Electric bike shops in Arizona: bikes outside a desert-city store on a saguaro-lined street at first light

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.

41Verified stores
21Cities checked
5With none in city limits
Sep 2026Verified

How we verified this directory The denominator came first: all 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents, from the Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimates. The candidate pool came from OpenStreetMap, 119 mapped objects resolving to 107 named bicycle shops, only 25 of which publish a website.

Pedego's own Arizona dealer roster supplied three authorized addresses, and 27 further floors were resolved by name and then read on the shop's own site on August 29, 2026. Lectric's showroom was read again on October 4, 2026, after it moved from Phoenix to Scottsdale. Rental-only, repair-only and online-only sellers are excluded, and a shop that could not be evidenced is left out rather than padded in. Re-verified every six months.

Quick Answer Arizona has 41 verified e-bike storefronts as of September 4, 2026, across all 21 cities above 50,000 residents plus two smaller towns. The Valley is the whole story: 29 of the 41 sit in Maricopa County, and five of the 21 cities have none inside their limits.

Arizona counts a bike as electric only with working pedals and a motor of less than 750 watts, in one of three classes. Neither the state's household-incentive list nor Tucson Electric Power's rebate page carried an e-bike line on August 29, 2026. If the nearest floor is a drive, Redtail ships free across the contiguous US. For the statute detail, read Arizona e-bike laws.

Arizona is a two-metro state with a long tail, and the tail is where the driving starts. Twenty-nine of its 41 verified storefronts sit in Maricopa County, six more in Tucson and Sierra Vista, and the last six are spread over five towns hours apart. The table below is all 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents, city by city, with the store count and the leads still unconfirmed.

Arizona's eBike Map, City by City

All 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents in the Census Bureau's Vintage 2024 estimates, the verified stores found in each, and the leads that could not be confirmed. A dash means no verified store inside city limits, and an unresolved lead is a mapped shop whose own site would not load, never mentions e-bikes, or does not exist. The nearest verified store for the five cities with none is further down.

City Pop (2024) Verified stores Unresolved leads
Phoenix 1,673,164 5 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 6 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

Bottom line Coverage follows the two freeway metros. The Valley holds 29 of the 41 storefronts listed below, Tucson and Sierra Vista six, and the whole of northern and western Arizona six. Four of the five cities with nothing inside their limits sit in the West Valley, which is the fastest-growing corner of the state and the thinnest for a bike counter.

Arizona eBike Law — 2026 Quick Reference

Arizona treats a qualifying electric bicycle as a bicycle, and the qualifying test is stricter than most riders expect: the motor has to be under 750 watts, not 750 or fewer. Every rule below quotes the section it comes from, read on the Legislature's own site on September 4, 2026.

  • Working pedals, and a motor under 750 watts. 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." A 750-watt motor is not under 750 watts, and a 1,000-watt machine is not an electric bicycle here at all.
  • Class 1, pedal assist to 20 mph. A class 1 e-bike has a motor "that provides assistance only when the rider is pedaling and that ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle or tricycle reaches the speed of twenty miles per hour" (§ 28-101(28)(a)).
  • Class 2, throttle to 20 mph. A class 2 motor "may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle or tricycle" and "is not capable of providing assistance when the bicycle or tricycle reaches the speed of twenty miles per hour" (§ 28-101(28)(b)).
  • Class 3, pedal assist to 28 mph. A class 3 motor assists "only when the rider is pedaling" and "ceases to provide assistance when the bicycle or tricycle reaches the speed of twenty-eight miles per hour" (§ 28-101(28)(c)).
  • A rider gets a cyclist's rights and a cyclist's duties. An operator "is granted all the rights and privileges and is subject to all of the duties of a person riding a bicycle" (§ 28-819(A)).
  • No title, no registration, no license, no insurance. 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" (§ 28-819(B)).
  • The class label is the seller's legal duty, not a courtesy. 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 it "shall contain the classification number, top assisted speed and motor wattage of the electric bicycle and shall be printed in at least nine-point type" (§ 28-819(C)). Read it before the price tag.
  • Class 1 and class 2 may use paths, unless that path's authority says no. They "may be used on bicycle and multiuse paths," and "a local authority or agency of this state having jurisdiction over a bicycle or multiuse path may prohibit" them (§ 28-819(D)).
  • Class 3 is barred from paths by default. 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" (§ 28-819(E)).

