41 verified stores · 21 cities checked · 5 with no verified shop in city limits · 3 confirmed via a brand's own dealer roster · Aug 2026
By Mehran G. — Redtail eBikes. Every store, address, and coverage claim here is checked against a primary source and dated. · Verified August 29, 2026.


Low sun on a Valley arterial, bikes rolled out front before the heat arrives. Most Arizona e-bike buying happens early in the day, for the obvious reason.
Quick Answer: We verified 41 electric bike shops in Arizona, checked against all 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents. Thirty-eight were confirmed by reading the shop's own website on August 29, 2026; three come from a manufacturer's own dealer roster, and every listing says which. The concentration is extreme: 29 of the 41 sit in Maricopa County, six in Phoenix and five each in Tucson and Scottsdale. Five of the 21 cities have no verified e-bike store inside city limits — Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale, Maricopa and Marana — and for each we name the nearest verified floor. If nothing close fits, our full e-bike lineup ships free anywhere in the US with US-based support.
Key facts (verified August 29, 2026):
- Verified storefronts: 41 — 38 read on the shop's own site, 3 from a brand's dealer roster
- Cities checked: 21, every Arizona city above 50,000 residents
- Cities with a verified store: 16 · without: 5
- Candidate population searched: 107 named bicycle shops statewide, from 119 mapped objects
- Mapped shops that publish a website: 25 of 107 — 23%, the thinnest map data this directory has worked with
- Floors belonging to a local chain: 18 of 41, across five Arizona chains
How we verified this directory
The denominator comes before the count, because a shop list without one cannot be argued with. We swept all 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents, taken from the U.S. Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 city population estimates (SUB-EST2024).
The candidate pool came from OpenStreetMap's Overpass API, which returned 119 objects tagged as bicycle shops in Arizona, resolving to 107 named businesses across 21 cities once their coordinates were reverse-geocoded.
Then the wall. Only 25 of those 107 shops publish a website in the map data — 23%, against 45% in California. A sweep that reads mapped websites and stops there can see less than a quarter of Arizona's bicycle retail, so stopping there would have produced a directory that looked complete and was mostly missing.
Three routes filled it. Pedego's own Arizona dealer roster supplied three authorised addresses in Gilbert, Peoria and Scottsdale. Twenty-seven more floors were found by name and then confirmed by loading each shop's own website — the search result supplied the address of the door, never the evidence that it sells e-bikes. One more, Paragon Cycling in Mesa, came from the answer engines and is discussed below.
Every claim here was last verified August 29, 2026. Corrections: sales@redtailebikes.com.
In this guide
- Electric bike shops in Arizona, city by city
- Arizona's e-bike counter is chain-shaped
- How to read the listings
- Phoenix and the Valley · Pinal County · Tucson and southern Arizona · Northern Arizona · The river country
- The five cities with none, and where to go instead
- Arizona e-bike law before you walk in
- The rebate question Arizona keeps asking
- What is not an e-bike in Arizona
- What to take to the counter
- What the answer engines get wrong here
- Buying online vs buying in an Arizona shop
- FAQ · Limitations · Sources
Arizona's e-bike counter is chain-shaped
Eighteen of the 41 verified floors belong to five Arizona chains, and that single fact changes how you shop here.
Global Bikes & E-Bikes runs five: Ahwatukee, Chandler North, Chandler South, Gilbert and Mesa, all seven days a week, all publishing the same hours. Landis Cyclery runs four across Central Phoenix, North Scottsdale and two in Tempe. Rides N Motion has Phoenix and Scottsdale, Archer's Bikes has Mesa and Prescott Valley, and Bicycle Ranch has Scottsdale and Tucson under one name.
What that buys a buyer is portability. A warranty claim, a free first tune-up or a fit adjustment can be taken to whichever branch is on your side of the Valley that week, and on a metro this spread out — Ahwatukee to North Scottsdale is 35 miles of surface street — that is worth more than a single storefront's brand list.
The same pattern shows up nationally, which is why our US e-bike store directory is organized by state rather than by brand.
What it costs is comparison. If four of the shops within reach of your house share an owner, they share a buying list too, and you may need to cross the Valley rather than the street to see a different set of bikes side by side.
