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IIRC the Stark's coolant loop only handles the inverter?

I'd rule out Peltier, you're just burning KWh to inefficiently move heat. Yeah, they can create a temp delta in a small space, but it costs a fat whack of DC to do so, and to move any significant BTUs it takes a TON. If you're talking cooling during charging, space shouldn't be THAT big a...

Air cooling only ever worked 'ok'. If you had those motors pumping out the same HP per CC modern liquid cooled animals are pushing they'd be melting down left and right. (Ignoring that you couldn't build them to the same tolerances as liquid cooled motors 'cause of the thermals...)

His basic position is: Separate but equal He doesn't want to see a straight up fight between gassers and EVs and danced HARD around it.

Somewhere in the chain there has been a problem with sourcing that foot brake setup, ETAs have been given and broken, whatever. I was just given the option to just take the bike as is and when a foot brake shows up deal with that detail then. Meanwhile my road racing expenses ballooned on me...

Given the alignment needing to be accurate on one end of that shaft, I'm kinda surprised Stark hasn't gone to tapered bearings at each end with set preload? KTM RFS motors being used for sumo ended up making a similar change from a roller and ball setup to tapered with preload to survive side...

That big roller bearing on the sprocket side of the output shaft is an interesting choice, I think every bike I've ever dealt with had a ball bearing there? Primary side is an unsealed ball bearing, can't tell if that's a drain hole to the main cavity on the primary end of the shaft bore or...

I'm... teetering on just saying forget it... my other racing is eating at my wallet and time, desire to take on a new big spend is evaporating.

Meanwhile... my bike still sits at the dealership, transferred to me already supposedly, but still waiting for Stark to deliver a foot brake...

A set of Toxic Moto universal axle slides should work, or a set of the SLIDEmoto 'street' ones for a 22 KTM 450 SXF should likely work as well? Toxic shows the Street sliders as available for the Varg.

Good news for those in the US, at MOST Stark can only refuse warranty on things they can prove the mod damaged, aka the rear brake system.

Depending on the track, pace, etc you don't HAVE to go all in with radial mount fork bottoms, etc... A stock MX brake will go a decent ways, if you're not warping rotors or melting pads skip the spend to start? If I can ever GET my bike, I'll document the details of converting.

If you go with regen based brakes, you have to have a state of charge and battery temp that can accept the inrush at any given time. Hybrid / EV cars get around this by also having mechanical brakes as a fallback and will use them when a burst back to the battery isn't good. (Or you tickle...

WOW, they're estimating 7yr loans, on a dirt bike?! 12% interest... I suspect this has been in the works for a bit given my dealer order got sourced from already in the US inventory, possibly from a different dealer, based on the low 4k VIN?

Just waiting on the foot brake setup... fortunately I'm busy this weekend racing my Buell so I actually CAN be patient for once.

Those are Ti color, not actual Ti unfortunately.

Did you have to cut the bike side cable to re-route it through your side plate?

The docking station is supposed to have a wireless charging setup for the phone based on Stark’s literature (page 67 of the owner’s manual for example)?

Once someone shows more interest than just poking at the rulebook it'll get dealt with. Most likely a couple rounds as a provisional exception then next season firmed up classing for that machine. We've already got gas cheater bikes (Kramers being allowed in Supersport/Superbike, I'm looking...

The local org used to run 'mostly' CCS rules, which classed e-bikes in by batt voltage... aka not enough info to actually estimate a machine's comparative performance. They've since gone to their own ruleset and sanctioning and dropped e-bikes entirely. This all happened before the Varg was an...