Cant decide... beauty or power?

Hi all,

So i really cant decide between the two bikes:

Colnago Lux Dream (Ultegra Spec) @ £850

or

Planet X TT (DA Throughout) @ £1000 (with pair of zipp 404s and front 404 and corima disc)

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Both bikes are flawless and 'as new' without a paint chip on them. The Colnago is absolute beauty and the Planet X is beastly ugly.

Im still undecided between a TT or Roadbike, as the distances i like to ride are short i.e. under 50 miles (generally around the 25 mile mark) however ive only owned a road bike.

I plan to keep two bikes, a geared racer and a fixed for weekday use. The bike i buy will be for training and racing only, so does this make the Colnago second favourite?

Any constructive ideas/cristisms by any fellow keen riders/racers on owning a TT bike over a road bike?

Cheers all

Well what racing are you doing?!

If you are racing TTs then buy a TT bike. If you are road racing then don't buy a TT bike.

I havent 100% decided yet, im more likely to go for TT's and Triathlons this summer.... but i do like a good 60+ mile ride from time to time, which will be more comfortable on a road bike

You can TT on a road bike. You can't road race on a TT bike.

Game over.

Very true, but i did this on my old carbon race bike and could never get the position right

you can't enter a road race on a tt bike.

you can enter a tt on a road bike.

shit too slow.

Surely the sum of the parts on the Planet X must be worth more than a grand. Buy both, strip em, sell em and then buy a decent road race bike.

at these prices you have just helped me to decide on a geared road bike thats going for £300, was gonna start a thread about it but now dont need to!
new (2nd hand) bike for me tommorrow

steel. not that plastic thing. you know they warp if you lean them up against a radiator.

edit: is that steel or alloy?

Alloy

steel. not that plastic thing. you know they warp if you lean them up against a radiator.
edit: is that steel or alloy?

Is that what happens to those Pegoretti paint jobs?

Well for the tt bike to be usable in normal(windy) or training circumstances you would need another wheel set adding even more expense.

The Planet X is absolute beauty and the Colnago is beastly ugly.

yes. you then put them in the fridge when you are happy with the splodges.

Like hypercolour t-shirts.. fuck yeah!

Well ive decided..... will post up pics at the end of the month!

Ooh, i cant wait (fingers crossed behind back for the planet x)

Thats a Zipp 440, not 404

Colnago all day every day every damn day!

I have to agree with 'dander'. Colnago every time!

I wouldn't even consider the TT bike for the practical reasons Hippy said, and frankly, I dont like riding them to begin with. I can't say much else though, because I don't have any experience with Colnagos, let alone that one.