Bottom line Ask a shop whether it has other branches before you buy, and if it does, ask where warranty work gets done. In Arizona that answer is often "any of ours," which is the strongest argument for buying local in a state this wide.
How to read the listings
Every store below carries one of three evidence grades, and they are not equivalent.
Site checked — we loaded the shop's own website on August 29, 2026 and it names e-bikes in its own words. Thirty-eight of the 41 entries.
Chain site checked — a multi-location retailer where the readable page belonged to the chain rather than the branch. It proves the chain sells e-bikes; it does not prove that branch traded today.
Brand dealer roster — the store appears on a manufacturer's own published list of authorised dealers, with the address and telephone number that manufacturer publishes. Three entries, all from Pedego.
One more thing about the evidence, because it changes how much weight a listing carries. For 12 of the 41 stores an independent record confirms the address — OpenStreetMap holds an addressed object at the same house number and street.
For the other 29, the shop's own website is the only publisher of that address, telephone number and set of hours, and those rows are marked sole-publisher in our ledger. No third party restates opening hours for any Arizona shop on this list, so hours rest on the shop alone throughout.
Call before a long drive whatever the grade says. One example from this sweep: The Lectric Garage in north Phoenix publishes its own summer closure, August 22 to September 2, 2026 — it is a verified floor and it is shut this week.
Electric bike shops in Arizona, city by city
Twenty-one cities, every one of them checked. "Unresolved leads" counts the mapped shops in that city we could not clear: a site that would not load, a site that never mentions e-bikes, or a shop the map records with no website at all. A lead is not a shop and it is not a zero — it is a phone call nobody has made yet.
| City | Pop (2024) | Verified stores | Unresolved leads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phoenix | 1,673,164 | 6 | 15 |
| Tucson | 554,013 | 5 | 11 |
| Mesa | 517,151 | 4 | 13 |
| Gilbert | 288,790 | 3 | 6 |
| Chandler | 281,231 | 2 | 3 |
| Glendale | 258,143 | 1 | 2 |
| Scottsdale | 246,170 | 5 | 8 |
| Peoria | 199,924 | 3 | 5 |
| Tempe | 190,114 | 2 | 9 |
| Surprise | 167,564 | 1 | — |
| Goodyear | 118,186 | — | 1 |
| Buckeye | 114,334 | — | — |
| Yuma | 103,559 | 1 | 2 |
| Avondale | 96,609 | — | — |
| Queen Creek | 83,781 | 1 | 1 |
| Flagstaff | 77,539 | 1 | 5 |
| Maricopa | 76,654 | — | — |
| Casa Grande | 68,927 | 1 | — |
| Marana | 62,380 | — | — |
| Lake Havasu City | 59,037 | 2 | 1 |
| Prescott Valley | 51,440 | 1 | 1 |
Phoenix and the Valley (Maricopa County) (29 verified across 11 cities)
Apache Junction (1 verified)
- Junction Bike Company and Rentals: 10908 East Apache Trail, 85120 · +1 480 380 0811 · junctionbikecompany.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Chandler (2 verified)
- Global Bikes & E-Bikes — Chandler North: 2915 W. Ray Rd. #10, 85224 · +1 480-899-3625 · www.globalbikes.info/contact/chandler-n.-bike-e-bike-shop-pg2498.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Global Bikes & E-Bikes — Chandler South: 1055 S. Arizona Ave. #4, 85286 · +1 480-782-8342 · www.globalbikes.info/contact/chandler-s.-bike-e-bike-shop-pg2496.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
Gilbert (3 verified)
- Free Ride Bike Co.: 3143 East Williams Field Road, 85295 · +1-480-988-2121 · freeridebikeco.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Global Bikes & E-Bikes — Gilbert: 835 N. Gilbert Rd. #111, 85234 · +1 480-892-1315 · www.globalbikes.info/contact/gilbert-bike-e-bike-shop-pg2497.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Pedego Gilbert: 459 N Gilbert Rd, Unit 1, 85234 · +1 480-597-9716 · brand dealer roster 2026-08-29
