Who’s should I buy?
I don’t think you’ll get too many bites, so i’ll give you a go
KHS cyclocross softail.
The thing is steal, so you won’t brake it when you crash,it has a tiny amount of travel, not enought to merit a bb linkage, but enough to take the buzz out of the tough stuff, and it is reasonably light.
well, there is a dude with a sweet fucking moots that i keep chasing every weekend and that thing looks pretty fine . . . . . . . . .
altho, the steelman site has an insane stealth grey singlespeed 'crosser with discs that is without doubt one of the coolest bikes i have ever seen.
so yeah, i’d say get one of those.
link:
http://www.steelmancycles.com/Ron'sSSC.html
now THAT, is what you should buy. any questions? no. good.
P.S. my bad on the disc thing . . . . pauls.
That is one sick-ass mofo ride, bro.
Down bike lust! DOWN!
What is your application for a CX bike?
CX racing?
Training?
Ride to work?
Mount slicks and ride as a road bike?
I ride a Felt F1x and love it. My 2 cents is that if you’re going to be putting more than 2k miles per year…pony up the extra $ for carbon fork and ultegra.
redline cx, cheap, proven, durable. good enough for cross, where it will get the piss beaten out of it anyway.
I’ll second the Felt - very good cx race bike. Replaced my Kelly with the Felt’s and I’m very happy. It’s also a pretty good deal if you get it as frame/fork/headset/seatpost (well okay, the seatpost sucks), or as a complete bike.
Sorry to rain on Steelman’s parade but the pimp shit cx bike is obviously a Ridley X-Night. Just imagine that thing decked out withrecord, zipp 404s, and everything else that could possibly be carbon. Mmmm…you will, of course, have to take out a 2nd mortgage on your house to get one.
LOL…how long did your seatpost last? Mine cracked after a week and replaced with a Thomson set-back.
I bought the frame/fork/seatpost combo ($800ish) and built it up.
Don’t worry…that hood position was a temporary position for a race last weekend.
A bit dirty as it’s fresh off a 50 mile fireroad ride today (can view on Motionbased)
2 suggestions on the cheap. Chucksbikes.com specs a very inexpensive AL frameset for a couple of hundred dollars.
If I was in the market, I’d strongly consider a K2 Enemy. Frameset is under $400 and it has fork and chainstay bosses for disc brakes. I know, they’ve been banned in racing, but for a wet weather commuter or fire road bike, it makes sense.
Have fun.
Is a good place to start. Kona, Bianchi, Redline Trek, and Specalized all have out of the box racers pretty cheap. Ebay is a good place to browse. If you really plan to do cross, figure that bike will get hammered. As much as I like the pretty steel bikes cheap alum or industructo Ti would be a better choice than a $1500 high zoot steel bike that will look like shit after a few weeks.
With that said, Steelman,Sycip,Soulcraft,Kelly,Vanilla,Yamaguchi,Hottubes, Waterford, or the holy grail Richard Sachs all build real beauties. But if you are going to beat the crap out of a frame it dosn’t hurt as much if it is an industrial one instead of rolling artwork. G
actually, discs are now un-banned.
and, as for the notion that a throw-away pacific rim ridley draped with plastic parts like a vinyl miniskirt on a cheap ho should inspire lust over a steelman (singlespeed steelman, at that) . . .sigh . . . . . . . . . . . … . maybe that is what happens when you let tri-heads into cyclocross.
just kiddn. have fun.
it’s all good at the 'cross races, as ya know. the kid and i are off to the state chmpnshps this am. go, singlespeeder !!