*TIKIT ON TRIAL* Getting it past the gatekeepers

Pictured right: Why do you need a folding bike? Let's just cut to the chase ... Shot by the Galfromdownunder in NYC

2010: THE TRIAL CONTINUES ...

Following our initial 2007 tikit on trial in NYC experiments, we try ushering the tikit into some high end locations where our wide, wide world of Friday customers roam. Personal transportation should know no bounds. Send a link to your your own tikit on Trial video to blog@bikefriday.com - the Galfromdownunder

The original trial ...
The tikit on Trial in NYC 2007 let the challenge begin: attempts to enter 11 typical NYC buildings with a little help from Friday friends

The tikit wears Prada!
Movie | Story
My tikit and I get the beige carpet treatment at NY's iconic 5th Ave Prada location. 

The tikit on toast @ DeNiro's digs
Movie | Blog
Robert DeNiro's upscale Tribeca brasserie, Locanda Verde, welcomed a tikit and Brompton for brunch - admittedly before SUV stroller hour. What can we say ... "You can get further with a kind word and a folder than you can with just a kind word and a full sized bike."

The tikit gets a helmet haircut at Bumble & Bumble NYC
Movie | Story 
After being told on the phone "we don't have room for your folding bike" it turns out there was space to swing several cats end on end. Proving that the convenience of folding bikes is not even on the radar of non-bicyclists. Moral: Just Show Up On It.

tikit in Atlantis, Bahamas
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The tikit slips into the gargantuan Atlantis Resort, Bahamas, where all towels are striped and no bicycles are allowed. 

RELATED LINKS

MOVIE: Bikes in Buildings NYC - a peek into the hearing room of the initial Bikes in Buildings hearing, December 9, 2008

MOVIE: What's it like to bike in NYC anyway? A non bike-messenger's POV

Opinion: Putting the horse before the cart If you can't ride get your regular bike in the building, at least settle for a folder until you can - by the Galfromdownunder

Bike Friday in NYC General articles

The Bike Friday Expanded Mission