Win a 2026 Stark VARG MX 1.2 Electric Motocross Bike — Veteran MX Foundation

The bike: a 2026 Stark VARG MX 1.2

The VARG is the machine that ended the "electric can't hang" argument in motocross, and the 1.2 is Stark Future's 2026 revision of it. The numbers still read like a typo: a 7.2 kWh, 420-volt pack feeding a water-cooled motor in a carbon-fibre housing, a claimed 260 lb with the battery in it — roughly 450 territory — and a single-speed direct drive with no clutch lever and no gearbox at all. Power is software rather than displacement. The Arkenstone module, an Android device that docks to the handlebar clamp, lets you shape the curve anywhere from 10 hp up to the variant's ceiling and run GPS lap timing off the same screen. Suspension is KYB at both ends: a 48 mm closed-cartridge coil-spring fork with 310 mm of travel, a triple-adjustable shock with 303 mm out back, hung on a high-strength steel frame Stark claims is the lightest in motocross. Stark quotes up to six hours of trail riding or a full MXGP moto depending on how hard you ride it.

One thing the listing doesn't settle: which VARG. The MX 1.2 ships as a 60 hp bike and as an 80 hp "Alpha," and the entry page names the model but not the variant. Colour is unstated too — the 1.2 is sold in Stark Red, Snow White and Forest Gray.

Why it matters

There is still nothing else in mass production that does this. Instant, flat torque with no clutch and no shifting rewires how you ride a motocross track — corner speed and rear-brake discipline matter far more than they do on a four-stroke, and riders coming off a 450 usually need a few sessions before they stop reaching for a lever that isn't there. It is also quiet, which is not a small thing at a moment when noise complaints close tracks.

The honest side of electric MX ownership: charging is the compromise. Stark quotes about two hours on 240V, so a genuine race day wants a second pack or a generator in the truck rather than a wall socket and optimism. The dealer network is small, the used market is smaller, and battery service is a longer-term unknown on any EV this young — all of which matters more if you plan to flip it than if you plan to ride it. And in MX trim this is a competition off-road machine, not a street-legal one.

As prizes go, it fits the fundraiser. Veteran MX Foundation's entire purpose is putting veterans on motocross bikes, so the prize is the mission in physical form.

The fine print worth knowing

Entry runs through Zeffy in three tiers: $50 "Single Shot" for one ticket, $125 "Better Odds" for three, $200 "Best Odds" for six. Checkout offers an optional additional donation on top, which the page marks as tax-receipt eligible, and because of how Zeffy's platform works the page states that "100% of your purchase goes to our mission."

The gap worth meeting before you spend anything: the entry page publishes a prize, a stated ARV and three prices, and essentially nothing else. There is no Official Rules document linked from it, no drawing date, no entry deadline, no eligibility terms or state exclusions, no odds or ticket cap, and no free-entry route — every path on the page is a purchase. That structure is ordinary for a charitable raffle, where buying the ticket is the point and a no-purchase alternative isn't required the way it is for a sweepstakes; the page's own headline calls it a "Sweepstakes," which is a different legal animal with different obligations. If the timeline or the terms matter to you, the foundation publishes support@veteranmx.com as its contact.

The operator itself is checkable, which is the part that usually isn't: Veteran MX Foundation is a 501(c)(3) with EIN 86-3751903, registered in 2021 and based in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with a public track record of veteran motocross programming, a merch store and named founders in Cody and Dustin Blankenship.

On taxes, two separate points. A prize at a stated $13,339 ARV is reportable income to the winner, so plan for a 1099 and a federal and state bill against that figure rather than against what you paid for the ticket. And the IRS treats money paid for a chance to win as a purchase, not a deductible charitable gift — the optional donation the checkout offers alongside the tickets is the part the page flags as receipt-eligible.