wide, so the original 39t was hidden behind it.

Does that interfere with the mud clearance at all?

I never had any issues on mine, and believe me it gets muddy in Ireland...

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.

Cross post from cxss:
Where in the UK will have an in stock 58cm Nature Boy Disc frameset in stock? Apparently stock is running low.

Charliethebikemonger don't have one in stock although their website says they do, triton don't have one either. Where else might have one? Sort of urgent as its for my Dads birthday in a week. Thanks

are you after something that's properly cross, or something that will be mainly ridden on road but with occasional forays onto gravel / mud paths?

I want the impossible dream - proper cross, and decent (though obviously more upright etc) to ride on road.

Got myself a Focus in Feb which is great if you've got up to £1300... you'll need to think about hydraulic disks and internal cable routing for that price as well. I nearly went for the Viner but the cheap carbon scared me a little for the price. Canyon are supposed to be pretty good but in my mind you can't go wrong with Focus or Ridley. I try and do a mixture of on and off road, but only managed a few excursions off tarmac.
Hydraulic disks were at the top of my list as you lose braking power otherwise.

mares ax 105 is quite nice, or if you can stretch to the Cannondale Superx 105 at £1,800? There's also the Kinesis Pro6 if you fancy building something from scratch.

(sorry, not actually very helpful on this...)

Raleigh rx pro, go to a Raleigh dealer and negotiate them down. If they refuse to negotiate the price just suggest you will order it through the website on click and collect as this costs the dealer 10% so that's your starting discount.

The other question, I guess, is when do the summer sales start? No huge urgency to get the bike, but I'd like to do the whole south downs way at some point this summer.

I doubt you'll get a 2016 CX bike in the sales considering they come out Jan-Feb time... I was thinking about getting a new Scott and they weren't releasing them till May... you might still be able to pick up a 2015 bike, but good ones will be few and far between right now

Yeah you're probably right.
Hmm, decisions. The Viner is floating my boat today. Looks very like that's the Hongfu frame that I was thinking about importing, badged up by PlanetX/Viner. Even with the shitty wheels, it's still better value to buy the whole bike than for me to build it up from individual bits, I think.

Rose CX https://www.rosebikes.co.uk/bike/rose-pro-dx-cross-2000-817112/aid:817169?channable=e8467.ode3mty5&gclid=coijrzjs1mwcfbgy0wodce0dtw (~18GBP over if purchased in Euros).

Lovely looking bikes

My CX search just got pretty ace... been effectively gifted a nice frame and forks. So now I'm looking at groupsets and wheels.... was thinking about getting some chinese rims and getting my friendly wheel builder to make em up. Having never done much cx - what rim width am I looking for? How many spokes?

How fat are you?

@bashthebox 28f / 32r spokes, wide as you can get, 30mm + depth. Tubeless compatible for extra brownie points.

Definitely tubeless. I'm 69kg fat.

I'm also 69 kg fat, on a good day. I've got 28 f+r waiting for rims to be matched to them.