Best eBike for Nashville (2026): 9 Picks, 3 Situations

Quick Answer. Nashville ebike laws are Tennessee's: a bike with working pedals, a wheel of 20 inches or more and a motor rated under 750 W, sold as Class 1, 2 or 3, is an e-bike, and the motor-vehicle rules on licenses and registration do not reach it (T.C.A. § 55-8-301). Class 1 and 2 may ride Metro's greenways at 15 mph.

For most riders, the Zeal LT7 at $1,099; for the lowest price, the Tiger JR at $899; for stairs and climbs, the CMB 8-Speed; for a fold, the META20; for three wheels, the Citytan M-315. All nine picks ship free within the contiguous United States, and our full e-bike range is one click away.

25,697 Nashville street blocks measured on USGS 1-meter lidar · all 14 planning areas · 9 e-bikes rated under 750 W, matched to 3 ways of riding · speeds worked out for your weight · Tennessee's statute, Metro's code and the greenway record read in the original. Prices and stock read from our store on November 9, 2026.

Written and reviewed by Milad Ghobadibeygvand, BScN (Western University, 2014), Redtail eBikes. Last verified: November 9, 2026. Corrections: support@redtailebikes.com.

Nashville will test your motor. Half of its graded street blocks pitch 4.2% or more over their steepest 30 meters, one in ten reaches 9.4%, and the steepest street this guide confirmed from the air, Tyne Valley Boulevard in Green Hills - Midtown, pitches 21.1% (USGS lidar).

Tennessee limits the motor at the same time. Its definition stops at a motor of "less than" 750 watts, so the 750 W bike that fills so much of our own shelf falls outside it: 176 of the 224 e-bike listings on our own store were rated at 750 W or more on November 6, 2026 (T.C.A. § 55-8-301).

A hilly city with a strict watt line. The hills ask for power and the law caps it, so the bike that suits you is the one whose weight, gears and fit get the most from a motor under 750 W.

This guide matches three ways of riding Nashville to nine bikes from our shelf, all of them under the line, with the arithmetic shown: the maker's weight, your weight, the county's measured grades and a July afternoon. Every speed names the rider weight it was worked out for.

Start here. Pick your situation, start with that bike, and read Where the answer changes for the one fact that would move you to another.

The picks, by situation

Tennessee rewrote its e-bike rules this year: since July 1, 2026, no one under 16 may ride a Class 3 on a street, and Metro may now limit Class 1 and 2 bikes on its streets by ordinance (Public Chapter 651). Buy a bike rated at 750 W and it sits outside the state's definition, and outside the shield that keeps the motor-vehicle laws away.

These nine bikes sit inside it, sorted into the three ways people ride here.

They come from 6 makers, and you can buy every one from us. Each card prints the maker's own figures and, where the maker gives a weight, the speed this guide worked out for a 250 lb rider on Nashville's 9.4% pitch.

Those picks were checked against 504 riders on paper: every mix of 6 body weights from 130 to 280 lb, 7 heights from 4 ft 11 in to 6 ft 4 in, two fitness levels and two riding histories, in each of the three situations. 324 found a pick whose published height window and load rating both hold the rider.

The other 180 fall into two groups. 96 are riders no pick's published window and load rating both hold, chiefly the shortest and tallest heights checked.

84 are riders back on a bike after years off who also need to get the bike indoors: this guide matches a returning rider to three wheels, and the indoor test asks for the lightest two-wheeler or a two-wheeler that folds, which no trike is; if that is you, read the three-wheel picks and plan a ground-floor home for one.

Everyday riding on Nashville's hills

Most of your riding here starts with a hill. Half of the 25,697 street blocks this guide graded pitch 4.2% or more over their steepest 30 meters (USGS lidar). Downtown and North Nashville are the exceptions, with 5.0% and 8.5% of their blocks at 8% or more, against 16.1% across the county.

Every bike in this section is rated under Tennessee's 750 W line, so the motors are close in power (Public Chapter 823). What separates them on a climb is the weight they carry up, yours and theirs, and the gears you have to help.

The test for this situation: a 250 lb rider pedaling at an easy effort on a July afternoon holds 8 mph or more on the 9.4% pitch one block in ten reaches. All four bikes below pass it. They run from the lowest price on this page to the highest peak power, and each has its own rider-height window.

Want a wider field? Our buying guide walks the whole decision, our commuter and budget picks compare more bikes, and our commuter and city e-bikes are one click away.

Upstairs, into a closet, onto the bus: bikes to bring inside

Most bicycle thefts Metro's police label happen at a home, an apartment or a parking lot (Metro incident data), and 47.2% of the county's homes are rented (Census ACS). If your bike sleeps upstairs or in a closet, its weight decides more than its motor.

No bike here makes WeGo's 55 lb rack limit, and the bus takes a folding bike inside (WeGo). So there are two ways in: the lightest frame you can carry, or a frame that folds.

The test for this situation: the lightest two-wheeler on this page by its maker's weight, or a two-wheeler that folds. One of each passes.

For more folding bikes, see our folding e-bike guide or our folding e-bikes.

Three wheels, for riders back on a bike after years off

If you have not ridden in years, three wheels let you learn the motor before you relearn the balance, whether you are a senior coming back to riding or a younger rider who never felt steady on two. In Davidson County 12.9% of residents are 65 or older (Census ACS). On these hills a parking brake earns its place, and two of the three trikes below have one.

A trike is wider than a bicycle, so plan where it lives, and ride the greenways at the 15 mph limit (Metro Parks).

The test for this situation: three wheels. Three trikes pass, one from each of three makers, with a budget, a middle and an upper price: the Citytan M-315, the Hera MG708 and the ONE-TRIKE 2.0.

For more three-wheelers, browse our electric trikes; every trike here also has a full review linked on its card.

Every pick side by side

Prices are our store's on November 9, 2026; every other cell is the maker's own figure, read on its store page or, for the Hera's second load figure, in its manual. Tennessee's definition reads the motor in watts and says "less than" 750 (Public Chapter 823, section 2). This guide reads each maker's rated figure and prints its peak beside it where the maker gives one.

Same hill, different rider

On Nashville's hills, what you weigh changes your speed more than which pick you buy. Every pick here carries a motor rated under Tennessee's 750 W line, so on the 9.4% pitch one block in ten reaches, a 250 lb rider pedaling easily holds 7.7 to 8.8 mph, and a 160 lb rider 8.9 to 10.7 (Martin et al., 1998).

Tyne Valley Boulevard shows the limit. It pitches 21.1% at its steepest and climbs 17.0% end to end over 447 feet, the steepest climb this guide confirmed from the air (USGS lidar). A 190 lb rider pedaling easily holds 4.1 to 4.9 mph there, and a 250 lb rider 3.7 to 4.3.

Your weight moves those numbers more than your fitness does. On that street, a 160 lb rider holds 0.7 to 1.1 mph more than a 250 lb rider on the same bike at the same easy effort, while trained legs add 0.3 to 0.4 mph over untrained ones (Chorley et al., 2020).

