If I were to change my budget?

[Robson3022]

Was planning on spending £1000 on a cyclocross and the options are huge!!

However have been thinking about it a bit and what could I get for £500?

Brand new I can't find a lot, in fact it's the same story with second hand! Ever the boardman which I could get for £899-£70 with the current offer people are still asking £700 for second hand.


Anyone got any ideas?

 

[mcshroom]

Revolution Cross '12 from EBC - http://www.edinburghbicycle.com/products/revolution-cross-12?bct=browse/bicycles/cyclocross-bikes

Comes in £50 under budget

 

[Robson3022]

Do we know if these are any good?

 

[mcshroom]

No experience of the bike, but I have most of those components on my tourer and they all work well enough, though they are all low end shimano wise.

EBC have a reputation for being able to build a decent bike.

 

[black'n'yellow]

Was planning on spending £1000 on a cyclocross and the options are huge!!

However have been thinking about it a bit and what could I get for £500?

Brand new I can't find a lot, in fact it's the same story with second hand! Ever the boardman which I could get for £899-£70 with the current offer people are still asking £700 for second hand.


Anyone got any ideas?

is this for commuting - or actually for cyclocross..??

 

[mcshroom]

I was coming back to say that bny. It's probably a bit heavy for a CX, and current CX bikes are going over to disk brakes, but for commuting it would probably be fine.

 

[Robson3022]

It's for commuting initially but my football career is coming to an end at the tender age of 25. So was looking in the next year to possibly start competing a bit. Wouldn't want to buy a bike and have to upgrade I six months.

 

[VamP]

It's for commuting initially but my football career is coming to an end at the tender age of 25. So was looking in the next year to possibly start competing a bit. Wouldn't want to buy a bike and have to upgrade I six months.

Oh the urge to upgrade will be strong regardless of what you get initially

 

[xxmimixx]

how about this

 

[Robson3022]

Thanks, Looks pretty good for the price. May have to extend my options?