Maeving announce first UK dealership with Completely Motorbikes in Gloucester

British electric motorbike firm Maeving have announced their first UK dealership, having previously opted for a direct-to-consumer model for all purchases, parts, and servicing since their inception.

The Coventry firm will now sell their £6990 RM1 urban electric through Completely Motorbikes in Gloucester, joining the likes of Aprilia, Indian, Kawasaki, MV Agusta, Suzuki, and more found across the firm’s various dealership locations.

“We believe the new partnership with Completely Motorbikes will be highly beneficial for us in supplementing our ongoing direct-to-consumer operation, giving us greater reach across the country, and greater provision when it comes to test rides and servicing,” Maeving co-founder Seb Inglis-Jones said.

“We are looking to build partnerships with a small collection of premium dealers across the country in time, and we are delighted that the first of these is as strong, successful, and established a dealer as Completely Motorbikes.”

The RM1 features a top speed of 45mph, with a claimed range of up to 80 miles when equipped with two swappable batteries that can be charged with a standard three-pin plug. It comes with a two-year warranty and can be ridden in the UK on a CBT certificate.

Rob Ayland, owner and Managing Director of Completely Motorbikes said: “We are huge fans of the best of British engineering and Maeving Motorcycles is a British marque we are proud to stock alongside our other premium brands.

“We are particularly proud to be both CCM and Maeving’s first dealer and feel that these two British brands complement each other well, occupying as they do a unique space within the motorcycle arena.”

For more, go to maeving.com

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Maeving go international: Sales kick off in Europe with plans to expand into the USA

First published on 15 June 2023 by Dan Sutherland

Coventry electric bike firm Maeving have announced that sales are expanding into Europe, with bikes soon to be available in France, Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.

“This is an incredibly exciting time for all of us at Maeving,” Co-founder Will Stirrup said. “We knew we wanted to perfect our direct to consumer operational model in our first year, so have until now focused on just the UK. We now feel we’ve accomplished this and are ready to offer the UK’s first British-built electric motorcycle to a wider audience.”

“We all want Maeving to be a British success story, and bringing zero-emissions urban transport to as many people as possible is a big part of what we set out to achieve.”

Maeving produce one model, a battery-powered urban retro called the RM1. Weighing in at 110kg, it’s capable of a claimed 80 miles and 45mph when equipped with two removable batteries. The hub-mounted electric motor has been built by Bosch while the battery is supplied by Samsung.

Offering a direct to consumer business model in the UK, bikes are delivered between two and three weeks and serviced at your home, with prices ranging from £5995 to £6990. The same set-up will be applied across these new European nations.

Sales of bikes to these new countries will begin in July, with plans to go further in both Australia and Singapore in the near future after signing deals with local distributors. Looking further ahead, the company say you will be able to buy bikes in the USA in the third quarter of 2023, with deliveries in the last three months of the year.

Bikes can be ridden on a CBT and charged in a standard wall socket, with more information available at maeving.com

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Maeving get moving: Brit firm opens pop-up at Battersea Power Station

First published on 17 October 2022 by Stuart Prestidge

Maeving electric motorcycles may have found a new home after a last-minute call-up and some “full on” preparations saw them part of the Battersea Power Station grand opening event.

The former coal burning, Grade II listed art-deco building, ironically now houses several electric vehicle manufacturers, with Maeving representing the two-wheeled sector.

The pop-up shop comes as the company bid farewell to their London Bridge location after attempts to remain fell through.

“We were offered the space last minute, last Tuesday,” said Chris Poolton, Sales and Marketing Executive at Maeving.

“We thought you can’t really say no to an event like this, Battersea Power Station opening. It is something I have heard of in a little farming town in the middle of Shropshire, if I have heard about it then it’s huge.” 

The turnout had indeed been huge with thousands of people and numerous media arriving for the opening at 10am. “It’s been manic, full on,” Poolton added.

Maeving’s pop-up houses three of the company’s only model, the RM1 in three shades of the seven available colours.

Officially Maeving will occupy the second-floor store for the next four weeks offering free accessories if a model is purchased during their stay.

It could, however, mark the beginning of the next chapter for the British made bikes that went on sale for the first time in December 2020 with a run of 100.

“If this goes well it could well be that we stay here. There’s space here for us and I think we have earned some good will getting here at the last second for the grand opening.”

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Maeving delivers: First hundred RM1s arrive with customers

First published on 16 August 2022 by Dan Sutherland

Small-capacity urban electric firm, Maeving have now delivered around 100 of their RM1 motorcycles to customers across the UK, having only launched their website publicly at the beginning of November 2021.

Designed and assembled in Coventry, the RM1 starts at £4995 and is capable of a claimed 45mph and has a range of 80 miles with two 57.4V removable batteries installed.

“We are overjoyed,” said Maeving Co-founder, Will Stirrup. “It was a pretty special moment seeing someone enjoying what we’ve built, roughly four years after starting the journey.”

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Old dog learns new tricks: 90-year-old ex-test rider goes electric with Maeving

First published on 8 July 2022 by Dan Sutherland

Convincing traditional bikers of the merits of electric bikes can be a challenge. But when that biker is a 90-year-old ex-factory test rider who hasn’t ridden in over a decade, it might seem an impossible task.

