Batch 1 USA/Canada/Australia/NewZealand/EU/Sweden/Norway/Iceland/Switzerland/Tahiti!

Hello Backers,

We are both excited and frustrated over here. Excited because there is definitely progress being made with the deliveries, frustrated because it seems that in some cases customs clearance is taking an inordinate amount of time. I suppose from one perspective this is not unexpected considering its right around christmas and Black Friday (which at least in sweden turned in to Black Week) spending has surpassed all time highs meaning that even more must be imported into the respective countries further delaying any items already arriving.

EU Bikes

These bikes arrived on the 18th to the EU to the distribution location, however after sitting there for over 10 days, late last week the logistics partner decided to move them to Hamburg to do the actual customs import, the first customs clearance was to clear at a higher level whereas the final clearance from within the EU actually determines values and collects all duties and taxes (which we have already paid). We have pasted a bit of the conversation with our logistics contact below where we are clearly very frustrated at the delays because they only here from one of us whereas we are hearing from hundreds of people every day.

We dont have a finalized date for when these bikes will clear EU customs but please know that everyone has paid the EU DUTYS and TAXES and this information is already in the hands of our logistics partner so once they clear customs they are shipped directly with no delay.

USA / Canada

The bikes can be tracked at the following link:

http://homeport.apl.com/gentrack/trackingMain.do?trackInput01=TRLU5577796

We expect this import to go much more smoothly. ALL UPS tracking numbers have already been added to the backers accounts so as soon as its clears customs it goes directly out by UPS to the final backers.

South Pacific / South America

Your bikes have been shipped many of you have already contacted us after receiving your BL for the delivery and most of you have already been emailed from the local logistics departments in preparation to receive your bikes. The same in south america. If you have any questions about this fire us off an email.

Sweden and Northern Europe Bikes (Iceland etc)

Seems the only thing going according to schedule for us is the Swedish delivery. We received the call last Wednesday about the arrival of these bikes to the port and the delivery is currently set for the 15th of December. Once we get them, we will reship those that require reshipping to the final backers after we confirm that the duties and taxes we prepaid are compensated. Along with this shipment comes the prototype Stark Drive Mini which is the next phase of our Master Plan You can read about by clicking on the link.

We know the updates have been somewhat sparse recently but thats not because nothing is happening, quite the opposite, we are trying to coordinate the delivery of hundreds of bikes, checking addresses, phone numbers, status of taxes paid and in rare occasions fixing addresses where people have moved etc. Please know that we are finally after months of delays in the home stretch for batch 1.

Sincerely
Stark Drive Team