Originally Posted by
swekarl
I have a Caad10 and will probably complement it with a 2015 Caadx 105 because I'm curious about cyclocross bikes and think the caadx could work as my winter/everyday bike. I was wondering what you think of the 46/36 chainrings. My Caad10 has 50/39, which is almost too little in the flat area where I live. I'm not gonna grind any gravel with the Caadx (or is that fun?), but rather use it "mostly on the road" as you. So was thinking of having the same setup on both bikes.
I grind the gravel and take the bike into muddy areas. Those mudguards REALLY help (on my mtb I slow right down coz I'm not a fan of mud). My next CX bike (I kinda stopped calling it a cx bike, coz to me its really a road bike with old-school support for wider tires) will have disk brakes like you guys have.
The CX (I still gotta call it cx to clarify though
) bike is my daily rider and general go-to bike.