Bike Shops in El Monte CA: 1 Verified eBike Store

El Monte, a Los Angeles County city, counted 104,639 residents in the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate. The lions on the cover stand on a platform canopy at the El Monte Metrolink station, where a 1996 Metro media advisory announced an artwork that celebrates the city's history "by evoking memories from Gay's Lion Farm, the home and training center of felines featured in many Hollywood films between 1925 and 1942."

The 1 Verified eBike Shop in El Monte

The maker of the bikes runs the city's only verified e-bike floor. Seven more bike businesses carry an El Monte address or listing, and none of them could be confirmed as an El Monte e-bike seller, for the reasons below.

Addmotor Showroom — 4188 Arden Drive

Address: 4188 Arden Dr, El Monte, CA 91731
Phone: (888) 660-0868, per Google Maps
Website: addmotor.com showroom page
Brands: Addmotor's own e-bikes and electric trikes
Hours: Monday to Friday 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m., per the showroom page
Focus: a maker's showroom with test rides and a service center, 1.0 mile from the city's center point. Evidence grade: site checked.

The showroom page reads "California Showroom Available: PURCHASING TEST RIDES SERVICE CENTER" and says "We have plenty of models for you to test ride and purchase on site." Google Maps lists the showroom as ADDMOTOR TECH and gives other hours, so phone before a late-afternoon visit.

Bring ID if you plan a test ride: Addmotor's test-ride terms set a "Minimum Age Requirement: 16+," ask minors to come with a parent or guardian and say "Proof of age is required." On Yelp, the showroom's owner writes that "Typically we only do repairs/maintenance on our own Addmotor e-bikes," so ask before you bring in another make.

Also tied to El Monte, named and not counted.

• Listings with no website of their own: Bike Shop El Monte at 3352 Tyler Ave, whose only page is a Linktree pointing to Instagram, and B1 Bicycle Shop at 11426 Garvey Ave, open daily on Google Maps. Neither names e-bikes on a page it runs.
• Repair, not sales: Fito's Bike Shop, a bicycle repair listing at 10109 Garvey Ave.
• Another business's site or a move: an Ascent Cycles listing at 4137 Peck Rd links a site whose contact page gives only a Seattle address, and Google Maps keeps Bike Revolution's old Peck Road store as "Old Bike Revolution bike shop."
• Could not be read: Bigfan Corp at 3614 Arden Dr and SOAP&WATER Bicycle Co. at 4704 Peck Rd list no website, so their own words were out of reach.

Near El Monte — Bike Shops in Monrovia, Alhambra, Pasadena and Whittier

Every e-bike floor within 10 straight-line miles of central El Monte, the Census Gazetteer point, was read. Five sit inside 6.5 miles; nine more lie between 7 and 10.

Bike Revolution Bike Shop — Monrovia

Address: 2640 S Myrtle Ave #9, Monrovia, CA 91016
Phone: (626) 838-8981
Focus: an electric bicycle store that moved here from Peck Road; its site prices e-bikes listed at "750 watts." 3.3 straight-line miles away. Evidence grade: site checked.

The same site also lists dual-motor machines it labels "2x1000 watts 33 mph." California's e-bike definition covers a motor that "does not exceed 750 watts," so ask which bikes on the floor are legal e-bikes before you buy.

E-Bike Cyclery — Monrovia

Address: 601 W Huntington Dr, Monrovia, CA 91016
Phone: (626) 664-1064
Focus: on Aventon's dealer map and Velotric's store finder. 4.6 straight-line miles away. Evidence grade: brand dealer roster.

Trailhead Bike Shop — Alhambra

Address: 411 W Main St, Alhambra, CA 91801
Focus: listed as a Bosch eBike dealer on Bosch's dealer map. 6.0 straight-line miles away. Evidence grade: brand dealer roster.

Velo Pasadena — Pasadena

Address: 2562 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107
Phone: (626) 304-0064
Focus: a Bosch eBike dealer on the same map. 6.3 straight-line miles away. Evidence grade: brand dealer roster.

G's Cyclery & Wheels — Whittier

Address: 6713 Greenleaf Ave, Whittier, CA 90601
Phone: (562) 698-9426
Focus: filed under Giant's E-Bikes category on its dealer map. 6.5 straight-line miles away. Evidence grade: brand dealer roster.

