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    Varg - Gear Oil Change

    You'd have to handle the axial load on the gears, so it's not a straight-forward swap.
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    Varg - Gear Oil Change

    I guess the straight-cut gears explain the whining noise. My ears kind of wish they've gone for helical although my wallet would probably disagree.
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    Best Motovan Ever

    And final delivery of the electric Landie, 3000 km from Wales to Sweden: Customer is Vintage Volts. They convert classic cars into electrics. A wagon to carry and charge four Starks fits pretty nicely into that.
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    Best Motovan Ever

    Update on the Defender 130 build for Stark, or at least Stark in Sweden. 170 kWh of batteries, water-cooled for 150 kW charging, power outputs for charging two Stark's at once, and an airline for filling the bike tyres.
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    Varg for Supermoto

    I'm guessing that you can just set the engine breaking very low to give the effect of a slipper clutch.
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    Tucker's trail ride video on the Varg

    Seems like there's some easy fixes there. I'll likely be getting a wider kickstand foot as the ground is mush around here. It's no drama to get a taller foot.
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    New bike day!!! First customer delivery worldwide!

    I don't think Stark have said how rapidly they want to ramp up maufacturing. Their capacity is going up in steps. It took a few months for the step from one bike per month to ten, then a few more months for the step from ten to a hundred. They're going to have to get to making thousands per...
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    New bike day!!! First customer delivery worldwide!

    Apparently 150 bikes sent out in June, 200 sent in this month, more for August. That's according to someone expecting their bike in August. Stark rang him to confirm his order and these numbers came out in the discussion. Many of those bikes will still be in transit though. I'm in NZ with a...
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    New bike day!!! First customer delivery worldwide!

    There's a heap of bikes out there now. Not everyone posts all their riding to the internet.
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    Media Review Gypsy Tales rides the Varg. Again.

    No new info but he's pretty stoked.
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    Off-Road Range Guess?

    Yeah. I want enough range that I am done when I get back to the van.
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    Off-Road Range Guess?

    It's just a change of packaging so not a huge improvement, but it's one of those improvements that fits in alongside all the other improvements so the effects are cumulative. It's big and fat and that makes manufacture cheaper as one cell replaces several smaller cells. The tabless design...
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    Off-Road Range Guess?

    There's heaps more improvements to come with lithum batteries. First off the block is more silicon in the anodes .That's hitting the market this year with Mercedes-Benz bringing them to scale for 2025. That will get you 20% more energy density. Then there's higher-nickel cathodes, HV spinels...
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    Best Motovan Ever

    Watching that video more closely, they've censored the bike but not the name. This electric Landie is for Stark.
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    Best Motovan Ever

    Electric Classic Cars in Wales are converting a Land Rover Defender 130 pickup to an electric drivetrain and to carry four electric motorbikes and four people. Who is this for? They haven't said who the customer is.... but it'd be a great promo vehicle for a European electric motorbike company...
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    First Customer Bikes are shipping!

    FAKE! It's an empty box. Stark is a scam. Bryan is a paid actor. And so on... But seriously, congrats.
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    First Customer Bikes are shipping!

    I am sure that the battery will likely be smart enough not to energise the HV outputs until it confirms that the cables are correctly plugged in.
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    First Customer Bikes are shipping!

    The 21700 cells are 70 grams each, so 400 is 28 kg. Add to that the casing and other gubbins aside from the cells. You could definitely save 10 kg at a cost of a third of the capacity. I can definitely see Stark coming out with a set of options for weight vs capacity. I'd love to see a...
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    First Customer Bikes are shipping!

    Going from P42A to P45B, the cell weights are the same so no change there. The cost, however... I've seen quotes of US$6 for P42A, US$10 for P45B. Four dollars more for four hundred cells equals ouch. Obviously that's retail and not the price that Stark would pay, but a two-thirds bump on the...
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    First Customer Bikes are shipping!

    Then the first goal should be to stop the battery from heating up - Stark have switched to the Molicell P45B cells, with a third lower DC internal resistance. That's a third less heat into the pack than the P42A cells they were initially using. Then the next goal is cells that can work at...
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