Larry,

I've bought two recumnents from Dale Clark and have found him to be very knowledgeable and helpful.  He is severly handicapped by trying to run the shop all by himself.  If you're patient, he will answer all your questions.  And he's really the only act in town when it comes to recumbents.  He's been selling them for 25 years that I know of and probably longer than that.  He clearly needs at least two more employees in the shop though.

If you want to go to Wenacthee there's Go Bent Bikes.  My wife bought a Greenspeed from them before Angle Lake became a Greenspeed dealer.  They have several brands of trikes.  Jim and Hazel Baxter are great to work with too.  We went to Wenachee to test ride trikes and Jim delivered my wife's right to our door in Seattle.

Charles Packard

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From: "Lawrence Madsen" <lawrence.madsen@...>
Reply-To: BentPacNW@yahoogroups.com
To: bentpacnw@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [BentPacNW] Bent shops
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:43:34 -0700

My wife and I just moved back to the Seattle area (Renton) after an absence of 25 years.  One of the first tasks is to find a good bent shop.  (I may need to add a 3x9 to my tadpole to save my knees on the hills.  My wife already has one on her GTC.)  Angle Cycles in Kent was too busy and neither very friendly nor helpful.  Any suggestions?  A decent bike shop that does not discriminate against 3-wheel bents would be fine.

More questions to come...
Thanks.
Larry Madsen