July costs you comfort and almost no speed. The airport's normal July high is 90.9°F, and the warm air is a little thinner, 1.129 kg per cubic meter against 1.195 in an average month. Worked through for riders of 160 to 250 lb, no pick moves by more than 0.1 mph on a 9.4% block.

The heat study this model can draw on measured its loss at 36°C (96.8°F), above Nashville's normal high, so no loss is applied (Bourgois et al., 2023).

This table gives each pick with a published weight on the grades you will meet, pedaling at an easy effort on a July afternoon. The motor-only figure leaves your legs out. The Hera is not in it; the limitations say why.

How these speeds were worked out. Each speed balances what a grade and the air take from the bike against what goes in: the maker's rated watts at 80% efficiency, plus half the rider's critical power at 95%. Critical power comes from Chorley et al., 2020, which measured 3.19 W/kg untrained and 4.17 W/kg trained. Four limits apply to it, every time:

1. Critical power is a hard, sustained effort, far above a commuting pace.
2. Taking half of it as "easy" is this guide's own choice.
3. The study's "untrained" riders still played sport every week.
4. The sample was twenty men.

The air comes from the airport station's elevation of 600 feet and the temperature in each case (NOAA climate normals). Gearing and torque do not enter the model, so a mid-drive's 130 or 175 N·m gets no credit here; the cards print them.

Nashville eBike laws

Tennessee writes the rules you ride under, and Metro has added only a few of its own. Your bike is an e-bike here if it has working pedals, at least one wheel 20 inches across, a motor of less than 750 watts and a Class 1, 2 or 3 rating. Meet all four and the state's motor-vehicle rules on licenses, titles, registration and insurance do not reach you (Public Chapter 823).

What counts as an e-bike in Tennessee

Check the motor's rated wattage first, because the state's word is "less than." The definition covers a device with "two (2) or three (3) wheels," pedals "for human propulsion" and "an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty (750) watts" (Public Chapter 823, section 2), now T.C.A. § 55-8-301, as TDOT's summary of the bicycle laws cites it. A motor rated at exactly 750 W sits outside those words.

The 750-watt trap. 750 W is the most common rating on our own shelf, 77 of our 224 e-bike listings, so the number reads like a legal limit, and on a Tennessee street it is one watt too many. Some states let a motor reach it: California's says "does not exceed 750 watts" (Cal. Veh. Code § 312.5(a)).

Tennessee's word is "less than," the same word 15 U.S.C. § 2085 uses, and 17 of the 51 definitions in our state census use that word too. A bike that clears California's wording can miss Tennessee's by a single watt.

What falling outside means is narrower than "illegal." Section 3 says "An electric bicycle and any person operating an electric bicycle is not subject to any requirements or laws applicable to motor vehicles," naming the financial responsibility law, the driver license act, and titling and registration (section 3). That shield covers only a machine inside the definition, so one outside it rides without it. Read our Tennessee law guide if you already own one.

The statute does not say whether its figure means rated or peak power. This guide reads the maker's rated motor (section 2) and prints the peak beside it on each card whose maker gives one, so you can see both. Some picks peak above 750 W; that is listed plainly, and Limitation 2 says why it matters.

Your bike should arrive with the proof on it. A new e-bike sold in Tennessee must carry a label with "the classification number, top assisted speed, and motor wattage" (section 4). It is an offense "to knowingly modify an electric bicycle so as to change the speed capability" without replacing that label, "a Class C misdemeanor" (section 5), so ride it as it ships.

License, helmets and age

No driver's license, title, registration or proof of insurance is required for a bike that meets the definition (section 3). Age and helmet rules turn on the class and on the rider.

Seven of the nine picks are Class 2 in their makers' words. The makers of the other two name no class and print a top speed: the Citytan M-315 at 20 mph and the Hera at 15 mph. None is sold as a Class 3, so the Class 3 age and helmet lines do not reach any of them as their makers ship them.

Streets, lanes and sidewalks

Ride a Class 1 or 2 anywhere a bicycle may go, and treat the sidewalk as the exception. The law says such a bike "may be operated on any part of a street or highway where bicycles are authorized to travel," a phrase that takes in bike lanes, the shoulder and "a path or trail intended for use by bicyclists" (Public Chapter 651, section 1).

A sidewalk asks more. No e-bike may use one unless a local rule authorizes bicycles there "and the electric motor is disabled" (Public Chapter 823, section 7(a)(4)). Metro adds that "No person shall operate a bicycle upon a sidewalk within a business district" (§ 12.60.100). So stay off the sidewalk in any business district, and switch the motor off anywhere you do roll onto one.

Metro's own code still calls "every bicycle with motor attached" a motor-driven cycle (§ 12.04.180). State law answers that one for you: "References to motor vehicles in any local resolution or ordinance shall not be applicable to an electric bicycle" (section 7(a)(5)).

Are e-bikes allowed on Nashville's greenways?

Yes, on a Class 1 or 2, at 15 mph or under. Metro's posted rules still read "No motorized vehicles on the trails" (Metro Parks). Metro already settled the question in public, in three steps.

Since then the Council's record shows no e-bike rule for the greenways. Its online record begins with matters dated July 13, 2020, and a title search of it, run on November 6, 2026, returns 202 on bicycles, sidewalks, greenways and trails (the earliest introduced September 14, 2020). Only two name electric bicycles, the 2021 resolution above and a withdrawn 2023 subsidy, and neither regulates e-bikes on paths (Metro Legistar).

Greenways for Nashville, the trail system's nonprofit partner, says it the short way: "Following the same rules as traditional bicyclists, Class 1 and Class 2 Electric Bicycles are permitted on Nashville's greenways" (trail etiquette).

Keep your speed honest out there. The posted limit is "Maximum speed on trail is 15 mph," trails are "Open daily from dawn to dusk," and riders "yield to pedestrians" (Metro Parks). A 20 mph bike is 5 mph over the limit on the greenway, however legal it is on the street.

A Class 3 is another matter. It may not use a path unless the path runs "within or adjacent to the street, highway, or state highway" or the local government allows it (Public Chapter 651, section 1). Metro has not.

Metro's mountain-bike trails read differently from its greenways: "Motorized vehicles prohibited," "Ride on designated trails only" and "Never ride on wet trails" (Metro Parks). Metro Legal's 2021 advice spoke of the greenways only, so on these trails follow the signs: stay on the marked trail, and leave at any sign that bars e-bikes by name.

Who can change these rules

Metro can, and the door opened wider in 2026. A local government may now "regulate or prohibit, by resolution or ordinance," a Class 1 or 2 on any part of a street or highway where bicycles travel, state highways included, when it finds the step "necessary, in the interest of public safety" (Public Chapter 651, section 1).

As of November 7, 2026, Metro had not done so: the 48 Metro Code sections that name a bicycle read the same as they did on October 25 (Metro Code), and the Council's matters show no such ordinance (Metro Legistar). A city outside Metro decides for itself under the same section, so read the signs when you cross the county line.

