Mole Hill Bikes History
We’re a Family Shop – Providing You with Quality Cycling Products
Welcome to Mole Hill Bikes, your full service bicycle shop located in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, just 5 min south of Harrisonburg on Route 42. We strive to give you competitive pricing along with our good old fashioned service. We’re a family run shop, providing quality cycling products. We stock over 600 bikes, including electric bikes, adult recreation/fitness, mountain, touring, road, and children's bikes. Whatever your riding style or budget we have a bike for you. Stop by to test ride your next bike or to get your current bike tuned by one of our bike technicians.
In the mid-eighties, Gerald Knicely saw the need for a bike shop in the Dayton area. After learning that Back Alley Bikes had closed in Harrisonburg, he was able to purchase their equipment and inventory with a loan from an uncle. Mole Hill Bikes was started in a storage building that Gerald built on his dad’s dairy farm, at the base of Mole Hill, a small mountain in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley.
In 1992, Gerald purchased the Dr. Jake Huffman property, added on the existing showroom and moved the shop to Dayton.
Today, 30 years later, Mole Hill Bikes continues to provide personal service and value to you and all our other customers in the Shenandoah Valley and beyond.
Why Choose Mole Hill Bikes?
QUALITY & VALUE
We hand-pick our products from the best bicycle brands in the world, so that you don't have to. By doing this we are able to offer you competitive pricing, quality products, and the best customer service in the industry.
FRIENDLY STAFF
We aren't your average bike shop. Our staff is helpful and passionate about cycling, and most of them have been with us for over 15 years. We will listen to your needs and work hard to help you find precisely the right products for you.
HIGH QUALITY SERVICE
Bring your bike in to let our service technicians give it the love it deserves. Our head bicycle technician has been with us since 1992 and has a wealth of knowledge to help fix your most challenging problem.
SHOP EMPLOYEES
PUBLIC RELATIONS STAFF
SHANNON HIRTRITTER
Ride Coordinator; Public Relations; Social Networking
In 2015, Shannon started leading the “No Drop” mountain bike rides for Mole Hill Bikes. He has continued as ride coordinator/ambassador for the shop leading road/gravel group rides on Monday nights throughout the riding season.
Shannon loves spending time on his bike and you will often find him and his son Rowan on the local trails in the National Forest and Massanutten. During the racing season Shannon helps coach the ShenRock Bike Team, which focuses on improving the riding skills of young cyclists. His son races in both NICA and VAHS MTB Series and you just might see them set up under the Mole Hill tent if you are at one of these races.
In the summer of 2022, Shannon, Rowan and some friends did a hut to hut ride in Colorado bike packing their way through the mountains.