Recent content by happyinmotion

True, but the key point is that batteries get better by 10% or so, each year, every year. So doubling only takes seven years.

Good find. There's heaps of goats in NZ bush. They know what petrol bikes sound like and will hide, but an electric will surprise them.

Sorry to hear that and sorry you got hurt. The great advantage of electric bikes is that they're quiet. The great disadvantage of electric bikes is that they're quiet. With a gas bike you always know that it's running and therefore dangerous. And yes, the bike not being in neutral has caught me...

Yes, I know how public warning systems work. It's a feature of the Stark because no other motorbike uses a phone for a dashboard so no other motorbike will get these warnings.

NZ Civil Defence sends out tsunami alerts to our phones when there's a tsunami risk. Like right now with the magnitude 8 quake off Kamchatka. So of course my Stark picked it up and started reading it out automatically. Given I ride at the coast pretty often, this could be a good thing. Even...

Depends upon your terrain. Round here is wet clay and slippery roots so we run tubliss at 3 psi.

Brake levers. It's always brake levers. But Stark have fifty dealers in Spain and France, it's not going to be too hard to get replacement parts.

Just presume 7-8% more capacity per year, every year. That's what lithium-nmc cells have been doing for the last decade. So for 8-10 kWh in the same weight we're looking at 3-5 years. @

The factory insert looks a lot like a rivnut to me.

The rear fender has a pair of hidden bolts under the side plastics. They go into the subframe, or rather they screw into threaded inserts in the subframe tubes. So of course the inserts have come loose. Literally Anyone else have this happen? Stark's recommended solution is to put high...

Thanks, we're too shy to buy our own drinks.

Ok, geek time. I've been recording every ride and every charge for my series one MX, over 160 hours of riding and 98 rides. I though that terrain would make a huge difference. It does. Rides round here tend to be: Hardpark - gravel forest roads and fast trail rides Mud - slippery sloppy bush...

We know Royal Enfield invested in Stark and we can see why now. The latest development versions of the HIM-E looks to have two Stark batteries side-by-side. The split-lines are identical. They do have a new design for the outer cover with the same style as the Flying Flea. What else is...

Reported nowhere else and from a source that doesn't exist. This is not true.

First up, this is great investigative journalism. Thanks @krankit. And thanks to @Philip for the years of work supporting the community. Alta only sold 800 bikes? At a loss? Oof. That's a difficult negotiating position. I'd like to say Alta was fundamentally too early, the tech not ready yet...