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What connects the Top Boy actor Ashley Walters with the singer and broadcaster Aled Jones and the Michelin-starred chef Tom Brown?

All three are first-time bikers and have become devotees of Britain’s first electric motorbike, the Maeving.

A Coventry-based company started in 2018 by two university friends, Maeving has come to dominate the nascent electric bike market in Britain. Unlike its cheaper Chinese rivals, the company’s design is a nod to the classic British looks of Triumph, BSA, Royal Enfield and Norton.

The singer and presenter Aled Jones is a devotee, and rides his bike to the Classic FM studio

Jones, 53, is almost fanatical about his £7,500 RM1S, Maeving’s second, more powerful model which has just launched. “It’s given me a new lease of life. I’m on it every day,” says the Classic FM presenter, who uses it to travel from southwest

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