Stark’s 500-Unit VARG SM Sköll Shows Out of Stock at $14,990, 1.1 kg Lighter Than a $13,040 SM

Stark Future’s product page for the VARG SM Sköll shows “Out of stock” beside a $14,990 price, a notify-me prompt and the line “500 Units. No second run.” The standard VARG SM, on the same site, is $13,040.

Stark’s September 16 release says first deliveries start in October 2026, so the 500 bikes now counted as gone have yet to leave the factory. Neither the release nor the Sköll page says when sales opened or when the allocation ran out.

What the extra $1,950 covers

The release puts the Sköll at 123.4 kg (272 lb) against 124.5 kg for the standard SM. It credits titanium for the difference: 3D-printed footpegs that save 140 g and a full bolt kit that saves 900 g, 1.04 kg between them. Chassis, 7.2 kWh battery and single-speed drive carry over unchanged.

Output does too. The Sköll gets 80 hp and 914 Nm (674 lb-ft) at the rear wheel in Alpha spec, with tunable Dynamic Traction Control. Stark’s standard SM page lists 80 hp and 673 lb-ft. The $1,950, about 15 percent over the SM, pays for black anodizing and coatings on the swingarm, motor housing, inverter and charge port, plus individually engraved triple clamps. Stark prices it at €14,990, £12,990 and AUD 21,990 elsewhere.

The run is capped at 500, below the 650 cars Subaru set for its GD25 WRX and ZC15 BRZ tributes. Stark’s tagline for the bike is “500 wolves, blacked out, built to chase anything ahead.”

The Sitges lap record

A second Stark release, dated September 20, says Swedish supermoto champion Jonas Skovby lapped the Autòdrom de Sitges-Terramar near Barcelona in 41.888 seconds on September 10. The previous record, 42.600, was set by Carlos Sainz in an Audi R8 LMS in 2012, a margin of 0.712 seconds. The release names CSI Timing as the certifier.

The track is a 2.0 km concrete oval, opened October 28, 1923 and not resurfaced since. Stark gives an average of roughly 172 km/h and a top speed of 210 km/h. It does not say how many laps Skovby had, what tires he ran, whether the bike was a production Sköll, or what conditions Sainz faced in 2012. We covered a different kind of motorcycle speed mark last week, when Talan Skeels-Piggins ran 200.254 mph at Elvington on a Hayabusa; Stark’s figure is a lap time, not a top speed.

The record ran six days before the Sköll was announced, and the first customer bikes arrive this month. Would you pay $1,950 over a standard SM for black finishes and 1.1 kg, or is the $13,040 bike the better buy?

Sources: Stark Future product pages for the VARG SM Sköll and VARG SM; Stark Future releases of September 16 and September 20.

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