Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

Retroshift have a prototype of their friction shifter mounted to a TRP Hylex SS brake set up

If they do sell them with the hydro set-up, I'm defintely thinking of overhauling my Genesis with that.

How much would you guys pay for a BMC CX01 frameset in used but good condition?
Anyone? Thanks!

What model is it and how much?

It's the top end model; TCX Advance 1 I think it's called.

A whole lot of money is how much it costs.

but a great bike (better looking in those light blue).
i'm waiting for my tcx slr 2 (the alu model).

Thinking of getting a cx bike for my winter commute and maybe have a go at a race

Doesn't it retail at like £3000 or there about i.e. hardly appropriate for this thread?

Title were for the original poster whom looking for a bicycle within that price range, but it's more like a cyclocross bike recommendation topic nowadays, dunno why the mod don't change it.

I'll ask again, whats the conclusion to the thread, what's the best cyclocross bike for under £1k

Unless you're advocating free money and beer you're not likely to find LFGSS consensus on anything. And even then people would brawl about currency and what beer to get... :)

I'll ask again, whats the conclusion to the thread, what's the best cyclocross bike for under £1k

Race or commute / tour? Or both?

Howard is correct, best is subjective to personal preference.

Some like a bit of steel, perhaps cantilevers, or disc equipped, a race geometry or a commuter geometry with a massive headtube, maybe carbon fibre for the die hard cyclecross racer, etc.

maybe carbon fibre for the die hard cyclecross racer.

You mad?

Carbon frames/one crash wonders is for sponsored riders only.

Like I said, personal preference, I actually have a colleague whom race* with a carbon frame despite the increase risk of crashes.

He did crashed, damaged the top tube, it was now repaired for £140 and carried on racing.

*road race rather.

Increase risk of crashes comes when you ride your bike around a muddy field like a nutter. Frame material is almost ...er immaterial.

Race or commute / tour? Or both?

All the above

How's about this thttp://www.giant-bicycles.com/_generated/_generated_uk/bikes/models/images/2000/2014/2014_Giant_TCX_SLR_2.jpg

Doubtful, the gearing won't be to your advantage for touring (36/46 chainset).

The new (abet ugly) Giant AnyRoad fit your critique more, or even the Giant Revolt (can accept up to 700x50c).

You mad?

Carbon frames/one crash wonders is for sponsored riders only.

This is why I never bought myself a 'dale SuperX.

No matter how much I wanted one :(

How's about this thttp://www.giant-bicycles.com/_generated/_generated_uk/bikes/models/images/2000/2014/2014_Giant_TCX_SLR_2.jpg

Rad, but not for commute / tour.

In that category I'd start with

CAADX 105 disc
Croix De Fer / CDF
Pinnacle Arkose
Surly CrossCheck
Boardman
Canyon Inflite
Kinesis crosslight

Think they've all been discussed on here somewhere.

CAADX 105 have CX chainset thought.

Mmmm. Didn't stop me from getting over the Pennines on mine, but I agree it might not be ideal.

Having said that though the brief was race + commute. A compact chainset is pretty useless for racing, but a cyclocross chainset works for getting you from a-b. So I'd lean towards a CX chainset anyway if I was going to race it.

Surely you could put CX-specific rings onto a 110bcd crank?

Well the CAADX (2013 Sora) did an excellent job of getting me, my stuff and all my girlfriend's stuff from London to Cambridge on Sunday afternoon/evening.
Slight issues:
Toe overlap with mudguards - already snapped one of the plastic cap things on the longboards.
Length of hoods (compared to SRAM) means I probably need a shorter stem.
Brakes are rubbish. I got used to them over the trip but I nearly went over the handlebars when taking my roadbike out this evening, such is the difference in power!

Surely you could put CX-specific rings onto a 110bcd crank?

Yeah of course, you'd just need to buy the rings, that's all.

Whereas with 36/44 you don't really have to buy new rings for everyday use.