Recommend me a CX bike

Jellylegs1968
Jellylegs1968 Posts: 73
edited June 2009 in Road buying advice
I've got up to £1,500 to spend.

It will double as a winter trainer and i'm a cross novice.

Let's have some suggestions and reasons why.

Thanks

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  • acorn_user
    acorn_user Posts: 1,137
    Are you going to race it? If not, I recommend a good winter bike built on a nice UK steel frame from Woodrup, Rourke or Jackson or similar. Ellis Brigg has a complete bike with Tiagra for 800 pounds or so. If you are going to race cross, I'd look for a frame that can take full length mudguards - this is not always a given. Of course, you could have a frame brazed to your specs that would do. I used my Raleigh RSP cross for road racing this year and it was fine.
    Good cross makes include Guerciotti, Ridley and Alan.
  • star_rover
    star_rover Posts: 318
    If Jellylegs is going to race cross why would he want a frame that can take full length mudguards?
    Quite a few off the pegs available for £1500, or get a Kinesis Evo3 built up to your spec.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
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  • Once_In_A_Blue_Moon
    Once_In_A_Blue_Moon Posts: 269
    Giant TCX. You'll have a few hundred notes spare to upgrade the wheels.
  • acorn_user
    acorn_user Posts: 1,137
    star_rover wrote:
    If Jellylegs is going to race cross why would he want a frame that can take full length mudguards?
    Quite a few off the pegs available for £1500, or get a Kinesis Evo3 built up to your spec.

    Because the OP says he would like to use it as a winter trainer too. That would give him maximum flexibility.

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