Best Bike Repair

Voters take this category seriously: If the bike needs work, they head to Gregg's Cycles,a Seattle biking scene icon for 74 years and counting. Gregg's has the experienced wrenches to do whatever it takes, whether it's adjusting the shifting once your new cables stretch or performing an overhaul from handlebars to tail light. 7007 Woodlawn Ave. N.E., 206-523-1822, also on Aurora and in Bellevue, www.greggscycles.com.

Best Hidden Downtown Bicycle Boutique

It's worth the hunt, and the stairs, to find MOBIUS CYCLES on First Avenue (though there's also a freight elevator to the loft), whose approach to repairs, instruction, and custom bike building is anything but off the rack. Owner Niki Beals, already experienced as a messenger and mechanic, now applies her experience with track, road, fixed-gear, commuter, and even BMX rides. She established Mobius last year with the goal of being a serve-all operation that doesn't talk down to newbies, "to take away the ego of the bike shop. It doesn't help anybody learn." (Yes, you can take repair classes there, too.) She's a specialist in pimping quality old steel frames with new components—like hot pink wheels on a '70s Bianchi model—matching style of bike to style of rider. A Kansas transplant who reached Seattle seven years ago, she says of her constant frame foraging and bipedal evangelism, "I'm kinda grassroots. I never really stop working."—Brian Miller1016 First Ave. (fourth floor up from alley entrance), 206-290-2096, www.mobiuscycle.com.

but that greg, he's a bonified dreamboat.