Noa Vahle, the daughter of Linda de Mol, can identify with the annoyance and anger surrounding the ailing Amsterdam bicycle brand VanMoof. “What a shit.”
The metropolitan bicycle manufacturer VanMoof is on the verge of bankruptcy, but according to it NRC ‘actually always known problems’. “Customers with a broken bicycle sometimes had to wait months for repairs — if they managed to make an appointment at all,” says the newspaper.
Luxury bicycles
Noa Vahle, the rich man’s daughter of Linda de Mol, who has been given a million-dollar apartment in the Amsterdam canal belt by her mother, is part of the group of angry VanMoof customers.
The bicycle brand came up for discussion last night The Orange Summer. Presenter Hélène Hendriks: “There is a very big problem in the canal belt, you know that, don’t you? How are they supposed to cycle there? It is unbelievable. VanMoof is in the news all at once. Those are the luxury canal belt bicycles.”
fucking thing
Noa also has such a luxury bicycle for 3,500 euros. What’s so special about it? “No, it really sucks. Yes sorry. I know that people now think: yes, then you shouldn’t buy such an expensive bicycle. Yes, I know, but when he does it, he’s fantastic. But he never does!” says Linda’s daughter.
Sidekick Rutger Castricum: “What’s wrong with Gazelle then?”
Noa: “Yes exactly, or Batavus, also fine.”
Rutger: “Or a second-hand car. It really is for the canal belt.”
“Get the car!”
Table guest Jan Joost van Gangelen: “But you also have an expensive bicycle, I think, don’t you?”
Rutger: “Yes, but that is for sports. In any case, I think that men our age should not be on a regular bicycle. If you have to do something, if you really need to get from A to B, you just take the car. That doesn’t look right, does it? When you sit on a racing bike, I always think: it has a good idea, because it is going to exercise.”
“But you cycle somewhere to do something… Then I think: man, act normal. I sometimes see them around my age, men on bicycles. Then I think: how do you get it into your head?”
‘I will go by car’
Jan Joost thinks that is a very special comment. “But you never cycle anywhere with your children?”
Rutger: “No, I’m going by car.”