Here is
a more qualified opinion of someone who also explains how electric motorcycles are somehow superior for FMX. Yes, he's signed a contract with Stark Future, but looking at the performance of the Varg in FMX I'd say that he's being honest:
Here is
my opinion, directly copied and pasted from my comment under that video:
The X Games are owned by private companies that can decide what to do with them and that are presumably after money, just like every company we deal with, including our employers: apparently, they must have concluded that electric motocross bikes are a bad choice in that regard. They don't have to necessarily make the competition fair and they have the right to decide who can join.
On the other hand, the X Games have also become sort of the Olympiads of FMX and so it's understandable that people talk about what is legit or not. With the perspective of someone who considers them as a business, I don't express any opinion about this decision.
Applying the perspective of someone who sees them as the FMX olympiads and considering that those bikes don't even interact with each other like in MX but instead they do tricks one after the other, I think that electric dirtbikes should be allowed, since I consider them more spectacular than the objectively better sounding gasoline powered motorcycle.
And I fucking love my Stark Varg!
And, finally and more importantly, just to be clear,
here is an example of the beautiful views we will miss; usually I understand MX spectators who miss the sound, but in this context I don't:
www.jalopnik.com
