Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

http://www.pedalon.co.uk/acatalog/cannondale-superx-ultegra.html

Helluva lot of bike for £1300.

If you can rock a 56 or 58cm frame.

I'd love to turn one of these into a superlight SSCX - just need to grow a few cm first...

Can order one in to try out.

Can you order some in for sale? I would pay quite a bit for some.

If you can rock a 56 or 58cm frame.

I'd love to turn one of these into a superlight SSCX - just need to grow a few cm first...

The sizing is pretty big as well, the 56 is like a 58 and the 58 is more like a 60.

^This, I tried the 58, it was massive

Good price at 900 quid?

I was confident enough to race* full carbon, I would go for one of these.

*I need to actually begin racing

The PX XLS Force is looking pretty good value at £1300.

Tapered, PF30, full crabon and all that shizzle. Tyres aren't bad either.

That is nice. I am now torn between the sensible option that will take mudguards etc and double as a winter ride. Or sparkles like that.

Sparkles :)

Sorry.

since when PX doing uncle john with disc mounts?!

For a while actually.

I'm waiting for the price to drop more, so I can replaced the Genesis CdF frame with it and a Kinesis CX fork.

mine (uncJohn) is several years old and has a rear disk mount. not on the fork mind.
that carbon PX is an incredible deal!

sparkles :)

+1 :-)

get sparkles, you can always wash your arse.

He lives!

Hope your arse is a lot less active now.

Why are you on here and not buying the sparkles?

Looks awesome in matte.

Howard, I need to get my C2W cheque first. Then I decide on sparkles.

Contacted PX about the XLS - sadly it only comes in clearcoat.

Might poke about on the orient express thread to find out if I can get matte frame direct from China.

Hydraulic Di2 spotted with the prototype giveaway alloy shifters as seen on early DA 9000

paging Dammit

Excellent.

Once my rando bicycle is done, I'm converting the Genesis by replacing the frame with a more road-ordinates geometry and hyrdaulic Di2.

^^ source?

^ so building a new bike rather than "converting" ;)

Is that the new 3T Tornova handlebar too?

^ so building a new bike rather than "converting" ;)

Currently the Genesis is a do-it-all bicycle for audax and general ride, brilliant but can be a pig if you want to push it as you would a road bike.

With the Oak in near completion, I can now ditch the frame for a plastic disc frame with a normal head tube angle with clearance for fattie.

That Giant frame. I like.

Which plastic frame are you thinking about Ed?