What future for Angell? After the announcement of its founder, the contractor Marc Simoncini, of the future judicial liquidation of the new company, customers run out of real solutions. Some solutions can be activated in certain resellers, and useful offers are available in other brands.
However, there are several thousand clients who agreed to join an adventure “made in France” in 2019, wishing to participate in what was described as “a revolution.” Almost six years later, while the adventure stops, Tech & Co went to know those who sometimes spent more than 3,000 euros to pay the “dream” bicycle.
Historical Design Problems
“When I heard about Angels, I had described these bicycles as a design and efficient, especially to go to work with some style,” recalls Christian, who works in the Défense.
“I picked the broken pots.”
The broken pots are the design and software problems with which the first generation of Velos Angell was the victim. Battery that is disconnected during a walk, delivers problems, accessories all the owners that avoid real maintenance in the home, an application that suffers many errors … the problems could maintain several volumes.
“Angell’s problem is that it is a new company that thought it could design bicycles like any object, the design gave everything else,” says Julien, one of the first bicycle buyers, delighted with the first futuristic concepts that finally did not reflect The final product.
“I wanted to give it a chance because I wanted to participate in a kind of movement.”
Once the bicycle in his hands, the problems begin: for him, it is not a problem of disconnecting the battery, but a battery that is eliminated with great difficulty. “Sometimes I had to force several minutes to get it, we felt there was a final problem.” He ends up returning his model and waiting to see what he is, before falling in love with a more reliable second generation model.
The part of the software is also complicated: in addition to a screen in the frame that lacks elegance, it is also necessary to compose without further errors. “It never really worked,” Christian explains, “but we were doing it with that.”
The pride of a design bicycle
Because once on the road, and if everything worked as planned, all testimonies collected by Tech & Co maintain that driving is pleasant, along with a fairly maintained weight compared to other traditional electric bicycles: 16 kilos included. “You have to make yourself at the beginning, since you already have to activate the pedal to receive help, but that is what makes the charm of driving” insists Julie, who still uses it today for his first bike generation, and this, Despite the retirement.
“He spent a while before we really walk well, but today, the big mistakes were corrected,” he explains, “we had a really beautiful and pleasant bicycle to use every day.”
“I have stopped on the street several times to admire my bicycle,” Renaud proudly trusts, a journalist in a great daily life, “there is a satisfactory side.” It has the side of a latest generation model, with more satisfactory finishes and premium.
With the premature end of Angell’s adventure, these sometimes precursors will put their hands in the wallet and start in a new company creating bicycles. “Maybe, but it will really depend on the proposal,” says Christian, for whom “made in France” is a weight argument.
For Julie and Julien, without a doubt, as long as her angel bike works, they will use it, before leaving for more classic brands such as Decathlon or Canyon: “I will lose the refined design of my bicycle for a more consensual and reassuring solution after the service after the service after the service of sales and spare parts, “specifies Julien.
Source: BFM TV