What a ticket costs

A Metro Code violation with no penalty of its own carries "a penalty not to exceed fifty dollars," and paying a moving violation instead of going to court costs "a fifty dollar fine" (§ 1.01.030). State-law violations are criminal: riding a Class 3 on a barred path or an e-bike on a barred sidewalk is "a Class C misdemeanor" when done knowingly (section 7(a)(6)).

Greenways, bike lanes and where to ride

Start on the greenways and treat the street network as a patchwork. Metro's own map holds 103.4 miles of greenway, 101.7 of them paved (Greenways layer). Of 312.6 miles of built bikeway, 43.3 are protected lanes and 143.5 are signed shared routes, where you share the lane with cars (Bikeways layer).

Is Nashville bike friendly?

Partly. The League of American Bicyclists has rated Nashville Bronze since 2012, and its 2024 card puts bicycle commuting at 0.4% of trips to work (League report card). The same card, in figures Metro reported to the League, averages 64 bicyclist crashes and 8 bicyclist deaths a year over five years. Walk Score gives the city a Bike Score of 25, "Somewhat Bikeable", while Germantown scores 72 and Lockeland Springs 50 (Walk Score).

The network is also unevenly spread, as the table shows. Green Hills - Midtown holds 42.5 built miles, while Joelton holds 5.8. If you live far from a lane or a greenway, your e-bike's first job is a stretch of ordinary road, so read your own area's row before you buy (Bikeways layer).

Bikeways and greenways from Metro's Bikeways and Greenways layers, by geometry; racks from Metro's racks layer; residents and renters from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2020–2024, spread over each tract's land.

Try before you buy

Nashville BCycle "is an electric bike share system that stretches from the Parthenon, down Broadway, across the Pedestrian Bridge, and beyond to the Shelby Bottoms Greenway" (BCycle).

A single 30-minute ride costs $10 and a day pass $23; a monthly membership is $35 and an annual one $160, or you can unlock for $1 and pay by the minute (pass options). An hour on one up a real hill tells you more than any spec sheet about how much help you want.

Bird, Lime and Spin also rent e-bikes by app, and Metro sets no-ride zones during "CMA Fest, Fourth of July, and New Year's Eve" (Metro's shared program). Rentals are not welcome on the bus: WeGo lists "Rented e-bikes (e.g., Lime, Bird, Lynx, etc.)" under "Not permitted" (WeGo).

WeGo buses and the Star

Plan to ride the whole way unless your bike folds. WeGo's front rack takes an e-bike only if it weighs "55 pounds or less" on tires no wider than two inches, and none of the 9 picks here qualifies: every two-wheeler here weighs 60 lb or more and rolls on tires wider than two inches, and the trikes have three wheels (WeGo e-bike policy).

A folding bike gets a different answer, and the META20 is the pick for it: "Foldable e-bikes are allowed onboard buses but must be safely stowed" (WeGo).

Each rack is shared: it "can accommodate two bikes" and those spaces are "available on a first-come, first-served basis" (WeGo Bike & Ride). If a bus is part of your plan, the fold is the feature to buy, and the tire width is the number to check before the weight.

Four real seasons

Buy for rain and cold as much as for summer. Nashville's airport station averages 50.51 inches of rain a year, 66.3 mornings at 32°F or colder and 54.1 days at 90°F or hotter (NOAA annual normals). The last five years ran hotter, at 66.8 such days a year.

Rain changes the greenways first. Metro warns that a greenway "is subject to flash flooding; exit the greenway immediately during heavy rains" and that "Trails and bridges may be slippery or uneven" (Metro Parks). Thunder is a summer habit: the station logged it on 8.4 days in an average July (NOAA daily summaries). Full fenders and brakes you trust in the wet are the two specs this season asks for.

Winter shortens the greenway day. Greenways are "Open daily from dawn to dusk" (Metro Parks), and the sun sets near 4:34 p.m. in mid-December, computed for the airport (NOAA solar equations). A 5 p.m. ride home that follows the Cumberland in June is a street ride in December, so plan a lit route and check the lights on any bike you buy.

Cold is a storage question. With 66.3 mornings a year at 32°F or colder, check before you buy that the battery comes off the frame, so it can spend the night indoors; Qiolor lists "removable battery" among the Tiger JR's first three features. Our fall riding guide works out what a cold morning takes from range, and our battery guide explains why.

Is Nashville flat or hilly?

Hilly, nearly everywhere but downtown. This guide graded 25,697 of the county's street blocks on the U.S. Geological Survey's 1-meter lidar (USGS 3DEP), flown in March 2022, along Metro's own street file (Metro street centerlines). Each block's figure is the pitch of its steepest 30 meters, about 98 feet, because that stretch is what your motor and legs meet (USGS lidar).

• half of the blocks pitch 4.2% or more;
• one in ten reaches 9.4%;
• 4,129 blocks reach 8%, and 886 reach 12%;
• the flattest planning areas are Downtown and North Nashville, where 5.0% and 8.5% of blocks reach 8%.

These are the climbs the aerial imagery shows as streets, each rising end to end:

• Tyne Valley Boulevard in Green Hills - Midtown between Treemont Court and Tyne Ridge Court: 21.1% at its steepest, 17.0% end to end over 447 feet
• Travelers Ridge Drive in Green Hills - Midtown off Travelers Court: 20.8% at its steepest, 14.8% end to end over 1,389 feet
• Leeshan Court in Southeast off Tusculum Road: 20.0% at its steepest, 15.6% end to end over 272 feet
• La Vista Drive in Green Hills - Midtown off Trimble Road: 19.8% at its steepest, 13.7% end to end over 537 feet
• Lenore Street in East Nashville between Alley 290 and South 14th Street: 19.2% at its steepest, 15.5% end to end over 147 feet
• South 16th Street in East Nashville between Boscobel Street and Alley 737: 19.2% at its steepest, 17.6% end to end over 169 feet
• Hillview Drive in Green Hills - Midtown off South Hillview Drive: 18.7% at its steepest, 12.3% end to end over 1,290 feet
• Estbury Court in Green Hills - Midtown off Beddington Park: 18.5% at its steepest, 14.9% end to end over 220 feet
• Trevor Street in West Nashville off Alley 935: 18.4% at its steepest, 17.1% end to end over 135 feet
• Hampstead N in Antioch - Priest Lake off Billingsgate Road: 18.4% at its steepest, 14.8% end to end over 185 feet
• South Hillview Drive in Green Hills - Midtown off Hillview Drive: 18.4% at its steepest, 13.3% end to end over 1,139 feet
• Delaware Avenue in West Nashville between 35th Avenue North and Alley 1148: 18.3% at its steepest, 16.2% end to end over 164 feet
• Bridle Drive in Bellevue between Saddle Drive and Cross Timbers Drive: 18.1% at its steepest, 11.3% end to end over 439 feet
• Fernbrook Lane in Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory between Windemere Circle and Heartland Drive: 17.8% at its steepest, 10.9% end to end over 1,063 feet
• Eisenhower Drive in Southeast between Linbar Drive and Jeffery Drive: 17.4% at its steepest, 13.1% end to end over 412 feet
• 35th Avenue North in North Nashville between Clare Avenue and Geneva Circle: 17.2% at its steepest, 13.2% end to end over 283 feet
• Genelle Drive in Parkwood - Union Hill between Fontaine Drive and Carlin Street: 17.2% at its steepest, 15.0% end to end over 959 feet
• Higdon Road in Joelton off Little Marrowbone Road: 14.8% at its steepest, 10.5% end to end over 2,564 feet
• Rep John Lewis Way N in Downtown between Gay Street and James Robertson Parkway: 11.4% at its steepest, 7.7% end to end over 352 feet

