used bikes are what I'd be looking at. Contact regional cycling and college clubs. I rode for one and there was a lot of gear shifting and people looking to offload used bikes as they moved into something with more shine.

Ask him if he can increase his budget a couple hundred dollars to around 1300 because there are a lot of '09 Al tri bikes at a lot of LBS's and LTS. This is because the price point between Al and Carbon has become a lot closer and a lot of people will spend a little extra for the carbon bike. This was told to me by an owner of a LTS. He has 10+ Al tri bikes sitting in his small store because he thought with the economy going down people would look to buy a cheaper bike but it didn't work out that way.