Wamu Family Fourth

As part of our ongoing support of the cycling community we recently partnered up with One Reel to offer free bicycle parking at Seattle's largest 4th of July Celebration. With upwards of 70,000 people showing up to watch the firworks, One Reel and their commitment to be "dedicated to invigorating broad and diverse live audiences through imaginative and creative arts events of all disciplines in traditional and non-traditional venues" realized that promoting cycling as an alternative to driving to events made great sense. Here at Gregg's we believe that the more people that ride bikes the better we'll all be so it was easy to see that a partnership would benefit everyone involved and hopefully help people realize that it's easy to ride a bike to many of the great events around the city.

At about 10:00 we started setting up our tent near the official Family Fourth Bike Entrance to Gasworks park. We were there to provide friendly help in racking bikes, emergency repairs and, while not being officially responsible for the bikes in the racks, offer a bit of extra security.

All went well. We helped a few people with some shifting problems, tightened a few headsets, fixed a few flats and answered a lot of questions. The only problem was that we didn't have enough room for everyone that rode their bike down. Next time we'll have double the racks!

Thanks to One Reel for giving us the opportunity to come out and support the people riding to the event and thanks to all the people that rode their bikes. Way to ride!