Sandy Boulevard in 2005, where he met many new friends, and reluctantly sold the shop in 2012 after his cancer diagnosis.Īccording to Smith, Rettke was an avid outdoorsman, a talented photographer, musician and all-around raconteur. He opened the Missing Link Bicycle shop at 7125 N.E. He then tried real retirement for four years, but realized he needed another challenge. After retiring, Rettke found a “retirement job” at Seiman’s Building Technologies, working there until 2000. He was a longtime broadcast engineer at KPTV, retiring in 1996. Rettke was born in Tacoma to Billy and Virginia Rettke. “We will be holding a memorial gathering later, in a post-COVID time.” “Joe died peacefully in his beloved ‘ Taj Mahut‘ home in Northeast Portland after a nine-year cancer journey,” said Leslie Smith, Rettke’s wife. Rose City Park neighbor and longtime owner of the Missing Link Bicycle shop in Roseway, Joe Rettke, passed away in October. And the guys there are so friendly! But a larger selection of accessories, and more of them on the lower end of price ranges, would make this place more enticing as my go-to bike shop.Ofni. I get that the location of the place probably means they need to charge a bit more to make rent. And only charge $ 5 for minor adjustments. And bike shops roughly the same size nearby have a bigger selection.
I now know that many of the things I bought cost less in other places. And a while later there was a mishap and my handlebars were out of alignment. In the few weeks since going to this place I’ve gone to some other bike shops in the area. Also, the guy working said that the bike could use a minor adjustment and the fee for that was $ 15. I did *not* buy the $ 75 U-lock because I knew I did not want to spend that much. As I said, I went in after getting a bike for the first time in many years and since the place was recommended I didn’t do a lot of shopping around. And of the few bike seats, the least expensive I saw was also $ 40. The helmets started at $ 25, but the majority were in the $ 40 range. For example, the only U-locks they had were the expensive Kryptonite ones (the lowest price was $ 75) and in the $ 40 range all they had were super thick/heavy chains and such. (There looked to be a decent number of bikes.) And their prices are a bit high. However, their selection of accessories is pretty small. If I were judging on that alone this place would have 4 stars. This is a small shop and apparently new and the people who work there are quite friendly and helpful. Rule 1: Don’t trust your hippie friend’s judgment. My friend recommended the place and I trusted her judgment. Got a bike for the first time in many years and went to this place in search of the essentials: bike lock, helmet, and a new seat. There are so many bike shops in Portland that have better customer service and lower prices than TML. When a person brings their bike into a bike shop, they are hoping to have at the very least decent customer service and hopefully a pleasant experience where they feel that the people offering their expertise have their customer’s best interest in mind. When a person goes to a bike shop to get their bike fixed, they really just want their bike fixed, not hipster attitude or personal opinions about the bike. I think it’s important to note that not everybody has $ 1000+ to spend on a bike and it doesn’t matter if you think a bike is cool enough. We ended up taking it by a skilled and knowledgeable friend of ours who fixes bikes out of their garage and they called bullshit on the snobs a TML. As the mechanics were looking at the bike they began critiquing its make and quality in a snarky bike-snob way and then quoted him an outrageous price for the work they recommended. My boyfriend’s old school road bike needed some work beyond the basics he could do himself, so he went in to The Missing Link on a Monday afternoon with the intent to fork over the money necessary to fix it.
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