Between 7 and 10 miles. Montebello Bicycles (7.1 miles), Pasadena Cyclery (7.2), Covina Valley Cyclery (8.0), Trek Bicycle Pasadena (8.1), Redondo eBikes in Pasadena (8.2), Incycle Pasadena (8.4), Pedal Hut (8.5), Frank's Bicycles near Whittier (9.2) and Around the Cycle in Pasadena (9.8). Pasadena's floors are verified on the directory's Pasadena page, 8.6 miles away.

Closer, and not counted. Temple City Bike Shop (2.8 miles) sits on Specialized's map without its e-bike mark, and its domain is for sale; Cycling World in Monrovia (4.1 miles) offers "Specialized diagnostics and repairs for electric bikes," a service rather than sales.

Foothill, Metro, Metrolink and El Monte Transit — Taking Your eBike Aboard

Foothill, Metro, Metrolink and the City's El Monte Transit each draw the e-bike line differently: Foothill racks a battery bike, Metro and the City cap their racks at 55 pounds, and Metrolink measures your tires.

Foothill Transit. Its bus basics say "Battery powered bicycles must also be placed on the bike rack," while "Flammable-fueled vehicles and hoverboards are not allowed on the bus or in the bike racks."

Metro buses. Metro's biking page states that "Motorized bicycles or any bicycle over 55 pounds cannot be accommodated on Metro bus bike racks." Weigh your bike before you plan a Silver Line trip.

Metro trains. Rail cars take an e-bike that is "the size of a regular bike," subject to inspection, and "Bikes are not allowed on escalators."

El Monte Transit. The City's own buses run five fixed routes for $0.50 a ride from the El Monte Transit Station at 3679 Center Avenue, per its trolley page. Its passenger code of conduct states that "Motorized bicycles or any bicycle over 55 pounds cannot be accommodated on El Monte bus bike racks." Folding bikes with "20-inch or smaller wheels" may ride inside, but "Motorized folding bikes are not allowed."

Metrolink. Its bike rules admit "Electric bicycles with pedals and manufacturer-installed sealed batteries," switched off and never charged aboard, up to "32 inches wide x 58 inches long" with a "Maximum tire width: 2.6 inches." El Monte's station, at 10925 Railroad St., lists "Bike racks/lockers," per its station page.

The Metro Bike Hub. Metro opened its first secure bike-parking hub at El Monte Station in September 2015, after its flyer promised "a new Metro Bike Hub" and "New bicycle lockers (30) and stairway bike tracks." Its board was told in January 2019 that the hub offered "24-hour controlled access, bike repairs and sales," per a staff report. Today's hours were not published on the pages read, so confirm before you count on it.

The Rio Hondo and San Gabriel River Trails — and the Dam Work at Whittier Narrows

Two county river paths frame El Monte, and the Army Corps' dam project at Whittier Narrows can close sections of both while it runs.

The Rio Hondo River Trail

The county lists the Rio Hondo River Trail at 15.6 miles, rated easy. Its northern end "starts along the reservoir at the Peck Road Water Conservation Park and follows along the channel to Whittier Narrows Recreation Area."

The same page notes that a stretch in Montebello and Pico Rivera, between Sycamore Street and Bluff Road, is closed "until further notice." Plan a turnaround before you reach it.

The San Gabriel River Trail

The county's quick guide gives the San Gabriel River Trail a length of 35.36 miles. County Public Works maintains "approximately 100 miles of paved off-road Class I bike paths" along river corridors like these.

The dam work at Whittier Narrows

The Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Project warns of "construction-related impacts, including trail closures," with "Fall 2026 Major construction to begin" and "2033 Construction is expected to be complete."

California eBike Laws — What Makes an eBike Legal in El Monte

State law sets the e-bike classes; El Monte adds two sidewalk rules, a bike-path rule and a duty on parents.

What the state counts as an e-bike

California's Vehicle Code § 312.5(a) defines one as "a bicycle equipped with fully operable pedals and an electric motor that does not exceed 750 watts of power."

A bike sold as able to be unlocked past those limits falls outside the definition: under § 312.5(d), a vehicle "intended by the manufacturer to be modifiable" past 20 mph on motor power alone, or past 750 watts, may not be sold as an e-bike.

Section 24016(b) makes your legal e-bike "not a motor vehicle," so no license, registration or plate applies; its (d) and (e) forbid altering the bike out of the definition or selling a device that does.

Section 21200 gives you a driver's rights and duties on the road. The same § 24016(b) lifts the "financial responsibility" rule of § 16020, so your renter's or homeowner's insurer is the one to ask about coverage.

