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Lil shout out to Blake Carney making it into pro finals after a decade away, moving from WA back to CA, having a kid, and taking over a PT clinic. GET SOME.

Talk about energy. I'll tell you, if you ever have used bikes parts to deal with, or want to scare yourself on an XC bike, Sanjay is your guy.

If only someone made a linkage that allowed a longer shock to to be run on the Levo and it yielded 170 mm of travel. That would be wild.

This is a very old TQ motor though, the HPR 120S is at the very least 6 years old: https://ebike-mtb.com/en/tq-hpr-120s-2020-review/ If TQ are to drop anything new in the +100Nm/1000W range, I'd expect it to be much smaller/lighter.

120nm, apparently 144mm dia, and 3.9kg: https://www.tq-group.com/en/products/tq-e-mobility/tq-hpr-120s/

Not poor at all! I appreciate your willingness to raise your hand and contribute, and I'll most certainly keep this in mind as I visit with brands and I totally hear where you're coming from. Side point, but I just learned a bit of history I found fitting with respect to where things might be headed. Back at the turn of the 20th century, automaking was essentially split in two. One company built the "rolling chassis" while another built the "coach" (the rest of the car). It didn't take long for those two things to converge. Remind you of anything...

That makes a lot of sense, I appreciate that. I have been doing this so long I forget sometimes, honestly. I guerrilla marketed One Ghost Industries for the better part of 10 years and never got any flack for it. Different times now and I know I am a bit out of touch. I also don't have a lot of free time to spend in the forums, which sucks all the way around. Two jobs and a family with two younger kids each with an autoimmune disease (on top of my own health issues) makes it difficult. I also haven't...

We did each of the pivot axles as a mirror image to keep SKUs and costs down, allow anyone to work on them and for the general ease of not needing to guess which is right and left. We made these bits as user friendly as possible. We knew they will be intimidating as they are gearbox bikes with a lot (like 80%) CNC billet as well as a different suspension than what is out there in the mainstream (there're a few copies and others that are their own variant). all external routed cables too.

Bosch is a genuine giant, comparable in scale to Caterpillar or Goldman Sachs. DJI, by contrast, is roughly 10-15% of Bosch's size on a revenue basis. The real difference, however, is breadth. DJI is narrowly focused to a degree that's hard to fully appreciate until you start poking around at what Bosch actually does: automotive systems, power tools, home appliances, factory automation, HVAC, security systems. It's a company that has to be everything to everyone, all at once. Profitability compounds the contrast. DJI reportedly operates around 40% net margins, which if accurate is a truly remarkable number for any company...

Hey Jeff, finally read your DJI/Amflow/Avinox post. Great read, and some great research in there. I think what blows me away the most is the 3-5 year outlook. Yes, of course 2026 looks very different for Trek, Specialized, and Giant because of the specs, the watts, the price, and the mega bike launch week that just happened. But even crazier than that is seeing DJI's HQ, reading their current revenue, and knowing that Xi Jinping and his friends are actively supporting capex for Chinese brands like DJI to the tune of billions and trillions. 3-5 years from now, I no...