Unfortunately it is not cost effective to patent RC car parts. My carbon tube brace posted on 8/16/11 was followed by a facebook conversation with an AE employee. Not that it was my idea to run a brace down the middle start with but I had not seen one mounted like that with a carbon tube until then.

When I pulled my chassis out of the box the first thing I thought when I seen it was how come they did not make this thing saddle pack. Shrugged my shoulders and built it stick pack and did not think any more about it. Sometimes you miss out and sometimes you make some money.