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The Schubert Company is a small manufacturing company that uses gear assemblies to produce four different models of mountain bikes. One of these gear assemblies, the “Smooth Shifter”, is used for the two most expensive of Schubert’s four models, and has an estimated annual demand of 300 units. Schubert estimates the cost to place an order is $40, and the holding cost for each assembly is $60 per year. The company operates 250 days per year. What is the cycle length (time between orders when orders are placed using the EOQ quantity?