Glendale (1 verified)
- Bicycle Depot of Arizona: 6030 W. Behrend Dr #113, 85308 · +1 623-362-4100 · www.azbicycledepot.com/contact/store-location-hours-pg174.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
Mesa (4 verified)
- Archer's Bikes — Mesa: 1530 N. Country Club Dr. Ste 4, 85201 · +1 480-275-5818 · www.archersbikes.com/about/mesa-pg134.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Global Bikes & E-Bikes — Mesa: 1010 W. Southern Ave #3, 85210 · +1 602-675-1774 · www.globalbikes.info/contact/mesa-bike-e-bike-shop-pg2960.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Paragon Cycling: 1106 N Gilbert Rd Ste 1, 85203 · +1 480-830-1620 · www.paragoncycling.com/about/store-location-hours-pg1284.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- SOUL FAST E-Bikes: 7535 E. Ray Rd. Suite 109, 85212 · +1 657-215-0099 · soulebikes.com/contact-us · site checked 2026-08-29
Peoria (3 verified)
- Electric Bikes of Arizona: 9720 W Peoria Ave #110, 85345 · +1 602-428-5356 · electricbikesofarizona.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Pedego Glendale Peoria: 16610 N 75th Ave, Suite 107, 85382 · +1 623-233-4399 · brand dealer roster 2026-08-29
- SouthWest Bicycles · www.southwestbicycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Phoenix (6 verified)
- Global Bikes & E-Bikes — Ahwatukee: 3636 E. Ray Rd. #6, 85044 · +1 480-706-0858 · www.globalbikes.info/contact/ahwatukee-bike-e-bike-shop-pg2499.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Landis Cyclery — Central Phoenix: 712 W Indian School Rd, 85013 · +1 602-264-5681 · www.landiscyclery.com/about/central-phoenix-pg408.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Rides N Motion — Phoenix: 1313 E Northern Ave, 85020 · +1 623-262-4911 · www.ridesnmotion.com/rides-n-motion-phoenix · site checked 2026-08-29
- Rogue Electric Cyclery: 5450 East High Street, 85054-5459 · +1-480-772-5750 · rogueelectricaz.com · site checked 2026-08-29 — closing down: its own site headlines a "Going Out of Business Sale!!" with $300 off in-stock bikes, 30% off accessories and rental-fleet bikes at $750. Call before you go, and buy on the understanding that after-sale support may not outlive the sale.
- SUN Cyclery: 5833 North 7th Street, 85014 · +1-602-279-1905 · www.suncyclery.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- The Lectric Garage: 2311 W Utopia Rd, 85027 · +1 602-610-0170 · lectricebikes.com/pages/garage · site checked 2026-08-29
Queen Creek (1 verified)
- The Bike Shop: 7215 South Power Road, 85142 · +1-480-292-7600 · www.thebikeshopaz.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Scottsdale (5 verified)
- Bicycle Ranch Scottsdale: 15807 N Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd Ste 100, 85260 · +1 480-614-8300 · www.bicycleranch.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- ERIK'S Bike Board & Ski — Scottsdale: 14224 N Scottsdale Rd, 85254 · +1 602-422-8430 · www.eriksbikeshop.com/pages/locations/scottsdale-az · site checked 2026-08-29
- Landis Cyclery — North Scottsdale: 10417 N Scottsdale Rd, 85253 · +1 480-948-9280 · www.landiscyclery.com/about/north-scottsdale-pg407.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Pedego McDowell Mountain: 15029 N Thompson Peak Pkwy, #101B, 85260 · +1 480-473-3346 · brand dealer roster 2026-08-29
- Rides N Motion — Scottsdale: 8300 N Hayden Rd Ste C-100, 85258 · +1 480-431-2230 · www.ridesnmotion.com/scottsdale · site checked 2026-08-29
Surprise (1 verified)
- Savage Bicycles · www.savagebicycles.com/posts/savage-bikes-your-one-stop-shop-for-giant-bicycles-in-surprise-az · site checked 2026-08-29
Tempe (2 verified)
- Landis Cyclery — Tempe North: 2180 E Southern Ave, 85282 · +1 480-839-9383 · www.landiscyclery.com/about/tempe-north-pg406.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