Only streets checked on USGS aerial imagery are named here; the counts cover every graded block. Lidar reads the bare ground, so a bridge deck is not in these figures, and 136 blocks that OpenStreetMap shows on a bridge were set aside (© OpenStreetMap contributors). Another 999 blocks whose street does not appear in the Census Bureau's 2021 road file were not graded, because the ground under them may have changed since the flight (TIGER/Line 2021, Davidson County roads).

Every part of Nashville

Find your planning area below, then read its hills, its bike network and who lives there. Metro divides the county into 14 Community Planning Areas, and together they cover 99.95% of its land with no overlap (Metro planning areas). Each row gives the area's graded blocks and the share at 8% or more, its built bikeway, its residents and the share 65 and over, and the bike to start with.

Start with names the lighter, geared CMB 8-Speed where 15% or more of an area's blocks reach 8%, and the Zeal LT7 elsewhere; whether you want three wheels is a question about you, and no area answers it.

If you call your neighborhood something else

Nashville answers to many names: Germantown, the Nations, 12 South, Inglewood, a ZIP code or a council district. This table places 493 of them in the planning area that holds them, from each name's own map position or land.

All 493 names, and the planning area each falls in

The name you use	Planning area
12th South	Green Hills - Midtown
Amalie Point	Southeast
Amber Hills	Bellevue
Amqui	Madison
Antioch	Antioch - Priest Lake
Antioch Park	Southeast
Arbor Hills Apartments	Southeast
Arbors of Brentwood	Southeast
Arden Place	Green Hills - Midtown
Asheford Crossing	Antioch - Priest Lake
Ashlawn Place	Southeast
Ashley Green	Bellevue
Ashley Park	Southeast
Autumn Oaks	Southeast
Autumn View	Southeast
Avalon	Green Hills - Midtown
Avana Collins Creek Apartments	Southeast
Avondale	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Avondale Park	Bellevue
Bakers	Parkwood - Union Hill
Bakertown	Antioch - Priest Lake
Baltic Bunch	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Banbury Crossing	Southeast
Barclay Square	Antioch - Priest Lake
Barnes Bend	Southeast
Barnes Cove	Southeast
Barnes Crossing	Southeast
Barrington Place	Southeast
Barton Vale	Southeast
Battlemont	Green Hills - Midtown
Bayview	Antioch - Priest Lake
Beacon Square	Bellevue
Bell Crest	Southeast
Belle Meade	West Nashville
Belle Meade Highlands	West Nashville
Belle Meade Links	West Nashville
Belle Oaks	Antioch - Priest Lake
Belle Pointe	Bellevue
Bellevue	Bellevue
Bellevue Highlands	Bellevue
Bellevue Manor/1776 Estates	Bellevue
Bells Bend	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Bellshire	Parkwood - Union Hill
Bellshire Estates	Parkwood - Union Hill
Bellshire Terrace	Parkwood - Union Hill
Belmont-Hillsboro	Green Hills - Midtown
Benbar	Southeast
Berry Hill	South Nashville
Berryville	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Beverly Heights	Southeast
Bianca Square	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Birkdale Place	Bellevue
Bluefields	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Bonnie Brae	Madison
Boone Trace	Bellevue
Bordeaux	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Bordeaux Hills	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Bordeaux Hills-River Meadows	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Bradford Woods Apartments	Southeast
Brandywine Apartments	Southeast
Brandywine Farms	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Brandywine Place	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Bransford Avenue	South Nashville
Brenton Park	Southeast
Brentwood Downs	Southeast
Brentwood Oaks	Southeast
Brentwood Square Condominiums	Southeast
Brentwood Station	Southeast
Bridle Downs	Southeast
Brighton Village	Southeast
Brooklin	Antioch - Priest Lake
Brooklyn Heights	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Brookview Estates	Southeast
Buena Vista	North Nashville
Buena Vista Estates	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Burkitt Commons	Southeast
Burton Hills	Green Hills - Midtown
Burton Valley	Green Hills - Midtown
Caldwell Court Condominiums	Southeast
Caldwell-Abbay Hall	Southeast
Caleb Chase	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Calumet	Antioch - Priest Lake
Cambridge Forest	Antioch - Priest Lake
Cambridge Park	Southeast
Candlewood	Madison
Candlewood Apartments	Southeast
Cane Ridge	Antioch - Priest Lake
Cane Ridge Farms	Southeast
Capitol View	East Nashville
Castlegate	Antioch - Priest Lake
Castlegate Estates	Antioch - Priest Lake
Castleman-Hobbs	Green Hills - Midtown
Cedar Crest	Bellevue
Cedarmont Estates	Southeast
Cedarwood	Southeast
Centenary	Bellevue
Chapelwood	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Charlotte Park	West Nashville
Chase Creek	Bellevue
Chateau Valley	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Cherokee Hills	Antioch - Priest Lake
Cherokee Park	Green Hills - Midtown
Cherry Hills	Antioch - Priest Lake
Chestnut Hill	South Nashville
Chestnut Hill (TAG)	South Nashville
Christiansted Valley	Southeast
Claymile Station	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Cleveland Park	East Nashville
Cliffdale	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Cloverhill	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Cloverland Acres	Southeast
Cloverland Estates	Southeast
Cloverland Park	Southeast
Coach House Condominiums	Southeast
Coarsey Farms	Madison
Cobblestone Corners	East Nashville
Cockrill Bend	West Nashville
Colemont	Southeast
Colewood Acres	Southeast
Colonies	Bellevue
Concord Hills	Southeast
Coopertown Farms	Joelton
Copperfield	Southeast
Coronado	Bellevue
Cottage Grove	Southeast
Cottonport	Southeast
Country Way Condominiums	Southeast
Coventry Square Apartments	Southeast
Creekside at Brentwood	Southeast
Crieve Hall	Southeast
Cross Timbers	Bellevue
Cumberland Gardens	North Nashville
Cumberland Heights	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Curreywood Acres	Antioch - Priest Lake
Dalemere	Parkwood - Union Hill
Dalemere Area	Parkwood - Union Hill
Dalewood	East Nashville
Danbury Condominiums	Southeast
Deer Lake	Bellevue
Devon Highlands	Bellevue
Devon Park	Bellevue
Devon Valley	Bellevue
Devonshire	Green Hills - Midtown
Devonshire Manor	Green Hills - Midtown
Donelson	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Donelson Hills	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Downtown	Downtown
Downtown Nashville	Downtown
Dreamland Estates	Southeast
Duncanwood Brookmeade	Green Hills - Midtown
East End	East Nashville
East Glencliff	Antioch - Priest Lake
East Hill	East Nashville
East Lake	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
East Nashville	East Nashville
East Thompson Community	South Nashville; Antioch - Priest Lake
Eastwood	East Nashville
Edenwold	Madison
Edge-O-Lake Estates	Antioch - Priest Lake
Edgefield	East Nashville
Edgehill	Green Hills - Midtown
Edgehill (ONE)	Green Hills - Midtown
Ensworth	Green Hills - Midtown
Eva Mor Heights	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Fair Oaks	Southeast
Fisk Area	North Nashville
Five Points	East Nashville
Fleetwood	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Forest Acres	Southeast
Forest Cove	Antioch - Priest Lake
Forest Grove	Joelton
Forest Hills	Green Hills - Midtown
Forest View Park	Antioch - Priest Lake
Forge Ridge	Antioch - Priest Lake
Foxhall Close	Green Hills - Midtown
Fredericksburg	Southeast
Fredericksburg Townhomes	Southeast
Germantown	North Nashville; Joelton
Germantown Nashville, TN	North Nashville
Gillock St/Hilltop Ln.	East Nashville
Glencliff	South Nashville
Glendale Park	Green Hills - Midtown
Glenview	South Nashville; Antioch - Priest Lake
Gloucester Square	Green Hills - Midtown
Gold Key	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Golden Valley	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Goodlettsville	Madison
Gra-Mar Acres	East Nashville
Grande Villa Estates	Parkwood - Union Hill
Green Hills	Green Hills - Midtown
Green Woods	Southeast
Greenville	Joelton
Greenwood	East Nashville
Hadley Park	North Nashville
Hampton Ave/Golf Club Ln	Green Hills - Midtown
Hampton Hall	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Hanover Park	Bellevue
Harbor Village	Madison
Harpeth River Estates	Bellevue
Harpeth Trace Estates	Bellevue
Harpeth Valley Park	Bellevue
Haynes Heights	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Haynes Manor	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Haysboro	East Nashville
Haywood Lane	Southeast
Hearthstone Manors	Southeast
Heritage Meadows	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Heritage Square/View	Madison
Hermitage	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Hermitage Estates	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Hermitage Hills	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Hermitage Meadows	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Hermitage Woods	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Heron's Walk	Madison
Hickory Chase	Madison
Hickory Forest Apartments	Southeast
Hickory Glade	Southeast
Hickory Highlands	Antioch - Priest Lake
Hickory Hollow	Southeast
Hickory Park Villas	Southeast
Hickory Pointe	Southeast
Hickory Valley Condominiums	Southeast
Hickory Valley Estates	Southeast
Hickory Woods Estates	Antioch - Priest Lake
Hidden Creek	Southeast
High Point	Southeast
Highland Heights	East Nashville
Highland Villa	Southeast
Highlands of Brentwood	Southeast
Highlands of Harpeth Trace	Bellevue; West Nashville
