You cannot pedal a sixteen-person bike while checking your email, which is most of the point.
Team events fail when they are optional-but-not-really and everyone ends up standing around holding a drink. This one has a job attached, and the job is mildly ridiculous, which is what makes it work.
Sixteen seats covers most teams in one go. Ten pedal, five sit on the lounge bench and one runs the bar, and everyone rotates — so there is no version where the same three people do all the work while the rest watch.
The three things that come up on every corporate call, answered before you have to make it.
Hold the date with a $160 deposit and settle the balance on the day. The price is for the bike, so a shifting headcount changes nothing you pay.
No exceptions, and drivers check IDs. Worth knowing before you invite the summer interns.
If you need something other than a card at checkout, ask us — it is a conversation, not a form.
It is still BYOB, which makes it unusually cheap to cater. A cooler of cans costs a fraction of a bar tab. Cans and plastic only — here is the full list, and the drink calculator works out how much to buy for the group.
Midtown is louder and denser. That is the point of it on a Friday night and the problem with it for a work group.
The Downtown and EaDo route runs quieter on a weeknight, with more space, street art and breweries rather than dance floors. If your team would rather hold a conversation than shout over one, book that one.
Midweek is cheaper anyway, so the two decisions point the same direction.
Places with seating, space and something to do — so people spread out and mix instead of forming one long queue at the bar.
Over 100 taps, plush seating, swings, a terrace and a long bar. Easy to keep a group together.
11,000 square feet over two storeys plus a rooftop patio, so a large group is never stuck in one corner.
The big patio — misting fans, shade, TVs and games. Good for a group that likes to spread out.
Monday through Thursday is $360 for the whole bike — $100 less than the weekend.
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