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On 26 and 27 September 2019, Marnix Kwant, Huub Ressing and Coen Velthorst of Van Raam visited the United States. They visited our American dealers. A conference was organized for the American (and 1 Canadian) Van Raam dealers. Read in this article more about the trip and the program of the conference.
There was a conference for Van Raam dealers in the United States and Canada. During this conference, the Van Raam employees present gave presentations about Marketing, Sales and Service, among other things.
Marnix Kwant, Sales & Marketing Manager, explained Van Raam's Marketing and long-term vision for Van Raam in North America. Huub Ressing, Export Manager, told about the Sales in North America and about the order process, quotations and shipping from the Netherlands to the United States. Coen Velthorst, service engineer at Van Raam, gave a technical training, where he talked about the battery and programming the controller, among other things.
All Van Raam dealers in the United States and Canada were invited to this conference. In addition to the presentations, they also discussed everything about Van Raam and the dealership in two days' time. Tips and tricks were exchanged and the group cycled together on Van Raam's special needs bicycles.
Van Raam has several dealers in the United States and Canada:
All Ability Cycles Van Raam dealer All Ability Cycles is located in Jefferson, Iowa.
Lancaster Recumbent Lancaster Recumbent is a Van Raam dealer in Marietta, Penssylvania.
Bike On Van Raam dealer Bike-On is located in Warwich, Rhode Island.
Hamilton Trike Hamilton Trike is a Van Raam dealer and is located in Dundas, Ontario (Canada).
Kelly Talcott of Cycling Without Age was also present at the conference. He told the American dealers more about the Van Raam rickshaw transport bike Chat and the origin of this transport bike.
In 2018, Van Raam came into contact with Cycling Without Age (CWA). This social enterprise offers (lonely) elderly people worldwide the opportunity to enjoy cycling together again. These tours are with rickshaw-like bikes.
The founder of CWA and Van Raam agreed that the current rickshaw bikes needed to be updated, so Van Raam decided to think about a new contemporary version of the Rikshaw bike. The Chat was designed and is now also available in the United States.
On Friday there was a bike ride planned with all the dealers and the Van Raam employees with several Van Raam bikes. They cycled in Newport. Here they cycled the Ocean Drive, a route of about 10 miles along the water at Fort Adams State Park.
Van Raam's bikes that they used during the bike ride were tested extensively, the bicycles that were present: :
Chat rickshaw bike: which can be used together with children or adults who can no longer cycle independently or for recreational use.
VeloPlus wheelchair transport bike: a bicycle on which a wheelchair user takes a seat on the platform at the front of the bicycle.
Twinny Plus three-wheel tandem: an adult tandem with three wheels.
Fun2Go side-by-side tandem: the three-wheel tandem where you don't sit behind each other but next to each other. One person steers, both can pedal.
During this tour, all Van Raam bicycles present were equipped with pedal assistance.
Marnix Kwant van Van Raam made this video after the trip. The video contains the photos he took during the trip to the United States.
You've now read an article about Van Raam in the United States. We've written more articles about Van Raam and special needs bikes in the United States. For example, read the articles:
>> Our USA Van Raam dealers Lancaster Recumbent moved
>> Special needs bikes Van Raam on their way to america
>> Container with adaptice bikes on the way to america
>> Container with wheelchair bikes, tandems and tricycles to america
>> Van Raam adaptive bikes for disabled people in North America
In April 2018, Martijn Kruisweg and Marnix Kwant of Van Raam went to the Boston area for a week. Here they visited our dealer bike-On in Warwick for, among other things, a presentation by an employee of Harvard University. They were also guests at Healthcare institutions in Portsmouth and they visited bicycle specialists in Boston, Warwick and Providence. In this article you can read and see more about their adventure in the USA.
Earlier this year, the first container with special needs bikes prepared for America. This week, Sander, Jeffry and Edwin loaded a new container with Van Raam bicycles for America.
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