Hill Place	West Nashville
Hillbrook	Southeast
Hillhurst	East Nashville
Hillsboro Village	Green Hills - Midtown
Hillsboro-West End	Green Hills - Midtown
Hillwood	West Nashville
Hillwood Heights	West Nashville
Historic Buena Vista	North Nashville
Historic Edgefield	East Nashville
Historic Old Hickory Village	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Honey Brook	Southeast
Hooten Hows	Bellevue
Hope Gardens	Downtown
Hopewell	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Hunters Branch	Southeast
Hunters Run	Antioch - Priest Lake
Huntington Ridge Estates	Southeast
Huntington Ridge Townhomes	Southeast
Huntington Village	Green Hills - Midtown
Indian Creek Estates	Southeast
Inglewood	East Nashville
Iroquois Meadows	Green Hills - Midtown
Ivy Point	Parkwood - Union Hill
Jackson Grove	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Jackson Park	East Nashville
Jackson Valley	Southeast
Joelton	Joelton
Jordonia	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Kenilworth Estates	Southeast
Kenner Manor	Green Hills - Midtown
Keystone Farms	Southeast
Kimbro	Antioch - Priest Lake
Lake Park	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Lakeside Woods Estates	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Lakewood	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Lakewood Village	Antioch - Priest Lake
Landmark at Wynton Pointe	Southeast
Larkwood	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Leisure Heights	Southeast
Lenox Creekside	Southeast
Lenox Village	Southeast
Leopole Road	Southeast
Lexington (Fox Run)	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Lickton	Joelton
Lincoya Hills	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Linton	Bellevue
Linton South Harpeth	Bellevue
Little Creek	Parkwood - Union Hill
Little Kurdistan	Southeast
Lockeland Springs	East Nashville
Lockhaven	Southeast
Lombardy	Green Hills - Midtown
Lyric On Bell Apartments	Southeast
Madison	Madison
Mandolin Apartments	Southeast
Maplewood	East Nashville
Marrowbone	Joelton; Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Maxwell Heights	East Nashville
McCrory Heights	Bellevue
McCrory Trace	Bellevue
McFerrin Park	East Nashville
McMurray Apartments	Southeast
McMurray Circle	Southeast
McMurray-Huntingdon	Southeast
Meadows at Seven Points	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Melrose/Waverly Nashville TN	Green Hills - Midtown
Merry Oaks	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Metro Center	North Nashville
Mill Run	Southeast
Montague	Madison
Montcastle Estates	Bellevue
Monte Carlo Estates	Southeast
Montgomery Place	Southeast
Monticello	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Morny	Joelton
Mount View	Antioch - Priest Lake
Mountain Brook	Southeast
Mountainview	Southeast
Mudtavern	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Mulberry Downs	Parkwood - Union Hill
Music Valley Village	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Myrtlewood Estates	Southeast
Napier Area	South Nashville
Nashboro Village	Antioch - Priest Lake
Nashboro Woods	Antioch - Priest Lake
Nations	West Nashville
Neely's Bend	Madison
Neelys Bend	Madison
Neighbors of Antioch	Antioch - Priest Lake
Neighbors of Granny White	Green Hills - Midtown
Neighbors Reaching Out	North Nashville
New Heights District	South Nashville
New Hope Meadows	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
New Hope Point	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Newsom	Bellevue
Nocturne Forest	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
North Hills Estates	Madison
North Inglewood	East Nashville
North Nashville	North Nashville
Northcreek Commons	Madison
Northcrest Commons	Southeast
Northern Inglewood	East Nashville
Oak Highlands	Southeast
Oak Hill	Southeast; Green Hills - Midtown
Oak Hill Estates	Green Hills - Midtown
Oak Valley	East Nashville
Oakland Acres	Madison
Oakmont	Southeast
Oakwood Terrace	Antioch - Priest Lake
Oglesby	Southeast
Old Hickory	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Old Hickory Hills	Southeast
Osage	North Nashville
Overcrest Condominiums	Southeast
Paragon Mills	Southeast
Park Court	Southeast
Parkview	Green Hills - Midtown
Parkwood	East Nashville
Parkwood Estates	Parkwood - Union Hill
Pasquo	Bellevue
Pebble Creek	Antioch - Priest Lake
Peninsula	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Pennington Bend	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Percy Priest Woods	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Perry Heights	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Phillips	Green Hills - Midtown
Piccadilly Square	Antioch - Priest Lake
Pine Forest	Bellevue
Pinnacle Point	Antioch - Priest Lake
Poplar Creek Estates	Bellevue
Porter Heights	East Nashville
Presidents Reserve	Southeast
Priest Lake	Antioch - Priest Lake
Priest Lake Meadows	Antioch - Priest Lake
Priest Lake Park	Antioch - Priest Lake
Providence	Southeast
Providence Park	Southeast
Quail Valley	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Radnor	South Nashville
Raintree Village	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Rainwood	Parkwood - Union Hill
Ransom Place	Antioch - Priest Lake
Raymond Heights	South Nashville
Rayon City	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Renraw	East Nashville
Richland	West Nashville
Richland-West End	Green Hills - Midtown
Rivendell Townhomes	Southeast
Rivendell Woods	Southeast
River Glen	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
River Park	Bellevue
River Plantation	Bellevue
River Plantation III	Bellevue
River Trace	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Rivercrest	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Rivergate	Madison
Riverpoint	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Rivers Edge	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Robertson	West Nashville
Rolling Acres	East Nashville
Rolling Mill Hill	Downtown
Rolling River Estates	Bellevue
Rosebank	East Nashville
Rosemonte	Southeast
Rural Hill	Antioch - Priest Lake
Rutledge Hill	Downtown
Sadler Village	South Nashville
Salemtown	North Nashville
Scottsboro	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Seventeen Seventysix Estates	Bellevue
Shadow Glen	Southeast
Sheffield on the Harpeth	Bellevue
Shelby Hills	East Nashville
Shepherd Hills	Madison
Sherwood Forest	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Skyline Village	Parkwood - Union Hill
Smith Springs	Antioch - Priest Lake
SoBro	Downtown
Solitude Acres	Madison
Somerset	Antioch - Priest Lake
Somerset Farms	Bellevue
South Hampton	Bellevue
South Inglewood (CCSI)	East Nashville
Southfork	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Spence Lane	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Stanford Estates	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Stanford Village	Southeast
Sterling Oaks	Southeast
Stone Creek Park	Southeast
Stonebrook	Southeast
Stonemeade	Bellevue
Sugar Valley	Southeast
Sunnyside	Green Hills - Midtown
Sunset Hills	Southeast
Sutherland Heights	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Swiss Ridge Apartments	Southeast
Swiss View Apartments	Southeast
Sylvan Heights	West Nashville
Sylvan Park	West Nashville
The Bonnas	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
The Grove at Cane Ridge	Southeast
The Gulch	Downtown
The Knolls Apartments	Southeast
The Overton	Southeast
The Vistas	Southeast
Thimble Springs Estates	Southeast
Thrible Springs	Southeast
Tomorrow's Hope	North Nashville
Town Park Estates	Antioch - Priest Lake
Traceside	Bellevue
Travis	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Travis Trace	Bellevue
Trinity Hills	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Tulip Grove	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Tulip Grove Pointe	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Tulip Reserve	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Turtle Creek	Southeast
Tusculum	Southeast
Tusculum Square	Southeast
Una	Antioch - Priest Lake
Union Hill	Parkwood - Union Hill
Urban Residents	Downtown
Valley View-Cloverland	Southeast
Vaughns Gap	Bellevue
Village by the Creek	Parkwood - Union Hill
Villages of Brentwood	Southeast
Villages of Larchwood	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Vultee	South Nashville
Walnut Hill	Bellevue
Walnut Hills	Bellevue
Warner Park Valley & Highlands	West Nashville
Watkins Park	North Nashville
Waverly Place	Green Hills - Midtown
Waverly-Belmont	Green Hills - Midtown
Wedgewood - Houston	South Nashville
Wedgewood Houston (SNAP)	South Nashville; Green Hills - Midtown
Wedgewood-Houston	South Nashville
West	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
West End Park	Green Hills - Midtown
West Meade	West Nashville
West Meade Park	West Nashville
West Nashville	West Nashville
Whispering Hills	Southeast
White Bridge	West Nashville
White's Creek	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Whites Bend	Bellevue
Whites Creek	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity; Joelton; Parkwood - Union Hill
Whitland Area	Green Hills - Midtown
Whitworth	Green Hills - Midtown
Williams Hills	Joelton
Willow Trace	Bordeaux - Whites Creek - Haynes Trinity
Windsor Green	Madison
Windsor Terrace	Bellevue
Woodberry Park	Donelson - Hermitage - Old Hickory
Woodbine	South Nashville
Woodland Forest	Bellevue
Woodland-in-Waverly	Green Hills - Midtown
Woodlands	Southeast
Woodlawn Area	Green Hills - Midtown
Woodlawn West	Green Hills - Midtown
Woodmont Estates	Green Hills - Midtown
Woodycrest	South Nashville
Wrencoe	Southeast

