OUR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS TEAM
Building a city bike or cargo bike for your business takes inspiration and a talented team. We're a group of experienced bicycle entrepreneurs who are pioneering the market for city bike and cargo bikes in North America. As a subsidiary of Curbside Cycle, our portfolio is based on 28 years of bicycle retail in Toronto where durability means four-season-weather-resistance meets big-city-tough. We choose our brands carefully and our method is simple: the companies we sell must be experienced, they must have a strong balance sheet, they must be able to support an export market, and they must be used extensively by customers in their homeland. We travel throughout Europe and North America, visiting factories and bike shops, finding what works. A business bike is a serious investment, so we ensure your bike is investment grade.
We're all about deliverables - so much so that we literally also deliver your product. Bikes or fleets of bike are big, and as a subsidiary of Curbside Cycle, we ship city bikes and cargo bikes to all points in North America using our Ride Out Of The Box service. Your bike will be delivered 100% ready to ride having been assembled and tuned by the most experienced city and cargo bike mechanics in North America.
We also work with some very talented collaborators. Want a custom cargo box? We partner with one of Toronto's finest cabinet builders who built most of the bikes you see in our projects. We collaborate with a local vinyl company who die cuts vinyl decals and does complete vinyl wraps. Finally, we have an in-house graphic designer who can provide mock-ups and consultation. Together, we've built cargo bikes for small coffee companies and large blue chip companies. We've helped create hotel fleets and custom bikes for local events and large fashion chain retailers. We're here to help from A to Z, so please tell us about your project!
Interested? Give us a shout at sales@fourthfloordistribution.com
FOURTH FLOOR
That's us! We're the first dedicated bicycle business-solutions team in North America, having sold bikes to small local companies and bikes that rode around the London Olympics repping Coca Cola. Our background is bicycle retail and we take our relationships seriously. We know what makes a good product and we can work with you on how to customize it. Pictured is the Fourth Floor crew at the annual Eurobike expo in Germany.
About Fourth Floor:
- Wholesale company based on ground-level retail experience
- North America's first importer of European city bikes and cargo bikes
- Created the first coast-to-coast footprint of dedicated city bike retailers
- North America's first dedicated B2B service
- Well travelled, friendly, and knowledgeable!
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Call us toll-free 1-866-965-6582 or email sales@fourthfloordistribution.com
CURBSIDE CYCLE
Curbside Cycle is our parent company and the largest and most experienced cargo bike and city bike retailer in North America. We have experienced mechanics on staff who guarantee perfect assembly as well as a dedicated logistics team that can deliver your bike right to your front door, 100% assembled and ready to ride. Pictured is Timm and Aaron boxing up a cargo bike for long-distance shipment.
About Curbside:
- Started in 1992 in a tent by the side of the curb!
- A leader in cargo bike, folding bike, and city bike import and sales
- Professional mechanics who know cargo and city bikes inside and out
- Offers Ride Out Of The Box, a logistics platform that guarantees safe, ready-to-ride delivery.
- The friendliest bike store in Toronto!
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OTSI PROJECTS
Otsi Projects is a Toronto based fabrication and construction management studio that builds most of our custom projects. From metalwork to woodwork to making foam bubble-shaped lids for Nestle's Pure Life bicycles, there's no project they can't tackle. If you want insulated boxes, space for sinks, Nitro taps, iPads or hot plates, they're ready to hear your project ideas, design it, and build it. Pictured is Eliot from Otsi, applying finishing touches.
About Otsi:
- Box modification and complete custom boxes built to spec
- Most experienced cargo bike box fabricator in North America
- Metal, wood, and fiberglass fabrication
- Designed bikes for Union Chicken, United Way, Nestle, Redpath Sugar and more. See our projects page for more info.
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VELOCOLOUR
Not too many can claim to have painted a bike for the Pope, but Velocolour can! Consistently voted North America's best frame-painter, Toronto-based Velocolour has done several of our projects, from the ING Bank cargo bike and ING Bank city bike to a special edition "Don Cherry" (a Canadian TV personality) bike complete with crowdsourced plaid fenders (to match his outlandish suits). If you want a special frame-colour, pin-striping, colour-blocking, or detailed logo placement, Velocolour makes it happen. Pictured is Suzanne from Velocolour painting a frame.
