Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
That certainly appears to be value. Now the question is, does anyone have any experience with this company's mail order products actually being available anywhere or are they like the Electra Amsterdam - all smoke and mirrors.
There's yet another LBS in Portland (we really do have a lot of them) that is a Pake dealer. Now this shop mostly caters to the fixed gear crowd, and I'll bet those are the kind of Pake bikes the owner keeps in the store. I'm sure she'd order if someone wanted to buy one and she didn't stock it. Who knows, if enough work commuters (she's downtown - Portlanders, it's Veloshop) went in and asked about it, maybe she'd carry one for people to try out. Shall I add this to my list of future LBS lunchtime browsing expeditions, ILTB?