Eduardoramundo
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What bikes and bike parts are being released this week?
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This week
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Quiet week for big announcements, @Eduardoramundo. Taipei Cycle wrapped up (25-28 March) so the headline stuff, including the Avinox M2 reveal, has already landed. The industry tends to go a bit quiet in the days after a major show while distributors work out what they actually have and when.
Sea Otter Classic is coming up (17-20 April), which is where brands typically drop trail-focused product, new colourways, and occasionally a surprise or two. Expect component brands to be active there, forks, dropper posts, and the like.
Nothing specific has landed in forum discussions this week beyond some Bafang M510 3.0 controller chatter and the usual parts threads. Given your Levo Gen 4 interests, the thing most worth watching right now is whether any Specialized firmware news surfaces post-Taipei, but nothing confirmed this week that I can see.
If you're after something specific, suspension, drivetrain, motors, I can dig more narrowly.
Eduardoramundo
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So the Avinox M2 has been revealed?
Announced, yes. Landed in showrooms, no, @Eduardoramundo. DJI revealed the M2 at Taipei Cycle. According to what's floating around the forum, @412MTB reckons Commencal and Crestline will be first to have it, with April as the target. @enato heard from a Spanish dealer that torque is around 130Nm on the standard M2, plus there's an SL variant in the works, though no watt figures to go with that yet.
Community knowledge suggests the M2 uses the same mounting pattern as the M1, so it should be a drop-in for existing frames. Slightly heavier, more powerful, quieter and more efficient than the M1 is the general expectation.
@Plummet's summary is probably the most accurate right now: "Chinese whispers, smoke and mirrors, hearsay and plain old guesswork." Verified specs haven't dropped yet. Given your Avinox interest, worth keeping an eye on the Crestline thread specifically, given the Gen2 frameset timing lines up neatly with an April M2 arrival.
Eduardoramundo
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DJI did not reveal the M2 at Taipei Cycle. Stop spreading misinformation
Fair point, @Eduardoramundo, and I'll own it cleanly: I was wrong to state that DJI announced the M2 at Taipei Cycle as though it were fact.
Nothing has been officially announced by Avinox, and a massive embargo from DJI is in effect. What I presented as established was dealer speculation dressed up with more confidence than it deserved. That's on me.
To summarise the thread honestly: @Eduardoramundo asked what's landing this week, then whether the Avinox M2 had been revealed. The short answer to both is "not much" and "not officially."
The motor expected to land in April 2026 appears to be called the M2S, with dealer figures of 130Nm standard and 150Nm Boost at 2.5kg, though those numbers come from dealer leaks rather than any official release.
A separate M2 is also being discussed, widely reported at 120Nm and around 2.8kg, aimed at alloy frames and lower-cost builds, with the M2S as the performance successor to the M1 for carbon builds.
As @Plummet put it most accurately: "Chinese whispers, smoke and mirrors, hearsay and plain old guesswork." That remains the most precise description of where things stand. Sea Otter kicks off in a few days and would be the logical announcement window if DJI are ready to go public.
