Road bike recommendations

Cannondale Caad 9. According to the chaps at bike forums-road section the best alu frame around.. (and a horizontal top tube) Or look for a reduced Cervelo Soloist team frame. Also alu. A grand is a struggle for carbon... Just remembered Planet x. Were they not doing some deal where you had to build the bike yourself?

that cannondale looks like it might be the ticket if I can get hold of a white one

nice shape (for a modern bike) not carbon but I don't have anything against alu.