AIKA

Great spot for high quality bikes and great customer service. Walked in on a holiday and they had exactly what I needed. Even let me in even thought they were technically closed. Was looking for a Yepp easyfit adapter. Have a great selection of imported bikes and accessories. Highly recommend.

This place is great! Jack the mechanic is really skilled. And all the folks who work at AIKA are helpful, welcoming, & professional. I am definitely going to be a repeat customer.

I seen a particular bike online salesman told me to come in he had the same bike same features he was trying to sell me a lame bike from china I wanted an american made bike he was so aggressive I wanted no part of this I picked my own there and had another salesman help me just ignored him what a strange person in the end I got what I wanted thank god

I walked in looking to buy a schrader/​presta converter thingy and the lady working there just gave me one for free. Thats worth 5 stars alone.

Great place to buy and test drive chic European bikes featuring folding transit bikes, classic, contemporary danish/​dutch design. They have wooden bike (with some ergonomic issues) worth looking at.
Go here for quality, classic style, fun riding bikes then the usual dime a dozen Local Bike Shop.
The good news is you might get $ubsidy from LA transit or your workplace if you use Light Rail and buy a folding bike. Double Check Your HR after April 2016.
«Check out
to see if you qualify for $ 220 off the cost of a Dahon folding bike!
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority („LACMTA“) and CALSTART created an implementation plan for the development of a folding bike subsidy program. The program, FoldNGo Pasadena, provides price discounts for the purchase of a collapsible bike to use in conjunction with transit. A major goal of the program is to motivate commuters to switch their transit connection vehicle from the car to the bicycle. This program will leverage the success, knowledge, and experience that CALSTART acquired in working with LACMTA on a similar project, MyGo-​Pasadena, which subsidized the use of electric bicycles in lieu of single occupancy vehicles.
Read the Folding Bike Implementation Plan.
To learn more about this project, please contact Fred Silver.»
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Very nice establishment. I stopped in to look for accessories and did not realize what a gem of a place I had found. This is not your typical bike shop. Since coming back from a visit to the Netherlands, my husband and I have been on a journey to find the perfect bikes that remind us of our time abroad.
Aika carries the elegant gazelle traditional upright dutchie, can get the vintage PAPILLIONAIRE Australian dutchie and has in their showroom the fold up Bromptons. They carry European brand accessories (brooks, abus, basil, etc) that are not only stylish but sophisticated and carried an air of simple understated elegance that is not garish or loud looking. If it isn’t there, they are willing to special order it for you. Staff is helpful and knowledgable, felt welcomed from the moment I walked in the door. I was even given a few places that are a must see in Amsterdam. The sales women there were a delight to work with, easy to talk to and were great with suggestions. I bought 2 brooks collapsable helmets
(complies with the EN1078 European safety standard Read more at
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from here and had to stop by Linus’ in abbot Kinney and got so many compliments on the helmets. It is very easy to miss the place as the sign is not as visible but is definitely worth a visit if not for bike bits go for the dutch caramel waffles.

I found this bike shop driving by. It is an open friendly space with knowledgeable staff and very cool, cutting edge bikes and accessories. I came in to buy a comfy cruiser and ended up with a Brompton, the coolest folding bike of all times!!! Thank you to AIKA for carrying them! I would never have considered a folding bike, let alone known that the coolest bike of all times: My Brompton, existed. Don’t let the small wheels fool you this bike is FAST…

The world of bike stores is, more or less, a crap shoot.
It’s not a well-​run industry with accepted standards and practices. Most bike stores seem to be run by people that would much rather be riding a bike than working a job of any kind. Posted hours often mean next to nothing and many stores seem to have unpredictable days on which they are completely closed so that they can ride all over the known universe. And the people that staff them, though they may be knowledgable, often seem on the border of being completely irritated that you came in to look at what they have. Or dismissive of the bike you think you want.
Beyond that, finding a place that actually stocks what they say they do on their websites is way, way too much to hope for. Maybe there are operational challenges in the retail bike universe of which I’m not aware, but regardless it makes shopping for a bike kind of a nightmare.
And the well run bike stores, few and far between as they are in Los Angeles, seem only to stock a few major brands like Trek or Cannondale. Fine bikes to be sure, but not to my tastes.
Not that I’m a bike snob or anything but if I’m going to put some money down on a bicycle, I want it to be of a certain quality and be just a tad more stylish than the average fishing lure neon colored mountain bike.
So when my way awesome Breezer Uptown 8 was stolen from my garage by some shitbird, godless bike thief (who, like all bike thieves, deserves to be beaten unconscious with a plastic novelty baseball bat) I was again in need of a new bike.
I searched and searched and scoured every bike store in Los Angeles. A few of them were great, like Golden Saddle, but they just didn’t have what I was looking for.
What I really wanted was a Pashley. Needless to say, you’re probably scratching your head wondering what that is but don’t worry – so were most bike shop owners I talked to.
Until I found Aika Trading. I avoided going there for a long time, partly because the name didn’t say «bike shop» to me for some reason and partly because it was in Santa Monica.
But then, finally, I looked at their website. Aika Trading is one of the nicest looking, most well-​stocked bike stores in all of Los Angeles. More than just a retail store Aika is also a distributor. Bingo! Being a distributor requires that you carry a lot of bikes. Which they did. Including a nice set of Pashley bikes. So, yay!
But here’s the real kicker. I decided to go to Santa Monica determined to buy a bike on a particular Sunday after New Year’s Day. Then I noticed on their website that Aika was closed for the holidays until the 4^th. Just for giggles, I sent an email to the store asking if that meant they would be open on the 4^th or open after the 4^th.
Imagine my surprise when the owner Anne-​Marij sent an email right back saying that indeed the shop was closed on the 4^th but that she would be happy to open it up for me anyway.
In person, Aika did not disappoint. They had more than I expected in organized and attractive showroom – which was, incidentally, well designed and very clean.
Anne-​Marij was very patient and gracious as I tried out pretty much every kind of bike she had (except for a couple that, while interesting and fun looking, were too off the beaten path for my tastes.
I rode one of the Pashley bikes and it was pretty breathtaking. But it wasn’t exactly the one I thought I wanted so I left empty handed. Even though I had told Anne-​Marij that I was ready to buy a bike that day and she opened up for me on that basis, she didn’t bat an eyelash when I didn’t.
By that night I had pretty much made up my mind to get the Pashley I test rode and I came back in a week later, got it, and rode out of the store with it ready to battle Justin Bieber or one of the many Kardashians who, no doubt, were texting and driving at the same time all over Los Angeles.
If there’s a bad news side to Aika, it’s this: they carry a lot of specialty bikes from Europe and the UK. Gorgeous, well-​made bikes they may be, but they are not cheap.
On the other hand – if you’re going to go to the trouble of buying a bike, I’ve learned over time that it’s worth it to spend more. A crappy bike at a bargain price is still a crappy bike.
So don’t be intimidated by the name – yeah I know, Aika Trading doesn’t exactly sound like a bike shop. But once you step inside, you’ll have a devilish time walking out again without a bike under your butt and a much lighter wallet.

My wife and I were looking for a cool bike or scooter for our kids and found this amazing scooter at Aika Trading. It’s called the Nimble Scooter and our kids love it. The store is one of a kind in that it has great urban bikes, super cool accessories (helmets, etc), and very cool products such as the scooter we bought that you can’t find anywhere else. In addition, the staff is very knowledgeable and super friendly.
Overall, if you are looking for urban bikes or unique and cool accessories this store has it all. Highly recommended!