FWIW I picked up a new CAAD9 5 last Saturday and have never been happier with a stock bike - and I've ridden steel, full carbon, alu/carbon. My first "real" road bike was a Felt F75 and I sold it within 3 months of buying it because the fit wasn't good for me. So what should you do? Buy what fits. If its a complete toss up, the overall aesthetics of the CAAD frame is much more appealing to me and the CAAD9 is already a highly sought after frame being the last C'dale made in the States and is already a legend.