Good advice! I'm hoping reach wouldn't be an issue, since I tend to be long-torso'd relative to my inseam...so I might be OK. But I will definitely need a shorter bar--I have very narrow shoulders. I think the bar on my road bike is 38cm (or that's my shoulder width measurement, at least...not actually sure what my bar width is, but the shop owner who fitted me said it's quite narrow).

We were talking last night and are most likely going to have to wait until next year to look at a cross bike for me. I'm going to Vegas in Dec. to run the half marathon with a bunch of girlfriends, so that's kinda blowing my fun budget for the rest of '10. But maybe for my birthday next Feb... That would be good timing, too, since that's about when I can't stand another indoor ride on the "nowhere bike" and a cross bike with studded tires would be good in the snow and slop. By then DS should be big enough for his own kiddie cross bike and his birthday is 5 days before mine, so maybe we'll both get birthday bikes.