Tell Us Your First Bike Story
Part of the joy of working for Gregg's Cycle is that it has been around for 75 years. I can't tell you how many times I've been talking with someone at an event, or a party or where ever and had the person I was talking about tell me that they remember when they bought their first bike at Gregg's Greenlake Cycle. Sometimes it was just a few years ago but often it was 25 years ago or 50 or even 60 years ago. My own Grandmother tells me about when you used to come down to Greenlake to rent skates from us when she was a kid. It seems that almost everyone remembers their first bike and the stories are always great.I'd love to hear more of them. So use the comments field below and tell us your first bike story.
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3:53 PM
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I was a freshman in college at the UW. This was 1990 and I didn't have much money but I knew I wanted a bike to ride around campus on. I stopped in at Gregg's a few times while I was running around Greenlake and I already knew the one I wanted. But how to pay? Well, I came back from class one day, checked my mail and found, to my surprise, a letter from a credit card company. Inside was a brand new credit card, pre-approved, just call to activate. I called, walked down to Gregg's and rode home on my brand new purple and gold Specialized Rockhopper Comp with full Suntour X-1 components. I loved that bike. I'm probably still paying it off!
4:07 PM
My first bike was purchased before I could be influenced by what might be "cool". I was still a year away from kindergarten and based my decision solely on color and aesthetics. It was candyapple red with red and white streamers. The top tube was removable to allow it to be a boys or girls bike. The first year I rode it I had this bar removed so I could stand over the thing. Once in school my friends made it known that my bike was not cool. In the days where BMX ruled my choice of a candyapple cruiser-type bike was a tough sell out on the dirt hills in the vacant lot. I made sure to have the top tube re-installed and pulled out the streamers. This helped. I learned to ride on this bike, and developed the sense of excitement and freedom a bike can provide. A big part of this feeling is what keeps me going today.
5:02 PM
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