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Obviously the market for street motorcycles is much much larger than off-road, so if you can build an attractive bike, profitability will come faster. That being said, electric street motorcycles don't sell much (unlike cheap commuter scooters) and silence for the road might not be such an easy...

Weird, I've never seen them mentioning traction control, and AFAIK indeed they're one rare example of MX bike without any TC. OTOH, virtual flywheel was touted since launch but I haven't seen anyone (Tortelli, riders or anyone else) stating they finally had it on the factory bikes. It wasn't...

I'm not sure all Chinese brands need to go this way. Obviously competition is a very useful tool to build and develop brand awareness. That may be necessary if you want to compete head to head against the best brands and position your products as high end. However if you want to be the easy...

RFN could be China's answer to Stark Funded in 2020, its name stands for Racing Fears Nothing 😆 They've just introduced their incoming SX-e60 at EICMA, bit sure if that's their first serious full-size or not but it sure looks good on paper. 81 hp (the 1 is probably important for the...

WSX round 2 Vancouver SX2: Hicks 7th (6/7/7) and Kobusch 11th (11/13/10) SX1: Zaragoza 8th (9/11/9) and Friese 12th (10/13/12) Hicks is still Stark best rider, and generally faster than their SX1 riders. He's their best chance to get some silverware, in the main he was 12 s from the win (and...

I haven't seen any issues with overheating in pro races (though that would likely be the case if they raced in deep sand). Herbreteau raced his Stark to 6th in France MX Elite MX1 championship finishing all 25 min + 2 laps races. Starks would probably be a couple of laps short in MXGP or AMA...

I have a lot of respect for what Don Cox and other electric wizards have been doing for years, great conversions and lots of happy and fast riders, no question about that. But I get Erwin's point as well. Purely from a physics point of view, swapping a gas engine and fuel tank for an electric...

Odd to rent a bike 12 days for half its price. It would cost them much less to buy a brand new one and sell it after a couple of weeks If you want to go with it, they should provide solid proof of insurance with all included damage, theft, damage to others/liability and so on. It has to be...

Hicks has been penalized in superpole and race 2 for "Exceeding the maximum energy tolerance per lap" Electric bikes must be fitted with FIM data logger and FIM own voltage and current sensors, FIM technical inspectors can request and review the data at any moment during the competition...

I do think that Hicks is their best rider at the moment, like when he and Zaragoza were racing AX UK in Abu Dhabi (SX1 only) he was faster. Even in SX tour where he's racing SX2 and Zaragoza is in SX1, he's often as fast or faster.

Yes agreed mostly, starts are an advantage for electrics so that's partly why they tend to go backwards, they can get in front of faster riders at the start. When they lock power they lock the max for a set duration, they can still adjust maps and go up or down as long as it's under the set...

Did you find any solid numbers?

As always it's a weak point for Stark, likely due to lack of clutch, it's been well explained by Josh Hill. Hicks still bagged 2nd in superpole though so there's potential.

Disappointing WSX start for the Stark boys, Friese likely injured, Zaragoza struggled to stay in the first half. I guess Kobusch needs to learn a bit, Hicks is the most promising, he could step on that podium in the next races. And with every WSX passing race, it will become even more...

Retail price is $10 950. 4.4 kWh and 42 hp, I can see Yamaha YE-01 could be close to that

Oh yes Hicks can make Stark proud. Friese must be hurt or injured, hesyveey far off the pace, Zaragoza a bit disappointing. Weirdly, apparently the FIM prevented Stark riders from using the left hand rear brake.

Here's something to celebrate: Stark recently passed the bar of making over 20 000 motorcycles. These are production numbers, not sales numbers (it would be interesting to know this but it's much harder to get). To put things into perspective Alta made about 1 000 motorcycles in 3 years. This...

About boutique brands I was wondering what might happen to brands like Electro and co selling kits to convert bikes to electric whenever Yamaha, Honda and co will sell their own electric dirt bikes and street bikes. On one hand, demand for DIY kit would likely decrease but the overall market...

It's amazing what you MacGyvers can do! @Stark71 also worked on some minimal display https://electricdirtriders.com/threads/small-display-for-the-stark-varg-mx.4221/

Oh yeah, the Ninja e1 surely must have been a joke lost in translation, it's ridiculous. I love Kawi but I have much more confidence in Honda delivering the goods. Plus they can benefit handsomely from their car division building expertise in EV. Honestly I'm not that disappointed in this...