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  1. Theo

    Educate me - Ultra Bee...

    I'm not saying that this is a typical example of the reliability of an Ultra Bee, maybe it's just a very rare case, but I think you can should read this thread, if you haven't already.
  2. Theo

    custom power curves for 1.0

    Hi and welcome. Ther is already a thread about this: Advance modes for MX1.0 and, as you can read in the latest posts from December, Stark said that they intended to release the update within January.
  3. Theo

    Varg rider considering YZ conversion for less weight

    So, have they first created superintelligence and then asked it to design a functional solid state battery? All this sounds too good to be true, to me. Thanks for this, now I have adjusted my expectations. And welcome to this forum. In theory, the Verge bikes equipped with solid state batteries...
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    Varg ridden at 6,700 m = 22,000 ft above sea level

    A more extended video: Something I've found pretty interesting: • The inverter and the VCU are airtight and assembled at sea level (so with a lower external pressure they tend to expand) but their engineer connected to the bike to make sure they were allright. • At 13:40 and 17:54 he deflated...
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    Varg rider considering YZ conversion for less weight

    Che sorpresa! :) When you lower the bike, you lower the center of gravity, but you also lower the handlebars or whatever you use to lift the bike. Since the distance of the handlebars to the ground is greater than the distance of the COG to the ground, though, you will still make it easier to...
  6. Theo

    Varg rider considering YZ conversion for less weight

    You may also wait some months and see whether Donut Lab really has solid state batteries. In that case, maybe some months from now it will be possible to use them instead of the more traditional ones with liquid electrolyte.
  7. Theo

    Media Review Varg EX [assorted reviews and random videos]

    When he mentions torque, he doesn't explain that the 1,000 Nm of the Varg are at the rear wheel and that torque can be changed by changing sporckets or gear ratios.
  8. Theo

    Stark actually profitable... kinda

    Personally I, as a slow MX rider, think that the throttle reponse of the Varg set at 60 HP makes it little controllable when exiting from tight corners. Before the Varg I used a YZ250 whose power delivery felt less linear with a turbo-like effect at a certain point (I think when the powervalve...
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    Other Bikes about helmets standards, lifespans and how they are sold

    Surely nowadays we as consumers can be informed easily, but the problem is that I personally believe -and it sounds objectively reasonable to me- that a helmet should be tried, so I don't buy them online and this makes things more difficult. At least in Italy helmets can be sold even if years...
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    Bonnell 40hp and 60hp dirt bikes and e-bikes

    "Insulator" is a relative word, since, beyond a certain voltage, basically everything becomes a conductor, even air if the voltage exceeds 3kV/mm, and then you get an arc (like it could happen in an inverter with too close cables, for example) or a lightning in the sky. The same concept holds...
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    Bonnell 40hp and 60hp dirt bikes and e-bikes

    In order to contribute to our mathematical theoretical dream :LOL:, I've investigated to find out the battery voltage for the 902: I've found it for the 4.3 kWh, 46 kW light weight battery, @5:06 in the video in Philip's post #1: 90V nominal. I've noticed that usually the cells used in electric...
  12. Theo

    Bonnell 40hp and 60hp dirt bikes and e-bikes

    Well, assuming that they use a permanent magnet AC motor like the Varg, the question IMO is whether its highest efficiency rpm range matches what the rider uses. As far as I've understood, neither a massively overpowered, nor a barely enough powered motor is ideal; the ideal one is overpowered...
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    Help Needed steering bearings replacement

    Ok, I've ordered the Tusk press, on Ebay. The problem with RMATVMC for me is that the shipping cost was way too much. Just like they show here. I've also found out that the handles are supposed to always be over the top race regardless of the race that you are replacing; you just change the...
  14. Theo

    Stark Battery Tech Thread

    That's the point I think: this time the vehicle that uses the revolutionary battery exists, you can order it and the delivery is expected to happen some months from now.
  15. Theo

    Stark Battery Tech Thread

    Up to the moment I read @Matt's comments, I didn't even know that supercapacitors existed: I knew about capacitors and batteries and I knew that capacitors have a far higher power density while batteries have a way higher energy density. From what I've quickly read this evening (it's night here...
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    Help Needed steering bearings replacement

    Pressing the race surely sounds like the proper way. However, the Motion Pro part no° 08-0669 doesn't have a compatible driver and other alternatives are expensive and rare, except maybe the Tusk. I think the Tusk press you are talking about is this. I've read the questions and the reviews on...
  17. Theo

    Help Needed steering bearings replacement

    Thank you, as I suspected; I just wasn't sure. The problem that I see is that in the Varg the outer race doesn't seem to be flush with the edge of its bore, it looks like it goes a little below it. I think that the old race upside down would get stuck if it's the same outer diameter, or maybe...
  18. Theo

    Stark Battery Tech Thread

    Well, they get that power from a 33 kWh battey pack. I don't know wether the power is limited by the motor or by the battery, but if it's the battery, then the maximum power for a 10 kWh pack could be like 40 or 45 HP. However, the charging power is 200 kW, so hopefully the discharging power is...
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    Stark Battery Tech Thread

    Cool and 350 Wh/kg instead of 400 is probably simply due to the fact that this is the specification for the assembled pack including the case. Still, they don't show the power density. Even with liquid electrolytes there are tradeoffs: a cell can be more energy dense but less power dense...
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    Help Needed steering bearings replacement

    At 89 hours of motocross and despite no obvious reasons for which this should have happened (slight preload as per the 12 Nm specification, no rust, etc.), I've noticed that the outer race of my lower steering stem bearing has some shallow wear. The worn spots can't be felt by rubbing my...
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