Originally Posted by
makeinu
Bike Friday was taking a risk on an unusual bike, so they had to keep the launch prices up to mitigate against the risk total failure. Now that the bike has proven reasonably successful, drastically slashing the price of the regular tikit would only upset the early adopters.
I would guess that it is a combination of this and with doing away with the cable. I saw a tikit up close and personal last week. I formed the impression that getting the cable adjusted just right might be a little tricky.
Speedo