Cyclocrosser choice

[RichT]

Please feel free to comment on either I'm buying for mainly commuting but will also be used as a winter road bike and country lane purposes.

And I may even try a CX race.

You may as well get a 'tourer' if you're just using it as a winter-bike!!

Some cross frames don't even have mud-guard mounts, & if it's a winter bike, you need mudguards!!!

Plus, if you do get a cross-bike, you've just got to race it!!!

 

[kaiser]

I thought this too but most of the 'fashion' crossers coming out now have mudgaurd and rack mounts. These two have mudgaurd mounts anyway. I have a tourer in the pipeline so to speak. And I will race this one too. The three peaks is on my bucket list and that is as a good an excuse as any to buy a new bike!

 

[yo-eddy]

yo its a new bike on the bike2work scheme over here. Second hand not an option I'm afraid.

Allright, that sounds pretty ok thought you were spending your own hard earned cash on it
the C'dale will look nicer when it gets dirty..... and it will

 

[kaiser]

shaping up to what I thought, the dale does look nicer but the kit on the cube is hard to argue with :?

 

[Augustus]

Cannondale.

 

[kaiser]

a big factor is the cube is in a LBS and in my size so much so that I could take it out the shop on Friday and go to a local race on Sunday The shop I phoned about the dale were a bit unbothered(?) by my questions whereas the local one were very nice on the phone.......

 

[clockworkgazz]

Got to be local

 

[velomaniac]

Local shop for local people

 

[yo-eddy]

think global, act local............ but still the Dale's nicer :roll:

 

[Augustus]

think global, act local............ but still the Dale's nicer :roll:

Just think...

... in two years when it's got Ultegra on it and lighter wheels and a few scratches but next gen Retrobike stickers next to them and someone stops you and talks about how you've just emerged from the woods on a cool Cannondale racing bike and smoked them on your local singletrack, and they on a 5inch trail bike too...

...those few extra days taken at this point will blur into insignificance and lead to a cooler cross bike in the long term....


I'm going to hate those words tomorrow night when you post pocs of your new sparkly lovely Cube cross bike bought locally.