Bike Friday Test Ride & tikit Agents

WHY BUY THROUGH A BIKE FRIDAY DEALER?

Green Gear encourages you to buy and get service through your local Bike Friday Test Ride dealer, or a Bike Friday tikitTM agent, if one exists in your area. (If one doesn't, please encourage your favorite bike shop to contact us and join our roster).

The advantages of having your own local Bike Friday dealer are threefold: a face to face relationship, convenience, and community. A dealer becomes familiar with your personal Bike Friday, developing expertise so you don't have to go far to keep your bike ship shape - sometimes we all need someone to hold our hand when things must work for an important trip.

A Bike Friday dealer is always able to consult directly with our Service Department experts on any repair matter or unusual situation.

Since Green Gear is a small company and the Bike Friday Community is worldwide, our dealers do help us stay visible and viable by giving you good service locally where you need it. Moreover, a Bike Friday dealer is a shop that really supports your choice of bicycle.

So what's the deal?

In countries where we have strong and conveniently located dealer representation, we do not ship direct to individuals. These countries are currently Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, New Zealand, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Holland, and certain areas of the USA. Other areas may require us to ship direct due to great distances between dealers.

In most cases you will pay the same manufacturer's suggested retail price (plus shipping, local taxes and duty if applicable) going through a dealer as going direct to us. In some cases your dealer may be able to do better for you in the area of shipping.

For international orders, we are legally bound to abide by import/export rules and regulations. Some people find that combining a holiday with a trip to our factory in Eugene is a cost effective way to buy their bike.

How we connect you to a Bike Friday Dealer or tikitTM agent

Our ever-increasing worldwide dealer roster is listed at the left, easily reached by this link: www.bikefriday.com/dealers

When you contact Green Gear, our computers light up when there is a dealer in your area. We will request that you deal directly with that dealer. If this is not the best way for you (and we will ask you to clearly quantify your reasons) our sales staff will process the sale, the bicycle will be still be delivered to the dealer who will complete the connection, and dealer will still make an agreed margin.

Note: if a bike shop is NOT currently a Bike Friday dealer, but refers a sale directly to us, we make sure that shop receives a thank you bonus if a sale results from the connection. This is our way of acknowledging the bike shop's endorsement of our bicycles. So spread the word, and let more bike shops know about the Friday alternative - maybe some of them will be encouraged to join our roster.

So please, support your local Bike Friday dealer. Dealers are an integral part of the growing Bike Friday Community.

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A MESSAGE FROM BIKE FRIDAY CO-FOUNDERS, Alan and Hanz Scholz

Most people think of Bike Friday as selling factory direct. Originally, when we started the company we thought that we would sell the traditional way through the independent bicycle dealer network. However, most shop owners didn't understand what a travel bike was in those days and most didn't have a need for one themselves. A few shops did understand and have done very well providing Bike Fridays to their customers who travel. The number is still small, but growing.

The dealers we do have are truly into cycling and live immersed in cycling culture. Most of the owners of these shops came to sell Bike Fridays because they bought one for themselves and realized what a great value a good travel bike would be to their customers. They know that having a bike along on their travels is a liberating way to see the country and the world. A bike is like a passport and for people who like to ride and travel (or have to travel), taking a bike along is a prerequisite to enjoyable travel.

We have provided this portal in our web site for the shops that have proven to us and their customers that they are good representatives of Bike Friday. These shops give good service and have bikes to test ride.

Say hi for us when you visit.

Hanz And Alan Scholz
Co-founders of Bike Friday

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Pictured: Bike Friday Dealer Len from Hutchs Bicycles, Eugene, Oregon