what's a realastic budget for everything minus frame and fork for a mid range build for general CX / Touring bike duties. Looking at a Salsa Vaya frame.
£700
Touring - Dawes Galaxy. All you could ever need. £900 and up.
CX and touring - Looked at a Spesh Tricross?
Yeah tricross sport looks ok but not sure about brakes; seems to be some reports of bad judder here.
Spesh reckon they've 'cracked' the front brake judder issue with a little widget that fits to the fork as part of the cable hanger.
bars £12 Ritchey Comp
bar tape £5 Cheap
cables £10 LBS
brakes £28 Tektro 926AL Mini-V Brakes
tyres £16 Michelin Transworld Sprint
wheels £65 Shimano R500 factory wheels
tubes £5 Halfords?
BB £17 Merlin
cranks £30 Stronglight Impact Triple
cassette £25 Sram mtb 9sp, same weight as Ultegra
brake levers £23 Tektro R200A
barend shftrs £25 Classifieds?
chain £15 Sram
stem £16 Ritchie Pro
Front deraill £10 Ultegra Triple 6603
Rear deraill £18 Shimano 105 Rear 9 Speed 5501
Post / collar £20 Classifieds?
Seat £10 Classifieds?
£350?
Unless I forgot something, corse you can spend a fortune on wheels.
claud buttler touring bike off here - £110
More robust wheelset - £free (swaped with another, racier, 6 speed bike)
Bar tape - £6
Brake blocks - £12 (including spares)
Ortlieb panniers x 4 and lowrider rack - £120
Rear topeak alloy rack - £FREE off scrapped commuter bike
Still need;
Replace the biopace chainrings
Indexed 6 speed shifters that look nice, got a choice of polished SR non indexed or boring shimano indexed ones
Saddle, the middlemoor one looks good, and could be very comfortable, but isn't suiting me particularly well.