The wattage line is where Arizona bites. Plenty of machines advertised as e-bikes carry a 750-watt or 1,000-watt motor, and in Arizona that puts them outside § 28-101(28) and outside every path right the section above grants. Check the label the statute requires before paying, ask for the class in writing, and read Arizona e-bike laws for the city ordinances underneath the state rule.

Every Arizona City — 41 Verified

No Arizona city has its own directory page yet, so every verified floor in the state is listed here, grouped by region and then by city. Each entry carries the street address where one is published, the telephone number, the shop's own website and the date its own site was read.

By region

Fifteen of the 41 floors belong to five multi-branch Arizona names, and that changes how the state shops. Global Bikes & E-Bikes trades in Ahwatukee, Chandler North, Chandler South, Gilbert and Mesa. Landis Cyclery runs Central Phoenix, North Scottsdale and two Tempe stores.

Rides N Motion has Phoenix and Scottsdale, Archer's Bikes has Mesa and Prescott Valley, and Bicycle Ranch trades under one name in Scottsdale and Tucson. Three more floors are Pedego franchises from the brand's own roster.

What a branch network buys a buyer is portability. A warranty claim, a first free tune-up or a fit adjustment can go to whichever branch is on your side of the Valley that week, and across a metro where Ahwatukee to North Scottsdale is 35 miles of surface street, that is worth more than any single storefront's brand list.

What it costs is comparison. Four shops within reach of one house may share an owner, and therefore a buying list, so seeing genuinely different bikes side by side can mean crossing the Valley rather than the street. Ask any shop whether it has other branches before buying, and ask where warranty work actually happens.

Phoenix and the Valley, Maricopa County (29 listed across 11 cities)

Before you walk into one of these, know that Phoenix bars Class 3 e-bikes from its roadways under its own city code, which narrows what is worth trying. Our Phoenix electric bike guide measures every block in the city and names the machines that clear both the state definition and the city ordinance.

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)

Gilbert (3 verified)

Glendale (1 verified)

Mesa (4 verified)

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: Peoria, AZ · www.southwestbicycles.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Phoenix (5 verified)

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 (6 verified)

Surprise (1 verified)

Tempe (2 verified)

Pinal County and the Southeast Corridor (1 listed 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 listed 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: Tucson, AZ · fairwheelbikes.com · site checked 2026-08-29

Northern Arizona (2 listed across 2 cities)

Flagstaff (1 verified)

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 listed 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

Bottom line Every entry above states the date its own website was read and which grade of evidence stands behind it. Call before a long drive whatever the grade says: one verified Phoenix floor is trading through a going-out-of-business sale, and Lectric's showroom moved from Phoenix to Scottsdale between our August read and October 4, 2026.

If your city has none: the nearest verified store

Five of the 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents produced no verified e-bike floor inside their own limits: Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale, Maricopa and Marana. Four of the five sit in the West Valley. For each, the closest verified store is below.

Your city Pop (2024) Nearest verified store 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

Those are straight-line estimates from city center to shop, so plan for a longer drive than the number suggests. Ring ahead and ask whether the class you want is on the floor that day, because a wasted 30-mile round trip in an Arizona August is a worse afternoon than the same trip anywhere else.

A blank row is not proof that nobody in Goodyear sells an e-bike. Each of the five was probed by name and produced leads rather than floors: TaG Electric Bikes in Goodyear publishes only a social page, and the Pedego franchise that traded in Goodyear is flagged permanently closed on dated third-party listings, which is not the shop's own word. Corrections go to sales@redtailebikes.com and get published.

A 30-mile each-way drive to the nearest floor changes the arithmetic. Redtail's commuter and city range ships free across the contiguous US with US-based support, so price the drive against the delivery before committing to either.

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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 the fit should be set by someone watching you ride, or when a service bench that knows the bike in two years is worth paying for. With five multi-branch names in the state, that last argument carries further here than in most places.

Buy online when the bike you want is on no floor within a sane drive, which is the honest position in Buckeye, Maricopa and Marana today. The class label rule at § 28-819(C) attaches to the bike rather than to the counter it came from, so the check that matters travels with the purchase either way.