- Landis Cyclery — Tempe South: 1006 E Warner Rd #106, 85284 · +1 480-730-1081 · www.landiscyclery.com/about/tempe-south-pg405.htm · site checked 2026-08-29
Pinal County and the southeast corridor (1 verified across 1 cities)
Casa Grande (1 verified)
- Round Trip Bike Shop: 1148 E Florence Blvd #4, 85122 · +1 520-836-0799 · roundtripbikeshop.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Tucson and southern Arizona (6 verified across 2 cities)
Sierra Vista (1 verified)
- Sun and Spokes Bicycle Shop: 3880 East Fry Boulevard, 85635 · +1-520-458-0685 · sunnspokes.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Tucson (5 verified)
- Ajo Bikes: 1301 E Ajo Way #117, 85713 · +1 520-294-1434 · www.ajobikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Bicycle Ranch Tucson: 7090 N. Oracle Rd #156, 85704 · +1 520-219-4311 · www.bicycleranchtucson.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Broadway Bicycles: 140 S. Sarnoff Dr, 85710 · +1 520-296-7819 · www.broadwaybicycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Copper Spoke Cycles: 5626 East Broadway Boulevard, 85784 · +1-520-428-8999 · www.copperspoke.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Fair Wheel Bikes · fairwheelbikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Northern Arizona (2 verified across 2 cities)
Flagstaff (1 verified)
- Absolute Bikes · +1 928 779 5969 · www.absolutebikes.net · site checked 2026-08-29
Prescott Valley (1 verified)
- Archer's Bikes — Prescott Valley: 3484 N. Glassford Hill Rd., 86314 · archersbikesprescott.com · site checked 2026-08-29
The river country and the southwest (3 verified across 2 cities)
Lake Havasu City (2 verified)
- Cycle Therapy: 40 Scott Dr, 86403 · +1 928-855-3553 · cycletherapylhc.com · site checked 2026-08-29
- Lake Havasu Bike & Fitness: 151 Swanson Ave Suite A & B, 86403 · +1 928-453-9777 · www.lakehavasubike.com · site checked 2026-08-29
Yuma (1 verified)
- Mr. B's Bike Shop: 1870 South 4th Avenue, 85364 · +1-928-783-2916 · www.mrbsbicycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29
The five cities with none, and where to go instead
Five of the 21 cities produced no verified e-bike floor inside their own limits on August 29, 2026: Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale, Maricopa and Marana. Four of the five sit in the West Valley, which is the fastest-growing part of the state and the least served by a bike counter.
| Your city | Pop (2024) | Nearest verified floor | Roughly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goodyear | 118,186 | Bicycle Depot of Arizona, Glendale | 20 mi NE |
| Avondale | 96,609 | Bicycle Depot of Arizona, Glendale | 14 mi N |
| Buckeye | 114,334 | Bicycle Depot of Arizona, Glendale | 30 mi NE |
| Maricopa | 76,654 | Global Bikes & E-Bikes, Chandler South | 25 mi NE |
| Marana | 62,380 | Bicycle Ranch Tucson, N Oracle Rd | 12 mi SE |
Distances are straight-line estimates from city center to shop and are meant for planning rather than for a route. Call ahead and ask whether the class of bike you want is on the floor that day, because a wasted 30-mile drive in an Arizona August is worse than a wasted one anywhere else.
If the nearest verified floor is a 30-mile drive, compare it against a bike delivered to your door. Redtail's commuter and city range ships free anywhere in the US with US-based support.
Shop commuter e-bikesA checked zero is not proof of absence. Each of these five was probed by name, and what came back was leads rather than floors: TaG Electric Bikes in Goodyear publishes only a social page; the Pedego franchise that used to trade in Goodyear is flagged permanently closed on dated listings, which is strong evidence and is not the shop's own word. If you know a counter we missed, the correction address is at the top of this page and it gets published.
Arizona e-bike law before you walk in
Arizona's rules are short, and one of them is a test you can run at the counter.
