Recent content by happyinmotion

In the end I just upgraded to the Brembo. That's a much better brake and I have had no problems since.

Who wants to pick up a 200 kg bike? I would rather they target the KTM 690: 13 k€ 80 hp 160 kg That would be a go-anywhere bike that I would not worry about dropping. It could use the existing drivetrain, adding 20 kg of batteries and 10 kg of charger and adventure gubbins. That would give us...

Sixthing this request for tougher spoilers - the carbon is super-light but super-fragile. I'm on my third replacements. Something less pretty but more durable would be an easy buy for me.

Ok, finally got my bearings sorted. The paired bearings in the rocker aim came out with a blind bearing puller with a slide hammer. They should push through as the bores are parallel, ie they don't have a shoulder in them. Still, I couldn't get the pair of them to move with my bearing press so...

Cars have fully shifted to water-cooled batteries so they can have fast charging without overheating. I think that's going to be valuable for bikes, despite the smaller size of batteries. Liquiud battery cooling won't work for the Varg platform but I'm assuming the next bikes will be different...

No. There is a step in the bore and they are pushed up against this step. Hence there's no access to the back side of them. (Well, the lip of the bearing sticks up above the bore by maybe half a mil but hammering on that just broke the lip.) This is a dumb design. Stark could have gone with a...

I ordered a blind bearing puller kit. After taking the rocker arm bearings out, I can confirm that the rocker arm bores are smooth and there is no internal step. This matches the pics on Stark's parts page. Theoretically the bearings could be pressed straight through... although my bearing...

Fake as hell.

To remove the paired needle bearings in the rocket arm, can they be pressed through from one sidor do they need to be pulled out? Is there an internal ridge in the bore that they butt up against or is the bore smooth all the way through? I ask as I'm trying to press them through with a bearing...

This is less than ideal for me - a big point of riding for me is to get away from places with reception. This is the 4G for my main riding area: Yeah, one big hole.

I think it's custom. This thread has a good summary of case covers and replacement cases. Nothing we've seen on the market matches that shape. Happy to be proven wrong.

For the slippery clay forest round here everyone runs Mitas XT 754 Double Green with Tublis at 3 psi. I'm using that on my Stark and getting 40-50 hours out of each one. I don't think there's a huge difference between the Stark and other bikes when it comes to tyres. We're all limited by the...

My bike dragged a piece of driftwood into the stock chain guide so I also needed a replacement. I went with the BPD mount and the TM Designs chain guide. It's been durable so far.

That video sounds like every startup going through huge growth. Balancing getting new customers with supporting existing customers is just hard but not doing it builds up what I'd call customer debt - the overhang of pissed off people that kills your brand. So good to see Stark admitting their...

Mountain biking is excellent training for enduro, at least for descending skills, some muscles, and cardio. Where I ride, some of the tracks are for both mountain bike and dirt bike, so I've ridden both on the same tracks. Skills for descending on a dirt bike are the same as descending on the...