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You're right , it's all a conspiracy, the lightest tubes ever made , the lightest footpegs ever made , the most powerful and longest lasting ev bike ever made , it's all to fool you, you have sussed it out ,well done
I have some KTM parts that I ordered in October that keep getting pushed back. And I still have not gotten them. If there were not these other supply issues with major established brands who have been developing their bikes for longer than Stark has been a company. Maybe then I could see the doubt people have. Being upset about the missed date is one thing.
a row of new Vargs
against an all white backround
cryptic messaging ?
Didn't they have many bikes that the magazine guys tested in Spain last year?
Maybe they were 1 - 20?
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What incentive do they have to NOT make the bikes?? They have already talked about spending way more money than they have gotten from the deposits . And with the wait being over a year if you placed an order today ( I think somebody posted sept 2024 as an ETA if you ordered on that day they posted) . Why would they not just make the bikes? Delivering bikes is when they will start to make some money back. I imagine that they will not be making money until a lot of Vargs are delivered. Just spending it.
If they did get 18K pre orders , that's not even 2 Million dollars. Even if their building is an empty warehouse with a single white wall and a few offices it would have cost them more than the deposits gave them. Seems like a bad scam to me. And for an established company to have invested $50M with them , for such a small % of Stark . That should give people faith. I'm sure that Stark had to show them much more info than what is public for them to write that check.
The fact they are so flustered over the chassis number shows they are in a mental mindspin
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Looks awesome mate! Looking forward to seeing the videos man!
Oh come on dude! That’s laziest trolling I’ve seen in a long time.. you can do better than that
That's like saying "what incentive do Theranos have to make bogus blood tests?".
It can and does happen, especially to products with a lot of hype. I don't think this is the case with Stark, but it pays to be vigilant
What's more likely?
1) Stark Future has done their best to navigate the largest worldwide supply chain interruption in the history of the industrial age, all while developing a game-changing, brand-new product, and is thus behind in some aspects of their production, shipping and delivery timeframes, or;
2) Stark Future has deftly conspired to build only 21 of the game-changing products, while still having to handle all the R&D and supply chain problems, all so they can rip people off to the tune of $100 each?
Just because someone "reputable" invest in a company does not mean it should give someone faith. To repeat the Theranos story as noted many times on here, Walgreens invested $50 Million, Rupert Murdoch $5 Million, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison invested, and many more VC Funds. Theranos also had powerful people on their board. But companies unfortunately do shady stuff. Time will tell with Stark, it is promising that they are posting pictures of their bikes and wish them success.
Honest question, do most manufacturers assemble the whole bike and then break it down again if it's to go in a crate?
I honestly don’t think stark planned to produce bikes…I think they were planning on a buyout and when that didn’t happen, they are scrambling to actually build bikes now and as a result of going with plan B, they are way way way behind schedule…and if they’d just be honest with everyone and explain that, rather than never offer an explanation, post watered down, cryptic and generic looking pictures/videos on social medias, deliver one bike to one customer (who comes off as more of a paid Stark PR/sales guy than a customer) and then crickets about any “regular” customers (who didn’t get an invite to Spain, and who aren’t already famous) getting their bikes…it’s no wonder people are skeptical of them…their opaqueness and seemingly deliberate attempts to hide the true status are breeding the conspiracy theories.
The bike looks awesome! Their marketing plan leaves a lot to be desired…
Anton Wass (Stark CEO) did say he was riding his own Varg, others may have gone to Stark insiders, or been used for reliability or compliance testing.
The big question is where is bike #100, or #17,000.
There is no way that was there plan. Buyouts take a long time. It would have taken even longer for them to develop and manufacture the bike if there plan was to be bought.
what your suggesting they should have done is announce the bike and that they don’t plan on producing it but instead hoping for a buyout so someone else can make it is INSANE.
Yes, bikes are dyno tested as they roll off the assembly line then broken down and crated.
You could be right…I guess they could have just drastically underestimated the number of pre sales…and found themselves with a factory that couldn’t possibly meet that demand…
who knows?
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Question: if they didn't intend to mass produce, why are all those small aluminum parts like the subframe grip handles, outer frame plates, etc forged?
We know stark has extensive machining capabilities based on finish work on the same parts. Wouldn't they just CNC those bits and have them looking as trick as works, given that making the dies to forge those parts only makes sense if you intend to scale the build?
Good to see them getting into production. Was looking at the Surron Ultra bee, it's about half the weight, half the power and half the price. I'd be curious to see a comparison head to head.
On a motocross track it would be like a CRF110F competing against a CRF450R!
In what world does a paid spokes person pay for the product they are promoting?
@theycallmeebryan did you sign an NDA for the factory tour, can you say anything about what you saw inside the factory?
100% what I think as well. It's the marketing that brings the doubt in my mind. This "buyout model" is common in my work, different markets, but similar broad concept, and I think they wanted to build enough hype for KTM or Honda to buy them out before they had to mass produce bikes. And I think KTM and Honda know how hard it is to succeed, especially with global supply chain, and called their bluff per se and are now waiting on them to unfortunately fail. Could be 100% wrong, we all have opinions right lol.
Or they set a lofty goal for producing bikes in a time when supply chains were struggling and ended up being well behind there goal. This happens all the time in business. Have you ever built a custom home, plans change, deadlines change, needs change, unforeseen problems from changes come up.
is it a bad look for stark to not have hundreds of bikes out yet? Yes. Does that mean they are acting in bad faith. No.
Eicher Motors, the Indian conglomerate that 'invested' $50 million probably rescued Wass' arse and owns the brand.
The bikes are a simple, basic thing that a well resourced individual, say someone who owned an aerospace machine shop, could make.
There is nothing hi tech about them and everything appears to have been supplied by contractors, and well known suppliers, no different from the dozens of boutique marques that litter the historic motorcycle landscape.
It's highly likely that Stark was a speculative venture, in the Silicon valley mould, and Wass was looking at selling for a cool billion or so on the hype. He's now forced to make a hugely expensive, probably loss making per unit toy, playbike. We are almost certain it cannot run 30 plus 2 with a pro so it is a dead duck as far as being the best MX bike evva.
I am picking up some subtle hints that you might not be buying a Stark
Along with billions of others....
Along with the billions not buying ktm, Yamaha etc…
your just trying to hard now, the reel is out of line. Time to find another thing to beat to death.
id suggest something to do with deegan or Jett.
This thread keeps delivering on the weirdness lol
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