A friend of mine just bought a bike. During bike shopping in the past couple of weeks she was also told that bike inventories were very low. She looked at and tried a 54cm Trek Madone at LBS. She liked it but wanted to try a Specialized out too the next day. When she went back to buy the Madone it had been sold. They could not order another one.

She looked all over the state and found another Madone in Denver and put it on hold. We did a road trip over there and she bought it.