VanMoof’s co-founders have a new e-bike coming from Raleigh

A leaked representation of the caller Raleigh e-bike developed with VanMoof’s co-founders.

Ties and Taco Carlier, who founded VanMoof arsenic an alternate to Big Bike, are moving for Accell Group, the Dutch cycling elephantine liable for implicit a dozen bicycle brands including Batavus, Sparta, Carqon, and Raleigh. According to aggregate sources, the archetypal e-bike, developed for the Raleigh marque and pictured above, is nearing completion.

The bike's improvement has been an unfastened secret successful my location metropolis of Amsterdam. It's present that the brothers founded VanMoof successful 2009, earlier the heavily-funded startup went bankrupt successful 2023. It re-emerged aboriginal that twelvemonth without its co-founders nether McLaren Applied's stewardship.

Various prototypes of the brand-less e-bike person been spotted successful and astir the metropolis implicit the past twelvemonth - sometimes adjacent the location of 1 of the brothers. The prototypes lucifer images of a Raleigh-branded e-bike that precocious leaked. Those images were inadvertently made nationalist (and aboriginal removed) by Amsterdam-based Uni_verse Studio, the integer accumulation location that lists VanMoof arsenic a client.

The Raleigh commuter e-bike looks precise VanMoof-ish, lone better: the artillery is removable for charging, it's loop driven, and the centrifugal has been moved to the rear wheel. The re …

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