Wow, thank you both for the advice; very awesome and helpful yet again!

I found a 50cm Cannondale SuperSix frame today on Craig's List and have emailed to see if it's still available. It looks like the top tube effective length would be about 10mm shorter than my current bike, but I'm not sure if that's enough.

I like the idea of compact handlebars too. One of my teammates mentioned Salsa Poco handlebars, but I'm open to other suggestions, as well.

Our team has a local bike shop as a sponsor, but after finding out last week that they cut my carbon fork way too short, I don't trust them to work on my bikes or sell me new ones. Also, the bikes they sell are very high end, and about 400% of my current budget (even with the discount!).

I do plan on going to my LBS at home as soon as I can. I may try to get there tomorrow night or take off work Wednesday to get home. They sell Giant, Specialized, and Felt only, so my choices are relatively limited, but I'm crossing my fingers that they'll have an 09 model to fit my body. It also helps that I have a 10% discount there. I would love to be able to buy a bike from them because they have always been amazing to me.

As far as racing goes, I am trying to just soak up as much knowledge as I can now. I'm lucky to have a few very supportive people (team captain, cycling mentor, PT) that are helping me a lot to learn about what I did well (and not so well). I really love that it seems like there's a ton to learn at every race so far and the tactics part is especially exciting to me. In a way, I'm glad that I can't get away with the easy stuff anymore, it will make me a smarter rider in the end