Under § 21213, "A person under 16 years of age shall not operate a class 3 electric bicycle," and § 21212 fines a rider under 18 without a helmet "not more than twenty-five dollars ($25)."

If your teenager is cited, § 21212(e)(2) holds you "jointly and severally liable" for the fine, though a compliant helmet and, where offered, a safety-course certificate shown within 120 days keep it out of court under § 21212(f).

El Monte's two sidewalk rules

The El Monte Municipal Code on Municode is "Codified through Ordinance No. 3055, passed June 11, 2025." Its § 10.28.030(A) says "No person shall ride or propel any bicycle upon or across any public sidewalk within a business district of the city," except where motor vehicles may lawfully drive. The Vehicle Code's § 235 makes a stretch a business district where buildings in business use fill half or more of the frontage.

The second rule has no such limit. Section 10.04.010 adopts the Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 1964 Edition, "as the traffic ordinance of the city of El Monte," and its § 8.3 says "No person shall ride, drive, propel or cause to be propelled any vehicle or animal across or upon any sidewalk," permanently built driveways aside.

• Bike paths. Under § 10.28.090, "Whenever a usable path for bicycles has been provided adjacent to a roadway, bicycle riders shall use such path and shall not use the roadway."
• Parents. Section 10.28.110 adds that "No parent shall cause or permit their child or ward to violate any portion of the provisions outlined in this chapter."
• The skate park. Section 12.50.040 bars "any bicycle, tricycle, unicycle, scooter, motorized or nonmotorized" from it.
• The license rule. Section 10.28.040 still asks for a city bicycle license, yet the state's § 39002(a) says a city "shall not prohibit the operation of an unlicensed bicycle."

What a violation costs

Breaking § 10.28.030 is a misdemeanor, punishable under § 1.24.010 by "a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for a period not exceeding six (6) months."

Riding a sidewalk against § 8.3 is an infraction, as the same section lists "all provisions of the Uniform Traffic Ordinance adopted herein by reference": up to $100, then $200 for a second within a year and $500 for a third within twelve months.

A rider under 18 handed a notice to appear on a misdemeanor is charged with an infraction instead, with the fine "set by the Court," and § 1.24.020 lets the court reduce an adult's misdemeanor to an infraction.

Which rule reaches your e-bike

The traffic ordinance borrows the Vehicle Code's definitions in its § 1.1, and § 670 leaves out of "vehicle" a "device moved exclusively by human power." On that reading your e-bike's motor makes it a vehicle that § 8.3 keeps off every sidewalk, and the bicycle chapter, which § 10.28.010 limits to bikes "propelled by human power through a system of belts, chains or gears," does not reach it.

On the other reading, § 231 says "An electric bicycle is a bicycle," which puts your e-bike under the business-district rule, while the ordinance's § 3.3 still gives anyone "riding a bicycle" on a highway "all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this ordinance."

The code does not settle it, so keep your e-bike off El Monte's sidewalks: cross at a driveway, the one place § 8.3 exempts, and ride the street or the bike path beside it.

What changes on January 1, 2027

Signed on September 30, 2026, two bills take effect on January 1, 2027, under the California Constitution's Article IV, § 8. From January 1, 2027, AB 2346, Chapter 842, sets "10 miles per hour" as "the prima facie speed limit for a sidewalk," where riding is allowed at all.

From January 1, 2027, SB 1167, Chapter 846, bars selling or labeling a vehicle "with motor power of more than 750 watts" as an e-bike.

Where to Ride Your eBike in El Monte

Take any legal class onto the street under § 21200, switch to an adjacent bike path wherever El Monte has built one, and use the river trails for longer rides.

Your El Monte riding checklist

• Keep the bike off every sidewalk, crossing at a driveway.
• Leave the roadway for an adjacent bike path where one runs beside it.
• Weigh the bike before a Metro or El Monte Transit bus; both racks stop at 55 pounds.
• Check tire width before Metrolink: 2.6 inches is the most it takes.
• Keep a helmet on every rider under 18, and on any Class 3 rider.

El Monte's e-bike library and GoSGV

The e-bike library. In ActiveSGV's announcement of the City's Clean Mobility Nexus program, "residents can borrow e-bikes at no cost for everyday trips. The program launched in January 2026." The page sends questions to ElMonteNexus.org or 626-580-2217.

