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Carbon exhausts are large curved parts with the impact in line with the radius of the curve. That's a geometry that helps it to be good and strong. A carbon cover over this casting is going to help, sure, but this would be an impact on the thin edge of a stuck-on part. I don't see the current...

Yeah, the stick-on carbon parts are mostly for looks. Fine if that's someone's thing, but that's not my thing. The bike's generally covered in so much mud that you can't tell what it looks like. I just don't want it to break when I bang it on rocks.

Any links to those? Enduro Hog do a plastic stick-on cover. That'll stop scratches but not rocks. Carbon Parts have done a forged carbon cover but they don't seem to sell them yet. I doubt that a thin cover is going to be stiff enough to help much in an impact like this. Racetorx do a CNC'd...

Front wheel kicked up a rock, cracked the right motor cover and bruised my big toe. The toe will fix itself; the cover won't. So, anyone making a stronger replacement cover yet? The cover is just cast magnesium. It's thin and pretty exposed. I think I'm not the only one to break this part? I'm...

I have also been using that bag. I'm finding that it's ok on the back but I'm using straps, not the bungees that it came with. But I do want to store about half that much behind the number plate.

I am looking for a spot on the Stark to stash some tools, a tow strap, maybe an emergency jacket. Behind the number plate seems like an option but it's tricky to access and to mount a bag in there. Has anyone tried this and found a good solution? This spot in here:

65 hours on Tech 7s with the titanium footpegs. I also use Steg Pegz so my boots are pretty much always in the same position on the footpegs. There's starting to be a mark on the soles but nothing like the wear you're getting.

The battery is the most sensitive part. Here's the datasheet. That simply says: That should be fine to ride in the cold but charge indoors.

Owners manual just says 600 ml of "glycol based coolant". So pretty much anything will do.

Borderline. I'm tracking my rides. On hardpack I'm getting 60-65 km, so 37-41 miles. Then again, the hardpack round here tends to be slippery so I'm running low tyre pressures, like 6 psi. Tyre pressure definitely makes a difference to range.

Why not just set a mode to 10 hp? That's what I did for loading before Crawl came out.

Another happy Steg Pegz rider here. I feel so locked in with them.

Depends what terrain you are riding. Round here (Akatarawara, NZ) it's dark and dank forest with wet clay and tree roots so slippery as hell. The stock tyres just clog up with the clay. We all run Tubliss at 3 psi and Mitas XT754 rear tyres. I'm always punching trees. Lots of people around...

V 1.0.159 fixed the problem with crawl mode where the bike would creep forward without throttle input. Or at least it did on my bike.

I've heard mixed tales about Alta. HD definitely screwed them, but if the business side of Alta was strong enough then HD wouldn't have been able to screw them. Their sales were maybe a tenth of Stark's sales. That's would have made it very hard to get to profitability. Stark is in a much...

Also rode hard enduro today - think a steep dark dank forest with greasy roots and clay so slick you can barely stand. Five kilometres took us three hours. For this style of riding, reverse and crawl are huge energy savers. I was using them constantly. Here's what I want in the next software...

Yeah, I can see why Stark are wanting to have a subscription model. That way they get some ongoing income from the bike. Whereas for a combustion bike you're going to keep on buying replacement parts at a high margin. I know lots of people hate subscriptions, but I think I'm ok with it. The...

Honda have made public a whole bunch of data in their Honda Report 2023, more than I would expect. Honda are expecting to sell 19 million bikes in 2024. That's huge economies of scale. Stark has a way to go yet. Honda's margins for motorbikes are 16.8% (page 12). That's for the bike division...

I'd say you do know plenty about finance, coz that's the right calculation to do - profit per bike is what matters in the long term. Stark are actually a bit worse than your estimate. They've said 1,000 bikes sold per month to get that profit so €210 off each. (We also know that the average...

From Stark on LinkedIn: "Stark Future SL Achieves the First Month of EBITDA Profitability and Records All-Time High Revenue" I work in venture capital. I can say with experience that most start-ups fail. Most electric vehicle companies fail. Alta burned through US$44 million without making a...