15.8kg
The whole bike — motor, battery, belt, lights. Typical city e-bike: 26 kg and a sore shoulder.
(01) Vela One — pre-orders open, ships spring 2027
15.8kg The stairs just lost the argument.
A belt-driven city e-bike light enough to carry up four floors with a coffee in your other hand. Up to 90 km of range hidden inside the frame. Lights and lock built in, so the only accessory you need is somewhere to be.
Frame colour · Signal
DriveCarbon belt · 30,000 km
Battery540 Wh, inside the frame
Lights400 lm, on before you ask
(02) The numbers
Four numbers. No asterisks.
Measured with a real rider (78 kg), real hills and a very real Copenhagen headwind. The brochure numbers are the ride numbers.
90km
In Eco, 75 kg rider, flat route. A week of commuting and one detour for pastries.
42Nm
Silent, instant, from the rear hub. Hills don’t get easier. They just stop being your problem.
3.5h
Empty to full from any wall socket. Empty to 80% before your lunch meeting wraps.
(03) Design
We left everything a city bike doesn’t need at the factory: the chain, the rattle, the battery bolted on like an afterthought, eleven kilos of just-in-case. What’s left is 15.8 kg of bike that goes 90 km.
Vela One · side elevation · 1:9
Five parts · tap to inspect
Meet the parts you’ll think about zero times a day.
Every component on Vela One was chosen to disappear: into the frame, into the hub, into your routine.
01 — Hub motor
A motor you only notice on hills.
A 250 W rear hub with 42 Nm, reading your pedalling 1,000 times a second through a torque sensor. At full assist it hums at 38 dB — quieter than the tram you’re overtaking.
- Power
- 250 W
- Torque
- 42 Nm
- Noise
- 38 dB
- Motor weight
- 2.1 kg
02 — Hidden battery
540 Wh, hiding in plain sight.
Twenty-one cells live inside the down tube. Unlock it in the app, slide it out at the bottom bracket, charge it at your desk. From outside, it just looks like a slightly confident tube.
- Capacity
- 540 Wh
- Full charge
- 3.5 h
- Removable
- Yes, 2.6 kg
- Lifespan
- 1,000+ cycles
03 — Carbon belt
No chain. No oil. No stripe on your trousers.
A carbon-reinforced belt rated for 30,000 km, driving a 2-speed automatic hub that shifts itself at 16 km/h. The service schedule is: ignore it.
- Lifespan
- 30,000 km
- Gears
- 2, automatic
- Lubrication
- Never
- Belt weight
- 84 g
04 — Integrated lights
Seen from 400 metres, without the disco.
A 400-lumen headlight set into the head tube and a rear bar in the seat cluster, both run by an ambient sensor. When it gets dark, they come on. When you brake, the rear light tells everyone behind you.
- Front
- 400 lm
- Rear
- 30 lm + brake
- Switching
- Ambient sensor
- Reserve
- 2 h after empty
05 — App lock
A bike that won’t ride for anyone else.
Walk away and the motor locks, the rear hub immobilises and the bike goes quiet. Move it without your phone and it chirps, then pings you its location. Walk back and it wakes up before you reach it.
- Unlock
- Phone nearby
- Alarm
- 90 dB
- Tracking
- GPS + LTE
- Backup
- PIN on top tube
(04) City mode — scroll to ride
One charge. Sunrise to last orders.
07:40 · TourOut the door with a croissant in one hand. Don’t. But you could — the belt won’t grab your sleeve.
13:10 · EcoLunch across town. Belt silent, motor silent, your colleague on the bus rather less so.
18:30 · DuskGolden hour. The ambient sensor notices before you do and quietly switches the lights on.
22:15 · Night400 lumens ahead, 31 km still in the frame, and nowhere you’d rather be. Rider not shown. You look great.
Tour mode23:30
0km/h
- Trip
- 59.0 km
- Range
- 31 km
- Lights
- On
(05) Range calculator
How far will you get?
Range isn’t one number. It’s a negotiation between your legs, your hills and how much you enjoy Boost. Move the sliders — we’ll be honest.
Eco assist, 78 kg, rolling terrain
That is the ride the estimate on the right is for. With scripts on, three sliders (assist level, rider and cargo weight, terrain) change it live.
