Originally Posted by Maelochs

If you went to a store (REI) which is Not a bike store ... and didn't find a wide array of bikes .... but Most stores won't stock a lot of women's models or extremely small frames for the most obvious reason----they make up such a tiny sliver of the market but take up the same amount of floor space as a bike which has a lot more prospective buyers.

I thought you were located in Florida? If so, I would bet most major cities have major bike shops ... and using Cannondale's DealerFinder (Cannondale : Cannondale Bicycles Dealer Locator) I found 20 C'dale dealers in the state.)