GoSGV vouchers. The San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments' GoSGV page offers "a $2,000 voucher, discounting the price at the point of sale," toward "a new, high-quality, cargo-style electric bike from a local retailer."

El Monte residents qualify by address alone: GoSGV's eligibility list covers anyone who will "Reside in the cities of Alhambra, El Monte, Monterey Park, South El Monte, Rosemead, and San Gabriel." You must be over 18, complete a "mandatory rider safety and training course," and wait for "application reviews in Fall 2026."

Rebates

South Coast AQMD. El Monte appears on the district's jurisdiction list, so owners "who meet the income and vehicle requirements" can use Replace Your Ride, where "an applicant can select an e-Bike" instead of a car.

The district's e-bike page says "the program will cover up to $7,500," paid to the shop, for a bike with "a motor rating of 750W or less."

The state. California's own rebate is over: the California E-Bike Incentive Project "began in December 2022 and concluded in December 2025."

Why buy from us instead

El Monte's one e-bike floor carries one maker. Redtail's shipping policy promises free shipping on "every electric bike within the contiguous United States," which reaches an El Monte doorstep, across many brands.

If a new bike will not power on or charge, the refund policy routes the claim to us, and "we coordinate repair or replacement remotely." Report transit damage within 48 hours and we file the carrier claim for you; Shop Pay Installments are offered at checkout.

Frequently Asked Questions — El Monte, CA eBikes

Is there an e-bike shop in El Monte?

Yes, one verified on October 5, 2026: Addmotor's showroom at 4188 Arden Dr, whose own page offers purchasing, test rides and a service center, Monday to Friday 9:30 to 5 and Saturday 9:30 to 4, where you can test-ride before you buy. If you want more choice, five more e-bike floors sit 3.3 to 6.5 miles away.

Are e-bikes legal in El Monte?

Yes. A bike with working pedals and a motor that "does not exceed 750 watts" is a legal e-bike under California's § 312.5, and you need no license. El Monte's traffic ordinance bars riding a vehicle on any sidewalk, its bicycle chapter bars bicycles from business-district sidewalks, and § 12.50.040 keeps bicycles of every kind out of the skate park, so ride the street.

Where did Bike Revolution move?

Bike Revolution now trades at 2640 S Myrtle Ave in Monrovia, 3.3 miles from central El Monte, and Google Maps keeps its old Peck Road store as "Old Bike Revolution bike shop." Ask which of its bikes are legal e-bikes before you buy, since its site also lists dual-motor machines it labels "2x1000 watts."

What is the bike shop on Tyler Avenue in El Monte?

Bike Shop El Monte, at 3352 Tyler Ave, appears on Google Maps as a bicycle shop open Monday to Saturday and closed Sunday. Its only page is a Linktree pointing to Instagram, which names no e-bike, so it is listed here and not counted; call before you go if you need e-bike work.

What is El Monte's e-bike program?

The City's Clean Mobility Nexus program runs an e-bike library with ActiveSGV, launched in January 2026, where "residents can borrow e-bikes at no cost for everyday trips." Separately, if you live in El Monte and are over 18, GoSGV offers you a $2,000 voucher toward a cargo e-bike, with reviews in fall 2026.

Is there a Metro Bike Hub in El Monte?

Metro opened its first secure bike-parking hub at El Monte Station in September 2015, and a January 2019 staff report described "24-hour controlled access, bike repairs and sales" there. Its current hours were not on the pages read, so check with Metro before you rely on it.

More from the U.S. eBike Directory

Pasadena's page sits 8.6 miles north, Downey's 11.1 miles south and Fullerton's 14.3 miles southeast.

Sources, limitations and how this page was verified

The denominator

El Monte had 104,639 residents in the Census Bureau's 2024 vintage estimate (California file, row "El Monte city"), against a 2020 estimates base of 109,457.

Eight businesses were tied to El Monte by at least one source: 1 verified, 2 listings with no website of their own, 1 repair shop, 2 moved or carrying another business's site, and 2 that could not be read.

Before verdicts, a sporting-goods chain, the Metro Bike Hub (parking, covered under transit), a transportation-service listing and three South El Monte businesses were set aside.

The sources, and what each one could and could not do

Seven makers' dealer maps were read on October 4, 2026, each with a control: Velotric, Aventon, Giant, Bosch, Specialized, Trek and Pedego's California directory, to 10 miles. Trek's map carries no e-bike mark, so its rows were leads.

