Tom Yum Noodle soup and othe staff favorites

For the last few months I've been slowly updating the employee profile section of greggscycles.com. It has been a bit of a slow job but very interesting. Having been here for a number of years I've seen a lot of employees come and go. It seems that every time I meet someone new, if they ask where I work, they'll ask me if I knew so and so who worked at Gregg's years ago. I guess if a company has been around for 75 years and I've been here for 1/10th of that (maybe a little more) that'll happen. Usually I can remember the person or at least the name. Well, since I've been adding to the employee profiles I've been learning all kinds of great stuff about our employees.

Adam likes to "Ride it like you stole it", Brian used to own his own painting company, Garrett was raised by a pack of wolves and John is a real composer! With over 100 employees in three stores we've got a bit of everything.

I'm still working on it and there are a lot more people that I need to get up. I've got a good number of the Greenlake employees up and a fair number of Bellevue employees but nothing from Alderwood just yet. So check back once in a while and see who the new gal or guy is, and if you want to leave a little note for them. After all, our people make us great!

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Our People Make us Great

In my last post I talked about the big changes going on with Gregg's Cycle going forward. We received just a couple of comments on the post and the first one was a touch critical. Now, I wouldn't put it out there if I didn't want to hear criticism. As is the case with most blogs, I welcome all feedback positive and negative. This particular comment mentioned the soul of our business and the the soul of the building, specifically the Bellevue Store. I understand that many of us like the idea of an old, cramped, wood floored bike shop with cool old bikes hanging from the ceiling and the smell of chain oil. In fact I remember being disappointed when R.E.I moved from it's old location on Capital Hill to it's new "Flagship" location, I think I even mentioned to a friend that it might have "lost it's soul". But the truth is that a building is a building and the soul of the business comes from it's people. And we have the best people in the industry.

Along with 100's of years of combined experience in the bike business our employees support cycling on a local and regional level, come to work every day ready answer questions, turn wrenches, find random parts and generally help people have fun doing what we all consider to be the best activity around, riding a bike. We've been doing this for 75 years. Buildings will come and go but the soul Gregg's Cycle will remain intact because of the people that choose to work here.

Gregg's Picnic 2007

Every year we have a Summer picnic here at Gregg's. It can get pretty hectic around here in the summer and people look forward to the picnic to take a bit of a break, get to know people in the other stores and just kind of hang out. This year has been espcially hectic as we've been crazy with construction and moving. So the picnic is a way for Gregg's to say thanks to all of our employees. By the looks of everyone had a great time!

Alderwood Grand Opening Huge Success!

The weather cooperated with us and we had a great turn out to the Gregg's Alderwood Cycle Grand opening. Thanks to everyone that came out to see us and to all the industry reps that came out to support the event. It was great to meet more people in the Lynnwood area and to hear that people were happy that we moved into the area. Gregg's Alderwood Cycle has been open at 18021 Alderwood Mall Pkwy now for about 2 months and we're having a great time connecting with the local community and serving the Snohomish County and areas north.

Walter did a great job grilling the hamburgers, turkey burgers and tofu burgers. A little something for everyone included some great hot dogs!
Jim managed to hand out a few samples and do a few bicycle safety checks for the people that came by.
Trek Factory Reps, Kurt and Dax had a great time with the bicycle powered virgin margarita maker. Darn tasty!
Trek had a bunch of bike that some lucky customers got to take out on extended demo rides.
Specialized Factory Rep Reagan was out to show off the new Enduro, Roubaix and Tarmac.
The Star 101.5 booth (this was early in the day which is why it looks a little lonely) ended up being ahit with kids and they gave away all kinds of great prizes.
More lucky customers getting ready for their demo rides.

Alderwood Store Set To Open

Well, it's getting close. The new Gregg's Alderwood Cycle is just about open. We were planning on having it open this weekend but there were some last minute things we wanted to make sure were up and running so we postponed until Tuesday the 6th. It's taking a lot of hard work. Store Manager, Rob Stumph, and his crew have been working hard for the last week and a half to get things ready, here's a great big "hat's off" to Rob and his crew. Here's a sneak peak at the new Gregg's Alderwood Cycle.

Aurora Cycle Re-Locating - Press Release

****PRESS RELEASE***
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE***

Gregg’s Cycle announces the relocation of Gregg’s Aurora Cycle to the Alderwood Mall area. After over 50 years serving Seattle, Aurora Cycle will close on January 27th, 2007.

Aurora Cycle has been an icon of Aurora Avenue and Greenlake since 1937. It has operated entirely at that location and was owned by the McAllister family until 1986 when it was purchased by Gregg's Cycle.

The expected opening date for Gregg’s Alderwood Cycle is February 3rd, 2007. The store will be approximately 6200 square feet. The address of the new location is: 18021 Alderwood Mall Parkway, Suite 104, Lynnwood, WA 98037.

Gregg's Cycle has consistently been rated as one of the top bicycle retailers in the U.S. Gregg's Cycle has been operated by four generations of the Gregg family since opening the original store at Greenlake in 1932. Stan and Judy Gregg are the current owners. Gregg’s Cycle has been cited numerous times by trade and local publications for its leadership and dedication to the cycling community.

Gregg's Cycle has three locations at Greenlake, in downtown Bellevue and the new Alderwood location. In addition to the the move of Aurora Cycle, Gregg's Bellevue Cycle will be moving into a new 11,000 SF building on Bellevue Way on April 1 and the Greenlake location will renovated with 10,000 new retail space making this flagship store one of the largest such stores in the country.

We look forward to serving the Snohomish/North King County region with our commitment to broad selection and dedication to customer service.

For more information contact: Stan Gregg, President, Gregg’s Cycle, Inc., Marty Pluth, General Manager or visit our website at www.greggscycles.com.