All-round road bike

Thinking of this:

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/bmc/granfondo-gf02-105-disc-2014-cyclocross-bike-ec053877

Any thoughts? For long training rides and the off Sunday morning club run.

I was looking at one of those in Evans the other day. They look very nice and feel pretty light.

Sounds good. Not the best value out there, but ticks all the boxes – light-ish, meant to be comfy ride, will take guards/rack and discs.

To be honest, I am considering one to replace both my CX bike (a little heavy for a roadie) and my carbon road bike.

For long training rides and the off Sunday morning club run

That sounds like purely road work, so I can’t understand why you’re looking at a CX bike (other than it looking pretty nice)?

That sounds like purely road work, so I can’t understand why you’re looking at a CX bike (other than it looking pretty nice)?

The only difference between this and the standard GF02 is the discs and cx tyres rather than road tyres.

The geometry doesn’t share anything at all with the non-disc version

Ok – just checked. But it is till marketed as a road and off-road bike by BMC.

and actually, the geometry isn’t that disimilar: Half a degree here and there. The biggest differences are the head tube and seat tube lengths.

For my next CX ,I am going to get a spare set of light road wheels ,these will be left with skinny tyres and a different cassette fitted.
Easy to swap with discs and should give me more options .

If you must have disks, it looks a fine choice. About £300 more than I would expect to pay for a 105 alloy bike though (Cannondale CAADX for example). BMCs come up large. The 72 head angle and 54.5 cm TT (for the M) is almost Giant Defy geometry. Steering will be a little less sharp.

theres also the genesis,rose and cannondale disk road bikes

It hasn’t got to have discs, though I’m leaning towards them. The Cannondale Synapse Disc 105 is cheaper but doesn’t get sparkling reviews and looks a bit ‘meh’. The Genesis is too heavy and the Rose looks good but I want to buy in the UK.