Pacific Cycles claims that this frame will only be used for this limited edition.

But this is strange because looking at the components list show that this P40 is clearly not an high end version of the Birdy and usually, limited editions sold at a high price are high end bikes !?

All that mess make me think that there was a problem somewhere.

For instance that Pacific Cycles developed this new frame alone without having an agreement of R&M and that R&M blocked its commercialization for something else than a limited edition.