Some years ago he said he had some fun on a Freeride:
Half a year ago he didn't show hatred at all for electric MX bikes, he just said that there are cons with them:
It sounds like recently he's changed his mind:
Here is my comment to that last video, BTW.
Sorry of the length of my comment but once in a while I'd like people to elaborate a decent thought on electric MX bikes instead of stopping at "no sounds, they suck". If you are going to spend time and money in motocross, then thinking some minutes about how is worth it. This video is part of a longer podcast in which Ryan states, @18:50 in that podcast (I comment here because this video is way more popular) that he doesn't own a bike any more because of some reasons, including that he doesn't want to work on his bike.
"After having tried one, I've bought a Stark Varg and I've used it for motocross for 48 hours, doing way less maintenance than I would have on a gas bike and I have never used my gas bikes anymore since I've bought it. The main reason for which I wanted one was to have a happier ownership thanks to less maintenance , so I don't need to get stressed in a garage after having worked for hours every day or having arguments with mechanics because I suspect they haven't actually done some jobs I'm paying for or that they are overcharging me. My time has a value, too. While I'm riding, I don't miss the cool sound of gas bikes much, while I really love the fact that I can keep my forefoot always on the footpegs since I don't shift gears and both my brake levers are at the handlebar, so eventually I can actually implement what Ryan has been saying for years about riding technique , you know, like if you ride on the balls of your feet you get like 10% better suspensions for free. Come on amateur riders, let's face it, if you need to use foot operated levers, you will ride flat footed most of the time, I did that, I saw the others doing it. I live in Italy and here I just pay 5€/10€ at the track to get the current to recharge my bike in between sessions; it's still less than paying for the gasoline. BTW when assessing the price of a dirtbike you can't neglect running costs and if you do the math you'll realize that in theory a Varg won't cost you more than a gas bike in the long run, although it's too soon to state that for sure, since nobody has yet owned one for many years and after the warranty will have expired. Surely the missing sound makes the spectators' experience worse but I think that the riding experience should have the priority: let's have more riders and less spectators. Besides, some people say that "manly riders" want a cool sounding machine; well, I say that if you are so tough you won't whine about sound, you will care about performance and unless you are like pro level and hit thermal limits on a Varg, which never happened to me, you don't have much to complain."
Half a year ago he didn't show hatred at all for electric MX bikes, he just said that there are cons with them:
It sounds like recently he's changed his mind:
Here is my comment to that last video, BTW.
Sorry of the length of my comment but once in a while I'd like people to elaborate a decent thought on electric MX bikes instead of stopping at "no sounds, they suck". If you are going to spend time and money in motocross, then thinking some minutes about how is worth it. This video is part of a longer podcast in which Ryan states, @18:50 in that podcast (I comment here because this video is way more popular) that he doesn't own a bike any more because of some reasons, including that he doesn't want to work on his bike.
"After having tried one, I've bought a Stark Varg and I've used it for motocross for 48 hours, doing way less maintenance than I would have on a gas bike and I have never used my gas bikes anymore since I've bought it. The main reason for which I wanted one was to have a happier ownership thanks to less maintenance , so I don't need to get stressed in a garage after having worked for hours every day or having arguments with mechanics because I suspect they haven't actually done some jobs I'm paying for or that they are overcharging me. My time has a value, too. While I'm riding, I don't miss the cool sound of gas bikes much, while I really love the fact that I can keep my forefoot always on the footpegs since I don't shift gears and both my brake levers are at the handlebar, so eventually I can actually implement what Ryan has been saying for years about riding technique , you know, like if you ride on the balls of your feet you get like 10% better suspensions for free. Come on amateur riders, let's face it, if you need to use foot operated levers, you will ride flat footed most of the time, I did that, I saw the others doing it. I live in Italy and here I just pay 5€/10€ at the track to get the current to recharge my bike in between sessions; it's still less than paying for the gasoline. BTW when assessing the price of a dirtbike you can't neglect running costs and if you do the math you'll realize that in theory a Varg won't cost you more than a gas bike in the long run, although it's too soon to state that for sure, since nobody has yet owned one for many years and after the warranty will have expired. Surely the missing sound makes the spectators' experience worse but I think that the riding experience should have the priority: let's have more riders and less spectators. Besides, some people say that "manly riders" want a cool sounding machine; well, I say that if you are so tough you won't whine about sound, you will care about performance and unless you are like pro level and hit thermal limits on a Varg, which never happened to me, you don't have much to complain."
