Originally Posted by berlinonaut

I'd consider this a positive. I enabled and enables him to focus on the development of the bike and on his business. If he would take time to take part in this thread intensively this would mean spending a huge amount of time and brain dealing with the wild speculations, insults, expectations, judgement and questions in this thread from people that are - for the time being - not his customers and - to a very large degree - never will. Totally defocusing, totally demanding and basically nothing to win from that for him. I think I would avoid and ignore that, too, if I was him.



I would not call this best practice. There are surely more products in the making that you have never heard about and the creators do not share information about than the other way round. I've i.e. never seen Johnny Ive discuss the Apple products that are not released yet in a public forum not any car makers nor basically any other serious business man - still there always are wild speculations about those products. It seems not affect their revenue to the negative.

Staying focussed is a very important thing for a creator and I can totally understand Peter, the more with the tone and culture in this thread towards him. I can understand the interest that people have in the Helix and the eagerness for information and the disappointment for the lack thereof. Still this is just a random internetforum - it's not the real world, it does not pay Peter's bills and it is pretty irrelevant from a global, holistic perspective. Some people here seem to overrate their own relevance by far. I cannot understand where they derivate their entitlement for information from Peter from.