Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

Consensus is pretty good I think, though they're a bit porky for carbon. I'd personally rather have a really good alu frame than a naff carbon one.

When you say porky, i assume you mean like, bad quality carbon?

porky=heavy

Oh i see, may bad, that's sort of obvious... :S thank you nonetheless!

1200g is hardly porky, it's a CX bike ffs.

S'alright. It probably has another 100g of paint on it now so it's only a few 100gs off a quality alu frame (TCX for example). However the fork is a boat anchor.

really want one of these

Spyres have been recalled by TRP

Yip. Annoying as I've just replaced the stock pads in all four we own.

Ill take em out and hope the replacements come with new pads.

Does anyone know of a decent drop bar that has both decent ergonomicy bits and still has a wide central round bit so I can put cross top levers on?

Pro Vibe 7 S?

Anybody know anything about that new B twin cross thingy that got good reviews in cycling plus , cos on the face of it looks really good value .

It's probably a good value if slightly dull looking CX bike if its anything like their previous efforts. Get down to decathlon and take a look?

The catch is that the bicycle is likely to be poorly put together, so if you're genuinely interested in it, put an extra £30 on top to get it PDI at a reputable LBS.

Not sure if I can bring myself to buy from decathlon , and yes I know its just the snob factor ie boardman /halfords .
One of my mates has two bike shops in Oxfordshire and has recently taken on Lapierre so is getting me one of their alloy 105 equipped cross to try , with a deal that should come in under a grand .

Deposit down for a Geekhouse Mudville with Yo Marty fork. Hopefully the build should be done by next cross season. I will probably get a carbon fork for racing, but wanted the steel fork as well.

Woah.

Fucking ace!

under 1k?! ;p

Pro Vibe 7 S?

Looks good, cheers

^^ frame and fork will be a bit over. Thinking of taking a trip to Boston in conjunction with a holiday to pick it up, as a way round import duty and VAT. Not sure if that works though.

Sell one of your bike frames to someone in Boston, take it out built up in a case, swap the frames, hand over the old one.

No one will ever know.

Or just take an empty case over...
Its a very cool little warehouse/workshop where they're based.

fatbirds lowering the price of a pro-6 > http://www.fatbirds.co.uk/1174817/products/kinesis-crosslight-pro6-2013-cyclocross-bike---green.aspx#buyAnchor

Planning on going 1x10 as I never shift on the front when racing and the rest of the time the bikes a town bike, so I don't need any big gears.

An XT rear mech, 38t chainring and a 11-30t cassette should provide almost the same range as I currently have with 34/44t chainrings and a 11-28t cassette, though obviously with bigger jumps but I think I can deal with that.

I'd like to try out these wide narrow chainrings but unfortunately I am a Shimano devotee and all their clutch rear mechs are not compatible with STI shifters. Therefore I am left with chain retention options of either a Pauls Chain Keeper (light and simple but will probably clog and feed the chain with mud in much the same way as a front derailleur) or dog fang chain catcher and chain guard (cheaper and heavier but perhaps better in mud?). I'm leaning towards the latter.

You shouldn't have much problem if you went for a singlespeed chainring without ramp and pin (which cause chain to derailed without a derailleur.

Defiantly not under £1000

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