Any experience of carbon as frame material for CX? Will it stand up to much? Durability issues? Any recommendations? Needs hydro discs obvs, and under £1500 ideally.

Thinking particularly of a Fuji one.

Dunno about those, but my 2010 Argon 18 Arsenic has done lots including the 3 Peaks, 4 Paris Roubaix, 3 seasons of cross racing, a trip to the Alps, a Spanish training camp, used out and about in the Surrey Hills off road, Cross Fell, Tour of Cornfields….
Its still fine up till now, I’m sure it’ll continue to be fine for about the same time again.

Cool, thanks

The new Rose one looks good.

The Scott addict x looks the dogs but more £ unless you can find one in a sale somewhere.

I really like my Norco Threshold. I shouldn’t imagine a carbon CX bike would have any durability issues. Mine feels like you could throw rocks at it and they would bounce off.

When compared to carbon road bike there is a reassuring amount of material used especially chain stays and BB shell.

Yeah that was my concern, skinny road type wall thicknesses.

I like the look of this
https://www.evanscycles.com/fuji-altamira-cx-1-5-2016-road-bike-EV241916

I’ve put 3 years use into a Chinese Carbon cx frame. Raced/long rides and road use been superb 8)

Absolutely no issues with mine. Including dropping another bike onto it that I reckon would have folded an aluminium tube…

Mike Hall rode a carbon On-One Dirty Disco around the world without – I think – any issues.

The new Rose one looks good.

I’d go for the alu 1×11 one. For the same price, it’s lighter and better spec’d.

The rose doesn’t have hydraulic discs!

I was looking at this one which admittedly may be a little over the stated budget.

Got a Santa Cruz Stigmata CC (yes, i know, it’s not within the budget specified)… however… it’s used as my everything bike and has been smashed over all sorts of rooty, rocky, nasty business over the last 18 months or so with zero complaints.

Extremely happy with my Spesh Crux; not yet a year old but has been ridden hard over some long rocky/rooty tours and so far it’s bullet proof.

Perhaps you could fine some old stock of the 2016 Specialized Crux Elite X1 as that would almost meet your budget.

My specs HERE

Bream, nice that. Might be a bit over budget though 🙂

paulmilnes – cx specialist – currently loads of ridley new and ex fidea telenet bikes. his own brand carbon frames look superb and are raced to by some of the country’s best. proper cx geometry – give him a rin – super helpful and knows his stuff

Have trek Boone which is great ride it over loads of rocky trails bike is tuff rides a treat.

To contrast, I have an aluminium Jake the Snake which is approaching 2 years old and has 2 dents in the top tube from some fairly innocuous falls.

My carbon Kuota Kross is 10 years old – its been crashed, battered, dragged up and down cliffs – worst case was ripping the rear mech hanger off at a clag-fest at Southampton CX.

Slight thread hijack/diversion: I’m thinking of swapping my slightly tired carbon composite road bike for one of these shiny new carbon gravel disc numbers.

Is there a vast difference between a carbon gravel bike and a road race bike? I’m thinking for the uses of winter miles with diversions off road and the usual towpath/bridleslaying terrain. I’ve had a couple of CX bikes (Boardman CX and Kinesis Crosslight Pro3) and they weren’t as zippy as the road bike, even with 25mm tyres. (Though the Crosslight was pretty good)

Thinking of a Raleigh Roker or one of those Viner Strada Biancas off of On One.

Ive been using a Fuji carbon cx bike for 2 1/2 yrs for commuting, racing and goofing around. its done nearly 7000kms and its held up brilliantly

highly recommended

About the Viner Strada Biancas off the PX website…

intelligently combine the best features of tourers, cyclocross and XC mountain bikes

Doesn’t sound like it’s going to be particularly zippy!