The definition. A.R.S. § 28-101(28) defines an electric bicycle as "a bicycle or tricycle that is equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts" meeting one of three classes: Class 1 assists only while pedalling and stops at 20 mph, Class 2 "may be used exclusively to propel" the bike and stops at 20 mph, and Class 3 assists only while pedalling and stops at 28 mph.
What that gets you. Under A.R.S. § 28-819(A)–(B), the rider "is granted all the rights and privileges and is subject to all of the duties of a person riding a bicycle," and an electric bicycle "is not subject to the provisions of this title relating to certificates of title, registration, vehicle license tax, driver licenses or vehicle insurance." No plate, no license, no insurance requirement.
The counter test. § 28-819(C) puts a duty on the seller's side of the transaction: since January 1, 2019, "manufacturers and distributors of electric bicycles shall apply a label that is permanently affixed, in a prominent location, to each electric bicycle," and that label "shall contain the classification number, top assisted speed and motor wattage." Look for it on the frame before you pay. A bike whose class, speed and wattage are not printed on it is a bike whose seller cannot tell you, in writing, which of the path rules below applies to you.
Where the classes diverge. § 28-819(D) lets Class 1 and Class 2 use bicycle and multiuse paths, while allowing the local authority with jurisdiction over a path to prohibit them. § 28-819(E) is stricter for Class 3: it "may not be operated on a bicycle or multiuse path unless it is within or adjacent to a highway or roadway or unless the local authority or agency of this state having jurisdiction over the path allows the operation."
Bottom line Class 1 and Class 2 are welcome on Arizona paths unless the authority running that path has said otherwise; Class 3 is barred by default unless the path is beside a road or that authority allows it. Buy the class you can defend at the trailhead you actually ride.
Read together, those two subsections are the buying decision. A Class 3 bike is faster and is the one most likely to be turned back at a canal path or a city greenway, because the default there runs against it. A Class 1 or 2 is welcome unless a specific authority has said otherwise. For the state-by-state picture, see our 50-state e-bike law guide.
The rebate question Arizona keeps asking
The single loudest thing in our demand harvest was money. Arizonans type "arizona e bike rebate," "arizona ebike voucher," "arizona e bike tax credit," "arizona e bike incentive" and "arizona e bike voucher program" — five separate phrasings of one question, and the shops we called do not control the answer.
Here is what the publishers themselves show, read on August 29, 2026.
The state's own incentives page does not list one. The Governor's Office of Resiliency publishes the household incentives Arizona administers under the federal home-energy rebate programs. On that page the word "rebate" appears 31 times; "bike," "bicycle," "e-bike" and "micromobility" appear zero times between them. Whatever Arizona is subsidising for households, a bicycle is not on the list.
The utility program people remember is not on the utility's own current pages. Tucson Electric Power ran an e-bike rebate widely reported at $100 standard and $600 income-qualified. On TEP's own rebates page and its own electric-vehicles page, read the same day, "rebate" appears 48 and 18 times respectively and "e-bike" and "bicycle" appear zero times on either. That is the utility's own published list, not a third-party summary, and today it has no e-bike line on it.
What that means at the counter: budget the full price. If a shop tells you a rebate will cover part of it, ask which program, ask for the page, and read the eligibility yourself before you commit — because on the day this page was verified, neither the state nor the Tucson utility published one.
Bottom line Five different Arizona rebate phrasings show up in real search demand and neither the state's own incentives page nor TEP's own rebate list carries an e-bike line today. Plan to pay the sticker, and treat any rebate as something you confirm on the publisher's own page first.
What is not an e-bike in Arizona, in the statute's own words
The reason this matters at a counter is that the machine on the floor beside the e-bikes may be a different vehicle in law, with a different set of duties attached to it. Arizona is unusually clear about the boundary, because it wrote the e-bike out of four separate definitions by name.
A.R.S. § 28-101(49) defines a motorcycle as a motor vehicle on no more than three wheels, and then "excludes a tractor, an electric bicycle, an electric miniature scooter, an electric standup scooter and a moped."
Paragraph 50 does the same for a motor driven cycle: a motorcycle with no more than five horsepower, "but does not include an electric bicycle." Paragraph 48 defines a moped as "a bicycle, not including an electric bicycle," with a helper motor of 50cc or less.
