We don’t often get to update you on the more madcap crowdfunded e-bike projects we’ve previously reported on – for the simple reason that most of them don’t go anywhere. It seems Beno’s hubless Reevo e-bike did at least get built – although given what we’ve seen, perhaps it shouldn’t have been. Announced in 2020, the Reevo boasted hubless, spokeless wheels; a one-sided fork; and fingerprint locking/unlocking. This was apparently a sufficiently alluring package that it managed to attract over £5m in crowdfunding.
That thing (it’s not even a BSO) is precisely why tech startups need to get the hell away from bikes.
They are the future but stuff like this (and any number of weird bike renders from car manufacturers) just don’t make sense.
Bikes aren’t complicated - and they don’t need to be!