Perhaps it is a good marketing move by them. Perhaps they will basically pick up 2 years worth of sales while all the others are still working on frame project Tokyo. I can't help but wonder what the Beat team will do, if they stick with their Avantis or if they move to the new Koga (I guess that deal is in the sponsorship detail)
Then where is the T5? I think I read somewhere that it is buy-able but for a rather large sum. Look and BT have it right I think with a high end frame and price tag, yet still within the realms of being somewhat affordable.
Also worth noting that the Felt, for the woes that you speak of @
carleton is the stiffest frame that a friend has ever ridden, and he's now riding a BT!