I've wanted a Van Moofs since my last trip to the Netherlands in ~2018. The problem was shortly there after they stopped selling an analogue model. Electric only. So I lost interest & moved on.

When I returned to Amsterdam and surrounding area as far as The Hague and Utrecht in Late June through early July this year, I saw many Van Moofs scattered about. The ability to make it worthless with a simple flip of a thumb on an app was something I witnessed more than once. Each time was sort of a "Hey, that's neat" sort of moment.

Anyway, I saw an unkempt man on a Van Moof that had been gutted of anything electronic. It appeared to my eye on the tram as I sped away to be equipped with what looked like a standard square taper BB. The elegance & clean lines is a little lost when a bike is made from straight hollow gaping tubes devoid of anything but air and lonely holes crying for 40lux LED's. Even though the bike was very probably stolen, I thought to myself: "That man is a genius. They can't recover a bike that doesn't have a locator ping to track."

They'll probably all end up this way.
Glad I missed out.