About Velocolour:
- Voted best frame painter at the National Handbuilt Bicycle Show
- Offers custom decals, pin striping, and colour blocking
- Also offers beautiful bespoke custom chainguards and headbadges
- Blessed by Pope Francis!
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WILCOX SIGN
Wilcox sign is our go-to for all vinyl work, from complete vinyl-wraps (see our projects page to see vinyl wraps on the Foodora, Fjallraven, Big Rock Brewery, Westbank, Krave Beef Jerky and Vitamin Water bikes). They also do great die-cut vinyl decals too (see our projects page for Redpath Sugar, Not Far From The Tree, and Toronto Botanical Gardens). Pictured is the Fjallraven bike vinyled-up and ready for re-assembly.
About Wilcox:
- High-end sign designers and makers of all kinds
- Die-cut decals and application on metal or wood boxes
- Full vinyl cargo box wraps and application
- Quick turnaround and professional service
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LARRY VS HARRY (BULLITT)
Larry vs Harry takes the traditional upright and Dutch-style cargo bike and turns it into a bad-ass high-performance machine that monetizes speed and distance - made to cut around corners without a single corner cut in design. Used by courier companies like Toronto's Sendit Courier to DHL across Europe, these are products of intense devotion that are made for the kind of abuse that only a bicycle courier could inflict. That's Hans in the picture (left) with Eric and Aaron from Fourth Floor.
About Bullitt:
- The first company to resurrect the Danish-invented "Long John" cargo bike.
- Started by 'Larry' and 'Harry.' Larry's background is cargo bike design, Harry is an ex-courier - a human partnership of theory and practice.
- Stiff frames and performance geometry makes for unparalleled handling
- Multiple drivetrain options in both internal and external including belt drives
- Powerful Shimano STePS E6001or highly tuned STePS E8000 kit available.
- Straight out of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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BABBOE & CENTAUR CARGO
Babboe is a Dutch company that is solely responsible for mainstreaming Dutch cargo bikes from small, regional custom builders to mass-produced, low cost and export ready cargo bikes - all the while maintaining the weather-resistant, low-maintenance quality that makes Dutch products so absolutely perfect. Our most popular bikes for custom builds, Babboe also has a line of turnkey cargo bikes available under the newly launched Centaur Cargo bike line. Pictured is Fourth Floor's Aaron and Eric with Epco, Babboe's CEO.About Babboe & Centaur:
- The worlds largest cargo bike manufacturer.
- The first company to mass-produce cargo bikes into a mainstream phenomena.
- Low-cost retail prices due to flat-shipped boxes for ocean shipping.
- Centaur cargo: the first turnkey business cargo bike
- Straight out of Amersfoort, Holland.
Interested?
www.babboe.com www.centaurcargo.com
NIHOLA
The most prolific cargo bike company in Denmark, used by nearly everyone. Nihola builds quality, lightweight, barrier-free trikes that steer independently so that you have the stability of a trike with the handling of a regular bike. (Most three-wheeled bikes like Babboe - excepting the Carve model - require that you steer the whole box). Whether its the x1600 Flex bikes used by the Danish Postal Service to wheelchair accessible bikes, Nihola pushes the envelope of design with made-in-Denmark quality. Pictured is the Fourth Floor team with Nihola owner Niels (in the box) with export manager Daniel.About Nihola:
- Three-wheeled trikes that marry reactive handling with planted stability via patented independent steering
- Up to 40% lighter than Dutch three-wheeled trikes
- The official bike of the Danish Post
- Tons of models for different applications and all easy to customize
- Straight out of Copenhagen, Denmark
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ACHIELLE
We get a lot of requests for custom bikes, whether for small hotel fleets or large orders of custom bikes like our project for Kate Spade, New York. Achielle is one of the few companies making bikes nose-to-tail in continental Europe, and while they build iconic, low-maintenance bikes that your customers will love, they make each bike one-by-one and have been doing so since 1946. That makes lead-times as reasonable as the price, and best of all, there is no minimum order quantity for customization. Pictured is our man Aaron with Jan from Achielle.
About Achielle:
- The last company still producing bikes from raw materials to finished product in continental Europe.
- Family operated since 1946
- No minimum order quantities, highly customizable
- Lots of models available from upright Dutch style bikes to French Porteurs
- Straight out of Pittem, Belguim
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