This Electric Supermoto Broke A Track Record Held By A V10 Racecar Stark now holds the lap record at the Autòdrom de Sitges-Terramar, after the Varg SM Skoll completed the circuit in a time of 41.888 seconds. RideApart · Sep 22
Stark Joins The 2026 Australian Supercross Championship. Makes History In The Process Stark Future will race the full 2026 Boost Mobile AUSX Supercross Championship, making history as the first electric motorcycle manufacturer to do so. RideApart · Sep 8
This EV Motorcycle Startup Shows That Substance Over Style Matters, Continues Profitability While other EV motorcycle startups have floundered, failed, or downright evaporated before anything hit the market, Stark Futures focused on delivering a product and that's made it the one profitable EV motorcycle manufacturer around. RideApart · Aug 6
Stark Is Giving Its Customers Traction Control for Free. Take Note KTM Stark Future just added traction control to its VARG models for free via an over-the-air update. This contrasts with KTM, which asks customers to pay more to unlock features. RideApart · Jun 26
There’s No Denying Stark’s Future’s Place in Enduro After Its Insane Erzbergrodeo Results. EVs Are Here to Stay Stark Future competed at an Erzbergrodeo main event for the first time ever, and people weren't prepared for how well the electric motorcycle manufacturer did. RideApart · Jun 10
This EV Dirt Bike Startup Just Tripled Revenue, And Went Profitable Stark Future reports 212% YoY growth and EBITDA profitability as demand for its Varg electric motorcycle surges globally. RideApart · Apr 19
Stark Future Posts Record Growth and Profitability, IPO Intentions Soon Stark Future posted a 77% year-over-year sales growth in 2025, but that's just the start of a list of financial achievements from last year. RideApart · Jan 13
Stark Varg Allowed To Race Red Bull Erzbergrodeo. But Can It Even Finish? The Red Bull Erzbergrodeo regulations have been amended to allow electric motorcycles, namely the Stark Varg, to run in all events. Here are the details. RideApart · Dec 22, 2025
Stark Signs Strategic Partnership With EVE Energy, Showing the Future of Electric Motorcycles Stark is partnering with EVE Electric to use the 26120 cell in its next generation of on-road motorcycles, and it promises to be another leap forward for the fast-growing company. RideApart · Nov 20, 2025
Stark’s EV Supermoto Is Finally Here, and Its Specs Will Make You Salivate The Stark Varg SM is finally available to buy, and it's the most powerful production supermoto ever. Here are all the juicy specs. RideApart · Oct 14, 2025
The All-Electric Stark Varg EX Turned Me Into an Enduro Rider for Two Days I spent two days in the Pyrenees mountains testing the 2025 Stark Varg EX, which takes all the credit for giving me the enduro mindset I carry today. RideApart · Sep 15, 2025
This EV Moto Maker Is Betting It Can Turn Its Badass Dirtbike Into a Road Bike Stark Future is working hard to change the perception surrounding electric motorcycles. To do this, it’s developing a street-focused version of the Varg EV motorcycle. RideApart · Sep 2, 2025
This Motorcycle Racing Org Caught Smoke For Banning EV Dirt Bikes, Now They're Back After a lot of criticism by the public on the decision to ban electric dirt bikes from competition, the FIM is reversing course and once again allowing them to compete against gas motorcycles. RideApart · Aug 24, 2025
Stark Updates its Badass Electric Dirt Bike, Adds Range and More The Stark Varg MX is already one of the most capable dirt bikes on the planet, and the most powerful one ever. But improvements have been made to the electric motorcycle. RideApart · Aug 5, 2025
RideApart · Jul 16, 2025 Stark Future Announces Q2 Financial Records, Absolutely Destroying Tesla Stark Future announced its 2025 Q2 financial records, which is the first profitable quarter for the electric motorcycle company. It's now the fastest-growing pure-ev motorcycle manufacturer in the world.
RideApart · May 14, 2025 Stark Future Achieves Record Profitability for All-Electric Motorcycle Manufacturer, and Smashes Tesla Record Electric motorcycles have come under fire from every direction. I've even tested models that I had enormous fun riding, but saw very little in the way of practicality for the common rider. Prices are usually either too high or range too low, or even worse, prices are too high and…
RideApart · Apr 2, 2025 Yamaha's EV Trials Motorcycle Gets Some Updates With the TY-E 3.0 Electric bikes are shaking things up in the off-road world, and it’s easy to see why. Instant torque, whisper-quiet motors, and way less maintenance? Sounds like a win. While brands like Stark Future are diving straight into motocross with the Varg, Yamaha’s taking a more calculated approach—fine-tuning its EV tech…
RideApart · Mar 15, 2025 A Supermoto Stark Varg Is In The Works, and It’ll Come To the US It’s no secret that the electric two-wheeler market has been absolutely flooded with startups over the past few years. Every other month, some new brand pops up promising to revolutionize the industry with a high-performance EV bike. But in that sea of vaporware and overhyped concepts, one company has managed…
RideApart · Dec 12, 2024 This EV Motorcycle Manufacturer Is Celebrating Its Success With a…Sword If you’ve never heard of Stark Future, then you’ve probably been living under a rock. The electric motorcycle startup based out of Barcelona, Spain, has pretty much set the EV dirtbike world on fire with the Varg electric motorcycle. And it’s gone to great lengths to showcase this thing’s capabilities.You…
RideApart · Dec 11, 2024 EV Motorcycle Maker Stark Future Just Changed the Game, Again I've been dying to get my hands on a Stark Varg, the all-electric dirt bike that has taken the world by storm, as everyone who's ridden one has come away with the same expletive-filled approvals. They usually involve saying, "WTF, how is this so good?" all while having the same…
RideApart · Nov 25, 2024 This EV Motorcycle Maker Wants To Produce 3D-Printed Bikes I remember when 3D printers started becoming popular. Back then, I remember thinking just how cool this tech would be, and that sooner or later, we’d be able to print all sorts of interesting stuff we could only dream of.
RideApart · Nov 4, 2024 Royal Enfield Drops Flying Flea EV Motorcycle At Last: This Is It Royal Enfield is a company that's been around for over a century. It started as a British company, and has a long and storied past, including a little lightweight machine designed to drop from the literal sky for RAF dispatch riders during WWII. After the war, the original Flying Flea…
RideApart · Sep 4, 2024 Someone Stuffed a Stark Varg Electric Motor Into A Go Kart, Does Wheelies The folks over at YouTube channel Critical have plucked out the motor of a Stark Varg and stuffed it into a go kart. The results are nothing short of insane.
RideApart · Mar 14, 2024 Stark Future Challenges FIM Over MXGP's Electric Segregation The FIM has proposed a separate electric motocross series to run in addition to MXGP, but Stark Future finds this powertrain segregation unacceptable.
RideApart · Feb 28, 2024 Why Is Motorcycle Racing Afraid Of This Electric Bike? Little is truly known as to why the FIM suddenly wouldn't allow Stark Future's Varg EV dirt bike to compete in a proper race.