EcoEco+TourSportBoost
50 kg95 kg140 kg
FlatRollingHillySan Francisco
Estimated range · one charge
7777kilometres
Workdays6at 12 km a day
Cost / 100 km€0.21at €0.30 per kWh
Charges a year58commuting daily
Estimates at 18 °C, tyres at 4 bar, wind politely absent. Winter takes about 20% off; we’ll remind you in November.
(06) Configure
Make it yours. Then make it slightly heavier, if you must.
Five frame colours, three add-ons, one honest price. Everything you pick shows up on the bike and on the bill, immediately.
Signal15.8 kgSize M
Frame colour & add-ons 01
- Signalframe colour, shown
- Fogframe colour
- Mossframe colour
- Clayframe colour
- Nightframe colour
- Rear rack+€89
- Fenders+€69
- Child seat mount+€59
Pick colours and add-ons here once scripts are on. Your choice is confirmed at the next step.
Summary 03
Vela One · Signal€2,690
No add-ons€0
Delivery, assembledIncluded
Total€2,690
Due today€100 deposit
Reserve this Vela One (07) Compare
Vela One vs. a typical e-bike.
No strawman. We averaged the eight best-selling city e-bikes of 2026 and were polite about it.
| Spec | OursVela One | Average of 8Typical e-bike |
|---|---|---|
| Weight | 15.8 kg | 26.4 kg |
| Drive | Carbon belt30,000 km, no oil | ChainRe-oil every 500 km |
| Battery | Inside the down tube540 Wh, removable | Bolted to the frame500 Wh |
| Range | Up to 90 km | 50–70 km |
| Charge | 3.5 h | 5–6 h |
| Lights | Integrated, automatic | Clip-on, or forgotten |
| Security | App lock, alarm, GPS | A good U-lock and hope |
| Service | Every 5,000 km | Every 1,500 km |
| Price | €2,690Delivered, assembled | €2,400–3,200Plus lights, lock, rack |
(08) Early rides
Forty test rides. Some people wrote things down.
I carried it up to a fourth-floor flat without swearing once. For an e-bike, that’s a first. For me, frankly, too.
The belt is so quiet I kept looking down to check it was still there. The best-behaved city bike I’ve ridden this year.
Finally, an e-bike that doesn’t look like it’s carrying a lunchbox under its arm. The battery simply isn’t there. Until it is.
(09) Reserve
€100 gets you in line. Not locked in.
Your deposit holds a production slot in the order you reserved. It’s fully refundable until your bike ships — one tap in your account, money back within five working days. No forms, no phone calls, no sad-face emails.
- Sep 2026
Reservations openYou are here. The first 2,000 slots ship in wave one.
- Dec 2026
Final choicesConfirm size and colour. Change anything up to this point, free.
- Feb 2027
ProductionFrames welded and water-tested in our Porto workshop.
- Mar–May 2027
At your doorDelivered assembled, in a box you can reuse for a very large cat.
Reserve your Vela One
The €100 deposit form needs scripts to run. Until then, email hello@vela.bike with your frame size, colour and country, and we’ll hold your slot.
You’re in line.
We’ve saved your spot. Expect one email from us in December, and one very large box in spring.
- Reservation
- VO-1-04813
- Wave
- One
- Bike
- Signal · M
- Est. delivery
- April 2027
FAQ
Questions we’d ask, too.
Still wondering? Our crew answers at hello@vela.bike, usually before your coffee cools.
Is the deposit really refundable?
Yes, all of it, any time before your bike ships. Tap “Cancel reservation” in your account and the €100 is back on your card within five working days. We don’t ask why.
When exactly will my bike arrive?
Deliveries run March to May 2027 in reservation order. We confirm your delivery week in January, and you can push it back if you’ll be away.
Can I honestly carry it up stairs?
At 15.8 kg, yes. There’s a small notch on the top tube that marks the balance point, so you can lift it one-handed without the front wheel swinging into the wall.
What happens when the battery runs out?
It becomes a very light two-speed bike. The hub has almost no drag unpowered, so it rides like a normal bicycle, and the lights keep a two-hour reserve so you’re never riding dark.
Who services it?
Every 5,000 km or once a year, at one of 60 partner workshops across the Nordics and Benelux, or by our mobile mechanics in Copenhagen, Amsterdam and Berlin. The app books it for you.
Where do you deliver?
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France for wave one. More countries join in late 2027, and reservations there open this winter.