Recent content by Erwin P

Agreed, even if the phone was just hardwired it would have been much better. No one i know ever uses the phone as a phone. Could very well have been a normal unit. Would have saved them 1 SIM card per bike as well. But well an existing phone is very cheap, cheaper then designing a dash so i get...

Yeah i think they figured the calculus will fall into their favour. So that will be in that €750 vs €999 range and will help them. It also does buy some piece of mind. I would expect them to keep the same level of tech support, except that all parts (and dealership work) are paid for. I would...

Just came across this post: What do you guys think? I'm not sure i will take it. It's a significant amount of money, but on the other hand it's 1/3rd of an MX battery or powertrain for 2 years extra. For Stark i think it's quite smart. - Revenue with minimal costs to them. - Showing trust...

I drained/killed my battery like that once. Had it on a centrestand and used the crawl mode to wash the rear wheel but forgot to turn it of (battery was allready at 6% after the racing day) Stark did admit it should protect itself and contacted the local dealer to give me the battery of a...

Indeed, but the only time it doesn't shut off is when you leave it in crawl mode. Or at least that was the case about half a year ago. Then it will stay in place and drain the battery to 0%.

Indeed the 250 4 strokes have become so powerfull that it pretty much allready reaches what a human can do. The suspension setup is more of a gap than how much power you've got.

Is there any way to identify the springs themselves? I have multiple bikes with KYB forks. I would love to see what's in there but i fail to find markings.

True, but if you put a lott of trouble shooting etc etc in your manual, but people are too lazy/stupid/arrogant to read it... How much more should you do? Those same people clog up their tech support wich in turn gets a bad name for long waiting times.

A lott of the startup issues/problems are documented very well in the manual. But not a single soul reads that so that doesn't count i guess? Don't get me wrong, i hate the wireless phone thing as well. I would pay extra for a hardwired dashboard that always keeps up with the bike. But as far...

That onboard charger would be what draws me over the line on the buy. In the Netherlands the ''extra'' (or actually same as ICE) tax has dropped so the price went from €15990 for a EX Alpha to €13990. IF that had an onboard charger it would replace my commuter bike as well. That would allow an...

The Stark runs fine with the phone turned off, completely destroyed or on the other side of the country. Seen all 3 of those. Did finish a training session with the phone still in the paddock. The lock your bike feature can only be used with the bike standing still. I would think Stark's remote...

This is really bad and undefendable. Bike should always work whatever happens. Although we do like Stark to lock it if a bike gets stolen. I think however that should always involve a manual input with a certain passkey of some sort so no mass stop can happen.

Yeah but the pro's can swap battery's in between 2 races. 99%+ of the amatures can't. But at least in the Dutch format it's plenty doable.

The local MX races here can be done with the Stark. Here the format often is: 85 (10-15 minutes) 125 (15-20) 250 (15-25) 500 (15-25) Repeat. It will do the range and in between your 2 sessions within either 250 or 500 (48 or 60hp) you can pretty easy charge the bike. The bike is the advertised...

I'm not a very good rider but do tend to jump each and every tabletop i can find. For that 40% regen is magic.