Express Bike Works Expands Footprint in Bengaluru

Express Bike Works (EBW), a brand of Entropy Innovations, an engineering innovations company, today announced the launch of their third flagship store at Koramangala, Bengaluru. The store will function as a one-stop solution for all the bike owners in the vicinity, offering full-fledged services, including a 2-minute automated motorcycle wash, detailing, health check-up, express maintenance and a 24x7 on-road assistance.

Founded in 2013, EBW is world’s fastest bike wash centre and a proud made in India venture. In less than four years, EBW has set up 36 stores across the world and is present across Nepal, Indonesia, Thailand, Rwanda and Colombia apart from India. The automated bike wash machine has been designed and developed indigenously. Their environment-friendly design recycles and reuses water, keeping operational cost low. EBW is tested and approved by several Indian and international motorcycle manufacturers. EBW has so far serviced over 2.5 lakhs bikes and saved over 12.77 million litres of water.

Commenting on the occasion, Mr. Niraj Taksande, Co-founder, Express Bike Works, said, “We are glad to inaugurate our third store in Bengaluru, after the tremendous response received by our existing stores in Bengaluru. Considered the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India, Bengaluru is home to a slew of IT companies, providing employment opportunities to a sizable segment of youth, owning motor bikes. Besides, a chunk of the working community prefer to commute and wade through the city traffic using two wheelers. This catapults the need and scope for service providers like EBW, offering end-to-end solutions, when it comes to providing express bike maintenance.”

Express Bike Work’s motorcycle wash machine is compact in design and highly efficient in cleaning. EBW helps conserve water as every wash consumes around 10 litres of water, which is recycled and around 90% of the water is reused as compared to a conventional bike wash, where 50-60 litres of water is wasted on each motorcycle. Further, there is zero water or oil spillage and EBW uses biodegradable solvents for washing. The price for a wash at EBW is as competitive as any local bike wash centre, but the service is lot quicker and far superior. EBW stores delivers touch free, scratch free, shining bikes with minimum waiting period to their customers, besides offering its customers the best-in-class bike care experience.

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Mumbai based Jigar Vora, Niraj Taksande and Bhushan Karn are die-hard fans of bikes but found that maintaining shinny and clean bikes after every drive is a tedious job. If they have taken their bikes to service centre for detailing, it take hours to get them serviced. This problem motivated them to invent India’s first and fastest automatic motorcycle washing system as they knew that this technology is a future opportunity because it will revolutionize bike detailing methods. Their gut feeling and confidence toward this concept ignited all of them to make this technique available for every biker and provoked them to launch Express Bike Works (EBW) in 2013 as a brand from Entropy Innovations Pvt. Ltd. Entropy is an engineering innovations company that aims disrupting the two wheeler service industry.

Invention of Automated Washing Machine

Invention of EBW is a result of the unavailability of efficient technology in the bike servicing & care industry. Telling more about their fully automated motorcycle wash machine, Niraj Taksande, co founder, EBW said, “We all know that bike cleaning is a pain and so we have invented India’s first fully automated motorcycle wash machine that addresses multitude of problems faced by an individual owner as well as a motorcycle service station.” The trio claims that the new invented machine is capable of washing even the dirtiest of motorcycle within 2-5 minutes, which is the fastest mode in the world. It is also capable in washing over 230 bikes within 10 hours. Apart from washing, this machine is also efficient in maintenance, checkup and on-road assistance.

Unleashing Hidden Potential

EBW aims to organize bikes servicing industry with an effective business plan. Bhushan Karn, Co-Founder, ESW explained, “We are providing services at affordable prices. Our services are quick and easily accessible to the retail customers. In addition, we also offer a few installations at service stations and a few retail touch points branded as “The EBW Store”.” There are very few organized players who offer high tech washing and value added services. According to him, “About 15 million new bikes are added every year and a number of traditional washing players offer wash related services everywhere. We will bridge this gap at an affordable price, faster service rate & with an ease of accessibility to the retail customers.”

Completely Eco-Friendly

Bike care and water conversation goes hand in hand! EBW technique is completely environment friendly due to some of its unique features. It has been designed and manufactured in house by the team and has a provisional patent. It helps in water recycling and uses eco-friendly; biodegradable chemicals all along ensuring complete satisfaction to the customers. Jigar Vora, Co-Founder, EBW said, “The machine is a true “Make in India” venture and extremely efficient in conserving water and money savings.” Moreover, the used water can be recycled for constant use until it is deemed unfit for wash care, which then can be used for gardening purpose.

Knowing the Young Turks Well Again

The team include Niraj Taksande, an IIM Indore 2014 batch, co-founded Entropy Innovations with an aim to give the two wheeler’s service industry in India some innovation, regulation and control. He believes, “If Akio Morita, along with a handful engineers working in a war devastated building can create Sony, then nothing should stop him from creating and contributing his best towards technology & service.” He is a mechanical engineer by choice and a management graduate with keen interest in corporate strategy, his focus is to add dimension to business through smart decisions and technological breakthrough.

On the other hand, Raghuvendra Bhusan Karn, a degree holder from IIT, Mumbai intends to use his knowledge and passion for technology building to create revolution in the bike and scooter service segment. He has a strong engineering background and IT understanding. Next, Jigar Vora is IIT Mumbai product and pro in business development. He has been bringing cognitive changes in the business. His passion for bikes and the disorganized service industry in India gives him the enthusiasm to recreate this sector.

Pedigree Investors Who Trusted the Idea

ESW has risen a funding from a group of pedigree investors like Mark Mobius- Executive Chairman, Templeton Emerging Markets, Vaaman Sehgal - Motherson Sumi Group, Abhimanyu Munjal- Hero FinCorp Ltd and Kunal Khattar of Carnation Auto India Pvt Ltd. The team confirms, “Our revenue from franchisee is growing by 150% month-on-month”. However they are focusing on expending their presence through various business models. They informed, “To have a presence of more than a 1000 environment friendly EBW by the next 3 years”. They are also planning to cover-up manual washing traditional centres and working hard to make it a successful company soon.