VMoto Soco developing new café racer By Ben Purvis
VMoto Soco is creating a particular niche in the electric motorcycle market with its brand of affordable battery-powered machines. Following the impressive-looking VMoto Stash and Super Soco TC Max, the company is designing a pair of retro-styled café racer models.
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Appearing in a set of new design registrations, the two models are closely related, and both appear to be based on the underpinnings of the existing Super Soco TC Max, with the same frame and suspension as that bike, even sharing its headlight and instrument panel, but gaining a distinctly different look thanks to all-new bodywork.
The design makes more of an effort (than the TC Max) to replicate shapes that are familiar from combustion engine bikes, including a distinct ‘fuel tank’ sitting above a battery pack section that gives hints of an engine in the shapes set into its side. At the back, there’s a short, flat seat above the existing TC Max subframe, and the licence plate is mounted, along with a half-length rear fender, on a bracket extending from the swingarm.
One variant has a small cowl above the headlight and wide, flat bars; the other has a more bullet-shaped fairing and narrower, lower bars for a sportier stance.
If, as it appears, the new bikes use the same batteries and motor as the existing TC Max, that means they have a motor rated at 3.9 kW, with a 5.1 kW peak, powered by a 72 V battery to give a top speed of around 95 km/h. Like the TC Max, they’ll be lightweight machines, coming in at around 100 kg, and with price tags in the same ballpark as 125 cc ICE bikes.
