Are you specifically after a road bike? You could also look at a triathlon bike. There have been some serious advances made for tri-bikes in recent years ... might be worth looking into.
They're not just for doing triathlons (although they are better for triathlons, if, say, you're into the idea of getting into tris, due to the geometry being better for transitioning from biking to running and so on) - but the geometry is supposedly also better for staying in the aerodynamic positions for longer periods of time.
Or so I'm told. I don't have a decent road bike and I don't have a triathlon bike at all, and for that matter I don't even have a good XC mountain bike. I'm not sure why I'm participating in this thread. I like to pretend I know about biking, but I don't, so .. um .. yeah.. never mind..
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