Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

I think I have to get over my Shimano favouritism as SRAM seems to work very well. It must be good if most of the pro teams are using it, or so it seems. Judging from things I have read it appears that Shimano brakes work better than SRAM though.

Well, SRAM are paying lots of money to have those teams ride their equipment, and it's done a lot for their profile in road groupsets. 2013 Red does seem impressive, though, and they're clearly working hard to address the issues they've had, particularly with front shifting.

I am also a big fan of 6600 though. I transferred my groupset from a bike that I didn't originally set up and when I did it all myself it all worked incredibly well. 6700's nice but it definitely lost a certain solidity. Maybe more in finish than actual performance.