Richmond has great bicycle shops
Despite being unbearably hot for 10 weeks every year, a fair number of hills, and an almost complete lack of supporting public infrastructure, Richmond is a great bicycling city. Really!
Despite being unbearably hot for 10 weeks every year, a fair number of hills, and an almost complete lack of supporting public infrastructure, Richmond is a great bicycling city. Really!
In addition to a great loop of mountain biking trails, great road riding, the East Coast’s most awesome and grubbiest bike festival, weekly crits at Bryan Park, and some good stuff coming up, Richmond has a growing set of indy bicycle shops here in the city that reflect the locally-grown and independent origin of our cycling community. Wherever you live, there are at least a few shops within a mile or two of your house. Get out and ride!
Agee’s Bicycles
agees.com
3116 West Cary Street
(804) 353-4888
M-F 10AM-6PM / Sat 10AM-5:30PM
With 3 locations and almost 100 years of service in Richmond, Agee’s is the establishment cycle shop in the area. Known locally for using the same song in their commercials for at least a generation now. Offers repair service, new parts, and new bike sales (Trek, Gary Fisher, Specialized, Raleigh, Fuji, DiamondBack, Mirra).
Berg’s Bicycles
bergsbicycles.com
(804) 244-0644
BergsBicycles@comcast.net
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Tim started off with an extra bike that he picked up at a yard sale. Once refurbed, it sold quickly enough on Craigslist that he realized that “there might be something in this.” Now he sells a few bikes a week. Repairs and reconditioning on road, touring, cruisers and tandems, and a revolving stock of vintage bikes for sale since 2005. Free delivery to VCU campus and Fan District.
Bunnyhop
bunnyhop.org
918 West Grace Street
(804) 248-5878
info@bunnyhop.org
M-SAT 11AM-7PM
Offers custom wheels, repair services, new parts, and sale of new and used bicycles. They’ll answer your questions and jump at the chance to go toe-to-toe with anyone else in town on the quality of their repair work.
Carytown Bicycle Company
carytownbicyclecompany.com
3224 West Cary Street
(804) 440-BIKE
bikes@carytownbicyclecompany.com
M-F 10AM-7PM / Sat 10AM-6PM / Sun 12PM-5PM
Carytown Bicycle Company makes a point of saying that they want to meet “the needs of every rider–from the six year-old to the sixty year-old, the racer to the mountain biker, the commuter to the fixed gear fan.” While this is undoubtedly true, at their core is, as their site puts it, “scrupulous attention to detail.” The shop is beautiful, the bikes are beautiful, the work is correct and fast. Offers repair work, new parts, and sales of new bikes (Cannondale, Serotta, Masi, Surly, Cinelli, Brooklyn Machine Works, more…). Since 2007. THE ONLY SHOP OPEN ON SUNDAY.
Cyclus
cyclusbikeshop.com
2709 East Marshall Street
(804) 612-0968
T-Sat 11AM-6PM
Richmond’s newest bike shop and the only one east of Belvidere. Brett and Suzy have as their goal “to promote the bicycle as economically and efficiently as possible”, and you totally get that vibe in the shop. Bike repair, new parts, and sale of new and used bikes.
Ed Edge Cycles
edxedge.com
(757) 469-8982
Ed@EdxEdge.com
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
Working out the basement of a house owned by his church, Ed offers affordable custom-built bikes from new and used components. All of Ed’s bikes are done to order and “take about a week.” With all bikes priced under $200, Ed ain’t doing this for the money: “ALL MY BIKES ARE BUILT FOR AND BY THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST:)”
Pibby’s
pibbys.com
731 West Marshall Street
(804) 622-4778
T-Sat 10AM-6PM
Small one-man repair and parts shop in Carver. Offers repair and the common supplies to keep your daily ride rolling. The man behind the wrench owns the shop and puts his name behind the work that he does.
Richmond Recycles
richmondre-cycles.com
2621 West Cary Street
(804) 355-0166
richmondrecycles@hotmail.com
T-F 10AM-6PM / Sat 11AM-5PM
Offers repair services, new and used parts, and sale of used and refurbished bicycles (aka “community oriented bicycle thrift”).
Rowlett’s
rowletts.com
1904 Staples Mill Road
(804) 353-4489
info@rowletts.com
M-F 10AM-7PM / Sat 10AM-6PM
Alongside Agee’s as one of the 2 big boys on the scene, Rowlett’s has been around since 1917 and was originally located on Broad Street between 1st and 2nd. Now technically out in the county, they are close enough to count. Offers repair services, new parts, and new bike sales (Bianchi, Felt, Carrera, Giant, Redline).
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John Murden
John Murden covers Church Hill, the Fan, Carytown/Museum District , Northside, and random Richmond stuff for RVA News.
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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.
Nice overview. Thanks for the writeup.
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.
Lots of shops I didn’t know about! I’m a big fan of Bunny Hop on Grace St.
there are 2 places open on sundays
And the other is?
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.
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.
Covering ‘excrement’ in Chester? My, my… no wonder you’re only published in a web rag with nine viewers.
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.
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.
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.
Just get on that bike and Pedal Damit….
This site IS called RVAnews after all. Why would they include shops not in richmond?
@Em. This article is a bit dated. Some shops have moved, some have closed and some new ones have opened. Hey John, maybe it’s time for a review?
It’s been on my to do list for a little while…
Sixty yr old lady in very good condition need used bike with a basket for her dog. Nothing fancy.