Selection is the other half of it. A showroom stocks what its distributors give it, and the categories Arizona buyers most often find missing are the folder and the cargo bike. Redtail's folding e-bikes and cargo e-bikes are the two ranges a Valley shop floor is least likely to have in stock in your size.

Whichever route you take, work the decision through the electric bike buying guide first, so the class, motor and range are settled before anyone starts selling. For the rules outside Arizona, the 50-state e-bike law guide carries every state.

If the nearest verified floor is a drive you would rather not make, the full Redtail range ships free across the contiguous US, with US-based support, and we coordinate any warranty claim with the maker.

See the full lineup

Frequently Asked Questions — Arizona eBike Shops

How many e-bike shops are there in Arizona?

41 as of September 4, 2026, counted across all 21 Arizona cities above 50,000 residents plus two smaller towns that carry one. Thirty-eight were confirmed on the shop's own website and three on a manufacturer's dealer roster. Treat it as a floor: only 23% of Arizona's mapped bicycle shops publish a website at all.

Which Arizona city has the most e-bike stores?

Scottsdale, with six, then Phoenix and Tucson with five each and Mesa with four. Scottsdale is the outlier worth noticing: the Census puts it at 246,170 against Tucson's 554,013, and it lists one more store than Tucson does. Twenty-nine of the state's 41 storefronts sit inside Maricopa County.

Is there an e-bike rebate in Arizona?

Not on the publishers' own pages as of August 29, 2026. The Governor's Office of Resiliency household incentives page uses the word "rebate" 31 times and the words bike, bicycle, e-bike and micromobility zero times. Tucson Electric Power's rebates page and its electric vehicles page carry no e-bike line either. Budget the sticker price, and make any shop that promises a rebate show you the program's own page.

Yes, for a bike that meets the definition. § 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 insurance requirements. The bike has to meet § 28-101(28): fully operable pedals and a motor of less than 750 watts, in one of the three classes.

Can I ride a Class 3 e-bike on Arizona bike paths?

Not by default. § 28-819(E) says 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 that path's authority prohibits them.

Do I need a license, registration or insurance for an e-bike in Arizona?

No. § 28-819(B) states that 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 outside the § 28-101(28) envelope is not an electric bicycle in Arizona, and the exemption does not reach 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, in at least nine-point type. It is the fastest way to confirm the class being sold, and it is printed on the frame rather than promised across the counter.

Where do I buy if my city has no e-bike shop?

The nearest-store table names the closest verified floor for each of the five cities with none, and four of the five are within 30 miles of Glendale or Chandler. If that drive does not fit the week, buying online is a fair alternative, and the class label rule applies to the bike whichever way it arrives.

The Bottom Line

Arizona has 41 verified e-bike storefronts and one metro that holds 29 of them. Sixteen of the 21 cities above 50,000 residents have a store inside their limits; five do not, and four of those five are West Valley suburbs growing faster than their bike retail.

Go local if you want a test ride, a properly assembled bike and someone to hand it back to. The Valley, Tucson and Lake Havasu City all have real floors, and the listings above carry the address, the phone number and the date of the check.

Buy online if the nearest verified store is a Buckeye-style drive, or if the category you want is a folder or a cargo bike that no floor within reach stocks in your size.

Either way the same two checks apply: read the § 28-819(C) label before the price tag, and match the class to the path you actually ride, because class 3 is barred from Arizona's multiuse paths unless that path's authority has said otherwise.

Run a shop that belongs here, or spotted an error? Email sales@redtailebikes.com. Verified corrections are published and additions are welcome. Last verified September 4, 2026.

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Sources, limitations and how this page was verified

How the count was reached

One number, one method. For every Arizona city the count is the distinct storefronts this page lists for it, deduplicated on shop name and city because OpenStreetMap records a single shop as several objects; towns below the 50,000-resident line keep their listings and are counted separately, because a table of cities above 50,000 can never show them.

That produces 41 storefronts: 39 in the 21 cities above 50,000 residents, and 2 in two smaller towns (Apache Junction and Sierra Vista). The per-city working is in research/shop-directory/arizona/hub_count_reconciled_20260904.csv, and it reproduces independently from the sweep's own output file, which holds 38 rows graded on the shop's own site plus 3 graded on a manufacturer's roster.

