Comments on: Richmond has great bicycle shops

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 15:02:31 +0000

I wanted to add (update the above info.) that Rowlett’s Bicycles carries mountain bikes, commuter bikes, and road bikes from Giant, Felt, Kona, & Redline. They can also get Yeti & Independent Fabrication also.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:21:16 +0000

Geez, Murden, you really are a conceited asshole. Please excuse Jonah for not realizing that you were only interested in covering city shops. No need to be a dick about correcting her. Oh, and sorry the suburbs are such desecrated landscape. Do yourself a favor and get out of the city more often.

Thx for the info, Jonah.

By: Lived here all my life.

Lived here all my life. — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:00:32 +0000

I don’t think Richmond is a very good city for bike enthusiasts. Nobody communtes to work by bike because there are zero bike lanes. How many malls, stores, or work places do you see with a place meant to park bikes? I also remember there was a lot of public disatisfaction back when they redid the nickel bridge and didn’t add a bike lane to it. We barely have sidewalks anywhere outside of the city. People have to go all the way out to West Creek(which is actually in Goochland) just to have room to ride a road bike. And our bike shops are closed on Sunday and pretty much keep banker’s hours during the week.

The only decent place for beginning mountain bikers to ride is pony pasture. With all the rest (powhite park, deep run park, buttermilk trail, and poor farm park) you have to already be in crazy good shape to even ride them, much less enjoy them.

By: Mrs. Grundy

Mrs. Grundy — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:38:19 +0000

Covering ‘excrement’ in Chester? My, my… no wonder you’re only published in a web rag with nine viewers.

By: John Murden

John Murden — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:36:50 +0000

I didn’t “forget” them: I was only writing about shops in the city. You start sprawling out into what happens in the counties and you end up covering shit in Chester.

By: Jonah

Jonah — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:02:29 +0000

Ack. You forgot my favorite bike shop — 3Sports. Ben and Jennifer at 3Sports in the Near West End (near Tuckahoe Elementary) have the best service. It’s affordable, often they’ll fix it while you wait, and teach you how to do it or answer questions for you if they have time.
Plus, they are just super nice.

By: John Murden

John Murden — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:52:04 +0000

And the other is?

By: the city of richmond

the city of richmond — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:08:40 +0000

there are 2 places open on sundays

By: Jessamyn Miller

Jessamyn Miller — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:08:04 +0000

Lots of shops I didn’t know about! I’m a big fan of Bunny Hop on Grace St.

By: J.M. Holland

J.M. Holland — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:56:41 +0000

Thanks for highlighting our independent bike shops. It seems like more people are riding every day. Hopefully, I can ride to work more this year. See you at MLK.

By: Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:37:10 +0000

Nice overview. Thanks for the writeup.

By: Scott Burger

Scott Burger — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:25:51 +0000

Its not just an almost complete lack of supporting public infrastructure, it also an almost complete lack of supporting private infrastructure, so many new buildings lack bicycle racks and paths. The bicycle shops being a nice exception. Thanks for the article, John.