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    Cold Weather Storage and Charging Questions Answered

    You've not been riding? 😉
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    Cold Weather Storage and Charging Questions Answered

    My experience with the latest firmware off the hip in standby is maybe 5% per week. In terms of power, that's: (5% * 6480 Wh) / (7 day * 24hr/day) = 1.9W That seems super high, so don't trust the number I just threw out. I'll run another test some time where I actually record start and end...
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    Stark Varg Ice Racing Build

    Minor Build Update: Classy number plates for next season, and maybe some MX this Summer: Details: SKDA S3 Stark Varg Number Plates - Finish: Gloss - Number Style: National - Color of Number: Black - Color of Number Background: White - Rider Name: [REDACTED] ;) My original number plate from...
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    Stark MX Supermoto & Warp9

    Did you do any suspension modifications? What spring and damper settings? I found a Stark Varg supermoto build here where they did a bunch of fine suspension and geometry tuning but wondered to what degree those mods would even be noticeable for a layman.
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    Stark Varg Ice Racing Build

    Who Wore it Better? Acute angle edition
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    Stark Varg Ice Racing Build

    Ask and you shall receive.
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    Stark Varg Ice Racing Build

    It's just removing the fenders and swapping dirt wheels. The front fender is a single 11mm nut. The rear fender is that plus 2 hose clamps. The entire job could be done in under an hour if done sloppily, maybe 30 min with practice.
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    Stark Varg Ice Racing Build

    Updates: Just finished my first semi-formal ice race with a starting line, number plates, flags, etc. I lapped 3rd place in a 6-person race. Nothing even comes close to this bike. To be fair, only one other bike was running Canadian studs, which have a massive advantage in wet late-season...
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    Cold Weather Storage and Charging Questions Answered

    Posting an update to this thread related to the subject matter: Per the recommendations above, I stored my Stark Varg plugged in and trickle charging to 50% at 300W for a week. When I came back to check on it, the green light usually on in the charger was off and it was making a constant...
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    Stark Varg Ice Racing Build

    Great questions. With respect to discharging, my experience is that that there is no warmup needed. Lithium batteries may temporarily lose capacity and limit their peak output power when it's cold but won't be damaged [source]. Some contextual math: Lithium Ion batteries charge and discharge...
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    Cold Weather Storage and Charging Questions Answered

    Their objection was strictly aesthetic, as far as I can tell. Pretty lame TBH. Futuristic dirt bike on display in the rec room would look fucking sick.
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    Cold Weather Storage and Charging Questions Answered

    I tried to pitch this to my parents (I store my Stark at their place until I own a house) and they were having none of it. SMH.
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    VCU Internals (Gen1)

    Keep preaching. I am new to this thread and was unaware. I have been doing hard shutdown to minimize phantom drain and will reverse this practice. Can you link to threads where this is discussed further? I'm curious about the other reasons.
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    VCU Internals (Gen1)

    Nice tear down. This stimulated by EE brain. Thank you sir.
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