yeply · For bike workshop owners · Netherlands, Belgium & Finland
Let's keep your
workshop riding.
Together.
We're building a group of bike workshops in the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland, focused on the performance segment. We're looking for two kinds of business, and on both we become the owner. You stay involved and become part of the group. Your team, your customers and your name stay.
bike service
Finland
part of yeply
Why we're here
You built something that matters. Let's make sure it lasts.
You spent years earning the trust of your customers, training your mechanics, and building a reputation people come back for. That craft is worth more than ever — customers paying €2,000, €3,000, €4,000 for a bike expect service that matches.
But keeping up is getting harder to carry on your own. Bosch diagnostics, Shimano motor work, software updates, certified parts — the standard keeps rising, and so does what it costs to stay ahead of it. That weight shouldn't fall on one pair of shoulders.
yeply has built the backbone a single shop can't justify alone — booking systems, CRM, parts procurement, mechanic certification — and we share it across the whole group. Become part of the group and the things that pull you away from the work you love are carried with you, not by you.
Who we are
We have been doing this since 2016.
yeply was founded to professionalise bike service across Europe. We are Bosch and Shimano certified and operate across the Netherlands, Belgium and Finland. We have built the systems — booking, CRM, mechanic training, parts procurement — that individual shops cannot justify building alone.
We are not a competitor and we are not a franchise. We buy businesses from owners who want to see their workshop continue, their staff stay employed, and their customers well served — under experienced, operationally focused ownership.
yeply has already acquired workshops in the Netherlands and Finland. They're still running today — serving the same customers, with the same teams behind the bench.
Built by operators
We've run bike operations ourselves.
yeply is led by people who have run large-scale bike service operations from the inside — at Swapfiets, Uber, and now yeply. We know what makes a workshop tick. We know what makes it break. We make decisions about your business the way we'd want them made about ours.
Read the founders' story →
The two routes
Two routes. We become the owner on both.
We buy the business. Not a franchise, not a licence, not a loose partnership: we become the owner and we carry the risk. What differs is the reason you are at the table. On both routes there is a 100-day handover in which you stay involved and become part of the group, so we keep building together on what you started. Your team, your customers and your name stay.
You're hitting your own ceiling.
The demand is there, the customers are there and the craft is in the building. But staff, procurement, systems and financing are all running into the limits of your own organisation. We buy the business and put the group's backbone and capital behind it. You stay involved and keep building what you started, now with an organisation that can carry it.
But a business that should continue.
You want to hand the business over at some point and there is nobody to take it on. We buy it, with a 100-day handover in which you stay involved for as long as you want. Your mechanics keep their jobs, your customers keep their people, your name stays. If you'd rather hand over the retail floor as well, we'll take on the whole business.
What working with us looks like
A 100-day handover.
No disruption.
It starts as a conversation — not a process. We move at the pace that makes sense for your situation. Our legal and financial team handles the complexity so you don't have to.
with Carlos
No paperwork, no obligations. We want to understand your business and your situation before anything else.
that fits
If there's a fit, we put something honest on the table. We bring our own legal and financial people — you never have to navigate this alone.
handover
Structured transition. You stay involved as long as you want. Mechanics retained and trained to yeply certification standard.
behind you
Your workshop becomes part of a multi-country operation — booking systems, parts procurement, and full technical support behind it.
Carlos brings a decade in large-scale operations — from aerospace logistics to leading Uber's shared bike business and running Swapfiets global operations. He knows the bike industry from the inside, and he leads every conversation personally.
Let's talk
Let's have a coffee
and see where it goes.
No paperwork. No pressure. No pitch deck. If you are curious about what this could look like for your business — or simply want to understand what we are building — one conversation is all it takes.
Selling or transitioning a business you have spent years building is a significant decision. It deserves a direct, honest conversation with someone who has done this before and takes it seriously.
— Carlos Gil, Co-founder
Everything stays between us.
Our conversations are completely confidential. Reaching out to us will not become known to your staff, your suppliers, or anyone in your network. We handle every discussion with full discretion, at every stage — from first contact to signed agreement.
Questions
What shop owners ask us first.
The honest answers to the questions that come up in every first conversation. If yours isn't here, email Carlos — he answers these himself.
Is yeply buying the business, or is this a partnership?
What happens to my staff if I sell my workshop to yeply?
Do I have to sell the whole business, or can I keep my shop?
Will my shop name disappear?
How long does the process take?
Do I have to leave the business straight away?
Is the conversation confidential?
Get in touch
Built something good?
Let's talk.
No paperwork. No obligation. One conversation with Carlos.
carlos.g@yeply.com · yeply.com/partner