+1 on Bilenky. Custom bikes handmade in America by a fellow who once wrote a 180 page NSF paper entitled: "community design for optimal energy and resource utilization"

Now that is something I can support with my hard-earned.

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data...0/32/f6/69.pdf

Or I could spend more money to send the work abroad and buy into some excellent marketing... But that would not be such a Good Thing (tm)