Read together, those three carve-outs say the same thing three times. A machine meeting § 28-101(28) sits outside the moped, motor-driven-cycle and motorcycle definitions alike, so none of the licensing that attaches to those vehicles attaches to it.
The corollary is the part that costs people money. A machine that misses the § 28-101(28) definition — a motor of 750 watts or more, no operable pedals, or assistance that does not cut out at the class speed — falls instead into whichever of those other definitions fits it.
The 5,000-watt, 40-mph machines sold as "e-bikes" in some showrooms are the clearest example. The maker's own specification is the evidence, and the § 28-819(C) label is where you read it.
Two neighbouring definitions are worth knowing because shops often sell them on the same floor. An electric standup scooter under § 28-101(31) weighs under 75 pounds, has handlebars and a floorboard, and tops out at 20 mph; § 28-819 gives it the same rights and duties as a bicycle. An electric miniature scooter under § 28-101(29) weighs under 30 pounds and tops out at 10 mph. Neither is a bicycle, and neither is what this directory counts.
What to take to the counter
Everything on this list is checkable in the shop, and each one comes from something on this page.
- Read the label before you read the price tag. § 28-819(C) requires the classification number, top assisted speed and motor wattage to be permanently affixed in a prominent location. If it is missing, ask why before you go further.
- Match the class to the path you actually ride. If your commute uses a canal path or a city multiuse path, a Class 1 or Class 2 is permitted under § 28-819(D) unless that path's authority says otherwise; a Class 3 is barred by default under § 28-819(E). Decide this before you fall for a bike.
- Ask whether the shop has other branches, and where warranty work happens. Eighteen of the 41 floors on this page belong to five Arizona chains, and portability across branches is worth real money in a metro this wide.
- Ask what the shop will not service. One Valley chain publishes that it services only three brands' e-bikes. That is a fair policy and a bad surprise after purchase.
- Confirm the hours from the shop's own page rather than a listing. Twenty-nine of the 41 stores here are the only publisher of their own hours, and one verified floor is closed for a published summer break as this page goes out.
- Budget the full price. Neither the state's household-incentive list nor Tucson Electric Power's own rebate page carried an e-bike line on August 29, 2026.
- Check the wattage against 750. It is the line between a bicycle and a vehicle that needs a license, and it is printed on the label the statute requires.
What the answer engines get wrong here
We ran a four-prompt panel against an AI search instrument on August 29, 2026 and saved the raw output. Three results are worth carrying.
Nobody has the number. Asked how many electric bike shops Arizona has, the engine answered that it "wasn't able to find a definitive total count of all electric bike shops in the state" and suggested checking business directories city by city. That is the second state where the same question produced the same non-answer. The table above is the count.
The law answer came from bike vendors. Asked whether e-bikes are street legal in Arizona, the engine got the substance broadly right and cited seven sources — five e-bike retailers' blogs and two personal-injury law firms. Not one citation went to the Arizona Revised Statutes. The rules in the section above are quoted from the statute itself, which is the difference between an answer you can act on and one you can cite.
A manufacturer's city page ranked as a shop. The second result the engine offered for "where can I buy an electric bike in Arizona" was a national brand's Phoenix landing page. It publishes no Phoenix street address, because there is no Phoenix store behind it. Before you plan a visit around any result, look for a street address and a telephone number on the page itself.
And the engines found one we had missed. Asked specifically about Mesa, the panel named Paragon Cycling on N Gilbert Road — a shop OpenStreetMap records without a website, which is why our statewide sweep could not read it. We checked its own store page, found its Electric Bikes category, and it is listed above. A panel is worth running in both directions.
Buying online vs buying in an Arizona shop
Buy in an Arizona shop when you want to sit on three frames in one afternoon, when you want the fit set by someone watching you ride, or when you want a service bench that will still know your name in two years. In a state with five multi-branch chains, that last one carries further than usual.
Buy online when the bike you want is not on any floor within a reasonable drive, which is the honest position for a rider in Buckeye, Maricopa or Marana today, and when you are comfortable with the assembly and the first adjustment. Our full lineup ships free anywhere in the US with US-based support and warranty, and our commuter and city range is the part most Arizona riders are actually shopping.
