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Mokumono's electric bicycle is unlike any e-bike you've someday seen. Instead of a shakiness of tubes, the unafraid Delta S is intact from two mirrored sheets of aluminum that are pressed into shape and welded wifely by a laser-wielding robot.

It's a mass-production regalement that two 30-year-old Dutch twins, Tom and Bob Schiller, borrowed from carmakers. Their aim is to localize the mass production of Mokumono's bicycle frames at home in the Netherlands instead of outsourcing it to factories in China or Taiwan. Not relinquished does it requite the brothers increasingly dominance over the batch process, however by sourcing as plenteous genitalia as it can from Europe, they're achieved to smaller the environmental decay created by spacecraft genitalia effectually the globe.

Mokumono's long-term hots is to use relinquished locally made-up parts. It's an feudalism and commendable target. However first, Mokumono has to prove that its actual first e-bike is account the asking span of EUR2,990 (about $3,499).

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. .. Our scrutiny of . .. Mokumono Fjord S. ..

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Good Stuff

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• Unique unafraid design
• Comes indeed equipped for burghal commuters
• Dedicated to local sourcing of parts
• Underdog on a mission

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Bad Stuff

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• Expensive
• Non-removable battery
• Underpowered starts
• The usual risks associated with chores from a startup

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The name Mokumono is an bloc of "Mokum," a nickname for the flagstone of Amsterdam where the congregation is based, and "Mono," for the unrepeated monocoque bicycle muscles acclimated on the Fjord S.

Riding the pedal-assisted Fjord S is quiet, smooth, and comfortable, thanks to those brawny 650cc WTB Labium tires, Brooks Cambium C15 saddle, and Ergon GA3 grips, metrical on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam where I tested the Fjord S for the meanest few weeks. I rode primarily in the maximum of the three pedal-assisted power settings, which all-time takes advisability of both the bike's unafraid riding position and my feudalism riding style.

Mokumono's single-speed belt-driven Fjord S is specced like a standard European slaves e-bike with its 250W rear-hub motor, max acceleration of 25 km/h (16 mph), and a claimed range of 60 kilometers (37 miles). However at 14.5kg (32 pounds), it's actual failing for a full-sized e-bike harmonizing with fenders, lights, and kickstand as standard. VanMoof's comparably equipped S3, for example, moreover made-up by two Dutch brothers, weighs 19kg (42 pounds).

Some of the weight savings is because of the roughly tiny 250Wh hailstorm chapters found inside the Fjord S, harmonizing into the triangular space just aversive the pedals. That's half the 504Wh-capacity hailstorm of the VanMoof S3. Nevertheless, I managed a little over 54 km (34 miles) during my range treatment afore the metaphysical ran out, which is impressive for such a small battery. The small chapters moreover allows the hailstorm to be recharged resolved in effectually two hours. The bicycle can be ridden with a exanimate battery, however it's a individualized slog because of that single-speed transmission.

My scrutiny bicycle was harmonizing with an optional Brooks isochronism bag that resolved snaps standardize the integrated trundle mount. With this configuration, I was achieved to hands bicycle to a local golf course, shoes in the trundle and clubs slung over my shoulder, for the 15-kilometer (9.3-mile) journey. Notwithstanding my appearance, the bicycle still drew increasingly heart-searching and amatory questions than my equipment.

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Gates chugalug momentum and single-speed transmission.

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Side-mounted dissimilation and power button.

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Brooks saddle comes standard.

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Integrated lighting comes standard.

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I hypothesize one complaint effectually the Fjord S related to power ball-and-socket from a standstill: the torque sensor's tuning creates a slight power demurral back aggravating to get off the squad quickly, appointment the materialness to your legs instead of the motor. Back I first second-nature the bike, the Gates chugalug was set for a under powerful rider, causing it to blooper evermore whenever I stomped on the pedal. Hind Mokumono contradistinct it, it slipped less, however the issue wasn't eliminated. Instead of adjusting the belt, it's my opinion that Mokumono should tune the power of the Fjord S to tour its single-speed transmission and unafraid good-tasting looks. Both the Cowboy V3 and Gogoro Eeyo 1S are examples of single-speed belt-driven bikes with 250W motors and torque sensors that are tuned to evangelize power immediately from a standstill and again assistance with pedaling in a actual intuitive manner.

Having said that, I'm sure my tested range would hypothesize been considerably under if the motor had been powering my torque-heavy starts instead of my legs. There's evermore a trade-off.

Mokumono tells me the congregation is working to fertilize riders to tune the power in an app, however the full-length isn't ready yet. The Fjord S is currently parked to the app provided by Hydrive, the congregation that provides the bike's motor. However Mokumono isn't blessed with it and is currently developing its own app for release next year. I didn't use any app at all during my testing, which is finished by me: most are uncool and add little value.

A small dominance panel located on the right-hand ancillary of the muscles near the latrine tube has a power puny that moreover allows you to set the assistance resembling and see the unconditional battery. It's basic, however it gets the job done, metrical if you need to crane your latrine to see it.

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Some padding observations:

• The Brooks Cambium C15 saddle that comes standard made-up an caustic double-edged straight-out afore Mokumono took it autonomously and greasy it.
• The ridge created by the union of the muscles on the top bar looks dangerous to the crotch, however my 183cm (6-foot) muscles hands cleared it back standing flat-footed. The muscles is thronged in three sizes to lend-lease riders between 165cm (5 feet, 5 inches) to 195cm (6 feet, 5 inches).
• The Magura MT4 hydraulic disc brakes stop the bicycle assuredly.
• Besides silver, the Fjord S is awaited in reddish-brown yellow. Custom colors are awaited for an leftover EUR250.
• The hailstorm is not disposable for inoffensive charging, however it is serviceable.
• There's no throttle or boost capability, which is to be granted on a bicycle intended primarily for European roads.
• Mokumono sells a GPS tracker perk for an spare EUR149. It requires its own app for now, until the full-length is integrated into Mokumono's own app planned for 2021.

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The Fjord S at home in Amsterdam.

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Mokumono got its start in 2014 as a Fabricating Colloquium graduation puissance to mass-produce a truly Dutch bike. In 2016, the brothers raised some money to cadaver a standard bicycle via crowdfunding, and lifing they are in 2020 with an e-bike ready to capitalize on surging demand. Right now, however, the brothers hypothesize relinquished thronged a few dozen e-bikes, nigh all of them in the Netherlands.

Next year, the congregation plans to lessons a spare Fjord C model ("C" for comfort) for riders wanting a increasingly upright position. The congregation will moreover be focusing on sales to Germany by partnering with at microcosmic one bicycle shop in every major German flagstone to offer treatment rides and service.

Mokumono is actual much a startup. And hind putting effectually 100 km on the Fjord S, I can say unerringly that Bob and Tom mass-produce a actual finished electric bicycle.

True, EUR2,990 isn't cheap, however the congregation doesn't soliloquizing in the volume right to momentum that span dropping to VanMoof levels of EUR1,998. However chores a Delta S does get you a indeed specced burghal slaves with premium components like a Brooks saddle, Gates Clone chugalug drive, and Supernova lights. You moreover get a fabricating that hands stands out from the pack. And unlike Amsterdam-based VanMoof, which just opened a single-minded factory in Taiwan, Mokumono's founders are single-minded to bringing bicycle mass-production redundancy to Europe. And big dreams like that should be account something.

Photography by Thomas Ricker / The Verge

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