First Customer Bikes are shipping!

[TCMB371]

My bike is in the picture!!! WOOOOO the time has finally come! Can't wait to put the bike to work here in SoCal!

Stark Future on Instagram: "First customer deliveries! Stark Future has reached a major milestone, as the first VARGs have been shipped out of its state- of-the-art factory in Barcelona. This marks a significant accomplishment for the company, as t

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[Ethos]

I didnt catch how many have shipped.
Big milestone regardless.

 

[SHSMITH76]

My bike is in the picture!!! WOOOOO the time has finally come! Can't wait to put the bike to work here in SoCal!

Stark Future on Instagram: "First customer deliveries! Stark Future has reached a major milestone, as the first VARGs have been shipped out of its state- of-the-art factory in Barcelona. This marks a significant accomplishment for the company, as t

8,382 likes, 206 comments - stark__future on April 25, 2023: "First customer deliveries! Stark Future has reached a major milestone, as the first VARGs have been shipped out of its state- of-the-art factory in Barcelona. This marks a significant accomplishment for the company, as they have...

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Not to get personal, but did they ask you for your payment yet Bryan?

 

[F451]

My bike is in the picture!!! WOOOOO the time has finally come! Can't wait to put the bike to work here in SoCal!

Stark Future on Instagram: "First customer deliveries! Stark Future has reached a major milestone, as the first VARGs have been shipped out of its state- of-the-art factory in Barcelona. This marks a significant accomplishment for the company, as t

8,382 likes, 206 comments - stark__future on April 25, 2023: "First customer deliveries! Stark Future has reached a major milestone, as the first VARGs have been shipped out of its state- of-the-art factory in Barcelona. This marks a significant accomplishment for the company, as they have...

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That is AWESOME Bryan! Congrats.

Any info on when it is going to be delivered to you?

Are you having it shipped to your home?

I saw this in their email to customers on the waiting list today (and on their social media posts):

"The first round of deliveries includes bikes for customers who pre-ordered the Stark VARG back in December 2021."

I ordered my SV on 17 December, 2021, but their website still shows an estimated delivery date of 30 November 2023 for mine.

I guess the key word in their communication is "includes", meaning, not all customers who ordered in December 2021 will have their bikes shipped out soon.

Which really chaps my hide as I expect they will be shipping bikes to dealers ahead of customers who ordered early (something I was not aware was going to happen when I ordered as they made no mention of that until well after the fact).

Just for the hell of it, I forwarded their announcement email from today to the Stark support team asking if my bike is going to ship soon since I ordered in Dec. 2021, and copied this sentence for them ("The first round of deliveries includes bikes for customers who pre-ordered the Stark VARG back in December 2021."), included my order #, info, etc.

I'm sure my delivery date is not going to be moved up at the moment, but I thought I would try to encourage them anyway. Am super interested to see what they say.

I'm sure the support team at Stark is getting a flood of similar emails from the December 2021 order date peeps asking the same question.

And I'm sure the support team are not too happy with the wording in the big announcement today regarding the first shipments, Lol.

Anyway, again, congrats! So cool, its finally happening. Looking forward to your, and others, real world feedback.

 

[SHSMITH76]

Mine is definitely not in there as I don't see a Grey one in sight..hahaha

 

[TCMB371]

Not to get personal, but did they ask you for your payment yet Bryan?

Yup, paid in full a few days ago. Was waiting for them to make announcement before i said anything!

 

[TCMB371]

That is AWESOME Bryan! Congrats.

Any info on when it is going to be delivered to you?

Are you having it shipped to your home?

I saw this in their email to customers on the waiting list today (and on their social media posts):

"The first round of deliveries includes bikes for customers who pre-ordered the Stark VARG back in December 2021."

I ordered my SV on 17 December, 2021, but their website still shows an estimated delivery date of 30 November 2023 for mine.

I guess the key word in their communication is "includes", meaning, not all customers who ordered in December 2021 will have their bikes shipped out soon.

Which really chaps my hide as I expect they will be shipping bikes to dealers ahead of customers who ordered early (something I was not aware was going to happen when I ordered as they made no mention of that until well after the fact).

Just for the hell of it, I forwarded their announcement email from today to the Stark support team asking if my bike is going to ship soon since I ordered in Dec. 2021, and copied this sentence for them ("The first round of deliveries includes bikes for customers who pre-ordered the Stark VARG back in December 2021."), included my order #, info, etc.

I'm sure my delivery date is not going to be moved up at the moment, but I thought I would try to encourage them anyway. Am super interested to see what they say.

I'm sure the support team at Stark is getting a flood of similar emails from the December 2021 order date peeps asking the same question.

And I'm sure the support team are not too happy with the wording in the big announcement today regarding the first shipments, Lol.

Anyway, again, congrats! So cool, its finally happening. Looking forward to your, and others, real world feedback.

Bike is getting shipped directly to my house (i'm definitely doing an unboxing video!), and I believe that's the case for the other first couple of customers getting their bikes in this batch.

Production will be slow in the beginning, but will ramp up and they'll be sending out larger and larger batches of bikes soon.

As with any new product launch, assembling the first production units and shipping out the product is a huge milestone. This is a huge achievement, all things considered, and should excite all customers that production is finally happening. All customers are that much closer now to receiving their bikes.

 

[SHSMITH76]

Yup, paid in full a few days ago. Was waiting for them to make announcement before i said anything!

Now for the next question, as I am on the fence as to whether or not I should make a change. Did you change to a left hand rear brake?

 

[SHSMITH76]

Check out the Stark site!! The parts and accessories pages work!!

 

[TCMB371]

Now for the next question, as I am on the fence as to whether or not I should make a change. Did you change to a left hand rear brake?

I stuck with the foot brake and purchased a LHRB kit additionally so that i can swap between the two setups

 

[SHSMITH76]

I stuck with the foot brake and purchased a LHRB kit additionally so that i can swap between the two setups

Great! Are you talking about the rear hand brake assembly on the Stark site for $301.90? Just wondering if there is another kit with hardware to mount and maybe brackets for the hose to run along the swingarm.

 

[Number Six]

Treat the battery with care & repecct ;

 

[SHSMITH76]

Treat the battery with care & repecct ;

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I have found the parts and accessory prices to be reasonable

 

[Bionicman]

I stuck with the foot brake and purchased a LHRB kit additionally so that i can swap between the two setups

I understand & agree the dexterity increase of a gloved hand vs a booted foot & increased useability in right hand corners - just takes some rider input modifications
for this reason a rider can be faster with increased control over the motorcycle & have increased mobility
just takes a different mindset & relearning other techniques such as peg weighting in differing parts of corners instead of focusing on foot brake pressure

for this reason I changed to a LHRB vs a foot to my imaginary build.....
appreciate the input Brian

 

[Number Six]

I friend that uses a LHRB tells me ; "surgeons typically don't use their feet"
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[manisse]

have anyone noticed they say 6,5kw/h battery? Do they increased the battery capacity Bryan??

 

[TCMB371]

I'll wait until Stark explains before commenting on that

 

[Philip]

I stuck with the foot brake and purchased a LHRB kit additionally so that i can swap between the two setups

Did you buy that LHRB kit from Stark, or did you just buy a Brembo clutch master cylinder?

 

[TCMB371]

Did you buy that LHRB kit from Stark, or did you just buy a Brembo clutch master cylinder?

The kit from Stark.

 

[Number Six]

The kit from Stark.

Not planning on having both operational simultaneously ?
I don't trust several decades of ingrained muscle memory in a panic situation so gonna see if I can train to the LHRB while still having the pedal working.