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I ordered the frame.

A Salsa Cutthroat. Carbon. Deep Orchid. I have been waiting for this frame since last year.

The Cutthroat frameset has been sold out for months. In July, I bought a Salsa Fargo Ti because the frame I wanted did not exist in inventory.

On March 12, Salsa updated a page. No announcement. No launch event. Just the Cutthroat in Deep Orchid, listed as "Coming Soon." The same day the new Flyway dropped.

If you were not watching, you would have missed it.

I was watching.

A week later, I called Salsa directly. The frame was in the warehouse. They told me to call my local shop. I called Todd at The Bike Lane immediately. He put the order in, then followed up with his QBP rep by phone and email.

Saturday, he confirmed: ordered, on its way. Arriving Tuesday.

I went into the shop on Sunday to order the remaining parts. It has a coffee bar and a brewery. That is not why I chose it. I worked in independent bike shops in college. I know what it means when the owner picks up the phone and calls his rep directly to make sure your frame is coming.

The parts list is complete.

Three weeks of measurement say the body is not where it needs to be. Forty-two percent android fat. A/G ratio 1.30. Lean mass asymmetry on the side of the fusion.

None of that changed the order.

I decided to ride a Cutthroat a year ago.

The earlier post was called Stability. It asked what happens if I try this and prove I cannot do it.

That question is still open.

The frame is not.