Yeah, I know. It's the $$$ investment that makes me want to be absoltuely sure this a good decision. I'm looking at spending between $1200-1600 and that's a lot of money for me so I want to be heading in the right direction. My last road bike (that was never fitted) was terrible and I tended to think it was the drops but the more I investigate I think it just was the wrong bike for me. I don't want to rule out drops if they weren't the problem in the first place.