Superb design, even up close. Quality build. Suspension. Easy of use. Swappable batteries. Ideal for beginners and urban riders.Electric cars areas drivers begin to shake off concerns about range and charging times and catch on to the appeal of silent, smooth torque and negligible running costs. But sadly, the revolution has yet to really get started on two wheels.
But this is where Maeving steps in with its first offering, the RM1: an entry-level option on the electric motorbike market, but one that aims to be desirable in its own right, regardless of performance, practicality, or price. Maeving itself is based at the heart of Britain’s motor industry in Coventry, counting plenty of former Triumph employees among its staff and assembling the bikes there rather than outsourcing to factories in Asia.
Don’t underestimate the challenge that even this seemingly simple job poses when making an electric bike: For more than a century motorcycle design has been focused on the engine, and without that crutch to lean on many electric offerings end up looking like plasticky slabs as they try to disguise battery packs that can’t live up to the aesthetic appeal of an engine.
Maeving hasn’t tried to disguise the fact the RM1 is electric, but by wrapping its main battery and electronics in brushed alloy cases and hiding cables in a braided sheath that doesn’t quite mimic an exhaust but provides a similar visual impact, it’s created something that’s a genuine rarity: a good-looking electric motorcycle.
It’s tactile, too: Touch those brushed alloy parts and it’s a pleasant surprise to find genuine metal, not just coated plastic. Everything is finished to an impressively high standard, from the neat welds on the steel frame to the knurled aluminum of the foot pegs. The battery packs are also alloy and have strips of wood inset in the handles and sides, so they’re not eyesores when charging at home. If Bang & Olufsen made motorcycles, they might look a bit like this.
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