Names from Metro's community and neighborhood layers and from OpenStreetMap, each placed by its own geometry.

Lock it, and bring it inside

Keep the bike indoors if you can: most of the bicycle thefts Metro's police label happen at a home, an apartment or a parking lot. Metro's police reported 156 bicycle larcenies to the FBI in 2025, with an average value stolen of $923, up from $432 in 2015 (FBI Crime Data Explorer, Metropolitan Nashville Police Department). Those are reports, not bicycles, and an e-bike cannot be told from a bicycle in them.

Metro's open police data shows where. Of the 573 incidents it labels as bicycle larceny since 2019, 80% happened at a home, an apartment or a parking lot or garage, and 9% on a road or alley (Metro incident data). That label holds 55 incidents for 2025 against the 156 Metro reported to the FBI, so read it for the pattern and never as the count.

The pattern says a shed or a car-park rack is not safe storage for a bike this valuable. 47.2% of homes in the county are rented (Census ACS), so plenty of riders here carry a bike upstairs. If that is you, the bike's weight decides more than its motor, and the fold-and-carry picks start there.

Photograph your bike and its frame number the day it arrives, so a police report has something to match. Metro maps 385 bike racks (Metro racks layer), and a rack beats a sign pole only if the frame and a wheel both go through your lock.

Is there a Nashville e-bike rebate?

No, not today. Metro's 2023 proposal to spend "$1,000,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds" on "subsidies for electric bicycles" shows as withdrawn on the Council's record, with final action on August 15, 2023 (RS2023-1951).

