Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

@Howard @Jon. Also interested in this question (maybe the wrong thread), buying prebuilt online (where?) Spoke choice?

Also considering a second wheelset after my commuter stole the rear wheel of my current spare set.

Running Hope Pro 2 to Archetypes, which I got from here 2nd hand for a good price. I would like the second set to be either ~as good, or am wondering how much I would have to spend to have something noticeably better. Have considered hunt £400 alloy or £1000 carbon (which depth), or bontrager affinity elite (not strictly tubless so would probably run with tubes) from evans on cycle to work. Whichever were 'better' would likely become the mainly road pair, so would be happy for them to be more fragile but lighter/more aero with the other set having a cx tyre on for rougher rides.

Am tempted by hope hubs again, mainly with the intent that it puts the rotor in the same place (does anyone know if all hope hubs have the same rotor position?).

Are Kinlin xr22t disc only? It would seem nice to avoid a brake track when one isn't needed and I would have thought one could get a better/lighter rim if happy to be disc only?

I've always built wheels with DT Swiss Competition, or their equivilant. If you're light and are a (or have a) reasonable wheelbuilder you could probably get away with Revolutions, but I've never bothered.

I have no experience with "nice" wheelsets so I'm probably not the man to ask. But, if you're considering racing, or even just riding them off-road I wouldn't bother spending big money: rocks and big chunks of masonary are buried underneath mud, wheels are protected by 32mm tyres at 20psi, stuff breaks. Not to mention the jet-washing.

I don't think Kinlin produce a disc version of that rim, they look to be mainly road-focused so perhaps not. I think the DT Swiss R460DB are well received around that price point, and are disc specific.