Hi guys. I don't mean disrespect for Mark, but if you look back at his posts he's been pretty negative about the Varg. I would consider it borderline spreading FUD about the bike with statements like "So, it's easy for me to see something like a Varg making an 80hp dyno spike for advertising, then de-tuning it."
There are two ways I can read this:
1. It can do 80hp in a very narrow RPM range -- basically has a large horsepower "hump" that must be flattened out in software to make it nice to ride.
2. Or dyno tricks - "When I managed to weight the bike to regain traction the spike HP numbers were unreal"
Neither of those if very flattering. Both imply some sort of trickery.
I am not trying to convince Mark of anything. All I am trying to do is to refute his claims of trickery for those that are positive about the bike and looking forward to it.
I will not post dyno curves at this time (I have to OK that with a number of people first). What I can do is show the current going into the inverter. Battery was charged to 80% SoC. Voltage sagged to about 365V because of current. Throttle was opened at about 50kph and closed when the motor got to RPM limit.