Stark Varg: Gearing for optimal range

[Erwin P]

Now you are getting what I was saying. With a gas bike like my Beta 480, the rideability goes up with taller gearing. Less wheelspin and clutch and shifting, just cruise and it's got so much torque and flywheel stalling isn't an issue. The optimum spot for me is 15/48 which for most is considered street gearing (I go to 45 on the street). This won't work with a smaller bike with less torque, you need massive torque to pull it off, exactly what the Stark has in spades. The Stark has more torque at the first crack of the rpms than the YZ450 has at any point in any gear. It can absolutely pull the tall gearing, and tuning with the tallest gear the bike can pull has always been my go to.

I'm actually a guy who likes shorter gearing on most of my bikes. That way it's more predictable over most objects and really doesn't stall or lacks power to do something when i want it. I normally ride 2 strokes though and somehow when riding the EXC500/TE501 etc i always stall them everywhere. I really don't like those big 4 strokes. Never ridden the 480 though and maybe that's less keen to stall.

Back to the Stark. Indeed that can't even stall and torque is endless. However HP is not. HP basicly is Torque x RPM. With very low revs i've found that the Stark actually has a bad time in really deep mud. In 48hp it won't spin itself out of it when stalled. Even 80hp has to work hard. An ICE can drop the clutch and release top hp at 0 km/h, the Stark has to make due with a huge torque number x 0, and a funny thing happens when you multiply by zero.
However, that is something i would need to test, hp should be plenty though.