Free US shipping, US-based support and warranty, and the class label printed on the frame where Arizona law says it belongs.
Browse the full lineupWhichever route you take, the label rule at § 28-819(C) applies to the bike itself rather than to the counter it came from. Check that the class, speed and wattage are printed on the frame.
Frequently asked questions
How many e-bike shops are there in Arizona?
We verified 41 storefronts on August 29, 2026, across the 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents. Thirty-eight were confirmed on the shop's own website and three on a manufacturer's dealer roster. That is a floor rather than a ceiling: only 23% of Arizona's mapped bicycle shops publish a website, so shops that neither publish a site nor appear in a search for their own city can still be missing from any list, including this one.
Which Arizona city has the most e-bike stores?
Phoenix, with six verified floors, followed by Tucson and Scottsdale with five each. Scottsdale is the outlier worth noticing: it has a fifth of Tucson's population and the same number of verified e-bike counters.
Are e-bikes street legal in Arizona?
Yes. A.R.S. § 28-819(A) gives the rider the rights and duties of a person riding a bicycle, and § 28-819(B) exempts electric bicycles from title, registration, vehicle license tax, driver license and vehicle insurance requirements. The bike has to meet the § 28-101(28) definition: fully operable pedals and a motor under 750 watts, in one of the three classes.
Can I ride a Class 3 e-bike on Arizona bike paths?
Usually not by default. Under § 28-819(E), a Class 3 e-bike "may not be operated on a bicycle or multiuse path unless it is within or adjacent to a highway or roadway or unless the local authority or agency of this state having jurisdiction over the path allows the operation."
Class 1 and Class 2 are permitted under § 28-819(D) unless the authority running that path prohibits them. Check the specific path's manager before you commit to a Class 3.
Do I need a license, registration or insurance for an e-bike in Arizona?
No. § 28-819(B) says an electric bicycle "is not subject to the provisions of this title relating to certificates of title, registration, vehicle license tax, driver licenses or vehicle insurance." A machine that exceeds the § 28-101(28) envelope is not an electric bicycle under Arizona law, and a different set of rules applies to it.
What should I check on the bike before I pay?
The label. Since January 1, 2019, § 28-819(C) has required a permanently affixed label carrying the classification number, top assisted speed and motor wattage. It is the fastest way to confirm you are buying the class you think you are buying, and it is printed on the frame rather than promised at the counter.
Where do I buy if my city has no e-bike shop?
Five of the 21 cities we checked have none inside city limits. The table in the section above names the nearest verified floor for each. If that drive does not fit your week, buying online is a fair alternative, and the class label rule applies to the bike either way.
Limitations
- This is a floor, not a ceiling, and the map is why. Only 25 of Arizona's 107 mapped bicycle shops publish a website. Twenty-seven of the 41 floors here were found by resolving shops the map records without one — which means the same method run longer would find more. The shops most likely to be missing are single-location independents in the West Valley and outside the two metros.
- Five zeros are checked zeros on one day. Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale, Maricopa and Marana each returned leads rather than verified floors. A shop that publishes nothing about e-bikes on its own site is a lead for a phone call, never a "no."
- Six candidates could not be read at all. Colby Cruisers in Gilbert answered with an HTTP error; Unity Ride Shop in Glendale, Bike Zone Phoenix and Little Belgium Bicycles in Yuma publish only bot-blocked social pages; Bike Saviours in Tempe returns an app shell; State Rideshop in Tempe does not resolve. None of those is evidence that a shop has closed.
- Two Mesa situations are published as unresolved. Bike Masters' own domain now redirects to a manufacturer's brand page and dated listings flag both its floors closed — strong evidence, not proof, so it is held as a call-first lead. And Hawes House Bike Shop trades at the exact address and telephone number listings still carry for Two Wheel Jones, with the old name still in its own page title; its pages say nothing about e-bikes, so it is a lead too.
- Three listings rest on a manufacturer's roster rather than the shop's own site. The Pedego addresses in Gilbert, Peoria and Scottsdale prove the brand authorises those dealers on the date read. They do not prove what is on that floor this week.