Sixteen of the 21 cities in the denominator have at least one verified store and five have none. Every figure in the title, the stat block, the Quick Answer, the coverage table, the regional headings and the FAQ is that same number or a part of it.

How to read the listings

Every store carries one of three evidence grades, and they are not equivalent.

Site checked means the shop's own website was loaded on August 29, 2026 and names e-bikes in its own words. Thirty-eight of the 41 entries.

Chain site checked means the readable page belonged to a multi-location retailer rather than to the branch. It proves the chain sells e-bikes; it does not prove that branch traded that day.

Brand dealer roster means the store appears on a manufacturer's own published list of authorized dealers, with the address and telephone number that manufacturer publishes. Three entries, all from Pedego.

Ten of the 41 also carry an independent OpenStreetMap record of the same business, eight of those with a street address. For the other 31 the address, telephone number and hours have exactly one publisher, and hours in particular rest on the shop alone throughout this state. Call before a long drive whatever the grade says.

Why the map is thin in Arizona

Arizona is the weakest map coverage this directory has worked with, and the gap is worth stating with its denominator rather than as an impression.

The Overpass query for every bicycle shop in Arizona returned 119 objects resolving to 107 named businesses, of which 25 publish a website: 23%. The same query and the same de-duplication over California returned 598 named businesses of which 263 publish a website: 44%. A sweep that reads mapped websites and stops there therefore sees under a quarter of Arizona's bicycle retail and nearly half of California's, from identical effort.

That is why two further routes exist here. Pedego's own Arizona dealer roster supplied three authorized addresses, and 27 more floors were resolved by name and then confirmed by loading each shop's own site, including every one of the multi-branch names that OpenStreetMap records without a website. Those 27 are the reason the Valley section is as long as it is.

Bottom line Arizona is under-mapped rather than under-supplied. Twenty-five of 107 mapped shops publish a website against 263 of 598 in California, so a directory built from map data alone would show an empty state and would be wrong in a way that reads as authoritative.

Limitations

  1. Every count on this page was re-derived on September 4, 2026, and 41 stands. One method now produces one number: the distinct storefronts listed per city, with towns below the 50,000 line counted separately, giving 39 in the table's cities plus 2 below the threshold. The title, the coverage table cells and the regional headings now all reproduce from research/shop-directory/arizona/hub_count_reconciled_20260904.csv. The reconciliation initially returned 37 because four listings carried no street address and its parser expects one after the shop name; those four are Absolute Bikes in Flagstaff, Fair Wheel Bikes in Tucson, SouthWest Bicycles in Peoria and Savage Bicycles in Surprise, no street address is held for any of them, and their entries now name their city instead. The figure of 42 in the state working notes is superseded by 41.
  2. The chain figure of 18 across five Arizona chains is superseded by 15. Global Bikes & E-Bikes has five floors, Landis Cyclery four, Rides N Motion two, Archer's Bikes two and Bicycle Ranch two: 15 in total. Three Pedego franchise floors bring multi-branch and franchise floors together to 18, which is where the earlier figure came from.
  3. The independent-record figure of 12 is superseded by 10. Ten of the 41 storefronts carry an OpenStreetMap record of the same business and eight of those carry a street address. The remaining 31 have a single publisher for address, telephone number and hours.
  4. The California comparison is restated at 44%, superseding 45%. Both states are now counted the same way, one row per named business in that state's own candidate file: 25 of 107 in Arizona and 263 of 598 in California. The earlier 45% came from a name-only de-duplication of the California file, which counts a two-branch chain once. The Arizona figure is unchanged. The working is in research/shop-directory/arizona/website_ratio_recheck_20260904.md.
  5. 41 is a floor rather than a census. Around 80 mapped Arizona shops publish no website and have not been resolved name by name. Most of the 41 came from resolving a subset of exactly that group, so the true statewide total is higher, and the shops most likely to be missing are single-location independents in the West Valley and outside the two metros.
  6. The five zeros are checked zeros on one day. Goodyear, Buckeye, Avondale, Maricopa and Marana each returned leads rather than floors on August 29, 2026. A shop that publishes nothing about e-bikes on its own site is a lead for a telephone call, never a "no."
  7. Six candidates could not be read at all, and are excluded rather than counted either way. 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 that is evidence that a shop has closed.
  8. Two Mesa situations are published as unresolved. Bike Masters' own domain redirects to a manufacturer's brand page and dated listings flag both its floors closed, which is strong evidence and not proof, so it is held as a call-first lead. 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, and its pages say nothing about e-bikes, so it is a lead as well.
  9. 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 authorized those dealers on the date read. They do not prove what is on that floor this week.
  10. No search-volume figure appears anywhere on this page. Keyword pricing for the Arizona seed set has not been run, so nothing here claims how many people search any of these terms.
  11. One listed Phoenix floor is closing. Rogue Electric Cyclery's own site headlines a going-out-of-business sale. It was trading at the check, so it stays listed with the sale stated, and it may not be trading by the time you read this.
  12. 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.
  13. The statute deposits could not be snapshotted on the day. Both sections were fetched from the Legislature's own host on September 4, 2026 and saved locally, and the Internet Archive's save endpoint returned HTTP 429 on every attempt that day. The archive copies cited are the existing snapshots of August 23 and 24, 2026, and both were re-read and confirmed to carry the same operative words as the live sections.
  14. The AI panel behind the FAQ ran on one instrument. Consumer ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews were not run for this state, and nothing here is described as their output.
  15. Redtail sells e-bikes online, and this page lists shops it has no relationship with. That includes shops in cities where the alternative would be buying from Redtail. The listings carry no ranking, no sponsored placement and no preference for the brands Redtail stocks.

