Tag: g&o family cyclery

May 30, 2019

Saturday: G&O Family Cyclery hosts a Cargo Bike Festival in Greenwood

Greenwood’s G&O Family Cyclery is hosting the first annual Cargo Bike Festival from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. The event is part of the Phinney Neighborhood Association’s LGBTQ Pride Rainbow Hop. It promises “test rides, kids activities, food, games and more.” More details from the event page: Be a part of Seattle’s first ever Cargo…
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March 3, 2017

One year after the Greenwood explosion, G&O Family Cyclery opens its new home

It’s been a very long and hard year for many Greenwood businesses damaged or destroyed by the March 9, 2016, natural gas explosion. Many are still struggling to hang on while insurance companies and Puget Sound Energy delay and haggle over who needs to pay out for the immense damage that has so far mostly…
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tagged: #greenwoodexplosion, davey oil, g&o family cyclery, greenwood, tyler gillies
November 8, 2016

Eat dinner and talk about grassroots bicycle movements Monday

For years, Microcosm Publishing’s Elly Blue and Joe Biel have been traveling the country with chef Joshua Ploeg to make dinner and talk with local people working to improve their communities through bicycling. They have collected these stories of grassroots change, and they want to share them with you here in Seattle over dinner. Dinner…
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tagged: dinner and bikes, elly blue, g&o family cyclery, joe biel, joshua ploeg
April 5, 2016

Specialized apologizes for ‘better bike shop’ ad on wreckage of Greenwood bike shop

The bicycle giant Specialized apologized today after G&O Family Cyclery tweeted photos of a street advertising campaign pasted on the wreckage of their former Greenwood shop that says, “BETTER BIKES COME FROM BETTER BIKE SHOPS.” G&O was severely damaged in a major gas explosion a month ago, prompting a big community effort to raise money…
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tagged: #greenwoodexplosion, g&o family cyclery, poster giant, specialized
April 1, 2016

G&O Family Cyclery finds new temporary Greenwood home

Great news from G&O Family Cyclery today: They found a new temporary home just a block north from their old spot that was severely damaged in the Greenwood gas explosion last month. Not sure if they were going to be able to weather the storm, people rallied around the shop and raised tens of thousands…
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March 15, 2016

Join us at Peddler Brewing tonight for a Party to Save G&O Family Cyclery

Tonight, you can drink beer, win prizes and save a Seattle family bike shop all the at the same time. How? Join Peddler Brewing, Seattle Bike Blog and Familybike Seattle from 5–10 p.m. at Peddler Brewing Company for a fundraiser for G&O Family Cyclery, which was severely damaged in the Greenwood explosion last week. Peddler…
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