- No search-volume figure appears on this page. Keyword pricing for Arizona has not been run, so nothing here claims how many people search any of these terms.
- One listed Phoenix floor is closing as this publishes. Rogue Electric Cyclery's own site headlines a going-out-of-business sale, found at the publish check rather than in the sweep. It is trading today, so it stays listed with the sale stated; it may not be trading when you read this.
- One shop's site refuses automated readers entirely. Junction Bike Company in Apache Junction sits behind a bot challenge that returns HTTP 403 to a script and a CAPTCHA to a rendering proxy. Its listing rests on the successful retrieval of August 28, 2026, and cannot be re-checked by machine.
- The AI panel ran on one instrument. Consumer ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews were not run and nothing above is described as their output.
- The publisher sells electric bikes. Redtail eBikes is an online retailer that ships nationwide. No shop on this list paid to appear and none was excluded for competing with us; the disclosure is here rather than buried.
This page expires when any of these change: a listed shop moves, closes or changes hours; Pedego's Arizona roster changes; the Legislature amends § 28-101(28) or § 28-819; or a path authority publishes a class rule that changes the Class 3 answer.
Source register
| Source | Tier | What it supports | Retrieved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona Revised Statutes § 28-101(28) | T1 | The three class definitions, the 750-watt ceiling and the operable-pedals requirement | 2026-08-29 |
| Arizona Revised Statutes § 28-819 | T1 | Rider rights and duties, the licensing and registration exemption, the label duty, and both path rules | 2026-08-29 |
| U.S. Census Bureau, SUB-EST2024 (Vintage 2024) | T1 | The 21-city denominator and every population figure | 2026-08-25 |
| OpenStreetMap Overpass API | T2 | The 119-object candidate pool, 107 named shops, and the 23% website ratio | 2026-08-29 |
| Pedego Electric Bikes, Arizona dealer roster | T2 | Three authorised dealer addresses and telephone numbers | 2026-08-29 |
| Thirty-eight Arizona shop websites | T2 | Each shop's address, telephone number, hours and its own words about e-bikes | 2026-08-29 |
| AI-search panel, four prompts, raw output archived | T2 | What the answer layer says about Arizona, including the shop it surfaced that our sweep missed | 2026-08-29 |
| Arizona Governor's Office of Resiliency, household incentives | T1 | That the state's own household-incentive list carries no e-bike line | 2026-08-29 |
| Tucson Electric Power, rebates and electric-vehicles pages | T2 | That the utility's own current rebate list carries no e-bike line | 2026-08-29 |
No T4 source is relied on for any statement of rule, and no T5 source appears anywhere on this page.
References
- Arizona State Legislature, A.R.S. § 28-101, Definitions — azleg.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Arizona State Legislature, A.R.S. § 28-819, Electric bicycles; electric standup scooters — azleg.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- U.S. Census Bureau, City and Town Population Totals: 2020–2024 (SUB-EST2024) — census.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
- OpenStreetMap contributors, Overpass API query for
shop=bicyclein Arizona — overpass-api.de. Retrieved August 29, 2026. - Pedego Electric Bikes, Arizona dealer directory — dealers.pedegoelectricbikes.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Global Bikes & E-Bikes, store pages — globalbikes.info. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Landis Cyclery, store pages — landiscyclery.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Rides N Motion, Phoenix and Scottsdale store pages — ridesnmotion.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Archer's Bikes, Mesa store page — archersbikes.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Archer's Bikes Prescott Valley — archersbikesprescott.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Lectric eBikes, The Lectric Garage — lectricebikes.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Paragon Cycling, store location and hours — paragoncycling.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Bicycle Depot of Arizona, store location and hours — azbicycledepot.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Bicycle Ranch Tucson — bicycleranchtucson.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Lake Havasu Bike & Fitness — lakehavasubike.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Arizona Governor's Office of Resiliency, Home Energy Upgrade Incentives — resilient.az.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Tucson Electric Power, Rebates — tep.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
- Tucson Electric Power, Electric Vehicles — tep.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.


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