This page expires when any of these change: a listed shop moves, closes, changes hours or stops selling e-bikes; Pedego's Arizona roster changes; the Legislature amends § 28-101(28) or § 28-819; a path authority publishes a class rule that changes the class 3 answer; the Census publishes a new vintage of city estimates; or OpenStreetMap's Arizona coverage improves enough to change the candidate pool.

Source register

Source Tier What it supports Retrieved
Arizona Revised Statutes § 28-101, paragraph 28 (azleg.gov) T1 The three class definitions, the under-750-watt ceiling and the operable-pedals requirement, quoted verbatim 2026-09-04
Arizona Revised Statutes § 28-819 (azleg.gov) T1 Rider rights and duties, the licensing and registration exemption, the label duty and both path rules, quoted verbatim 2026-09-04
US Census Bureau, SUB-EST2024 (Vintage 2024) T1 The 21-city denominator and every population figure 2026-08-25
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
OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Overpass API T2 The 119-object candidate pool, 107 named shops, the 23% website ratio and 10 independent address records 2026-08-29
Pedego Electric Bikes, Arizona dealer roster T2 Three authorized 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
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 here, and no T5 source appears anywhere on this page. Redtail has no commercial relationship with any shop listed.

Primary sources

  1. Arizona State Legislature, A.R.S. § 28-101, Definitions, paragraph 28 — azleg.gov. Retrieved September 4, 2026; archived August 24, 2026.
  2. Arizona State Legislature, A.R.S. § 28-819, Electric bicycles; electric standup scooters — azleg.gov. Retrieved September 4, 2026; archived August 23, 2026.
  3. US Census Bureau, City and Town Population Totals: 2020–2024 (SUB-EST2024) — census.gov. Retrieved August 25, 2026.
  4. OpenStreetMap contributors, Overpass API query for shop=bicycle in Arizona — overpass-api.de. Retrieved August 29, 2026; 119 objects. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
  5. Pedego Electric Bikes, Arizona dealer directory — dealers.pedegoelectricbikes.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026; 3 dealers.
  6. Arizona Governor's Office of Resiliency, Home Energy Upgrade Incentives — resilient.az.gov. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  7. Tucson Electric Power, Rebates — tep.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  8. Tucson Electric Power, Electric Vehicles — tep.com. Retrieved August 29, 2026.
  9. Individual shop websites, one per verified entry — each URL, retrieval date and the sentence that evidences it are recorded in content/articles/ebike-shops-arizona/citations.csv.
  10. Working datasets: research/shop-directory/arizona/osm_leads_20260829_citypatched.csv, verified_20260829.csv, coverage_50000.csv, hub_count_reconciled_20260904.csv, website_ratio_recheck_20260904.md and OPEN-GAPS.md.