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Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike

Sir Chris Hoy might not seem an obvious candidate to throw his weight behind the burgeoning electric bike movement.

However, the six-time Olympic gold medalist has done exactly that, investing in a fledgling U.K. startup that has built a click-on contraption that makes it easier to convert a pushbike to electric, and back again, with minimal fuss. While the click-on e-bike system was originally mooted for a 2023 launch, the first production run only started going out last week to a few hundred people, with the remaining pre-orders set for the coming months. “Skarper has received well over 100 distribution requests from all over the world including big box retailers in the USA and key players in most European markets,” Meirovich said, adding that few modifications will be required to fulfil international orders.

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