Hopefully the answer will be two for me. My first (current) road bike is too big. After shopping and shopping, and test riding and test riding, I gave up and ordered a custom frame. Hope to have it soon.

I looked at the Synapse at BikeSport here in Houston. It seemed like a great bike but they didn't have very many sizes available when I was looking last fall. Glad to hear it is working so well for you. Sorry to hear you had to do more than your share of supporting the economy before finding it.