My wife uses the Pake Urban 6 for her daily commute. She's had it for about two months now and really likes it.

We had to buy it site unseen, special ordering from one of the shops listed on the Pake website. Considering the price, it's a pretty nice bike. Good ride and handling. Fairly lightweight. Smooth rolling tires. Two of our neighbors (hybrid riders) have ridden it and thought it was great, loved the upright position. On the downside it does have low-end steel hubs and derailer but they work fine.

Complaints:
- A bike like this should have a KICKSTAND. We added one.
- The seatpost is TOO SHORT, at least on the step-through model. She's only about 5'6" but we needed to install a longer one to get a comfortable position and decent leg extension. It's just a cheap tubular post so a longer one could have been spec'ed at negligible cost.
- The gearing is WAY TOO LOW! The 33/14 tooth high gear is only about 63 gear inches, about the same as Raleigh puts on their beach cruisers. Any tail wind or down slope has you topped out. Changing the chainwheel/chainguard is not feasible so I am installing a 11-28 Shimano 7 speed freewheel (11 tooth not available in 6 speed) and 7 speed twist shifter. This will give her an appropriate 81 inch gear, but the bike should have come that way.

Despite the complaints, I like this bike a lot. It's perfect for the urban environment. America needs more bikes like this. (I ride the Trek L200 "citybike" http://www.trekbikes.com/bikes/2004/citybike/l200.jsp picked by Bicycling magazine as one of their bikes of the year then quickly discontinued by Trek.)