Monday, April 30, 2018

Hands-on: VanMoof’s new bike uses spooky sci-fi sounds to scare thieves


VanMoof – the Amsterdam-based bike company – has launched the Smart series, its new range of two-wheelers. These bikes are the first available on the company’s new subscription service, VanMoof+. It claims that its new advancements, in particular the sound engineering, take us one step closer to a lockless world. Well, for bikes, at least. We went to its offices in Amsterdam to try out the bike and speak with co-founder – and very tall man – Ties Carlier. He said one of the key issues for VanMoof is people prefer using “shit bikes” in cities out of fear for…

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