Hahaha, very funny Tibbs.
More seriously, I don't know why people are so down on this whole R2.5 thing, you should be happy. First of all our delivery this year is actually very good, on every model except for the R2.5. While everybody has problems with Shimano delivery, we have delivered virtually all pre-season orders on time. Ask Tom D. And if we do introduce the R1 (it's just a prototype right now) it will also be delivered on time.
With the R2.5, we will not deliver unless we are 100% satisfied. It's true that demand is huge, in fact I did the math the other day and I could have retired by now if we had started delivery right after the Tour, but although CSC was happy with the frames Phil and I were not. It passed all the industry tests (which is more than can be said of most frames), but there some other things we thought were important to improve. I know this is not how it is usually done, and the number of carbon frames developed in one month and tossed on the market this year prove it, but we don't want to work that way. The result was that manufacturing was VERY slow. TOUR had a test of a whole bunch of new carbon frames and they came to the conclusion that it was both the most expensive and the worst lot of frames they have ever tested. Even the most basic of features were wrong, wheels didn't fit, tires rubbed, in short a lot of them were crap.
In the long run we don't believe that works for a company, and so now that we are finally ramping up production on what is the 2005 R2.5, Phil and I are 100% convinced people will see it was worth it. And why this is the carbon frame has absorbed more R&D money than any of its competitors (we have a group of friends/consultants who work for us but they normally work for car/aerospace companies, and they cannot believe they are doing these projects for a simple bike company - but they love it since they love bikes so luckily they don't charge us their regular rate :-)
So just be happy that you have to wait, or get another one. I don't want to retire yet, so it's fine by me. :-)
Gerard Vroomen
3T.bike OPEN cycle