Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

Plenty of people ride light off-road trails on CX bikes. So if you dont have an MTB it can give an extra cycling option (depends where you live I guess). Getting one with a rack is a nice idea if you dont have a tourer.

A CX bike with rack'n'guard braze-ons. Is like a Nice multi tool. Yeah we all prefer to use a full size allen key. But if you cant afford, or dont have storage, for a full toolset. The multi-tool will sort you out. I would'nt get one just for wet commuting. Thats kinda like buying a multi-tool just for the allen key. But I did find myself jumping on mine for all sorts of riding.

Heh; like the analogy.

At the moment, I have storage for 3 or 4 or more bikes but when we move in January, I will only have room for 2. The BMC is definitely staying so it's just a case of working out what the second bike is.

As we're buying a flat, i'm on a pretty restricted budget so the CAAD is looking like a good deal.

Once i've added 105 groupset and a nicer pair of wheels to the Ribble 7005, it's closer to £1,000 which is putting me off.