Show me your CX bikes…

With Kinder in the distance and full mudguards on

Damn, this thread is a week too early…

Bought a Croix de fer frameset earlier, just bought everything bar the headset and tyres for it. Like the steel springiness of the frame…

JRA reckon they mounted Maxxis Raze on Stans 340s OK.

Do CX bikes have to be stored in trees?

What are the best tyres and widths you are finding? I like the look of the rocket rons.

Would like to say I’d just sailed past the guy behind, but in reality………

eBay special. Graham Weigh frame, Campag 1×10. Cheap and cheerful 🙂
..and a couple of picture of me getting muddy and cold on it.

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For the question about using them as replacements for MTB’s then yes, all the time. I rarely ride my mountain bike nowadays, it’s just too slow getting to and from the trails. Ride the CX bike fast there, experience huge amounts of pain riding round the same trails I normally would, ride back really fast (perhaps grimacing a little bit).

WOOOAH! Are you in my woods there? I hope not!

Rusty Trowel….good choice of bar tape btw 😉

WOOOAH! Are you in my woods there? I hope not!

thought I’d flex my muscles down at the Jumbles. (looks like I’ve been busted now) 😥

I really fancy one for the South Downs, do the tyres get mashed by flints? Also, I’d quite like to run a flat bar, would I die?

Aah, I recognise it now. Nope, jumbles is fine. Continue 😉 I thought it was the woods by ours.

Aah, I recognise it now. Nope, jumbles is fine. Continue I thought it was the woods by ours.

thank god for that! 😉

Doubles up as my road bikes, I’d love a disc setup in the future like some of the above!

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do the tyres get mashed by flints? Also, I’d quite like to run a flat bar, would I die?

1/. yes in my experience – not on the south downs but regular riding on gravel tracks cuts up the side walls – some tyres are possibly worse than others – but worth regular checks

2/. no but that would be a hybrid and you’d need to get some panniers

Nice Addict there ae212060, very nice 8)

to make the boys wink 😉

the scotts lovely!

to make the boys wink

thats just showing off 8)

Seat tube angle looks relaxed on that Shand, lovely colourway though!

Edit, maybe not on seconds thoughts, might be just the frame size. Either way its nice

Only pic I have but absolutely love it. Two sets of wheels. One for riding into work and the other for off road nighttime winter duties 🙂

Is anyone running a different set of wheels for the road so they’ve more tyre pressure, if so what, I’m after some ideas, must be disc.

I just stick 100psi in the CX tyres.

Seat tube angle looks relaxed on that Shand, lovely colourway though!

It’s a reasonably big frame (58 square ), 73º seat angle.

Set up for the 3 Peaks CX last year, its got Campag on it now 🙂

Stupidly sold this a few months ago because it wasn’t getting much use… 🙁

The Bike I wish I had

Soma, what would that Ibis in that build come in at price wise?

Not that I’ve got any money, but I can dream.

On a more affordable level, I’ve been drooling over this for a while.

scottyroyal – if there’s ever a disc version of the Ritchey, I’ll be very tempted!

SSCX

Gears

weenie 49cm frame

love the Felt! any more pics?

Such a fun bike

First time on or offroad since October. 😀

and in race mode

Sefton – more of the Felt

I’ve just finished building a Croix de Fer. I’m intending to try a little gentle off road with it soon – what tyres do the experts recommend for riding to the trails, mincing round and riding back home again?

Is anyone running a different set of wheels for the road so they’ve more tyre pressure, if so what, I’m after some ideas, must be disc.

Nope – but for road use I have replaced the Racing Ralphs with a a set of Conti GP 4 Season tyres, which seem good – fairly slick with light tread and tough enough for the rough back roads round this way. Plus they come in 28mm which is the smallest recommended tyre width for the 19mm Mavic CrossRide rims. Rec pressure for them is 95psi (max 115psi).

Here it is ….

I’ve got crests, I don’t think they take that much pressure.

trickydisco- is that foxlake?

trickydisco- is that foxlake?

Nope, it’s the lovely hengrove in bristol.. Came 3rd that day. well chuffed

GrahamS, what bike did you go for in the end? I can’t remember if you ever said? Was it the Rose in the end? If so, hows it treating you?