Yamaha YE-01

[Beagle]

Stark is also selling more dirtbikes than Yamaha, at least in Europe.

Did you find any solid numbers?

 

[B. FRANK]

They likely have an in-house prototype, but this isn't it.
The bike in these pictures, and the one mounted far and high on the wall at EICMA may as well be made of paper mâché.

I'm sorry to be so sceptical, but even if that wrist-watch battery is real, this bike is 95% YZ from 30 years ago.
All the advantages would need to be in the electronics and software, and Jap-OEMs are not famous for that.

i'm sorry i must have napped for a decade! did you say japanese don't do the best electrics? and it seems old yamahas are the bike that gets converted to electric most often. seems like a cool bike to me, i really like e.m. but i am too old to even think about trials anymore. yamaha does have a reputation for rushing products onto the market before they are ready, but they also have a rep for trying different things, some suck but some are AWESOME! time will tell.

 

[Moto Vita]

There is a comparison here. Yamaha was not the first 4 stroke in the series, that was KTM. The better riders however took the price and were remembered as "the first".

Yamaha as a whole is huge, but Stark now is way bigger than KTM was at that time. And they just have to focus on 1 bike. KTM had the whole 50-520 series and 600+.
Stark is also selling more dirtbikes than Yamaha, at least in Europe.

I don't know who is willing to pour more money in for the best riders.

Time will tell. You may be right about the European market, but in the USA, which we all know is the center of the MX universe, Stark is a little blip on the charts compared to Yamaha.
While KTM raced some 4Ts before Yamaha, it was Yamaha that produced the bike that stood the market on it's head and changed the sport.