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I bought a CX Team 7 weeks ago as my commuter bike. I'm enjoying it very much, the discs didn't squeal on day 1 but did on days 2-5, a bit of mild bending of the rotor and yanking on the anchors as hard as possible soon bedded them in. The levers are quite spongy though although the ones up top are a lot more positive.
I think it is a pretty perfect commuter bike, the tyres soften the bumps on the shitty city roads, the brakes give you confidence in traffic and it has the option of fitting rack and 'guards. It's reasonably swift too, closer to a road bike than mountain bike.
Also just fitted one of these horns it seems good value, it's fecking loud, scared the crap out of me first time I honked it, though not had the opportunity to use it in anger yet.
As for Halfords, it took a few days longer to get it than expected but I think none had been shipped to stores when I ordered it. However the guy at the store was helpful and it was built up perfectly well. Since then I've had a frame painted at a much renowned finishers and by comparison the service was poor, took twice as long to do as expected and they never called me once, I always had to call them to chase them up.