The state has none either: read on November 8, 2026, the federal Alternative Fuels Data Center lists Tennessee's electricity laws and incentives, and none covers a bicycle. No e-bike term appeared on Nashville Electric Service's site on October 15, 2026, across 400 of its 1,354 known pages and 59 program pages, nor on the sites of Tennessee's other electric utilities in our state census.

The saving that is real today is on the shelf: eight of the nine picks above show the maker's own higher list price beside what you pay.

Eight checks before you buy

Do these in order, because each one can rule a bike out before the next matters. They come from Tennessee's statute, Metro's records and the measurements on this page.

1. Read the motor line, not the headline. Tennessee's definition stops at "less than seven hundred fifty (750) watts" (T.C.A. § 55-8-301, as enacted). Look for the rated watts on the listing and on the label the state requires, and read what falling outside means.
2. Check the wheel. The same definition asks for a wheel of at least twenty inches. Measure a folder or a small trike before you assume.
3. Stand against a wall. Compare your height to the maker's window on the card. If you fall outside it, the frame was not drawn for you.
4. Add up the load. Your weight plus what you carry, against the maker's rating, then read your speed on a real pitch.
5. Decide where it sleeps. Most of the bicycle thefts Metro's police label happen at a home, an apartment or a parking lot, so a walk-up points to the lightest bike or the fold.
6. Plan without the bus rack. No pick here makes WeGo's 55 lb rack limit (the lightest two-wheeler weighs 60 lb), so a bus trip means a folding e-bike stowed on board: the META20.
7. Buy for the dark. Greenways close at dusk, and in mid-December the sun sets near 4:34 p.m., so check the lights before November.
8. Know your helmet line. Under 16, Metro asks for a helmet on any bicycle; on a Class 3 everyone wears one, passengers too (Metro Code § 12.60.165, Public Chapter 823, section 8(b)).

How we verified every number

Each figure here was read or measured at a primary source and saved to a file with its date. The sources are Tennessee's acts, Metro's code, records and maps, the makers' own pages, and federal datasets. The box covers what this guide measured; the table after it says where every other kind of figure comes from.

Why buy it here

Shipping to a Nashville address is on us. Every e-bike ships free within the contiguous United States. Expect it to leave within 1–3 business days of your confirmed order and to reach you 5–10 business days after that (shipping policy).

A damaged box is our problem to chase. Tell the carrier, send us photos within 48 hours of delivery, and we take the claim from there (refund policy).

You make one contact for a warranty claim. Email us when a part fails, and we arrange the repair or the replacement with the maker under the maker's warranty (refund policy). The maker's own terms set what is covered (terms of service).

Pay the way you already do. The checkout takes Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay and major cards (contact).

Ask us anything first. Write to sales@redtailebikes.com before you buy, or to support@redtailebikes.com about an order, a delivery or a claim. Replies typically come within one business day (contact). The company behind the store is named in our terms of service.

The makers on this page, each with its range on our store and our profile of the brand:

• Addmotor: the Addmotor range · our Addmotor profile
• DWMEIGI: the DWMEIGI range · our DWMEIGI profile
• Eunorau: the Eunorau range · our Eunorau profile
• Himiway: the Himiway range · our Himiway profile
• Qiolor: the Qiolor range · our Qiolor profile
• VTUVIA: the VTUVIA range · our VTUVIA profile

The 9 picks on our store: Qiolor Tiger JR · VTUVIA Zeal LT7 · Eunorau META275 1.0 · Himiway D5 Pro · Eunorau META20 1.0 · VTUVIA CMB 8-Speed · Addmotor Citytan M-315 · DWMEIGI Hera MG708 · Eunorau ONE-TRIKE 2.0

Browse by need: commuter and city e-bikes · folding e-bikes · electric trikes · cargo e-bikes · the full e-bike range

More of Tennessee: the Tennessee e-bike law guide covers the state's statute, the Nashville shop directory lists where to test ride, and every city guide we publish is on the hub.

Questions Nashville riders ask

Are e-bikes legal in Tennessee?

Yes, if the bike meets the state's definition: fully operable pedals, at least one wheel of twenty inches or more, and a motor of "less than seven hundred fifty (750) watts" (T.C.A. § 55-8-301, Public Chapter 823). A bike that fails the test is not illegal to own; it simply is not an electric bicycle under this law, and the rules for it are different. What falling outside means.

Do you need a license for an electric bike in Tennessee?

No. A bike that meets the definition is outside the motor-vehicle laws on driver licenses, titling, registration and financial responsibility (Public Chapter 823, section 3). Under 16, Metro asks for a helmet on any bicycle, and every Class 3 rider wears one at any age. The full age and helmet table.

Do you have to wear a helmet on an e-bike in Tennessee?

On a Class 3, yes, at any age, and so does any passenger (Public Chapter 823, section 8(b)). On a Class 1 or 2, Metro requires a helmet under 16, since Metro's code treats any vehicle "propelled exclusively or in part by human power using pedals" as a bicycle (Metro Code § 12.04.025, § 12.60.165). Over 16 on a Class 1 or 2, the law leaves it to you.

Are class 3 e-bikes legal in Tennessee?

Yes, with limits. Since July 1, 2026, riding one on a street under age 16 is a delinquent act, and a Class 3 may use a path only beside a road or where the local government allows it (Public Chapter 651). Every rider wears a helmet (Public Chapter 823, section 8(b)). None of the picks here is sold as a Class 3; seven of the nine are Class 2 in their makers' words.

Can you ride a bike on the sidewalk in Tennessee?

An e-bike may use a sidewalk only where a local rule allows bicycles there "and the electric motor is disabled" (Public Chapter 823, section 7(a)(4)). In Metro, no bicycle rides a sidewalk in a business district (§ 12.60.100).

Can I ride an e-bike on Nashville's greenways?

Yes. Metro's lawyers advised in 2021 that the parks rules against motorized vehicles "do not effectively prohibit e-bikes on greenways" (RS2021-1102), and in 2022 the Greenways Commission recommended "no change" (recommendation). Keep to 15 mph, dawn to dusk. The greenway record.

Is Nashville flat or hilly?

Hilly. Half of the 25,697 street blocks this guide graded on USGS lidar pitch 4.2% or more over their steepest 30 meters, and one in ten reaches 9.4%. Downtown and North Nashville are the flattest areas (USGS lidar). The measured hills.

Is Nashville bike friendly?

In parts: the League of American Bicyclists gives Nashville a Bronze rating (League report card). Walk Score gives it a Bike Score of 25, "Somewhat Bikeable" (Walk Score). Metro maps 312.6 miles of built bikeway and 103.4 miles of greenway, unevenly spread (Bikeways layer, Greenways layer). Where to ride.

Does Nashville have bike share?

Yes: Nashville BCycle calls itself "an electric bike share system" (Nashville BCycle), with passes from $10 for a single ride to $160 a year (BCycle pass options). Bird, Lime and Spin rent e-bikes by app too. Try before you buy.

