Zag Talk · 2026-06-11 · 48 min
Far too many bike shops treat two-wheelers like they’re high-end sporting equipment: sleek and expensive pieces of hardware that are meant to be stored in the closet when not out bounding trails. As electric bicycling takes off, brands are finding they need new pathways to get consumers to treat these machines like something that can replace a car: take it to work, use it to run errands, and feel confident that when something goes wrong, it’ll be easy to fix. Dan Carr, Co-Founder and CEO of Wombi , has been working to fix that, as he’s scaled his company across Australia, before taking it stateside. In today’s episode of Zag Talk , Jonah sat down with him in his Culver City bike-shop and HQ, and we get into what it takes to build the financial and operational layers to offer bikes on a subscription basis, how biking compares in the U.S. versus down under, how the bike industry has recovered these past few years, and the current fundraising environment. Jonah's had the pleasure of knowing Dan since he first started kicking the tires on a U.S. market launch, so it was a real delight that the team at MobilityVC could participate in Wombi's most recent funding round.
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