Looks like the frame is different from last year. For a start the rear brakes are within the seat/chain stays (which seems like a better design, and the braking loads can be shared by both parts of the rear triangle). I like it!

You talking about the Boardman? That’s where they always been on the disc equipped CX.

Fair enough, must have been lusting after something else last year 😳

Tempted with this myself…what size if you’re 6 foot 2?

Cheers Alex, just found a local halfords has a 55 in stock, so going for a look this afternoon.

Well brought one today, got the halfords and the bcf discount so came in at 730! However got it home and swapping pedals around etc about to alter saddle height and there’s a crack in the paint work on the seat/top tube /rear stays cluster so taking it tomorrow..arse..
Crack

Micarms can i ask where you purchased this from? i went to look at one in my local halfords and the one on display had a crack in the paint on the seat junction too…is there a trend

What size did you buy? 55.5cm for 6’2″ sounds a bit small

The 55.5 cm is the same size as my 58 cm trek road frame. The boardmans do come up big as thinking about it my Mate is 6 foot 5 and is on a 57.5 cm boardman road bike.

I had a look at the 2014 CX today in Halfords, Be Aware, The forks don’t have mounts on the dropout for mudguards like the 2013 model. This has disappointed me a bit as I do prefer the overall look and spec of the 2014 🙁

funny seeing this thread pop up. In our local halfords yesterday, they had a ’14 Boardman CX bike in a stand being prepped for collection. Ally frame, CF forks, silver paint, lovely looking and about £1K I think, and Munqe Chick reckons a CX bike fits her n+1 so showed some interest. Guy building it waxed on about the filed welds (pointed to the seat tube junction) and how nice the finish was…

….and then went on to say they’d had SEVEN broken. Dont know if its a bad batch, bad courier or bad shipment but it sounded like some/all of them were bust out of the box. His manager did everything he could to shut him up (short of saying “shut up you idiot these are potential customers”…) but not before he’d already said they’d moved heaven and earth to get this particular (ie. non-broken?) one in for the customer.

not read the interview (will dig it out in a mo) but “our” guy mentioned the silver was some ‘special’ finish where no 2 were the same. To be fair he didnt get time to clarify whether it was in fact only a paint crack but it didnt sound it from the description or his exasperation.

This is on Oxfordshire BTW.

Got an email today from Quality, ALL the 2014 CX Teams have to be checked for (superficial) cracks by the ST/TT junction. It’s the filler they put over the welds, not structural. All of ours are now quarantined. So good luck finding one. Supposed to be working on a solution but f*ck knows if/when that will be.

Hounslow appreciate the clarification, fits in with what I heard and others have said. Shame as they are lovely looking frames and Boardman have built a decent rep. Expect a load of unfilled, stripped raw frames in 6 months?

Hey halfords peeps, any idea if these issues are developing after a bit of riding or straight out of the box?

Chapa, “mine” where out the box- they’d sold one and struggled to find one that wasn’t cracked (had to get another bike delivered to store beyond their initial shipment) to fulfill the sale. From what Hounslow said its endemic and theyre all being pulled now.

Needed to cheer myself up with my broken arm Ed. Don’t judge me.

You must be pondering something yourself though, to have been reading this thread?

😉

Fingers crossed, its a shame that it appears to be trying to pay more attention to detail cosmetically that has backfired.

bought mine a week ago and still waiting for the store to get it in. Good heads up on the cracked frames. 🙁

Caher you’ll be waiting a while according to hounslows post….

spent the last few months reading reports on cross bikes and decided to go for a boardman bike i picked up my bike on wednesday night and discoverd the back wheel was like a egg not realy round and true so complained about that and got the halfords guy to order me a new one,took the bike away and started taking the crappy brake levers off the top of the handlebars.
went and bought some road tyres and full mudgaurds on the friday after work then started to fit all the new things to my great bike must have spent a fair few hours setting it all up and fitting lights and adjusting the stem,decided to go for a quick spin around the block,it felt great and made me smile loads.

had a quick look on this forum to tell everyone how good the bike was and to post a picture but then i saw the post about the frame cracking near the seat tube/top tube junction and decided to have a look at my bike and discoverd a big crack simalair to the one pictured on here,it was about 1am last night i felt well pissed off.

took the bike back and got a full refund no questions asked,it was less hassle asking for my money back than it was picking the bike up lol.
i gave the guy a bit of a sob story saying id spent a couple of nights changing the tyres and fitting mudgaurds and various other things,i also said i would be getting my solicitor involved in getting some compensation back for the loss of fun and enjoyment,he soon offered me the older model for the same price of 809 pounds and he would throw in some free accesories.
would it be worth getting the older model are there any reasons not to buy the 2012 model.matt