TCR or Planet X flat bar - ooooh!

[Cyclist33]

Damn!! I've got my beady eye on a TCR carbon road bike but now seduced by the flat bar carbon offering from Planet X... I like road bikes, and I like flat bars... there's only one way to resolve this...

http://www.paulscycles.co.uk/m7b0s6p4908/GIANT-TCR-COMPOSITE-3-2013

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/CBPXSLPFBTIA/planet-x-pro-carbon-shimano-tiagra-flat-bar

Anyone got a view on either?

Stu

 

[vickster]

Well if you like flat bars...and it comes in red

 

[Basil.B]

TCR, I got one, great bike!

 

[zizou]

If you like flat bars so much then you could always ride on the tops of the TCR

 

[SteCenturion]

A guy on this forum has just bagges this very same TCR 3 from Paulscycles recently.

I had half an eye on a 2012 TCR Advanced at Pauls too (the only one I could find in my budget & ML) sadly it's gone, must only had one left.

Oh well.

So - it's a TCR from me...

& a TCR from him

(In a Two Ronnies kinda way).

 

[jagman.2003]

I to liked the flat bar planet x bike. I've been a flat bar fan for some years. Bought a frame from them & built up my version. But soon came to the conclusion that drop bars would do the frame more justice in an aero way. But either way it's a quick bike.

 

[Cyclist33]

I do seem to be leaning towards the TCR mainly because it's a Giant!

I think that while Px with the silver trim is very saucy though, and if my ally Cannondale flat bar is anything to go by, probably at least a match for a drop bar bike pacewise.

Just have a smigeoid hunch the Giant frame will be a better thing.

 

[Cuchilo]

I LOVE my TCR !!!!!!!! More than puppies .

 

[SteCenturion]

I LOVE my TCR !!!!!!!! More than puppies .

I love my bike more than incest

 

[Cuchilo]

Youre a wrongun

 

[SteCenturion]

I do seem to be leaning towards the TCR mainly because it's a Giant!

I think that while Px with the silver trim is very saucy though, and if my ally Cannondale flat bar is anything to go by, probably at least a match for a drop bar bike pacewise.

Just have a smigeoid hunch the Giant frame will be a better thing.

The TCR will be a better bike IMHO.

The only negatives (if they are) are that Giant use a none standard tapered head tube (super oversize) & so a standard stem doesn't fit.
Also, the seatpost is Aero & so that can't be swapped either (unless for another Giant Aero post), it just limits option's for fine tuning really.

I have an Aero post on my Sintesi (love it) & doesn't bother me, but a standard tapered head tube.

Incidentally, I had been wanting a TCR for a long time & found one at Paulscycles (2012 Advanced) for £1399, but alas couldn't raise funds quick enough - it's GONE

 

[SteCenturion]

Youre a wrongun

Thought we were doing the 'Little Britain' (in USA) thing Cuch.

Ever seen that sketch ?

It's Fularious.

 

[the_mikey]

Compromise: You could have the only flat bar TCR in town...

 

[Cyclist33]

I suspect I'd have the only Px flat bar in Town if I got that! One of its draws to be honest.

 

[Cuchilo]

Thought we were doing the 'Little Britain' (in USA) thing Cuch.

Ever seen that sketch ?

It's Fularious.

I was but " cupcakes " would have done