Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

This week have fallen (back) in love with the Boardman CX.... To be honest, trying to get the brakes working to a level I was happy with was a royal pain in the arse.

Now with road BB7s front and rear, new cables (lightly lubed to reduce friction), removed cross top levers, travel agent on the front and having trued the (very wonky) discs...Braking power is great. Actually great, not just ok.

Might even be tempted to put knobblies back on and go ride it how it's meant to be ridden, didin't have faith enough in the brakes to do so before.

The upgrade to BB7s sounds a great thing to do. I've got the brakes on my CX to an acceptable standard, they're OK and they do the job, but my preference is for brakes to be well above OK!

All in all I'm very pleased with the CX but I think the weather this year and the coming bad weather months is giving me second thoughts. I ride on single track and bridleways through Epping Forest regularly; not so much as a destination but a method of cutting busy roads out of longer journeys. A hint of bad weather at any time of the year here and the place turns into a boggy mire.

I'm seriously thinking of replacing it with a Genesis Day One Alfine 11 but the reviews are mixed, and I see from the latest specs that the 2013 bike is having BB5s fitted and not BB7s as on the 2012 version. Most of the reviewers use their bikes for commuting, so I don't know how it deals with loads of mud. The weight issue isn't important as any bike comes back in this weather with about 2 to 3 Kg of clay soil on it, which acts like a grinding paste on the drive train. Having a hub drive train in principle seems to be easier for maintenance, particularly for cleaning stacks of mud off. I am concerned though that I might simply be swapping one set of problems for another. I'd like a bike I can use and spend more time riding it than cleaning it, and because of where I ride elsewhere, it has to have gears. I walk enough hills as it is....

Probably not the right thread to ask this, but has anyone had an Alfine 11 for any length of time and ridden it in muddy conditions?