Quote Originally Posted by indysteel View Post
I don't think it's just Salsa. I think most of the smaller manufacturers simply cannot afford to maintain a big inventory of bikes they may never be able to sell. As a result, customers end up having to wait a long time for their bikes to get delivered. When you factor in overseas production and shipment, it adds a lot of variables that are difficult to control.
It's not even just the small manufacturers or the overseas component. After a 6 week wait for my Cannondale Synapse w/compact double our LBS asked if it were OK to switch to the triple, since Cdale actually had one in the warehouse ready to go (and they couldn't get a straight answer from Cdale re: ETA on the double). This was in Oct. or Nov., so it wasn't right at that sketchy time when model years are overlapping a bit. And it was one of the last Cdales still made in the US, too.

My wait for my SuperSix was almost nothing, since a 48 in a men's frame wasn't a hot-seller and Cdale had one ready to ship, so I think we had that in <1 week. Had it been the women's version of the same bike I'm guessing the wait would have been longer.