I wonder at what stage it becomes a design that Specialized would own. Is that what this is really about? If the one guy said, "hmm, I wonder if having longer seatstays not attached to the seatpost would give a better ride" to the other guy, but they didn't actually get around to planning it out and designing it until they were gone, does Spesh still own it, or is it just that they only would have owned it if they'd designed the whole thing while still working at Specialized? I'm all for innovation, but if all this Mr. Volagi stuff was going on and the bike was designed while still at Spesh, they're going to get hammered. If their facebook posting is true instead, it's still a bit iffy because there's a lot there about how they only designed it after putting in their notice. No word that they designed it after leaving the company.