- ONLINE RETAILERS who service the tri-specfic community.
- F.I.S.T.-CERTIFIED tri bike fitters.
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Sammamish Valley Cycle (has been an important shop for triathletes for 15 years or more. 
Jan, 07)Mark Thomas is the owner. Cindy Bigglestone is the triathlete on staff, she's a Kona qualifier herself and is FIST-certified as a fitter. (Contact information for the above dealer).
Pros: This store is a seller of QR's and Blue 70 wetsuits, and has been a QR retailer for 15 years, maybe more. Tri bike brands include Litespeed, Cervelo, and QR. Road bike brands include Scott (this is new for this store, and the tri line will be here on '07), Bianchi, Colnago, and Serotta custom. This shop also has an admirable soft goods selection, with Assos and Castelli.
Cons: Cindy is the resident triathlete, and while there are others who are reasonably versed, the shop loses a bit of its tri specificity during her off hours.
Triumph Multisport (Feb, 03) is the newer of two tri-specific shops in the Seattle area. Longtime Sammamish Valley manager, and IM Canada winner, Tom Price has moved to Triumph, as has FIST-certified Michael Peters. He joins Scott Ebert and store owner John Teeters as among the FIST-certified. (Contact information for the above dealer).
Pros: Tri bike brands include Quintana Roo, Guru, Griffen, Javelin, and they also sell Merlins (mostly for road). These guys have more than 100 wetsuits in stock at one time, mostly QR and Xterra. Apparel includes Craft, Oomph!, Descente, TYR, Garneau. A ride leaves from the store Saturday morning 9:30, and a run on Wednesdays at 6:30AM. The store has a huge nutrition section.
Cons: There are some brands missing, of course (Cervelo comes to mind). More so, there are certain categories missing.
Speedy Reedy (Feb, 03) Reed Sillers is probably Washington State's favorite triathlon retailing personage, and if he's not he's at least the most notorious. Washingtonians will travel to see him. He and his wife Brooke are both F.I.S.T.-certified fitters. (Contact information for the above dealer).
Pros: Plenty of fit expertise here, and the knowledge base stretches past simply the bike leg -- Brooke comes from a competitive swim background. This shop might be Washington's biggest Cervelo retailer, and if you ranked on the basis of sales per square foot, it might be the nation's largest. The store also carries Felt, Scott, Kuota, Guru, Elite. Wetsuits include Blue 70, Highway 19, T1 and Aquaman. Apparel: Zoot, Sugoi, Garneau, Shebeest, De Soto, Oomph!.
Cons: The store is on the north end of Lake Union. Those who live on the East of Lake Washington (lotsa triathletes there), and in Tacoma will find this a less convenient store to which to travel.
Gregg's Bellevue Cycles (Feb, 04) is not the biggest of this 3-store chain. Gregg's Greenlake is the enchilada. But though it's big it's not far from Speedy Reedy and that little powerhouse sucks all the oxygen out of Greenlake's ability to do tri profitably. So, Bellevue is the Gregg's go-to tri destination.
Pros: This store picked up Cervelo as of June, 06, and has Trek and Specialized as well. What's nice is that they know bikes. This is a bike shop. The pedigree is bikes, and that's always comforting versus a shop that slides from, say, shoe retailing over to bikes. One other positive to note: Matt Hill is performing the fits at Gregg's, both in Greenlake and Bellevue. He's F.I.S.T.-certified and a very good athlete himself.
Cons: These guys haven't quite drunk the Kool Aid yet. Triumph and Speedy Reedy are the sorts of bike heretics we love in tri-world. Gregg's hasn't fully gone over to the Dark Side (but we'll welcome them with open arms when they do). Go there for wrench work, general bike stuff, entry level road (as a first tri bike) for Cervelo's road bikes, and maybe Cervelo's tri bikes.
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