Well, as a very early depositor, I feel cheated and disappointed. We took a chance 3 years ago and gave Stark our money not knowing if they would even make it in the long run.
S o basically my Stark just depreciated $3k in a blink of an eye.
Thanks Stark Future, once again you gave the early depositors the shaft.
What you have said makes sense.
Honestly, despite the fact that I don't side with anyone and I only support people when they are right, I am a Stark's fan who tends to support them and when I think about it I am happy to be their fan because they are trying to do something very important to me.
I love motocross but I also I love motorsport in general and motocross can let you develop and maintain skills that can be used anywhere:
MotoGP and WSBK riders basically all train with MX bikes and some of them only did MX up to teenage,
among supermoto riders, it's typical that those who come from motocross are fast on asphalt, too after some hours of practice,
a north european rallycar legend from the 80s was interviewed and said that one of the reasons for which a lot of rally champions come from northern Europe is that they ride MX a lot when they are kids,
RedBull threw Cairoli on an F1 car some years ago and his lap was 10 seconds slower than the track record: not bad for someone who has driven F1 cars for one day.
MX, compared to other kinds of motorsports, is cheap and in general is affordable by most of the people who are willing to cut other expenses. It can make a spectator who whishes to have certain skills someone who actually has them!!!!!
One of the problems of MX, though, is that it's very time consuming, but with an electric bike this can change: way less maintenance and the possibility of having tracks closer to cities; consider
this place, a minicross track for electric bikes only, and check where it is on a map, for examlpe:
Google Maps
the satellite images from Google Maps are old but now the track is in the indicated spot: yes, in front of houses, next to a bar and aside a basketball court. I've been there a couple of times and I rented their Talarias, the place is indoor, no exhaust gases to handle, and when it rained it was better to have some fun in that small place than not to ride at all.
What if stuff like that became more popular? WIthin the radius of some miles from my house there are many places where there is enough room for a full size MX track, but the noise of gas bikes would never be allowed.
I would have never ridden so much this year with a gas bike, but with the Varg I don't worry about filters, pistons, etc.
What have the other manufacturers done, instead? SInce I watched a video of AJ Catanzaro riding an Alta years ago I have periodically checked the websites of other manufacturers hoping to see an electric MX bike listed and I've found nothing. Ducati and Triumph are joining the MX world and they still use the gas engine.
Stark has done and is still doing something so risky and they are taking so much offense by people who can't take ten minutes to seriously learn something about electric dirtbikes and from those who have told their friends that electric dirtbikes are gay (which shouldn't be an insult, but that's a different story) and now can't admit it if they actually like them.
I just understand that they are trying to grow and to compete against the other manufacturers: if they can eventually lower the price, then I'm happy that they can do that and convince more people to buy the Varg.
