With the small wheels on a Tikit, I would bet a bit more wheelbase is helpful in bringing it closer to typical handling.

john m flores has noted significant differences in handling between his (very similar appearing) Bike Fridays and his Zizzo Liberte(?), IIRC, positively toward the BF. I think this was due to both wheelbase, and probably other factors such as fork trail, but I can't recall.

I was not sophisticated enough upon my '89 Cannondale crit racer purchase to know differences in handling resulting from its geometry, I hadn't sampled other bikes, I just bought it because it looked really racy. Based on the riding I did (not criteriums), I would now have chosen a different bike.