A few canals away at a bike repair shop, Joram Hartogs says he refuses to repair VanMoofs, “because they’re impossible to repair.”

“They’re so sealed off with their own equipment that nobody else except them can fix it,” he says.

“All bike brands have a certain standard,” says Hartogs about VanMoof, “and they went around every standard that was available because they didn’t want to do anything with regular bike parts. So now they created everything themselves, and it keeps breaking because they wanted to over-design it.”

Sounds like it’s good that they went under. Nobody should support a manufacturer that does that.