Can I take my e-bike on a WeGo bus?

On the front rack, only if it weighs 55 pounds or less on tires no wider than two inches; none of the 9 picks here does. A folding e-bike may ride inside if it is stowed, the motor stays off, and the battery is UL certified and listed (WeGo e-bike policy). Buses and the Star.

Is there a Nashville e-bike rebate?

No. Metro's 2023 proposal for a $1,000,000 e-bike subsidy was withdrawn (RS2023-1951), and the federal list of Tennessee's electricity incentives names none for a bicycle (Alternative Fuels Data Center). Rebates.

What is the best e-bike for Nashville hills?

A light bike with low gears. Every pick here is rated under 750 W, so weight decides: on the 9.4% pitch, the two lightest two-wheelers, the CMB 8-Speed and the Zeal LT7, hold 8.8 mph with a 250 lb rider pedaling easily (Martin et al., 1998). The CMB adds a mid-drive with 175 N·m of torque and eight gears. The full table.

What happens if I modify my e-bike in Tennessee?

It is an offense "to knowingly modify an electric bicycle so as to change the speed capability" without replacing the class label, and a Class C misdemeanor (Public Chapter 823, section 5). Ride it as it ships.

The bottom line

On Nashville's hills, your weight and the bike's weight move your speed more than the badge on the motor, because Tennessee keeps every motor here under 750 W. Pick on fit first, then on where the bike sleeps, then on how much you want to pedal.

• Most riders: the Zeal LT7 at $1,099, if you are 5 ft 3 in to 6 ft 2 in.
• The lowest price, shorter riders: the Tiger JR at $899.
• Pedal first: the META275 1.0 at $1,259.
• Tall riders and big loads: the D5 Pro at $1,999.
• Stairs and climbs: the CMB 8-Speed at $1,399, the lightest two-wheeler here.
• A closet, a trunk or a bus seat: the META20 at $1,529, which folds.
• Three wheels: the Citytan M-315 at $1,099, the Hera at $1,499, or the ONE-TRIKE 2.0 at $1,619 for the biggest loads.

Or browse our full range. On a greenway, ride a Class 1 or 2 at 15 mph, walkers first, dawn to dusk. Keep the bike in the class it shipped in, light it for December's early dark, and bring the battery in on a frosty night.

Limitations

1. Riders no pick fits. Of the 504 rider situations checked, 96 have no pick whose published height window and load rating both hold the rider, chiefly riders at 4 ft 11 in and 6 ft 4 in; and 84 are back on a bike after years off and also need to get the bike indoors, which the indoor test (the lightest two-wheeler, or a two-wheeler that folds) gives no trike.
2. Rated or peak watts. Tennessee's statute says "less than 750 watts" and does not say whether it means the motor's rated or peak output. This guide reads the rated figure. The Zeal LT7 and Tiger JR peak at 750 W, the CMB 8-Speed at 820 W in VTUVIA's table and 750 W on a feature tile, the Citytan M-315 at 1,100 W and the D5 Pro at 1,300 W; a reading by peak output would put those five outside the definition.
3. One pick has no hill speed. DWMEIGI prints no weight for the Hera, so this guide computes no speed for it.
4. The speeds are a model. They come from a physics model with stated constants and a cited estimate of rider power, and the model credits only rated watts, so a mid-drive's gears and torque get nothing. Your bike, tires, wind and effort will differ. Trikes use the same terms as two-wheelers, a simplification no trike measurement checks here, so a trike's real figure may differ.
5. Makers that print two figures. The CMB 8-Speed's load: 300 lb (VTUVIA's table; its description says the frame supports up to 330 lb). The Hera's load: 330 lb on DWMEIGI's page; its user manual says 300 lb. The ONE-TRIKE 2.0's weight: 85.98 lb (Eunorau's specifications; its geometry chart reads 85.9). The arithmetic uses the lower load rating and the heavier weight, and the cards print both figures.
6. One survey, flown in March 2022. The lidar was flown on March 20 and 21, 2022; only streets in the Census Bureau's 2021 road file were graded, which sets aside 999 newer or unplaced blocks, and streets built since the flight are not in these figures.
7. Only streets the eye checked are named. The aerial check covered the 27 blocks this page could name, and every other count is the instrument's figure over all graded blocks. Bridges are not measured: lidar reads the ground beneath a deck.
8. Theft figures are reports. The FBI's record counts reported bicycle larcenies, with no line for e-bikes, and Metro's own label for bicycle larceny holds 55 incidents for 2025 against the 156 it reported to the FBI, so it shows where and never how many.
9. Metro's code is its publisher's copy. The 48 sections that name a bicycle were read on Municode on November 7, 2026, and an ordinance adopted since could be missing.

This guide expires at the next change to T.C.A. § 55-8-301 to 307, when Metro adopts an e-bike ordinance or a greenway rule, and at the next price change on any pick, and it will be re-read then.

Sources

56 sources, graded by tier (T1: the law, and public agencies' own records and datasets; T2: an organization's own page about itself, a maker's specifications or a transit agency's rules; T3: peer-reviewed research, OpenStreetMap's open map data and independent reporting; T4: the credits for the cover image, which support no claim).

References

1. State of Tennessee, Secretary of State, Publications Division. Public Chapter No. 823 (Senate Bill 1705), 109th General Assembly, sections 2 through 8. 2016-04-xx (signed); effective 2016-07-01. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/109/pub/pc0823.pdf
2. State of Tennessee, Secretary of State, Publications Division. Public Chapter No. 651 (Senate Bill 1782), 114th General Assembly, sections 1 through 3. 2026 (approved April 2026). Accessed November 7, 2026. https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/114/pub/pc0651.pdf
3. Tennessee Department of Transportation. Tennessee Bicycle Laws, the e-bike provisions. Accessed October 14, 2026. https://www.tn.gov/tdot/local-programs-community-investments/community-investments-office/bicycle-and-pedestrian-program/resources11/tennesse-bicycle-laws.html
4. U.S. Government Publishing Office (United States Code). 15 U.S.C. § 2085, Low-speed electric bicycles, subsection (b). 2024 edition. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/pdf/USCODE-2024-title15-chap47-sec2085.pdf
5. California Legislative Information (Legislative Counsel of California). Vehicle Code § 312.5, subdivision (a). As amended by Stats. 2024, Ch. 791 (SB 1271). Accessed November 9, 2026. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=VEH&sectionNum=312.5
6. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Metro Parks. Greenways resources and rules, the rules list. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://www.nashville.gov/departments/parks/greenways-and-open-space/resources-and-rules
7. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Metro Parks. Mountain biking, trail rules. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://www.nashville.gov/departments/parks/outdoor-recreation/mountain-biking
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Image credit: Cover: a scene composed on Playcut (Nano Banana Pro, 2K) from Kaldari's photograph of the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge (2008, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons); no bicycle, rider or person is drawn in it. Each bike is its maker's own product photograph, cropped and scaled only. The charts are drawn from the sources listed above.