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Decided to give the cx thing a go, probably, due to ease with my workplace, using Evans ride to work scheme to purchase it, as a result and because my commuter is a 700c disc bike (pompetamine) I have narrowed it down to between the Cannondale CAADX Disc 6 Tiagra and the Genesis Vapour Disc.
As I have a sensible do it all commuter, the idea is that it will be a racier option, my idea being to give cx racing a go, explore the local trails and possibly, stick some road tyres on/have my friend build a set of road wheels and have use it for some short, fast (for me) road rides.
Anyone like to help me decide between them/tell me I am wrong, this is the internet do I am guessing yes.
One of my main concerns is getting the right size, at dead on 6 foot, I seem to be exactly on the borderline between a 56cm and a 58cm in each, this is not helped by the local Evans having neither in either size. I have ordered in, to test ride/size a Vapour, my current preference, mainly due to colour :-) in a 58cm (size recommended by the sales assistant). Though having today sat on my friends caadx in a 56, with a longish stem, which felt definitely big enough, I am worried I should of got the Genesis in, in a 56cm first. Does anyone have any first hand experience of the fit difference between the frames. I am not good enough at bike geometry to attempt to work out the difference from the charts.