But that’s exactly what happened when up-and-coming British electric bike brand Maeving invited retired former 1950s Francis-Barnett test rider Colin Dean to sample their first machine, the RM1.

Maeving are a new British brand founded by university friends Seb Inglis-Jones and Will Stirrup. Unlike many new electric lightweights, which are often Chinese-designed and built, the Maeving is a British designed and built machine, albeit using some proprietary parts such as the Bosch hub-mounted motor.

The result, the RM1, is an A1/125cc equivalent roadster with retro wire wheels and classic styling but also clever, modern design touches such as a removable battery.

But what did ex-test rider Colin, who lives in Nuneaton, make of it all?

“I haven’t ridden for quite some time but I miss it,” Colin said. “It almost looks like an old bike. It looks the part. It reminds of the old way of building and design. My only worry is that I won’t be able to balance when I stop!”

A handful of runs later, however, it was all smiles from Colin.

“It’s 10 to 13 years since I’ve been on a bike but it feels comfortable, it feels right,” he added. “It’s great to be riding again after all these years. It’s something I never thought I’d experience – but I enjoyed it.

“It makes you realise what you’re missing. It’s an unusual bike but when you get used to it, it’s just a usual ride. It’s a motorbike. The more you ride it the more you want to ride it.”

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Brits charging ahead: New electric marque Maeving get off to a flying start from their Coventry home

First published on 17 March 2022 by Dan Sutherland

The British motorcycle industry is making a comeback – but it’s not just the old guard re-establishing themselves. Hot on the scene comes Coventry firm Maeving, who have already sold the first 100 units of their A1-friendly RM1 electric ‘boardtracker’ with 1500 people registering an interest.

Designed and assembled in the UK by a 16-strong team of predominantly ex-Triumph engineers, the brand is the brainchild of Seb Inglis-Jones, 31, and Will Stirrup, 29, who met at university and shared a vision for setting-up a green business.

“It’s amazing to be working on bikes – particularly being electric – it feels like we’re doing our bit for climate change,” Inglis-Jones told MCN. “It’s been great to then get a positive reception.”

After five years working apart, the pair came together in December 2017 with the intention of importing a bike from China. Following a year of research and a month in China, they decided nothing on the market offered what they wanted but believed the key to their product was swappable batteries.

“Realising that the product didn’t exist, we came back and went ‘right, we’re gonna start from scratch here’,” Will continued.

By January 2020, a prototype had been built and, despite the Covid-19 pandemic arriving that March, they were able to secure the necessary funding to begin building a team.

One of these people was Head of Product, Graeme Gilbert, who started working at Triumph in 1995, before rising to product management departments – having a hand in every Hinckley machine currently on sale.

Despite big plans, Seb, Will and the rest of the team are focused on the first batch of 100, with deliveries set for May. This is also to allow them to develop a parts and servicing operation, with Will saying: “We want to make sure that’s all tickety-boo before we try to sell too many bikes.”

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Maeving RM1: British-built electric ‘boardtracker’ offers an alternative take on urban mobility

First published 12 December 2021 by Ben Clarke

The Maeving RM1 is a new small-capacity electric motorcycle assembled in Coventry which combines modern removable battery tech with 1920s boardtracker styling.

Chances are you’ve never heard of Maeving, but their 16-strong staff are predominantly ex-Triumph and they also claim to have sold out their first run of 100 machines after launching their website publicly at the beginning of November.

With a top speed of 45mph (or 28mph if you’re 16) from its Bosch hub-driven motor, the £4995 RM1 comes with a single removable battery, with a second available for an extra £995.

Both batteries can be used concurrently, with one housed inside the faux petrol tank and another directly below. The use of both boosts the motor’s performance from 4.5 kW to 5.7. The batteries can be charged via a standard domestic socket in under four hours.

“We love this removable battery concept, and we’ll stick with that whilst we wait for the charging infrastructure to improve,” Maeving co-founder Seb Inglis-Jones told MCN. “Next year we will be starting work on a full-size bike as well. That’s very much waiting for charging infrastructure to improve, too.”

The batteries and frame are produced by Chinese firms Greenway and YCM respectively, but 65% of the components come from the UK and the bikes are  screwed together at Maeving’s Binley, Coventry unit.

“We went out to China, looked at the kind of bikes out there and thought removable batteries were an amazing concept – but we wanted to do it in a British way,” Seb continued.

Away from the batteries, a metal tube running across the left of the bike routes cables to and from the dual battery controller and mimics the exhaust header pipe of a single-cylinder engine.

“When we were thinking about the original concept sketches right at the beginning, we were thinking about what era of motorcycle made sense for producing a light, manoeuvrable bike,” Seb continued. “We went right back to the turn-of-the-century, when they were converting bicycle frames into petrol frames.”

Adding to that design brief are wire wheels, twin shocks and a single analogue clock. The bikes are only available via the firm’s website (maeving.com), with servicing packages available online and the work carried out at your door.