After ten years, Good Weather Bicycle & Repair is looking for its next operator.

We know how these posts usually go. So here's the short version up front:
Jason is stepping away from his wrenches, hanging up his calipers and stowing the truing stand. The bike shop is actively seeking its next operator. Tailwind Café is staying put with a new lease signed. Jason is spending more time at the cafe and on his own hobbies. Brandon is opening Waterman Made on Vashon Island for paint, powder coating, and design. The shop is open for tune-ups, repairs, and gear through August.

Now the longer version, for those who want it.

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Good Weather started in a tiny second-floor studio above 11th Ave, up through what Jason once called "this little Narnia corridor," in a loft where Danielle & Brandon used to live. Jason was splitting time with Porchlight Coffee; Brandon leading a design at a branding/ad agency. Two years later we both went all in, broke ground on the shop/cafe concept in the back of Chophouse Row, and started building something we actually wanted in our neighborhood. In 2020 we doubled in size. In 2022 the cafe got its own name, Tailwind. Last year the bike side moved underground to 1423 10th Ave, and we finally had room for custom builds, more frames, and loud hammerin'.

It's been ten years. A lot of tacos. A lot of tune-ups in the rain. COVID CSA boxes. Mulled wine. Slushies. Group rides that somehow always ended at a brewery. Two or three businesses running at the same time, depending on when you count.

We're proud of it. And we're ready to hand the bike shop to someone who's going to put real energy back into it.

About Tailwind Café. The cafe stays.

We signed a new lease at Chophouse Row. Same coffee, same surprisingly good food, same patio. Mulled wine in the winter, slushies in the summer, and the same wonderful staff. The cafe will always be a place for riders. Jason will be there more. Brandon will pop in. Nothing about your morning coffee or your post-ride beer is changing.

About the bike shop opportunity. Capitol Hill deserves a community bike shop. The cycling community in this city is what made any of this possible, and we want to put energy into finding the next operator in honor of that. What's here: almost ten years of community presence and customer relationships, a full-service shop with tools, fixtures, and inventory, a service reputation we're proud of, and a name that means something to riders in this city. The Fitting Room currently subleases space and may want to stay.

If running a bike shop sounds like your thing, or you know someone (or a group of someones) it's right for, reach out and let's talk. We're open to a lot of shapes: the whole package or pieces of it. A solo operator, a partnership, a co-op, a mechanics' collective. Whatever makes sense for the neighborhood.

About our frames and wheels. Our unpainted steel frames (Olallie) and Good Weather wheels are part of the conversation about what happens next. If you've had your eye on one, come talk to us. Brandon's frame painting work continues at Waterman Made, independent of whatever happens with the bike shop.

The shop is open through summer. Tune-ups, repairs, gear through August. If you've been putting off that overhaul, the winter build, the bigger fit conversation, now's the time. Roll in and say hello.

Come see us. Tell a friend the shop is open for service through the summer. If you know someone who should run a bike shop, send them our way.

Thanks for ten rad years. There are more coming.

Rain or shine, Brandon & Jason
hello@goodweatherinseattle.com