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Had some really great rides in the past few days. Really making up for the lack of riding for the past few months. Friday morning Joey and I went around Davidson, stopped for some coffee and then headed back to Cool Breeze to build up his new Surly Cross Check. Saturday I attempted to swim laps at the neighborhood pool then Sunday Kim and I woke up early to ride the Lake Norman group ride from the state park. I can say I'm finally getting my cycling tan back!
From emails and phone calls I have a few questions to answer :
Cool Breeze and Trek Store Charlotte are the same company. Two different locations but the same owners, employees and ways of doing things. Back in November I moved from our Cool Breeze location at Exit 33 on I-77 to our store that was opening, Trek Bikes Charlotte, at Exit 18 on I-77. The stores are only 15 miles apart.
The Trek Store is a concept store. Meaning we teamed up with Trek, agreed to carry a large % of their product in that location and inreturn we can put their well known name on the side of the building. Plus we got a lot of help from Trek corporate with things like archeticture, laying out the store, training and such.
Cool Breeze is the same physical size in the terms of store size but run completely different from any bike shop I've seen. There is a fitness studio, aka gym, on the west wing of the store. We have a personal trainer and USA Cycling coaches on staff. Upstairs you will find a very well laid out fit studio that people are traveling hours away to get their fitting done in. This store carries a lot of Trek, but also a lot of Cervelo and Serotta. The store is niche and calls itself a "Triathlon Training Center." I hope to bring more mountain and recreation into that equation. We'll see how that goes.
My role at Cool Breeze will be much like it was at the Trek Store. Sales Manager/Leader or whatever you want to call it. Continuing the education to the staff, training, and hopefully learning things myself along the way.
