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I just want to describe the great experience my wife and I had in
Seattle at Velo Stores, Pine Street.

We had just finished a loop tour at Seattle, and were looking for
a bike shop where we could get some bike boxes to ship our bikes
back to the bay area.  We tried a few right by the ferry area, but
none of them had boxes and none seemed very helpful.  Then we called
Velo Stores, and they said that they not only had boxes, but could
ship them for us, through UPS.

So we rode up there, maybe 15 blocks from the downtown ferry
terminal.  They had two nice big boxes in which we packed our bikes.
Then they weighed them, while we borrowed their phone to make a
hotel reservation.  They had no problem with loaning me one of
their tools, which I find most shops don't like to do.

Even though the bikes weighed more going back than going up, due
to us packing our camping gear in the boxes, the shipping was less
than when we shipped them up via UPS through Express Pack & Ship,
even though they charged $3/box for the boxes.

All in all Velo Stores seemed like a very cool shop.

Robert


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