A view of Bike Friday without barriers, cycling without gears, transportation without internal combustion, computing without Microsoft, good food without animal exploitation, music without boundaries, and the exploits of bikefridaywalter and family for those without being in close proximity, plus a few random other things.
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This is a continuation of the memescapes found at bikefridaywalter.blogdrive.com and walter.blogdrive.com.
Just wanted to let you know that I linked to your blog. Have been stopping in for awhile… Finally got around to putting some info up on my tikit since I was getting too lazy to type long emails. Figured I’d just blog it once and point to the posts when needed.
Cool, Martin. Thanks for the link. And keep flying the freak flag with that tikit of yours. Way to think outside the box!
Walter,
I keep seeing Tikits with drop-bars on your site, but I haven’t ever seen a picture of one of those folded up or a short video of the folding process for them. Do the bars make it harder to fold and/or take up more space? Is there a reason BF doesn’t have a stock one of them?
Alan,
There’s one folded up a few BFFFFFG’s back. We don’t have a video of the folding process because it’s not different. It folds just the same. The width of the tikit package is increased as the bars/controls increase forward, so drop bars, bullhorn bars, even h-bars increase the package somewhat. The stock models don’t have a lot of options, but that’s why we have built to order models. If you want one with drops, we can do it. The reason you don’t see a model that comes standard with drops is because we’re working on developing a model specifically for them, code-named the speeding tikit. The plan is to have a front derailleur on it and everything but it’s going to require some serious engineering. Rob’s working on it needless to say.