What Really happened to Alta Motors + The last hours of Alta HQ

[ElectroBraap]

And in other thoughts... you mentioned in the vid that there were about 700 Redshifts sold retail. I know there is a thread about this specifically, but how good are your sources? I have heard 800-1200, but nothing difinitive. Maybe that “Honcho” guy knows.
Maybe not. Only the shadow knows.
I ride with Alta005 all the time. We are the two dudes on those electric motorcycles. We are rare, and getting rarer, at least in the short term.
Maybe I’ll bump that other thread.

I can only go by what I was told. If someone can produce a vin greater than 600 than I suppose that would prove there is more. I would like to think my source knows his stuff but nobody knows everything.

-Electro

 

[ElectroBraap]

Hey, what brand goggles are those? Kinda looks like the old Carreras but modernized. Good venting for guys like me who wear glasses.

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I like the style and overall have been a good goggle for me.

 

[Redwolf]

I can only go by what I was told. If someone can produce a vin greater than 600 than I suppose that would prove there is more. I think my source knows his stuff but nobody knows everything.

-Electro

Not to disagree with you, but the problem with counting vin's is that the series was not continuous across models, and some models did not start at 001, for example my EXR is vin 103, but the series began with 099 as I understand it.

 

[OneLapper]

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I like the style and overall have been a good goggle for me.

What?!? Discount Code? Did you mention that in your videos????? Crap. I HATE paying retail.............

 

[ElectroBraap]

Not to disagree with you, but the problem with counting vin's is that the series was not continuous across models, and some models did not start at 001, for example my EXR is vin 103, but the series began with 099 as I understand it.

Understood. To clarify I can not confirm the amount of bikes. Just what I was told. I did mention in the video that there might be other bikes (up to 1k).

-Electro

 

[ElectroBraap]

What?!? Discount Code? Did you mention that in your videos????? Crap. I HATE paying retail.............

Urrrr I don’t know I throw it out on Instagram from time to time. You guys should definitely check that out if your interested in my day to day shinanigans. Sorry lapper!!

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Electro

 

[Rashid510]

I can only go by what I was told. If someone can produce a vin greater than 600 than I suppose that would prove there is more. I think my source knows his stuff but nobody knows everything.

-Electro

To say this again. EXR235 was the last EXR VIN struck at Alta Motors. The last MXR struck at Alta Motors was MXR550 (last legally known VIN that was struck in operation)

 

[TCMB371]

Again, for what its worth, there are 887 rows of VIN#'s in that recommended_fw.json file included in the Alta Multitool download.

 

[Rashid510]

That JSON message has other VINs that are not per say road legal or could be test VINs when MT was being developed.

 

[ElectroBraap]

I tried my best guys Sorry for any inaccuracies.

-Electro

 

[Judaslefourbe]

I tried my best guys Sorry for any inaccuracies.

You're fired from Alta Motors.



Oh wait...

 

[ElectroBraap]

I tried my best guys Sorry for any inaccuracies.

-Electro

You're fired from Alta Motors.



Oh wait...

 

[TCMB371]

Maybe this is helpful. I went through the JSON and parsed it into a simple google sheet with counts:

Alta Redshift Vin Database

 

[leeo45]

Hmmmm.... So maybe there are a very few mythical SMRs in existence.

 

[TCMB371]

Hmmmm.... So maybe there are a very few mythical SMRs in existence.

Or.... lazy programmers fudged the json file?

 

[Rashid510]

Hmmmm.... So maybe there are a very few mythical SMRs in existence.

Uhhh thats a negative. We were close...so freaking close to launching SMR. Kept getting moved in the plan to build more EXRs. No street legal SMRs out there....

 

[Philip]

Maybe this is helpful. I went through the JSON and parsed it into a simple google sheet with counts:

Alta Redshift Vin Database

View attachment 2683

Cool!

So: Customer# + Marketing# + R&D# = Total#

It appears though that Customer Bikes also include the unsold bikes and the demo bikes.

 

[Tuner]

Maybe this is helpful. I went through the JSON and parsed it into a simple google sheet with counts:

Alta Redshift Vin Database

View attachment 2683

Not to mention race bikes minus VIN numbers

 

[beepbeep]

You're fired from Alta Motors.



Oh wait...

I need a 'dislike with extreme predjudice' button for this post, even though I think Judaslefourbe is generally alright. Call it PTSD if wish.

 

[beepbeep]

Maybe this is helpful. I went through the JSON and parsed it into a simple google sheet with counts:

Alta Redshift Vin Database

View attachment 2683

In addition to the aforementioned R&D and Race bike VINs there is another fairly rare event that does contribute to incrementing the VINs. The VINs were engraved onto the FBH early in the process of building a Redshift. The machine that performed the engraving ran on specialised software that controlled the issuance and printing of the VINs. There were occasions when there was a software issue, a defect in the mechanical process that does the engraving, or a material/forging/welding defect that was not discovered until after the VIN was engraved: any of which resulted in the FBH being scrapped. By design of the software system, at that point that VIN is dead. It can not be used again by that software, and by regulation that dead VIN can not be engraved onto a different FBH by a different process. Therefore an attempt to deduce the exact number of official production bikes solely on the last recorded VIN of each type is not going to be precise. I was only involved in a few of these instances. I know more occurred, and while I do not have first hand knowledge of the exact number, I know it was not large. More vague I could be if pressed. My point is: don't be too sure your assumptions.