The directory's Pasadena page supplied three verified floors, Pasadena Cyclery, Trek Bicycle Pasadena and Pedal Hut, from its own-site reads of October 1, 2026.

OpenStreetMap relation 16310540, El Monte in Los Angeles County, was read as a lead pool and never as a count.

Directories and AI search. Yelp, Superpages and Google Maps were read in a browser, and eight questions went to eight answer engines: five answered all eight, Brave one, and Copilot showed a sign-in wall.

Every lead the engines named was read. One placed an "LD Ebike" at 4344 Shirley Ave, where Google Maps returned no business; another named a Monrovia shop Google Maps does not list. Answers from four engines still printed Bike Revolution's old Peck Road number, 4258.

The city code was read on Municode; a search for "electric bicycle," "e-bike," "motorized bicycle" and "motorized scooter" returned no section.

City limits

Every El Monte street address named here returned "El Monte city" from the Census geocoder, the Ascent Cycles listing by its map point. Mileages run from the Census 2024 Gazetteer's internal point for El Monte city; road miles run longer.

Frank's Bicycles near Whittier sits in unincorporated county land the geocoder could not match, so its distance runs from Velotric's own map point. For the cover, the Metrolink station's address and the reference photograph's camera point both returned "El Monte city."

Limitations

1. Which of El Monte's two sidewalk rules reaches an e-bike is unsettled; both readings and the cautious course are printed above.
2. The showroom's hours differ between its own page and Google Maps; the page prints the showroom's own.
3. Bigfan Corp and SOAP&WATER Bicycle Co. list no website, so their own words could not be read.
4. The Metro Bike Hub's current hours were not published on any Metro page read on October 5, 2026.

What would age this page

• A store opening or closing inside El Monte, or a listed shop publishing a page that sells e-bikes.
• The City defining e-bikes in Chapter 10.28 or its traffic ordinance, or Metro publishing the El Monte hub's hours.
• January 1, 2027, when AB 2346 and SB 1167 take effect, and fall 2026, when GoSGV's next reviews and the dam work begin.

Image credit: the cover scene was generated with Nano Banana Pro on Playcut and its type set in Playcut Brush afterward. What the platform canopy and its lions look like was checked against Metrolink's public-domain photograph on Wikimedia Commons before the prompt; the frame holds no rider and no bicycle.

Source register

References

1. US Census Bureau, SUB-EST2024 CSV · table page · Geocoder · 2024 Gazetteer. Retrieved 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05.
2. City of El Monte, Municipal Code on Municode: home · § 1.24.010 · § 10.04.010 · § 10.28.030 · § 12.50.040. Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 1964 Edition, as adopted: § 1.1 · § 3.3 · § 8.3. Retrieved 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05.
3. California Vehicle Code § 231 · § 235 · § 312.5 · § 670 · § 16020 · § 21200 · § 21212 · § 21213 · § 24016 · § 39002. California Constitution, art. IV, § 8. AB 2346 (Ch. 842) · SB 1167 (Ch. 846), Statutes of 2026. Retrieved 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-04.
4. South Coast AQMD, Jurisdiction · Replace Your Ride · E-Bike. CARB, California E-Bike Incentive Project. San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments, GoSGV. ActiveSGV, Clean Mobility Nexus launch. Retrieved 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05.
5. Foothill Transit, Bus basics. Los Angeles Metro, Biking with Metro · Introducing the new El Monte Station · Media advisory, 1996 · The Source, September 14, 2015 · Board report, January 2019. Metrolink, Bikes · El Monte station. City of El Monte, Trolleys · Passenger Code of Conduct. Retrieved 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05.
6. Los Angeles County Parks, Rio Hondo River Trail · San Gabriel River Trail quick guide. Los Angeles County Public Works, Bikeways. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Whittier Narrows Dam Safety Project. Retrieved 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05.
7. Dealer maps, retrieved 2026-10-04: Aventon · Bosch · Giant · Velotric, Specialized, Trek and Pedego · OpenStreetMap.
8. Shops' own sites and listings, retrieved 2026-10-04 and 2026-10-05: Addmotor showroom · Bike Revolution.
9. Redtail eBikes, shipping policy · refund policy · How Buying Works. Wikimedia Commons, El Monte Metrolink station (Metrolink, 2015, public domain). Playcut, playcut.ai, the cover scene (Nano Banana Pro, 2K) and its type in Playcut Brush.