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This reminds me of Boosted Boards, which was also VC funded and got killed when Trumps China tariffs killed any profits they had on the hardware.

When Boosted went under years ago some people tracked down the manufacturers of the individual components and to this day you can buy brand new replacement motors. It'll be interesting to see if a market pops up for VanMoof replacement parts as well.

I sure hope so, I'm sitting on an S3 with a broken e-shifter. Support told me they didn't have any in stock and they'd let me know when they did. With hindsight I know now they probably hadn't been paying suppliers for a while now, and weren't getting any parts in because of that.



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