Best cyclocross bike under £1000 and other CX chat

I also have a 140mm hope disc on the rear of the 29er. Looks comedy.

There's another brake like the Paul but I forget the name, it's also relatively new too and possibly cheaper.

There may be other considerations, outside of looks, when choosing disc rotors, I suppose.

Shimano make a couple of Cantilever brakes now. Surely they will work with X700 series stuff?

I'll have a poke about. I just have an XT v-brake kicking around and thought I may be able to put it to use.

Shimano make a couple of Cantilever brakes now. Surely they will work with X700 series stuff?

frame is disc only

Think it was a reference to my canti woes.

FWIW the Shimano brakes are the CX70s.

nah, he had quoted my question about disc size

What are you on about James?

Howard there are a couple. CX70 and CX50.

http://www.lfgss.com/post2909881-950.html

Neil

I am working out west all day, but thanks for the offer.

What size rotors do people use on cross bikes for front and rear?

Shimano make a couple of Cantilever brakes now. Surely they will work with X700 series stuff?

Sorry, I was meaning that to be a response to Howard's question about cable pull and v brakes for X700 series stuff.

I dun a misquote.

glad you can see what I was on about.

It also shows how little care I take before posting.

• hangs head in shame *
  

not bad for £960, 105 shifters and ultegra deraileurs.

or this for a bit more with 105

That look pretty cool, bit worried about the brakes.

the first one has some shimano mech discs and the other one has avid bb7.
I think at the moment those brakes are just place holders until hydraulics become
available.

Cyclocross forks, tapered steerer, disc tabs- what is out there?

Hint: I'd prefer not to put ENVE forks on a Boardman.

http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/products/forks/cross/cxd

Thanks!

Looks like it was an expensive crash last weekend.

so what got damaged? am guessing forks and wheels

Took a chip out of the forks, and the rear wheel is junk.

I'd just get a replacement Boardman fork, but that appears to be totally impossible.

What happened?

Ran out of talent, locked the front brake, went off the track, hit stuff.

Ouch. Bike came off worse than you I guess?

Yep, I'm fine.

This was a week ago, I've only just got round to cleaning the mud off the bike and then found the ding on the fork.

As I said above I'd normally just get a replacement fork from Halfords, but when I tried that the friendly chap said "Can't get 'em mate, to be honest with you I wouldn't even know where to start", which is a bit unfortunate.