eBike Stores in Louisiana (2026): 34 Verified

Three of Louisiana's eight planning districts hold most of its e-bike counters: New Orleans Region (16), Acadiana (5) and Capital Region (5). Between them they have 26 of the 34 stores listed here, 76.5%, more than their 60.6% share of Louisiana's people (Census Bureau 2025 estimates).

A mailing address names a post office, while a city's limits are a Census line, and in Louisiana the two part ways (each store placed by its own point with the Census geocoder):

• All five listed stores with a New Orleans address are inside the city.
• One of the four listed stores with a Baton Rouge address is outside the city of Baton Rouge, in St. George.
• All four listed stores with a Lafayette address are inside the city.

Across the state, three of the 34 stores that print a mailing town are outside the place it names (Census geocoder), so read a listing's parish before you plan the drive.

Louisiana's 64 parishes fall into eight state planning districts, each served by its own planning body, and the Louisiana Association of Planning and Development Districts lists the parishes of each. The store listings below follow those eight districts, named in their own geographic words. The state's District & Parish Codes agree on 63 of the 64 parishes and put St. Mary in District 4, where the association puts it in District 3; this page follows the association.

Each listing gives you the street address, a phone number when a source confirms it, and a grade naming the check that proved the store sells e-bikes.

The building on the cover is St. Louis Cathedral, on Jackson Square in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Its own history says that "in 1851 Archbishop Antoine Blanc blessed the newly expanded and restored Cathedral" (Our History, read October 23, 2026).

Louisiana's eBike Map, Parish by Parish

The table lists Louisiana's twenty-one parishes of 50,000 or more people, home to 78.6% of the state's residents (Census Bureau 2025 estimates). "Verified stores" counts each store in the parish its own point falls in, and "Open leads" counts bike businesses there not yet confirmed to sell e-bikes. Every listed store is in one of these parishes.

Eight of Louisiana's nine communities of 50,000 or more have verified stores inside their own limits: New Orleans 5, Lafayette 4, Baton Rouge 3, Lake Charles 2, Kenner 2, Bossier City 2, Shreveport 1 and St. George 1 (Census Bureau 2025 estimates; Metairie, a census-designated place, by the 2020 Census). Metairie has none inside its limits; the nearest-store table names the closest counter to it.

New Orleans Region has the most listings, 16 of the 34, and 24.7% of Louisiana's people (Census Bureau 2025 estimates). It also has the most per resident, 1.4 stores per 100,000 people, against 0.7 for Louisiana as a whole.

Central Louisiana, North Delta and South Central Louisiana have the fewest per resident, about 0.3 each, with one store apiece for 20.7% of the state's people together (Census Bureau 2025 estimates). If you live in one of them, its listings below give you each store's street.

Louisiana eBike Law — 2026 Quick Reference

Louisiana writes the e-bike into its definition of a bicycle (R.S. 32:1(7)), so the machine you buy from a shop in this directory is ridden under bicycle law, with "all the rights and privileges" and "all of the duties" that come with it (R.S. 32:204(A)).

Find the motor rating before you pay: the definition takes "an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts" (R.S. 32:1(25)), which leaves a bike rated at exactly 750 watts outside it.

Each section of the Revised Statutes cited here was read on legis.la.gov, the Legislature's own site, on October 23, 2026. The 2026 regular session ended on June 1 and the next convenes on April 12, 2027, and the Legislature's 2026 index of acts lists one act under bicycles: Act 951, the red-light rule below.

For the section-by-section read, see our Louisiana e-bike law guide; the rules below decide which bike you buy and where you can take it.

• The definition, word for word. R.S. 32:1(25) asks for "fully operable pedals", "a saddle or seat for each rider" and a motor under the 750-watt line, built to one of three classes. Class one helps "only when the rider is pedaling" and stops at 20 mph; Class two "may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle", also to 20 mph; Class three helps only while you pedal, up to 28 mph.
• Trikes qualify, small wheels do not. The same definition (R.S. 32:1(25)) counts "two tandem wheels, either of which is sixteen inches or more in diameter, or three wheels, any one of which is twenty inches or more in diameter". An adult electric trike can therefore be an electric-assisted bicycle in Louisiana, and a folder on 14-inch wheels cannot.
• Over the line, you keep none of the exemptions. The motor-vehicle definition's only carve-outs are "a motorized bicycle and an electric-assisted bicycle" (R.S. 32:1(50)). Whether a bike over the line then counts as a "motorized bicycle" (R.S. 32:1(52)) or a motorcycle turns on limbs our law guide works through; either way the rider needs a driver's license (R.S. 32:198, R.S. 32:402(B)).
• The label is your proof. Since "August 1, 2020", makers and distributors fix "a label permanently affixed in a prominent location" giving "the classification number, top-assisted speed, and motor wattage" (R.S. 32:204(B)). Nobody may modify a bike "so as to change its classification, unless the manufacturer's label indicating the classification is appropriately replaced" (subsection (C)), so ask to see the label at the counter.
• Built to the bicycle standard, with a motor that stops. The bike meets the federal bicycle rules in "16 CFR Part 1512" (R.S. 32:204(D)), and its motor must be "disengaged or ceases to function when the rider stops pedaling or when the brakes are applied" (subsection (E)).
• Class 3: twelve is the state's floor. "No person under the age of twelve shall operate a Class three electric-assisted bicycle", though a younger child may ride as a passenger on one built for passengers (R.S. 32:204(G)). Every Class 3 operator and passenger wears an approved helmet (subsection (H)), and the bike carries a speedometer that reads in miles per hour (subsection (I)).
• Children under 12 wear a helmet. A parent may not "knowingly allow" a child "under the age of twelve to operate or ride as a passenger on a bicycle without wearing an approved helmet", and a child under 40 pounds or 40 inches rides only in a restraining seat (R.S. 32:199(B)). Every business that regularly sells or rents bicycles must post a sign stating both rules, at least 24 inches long and 12 wide (subsection (C)).
• No license, registration or insurance. The license law asks for a license to drive a "motor vehicle" (R.S. 32:402(B)), and its own definitions leave out "electric-assisted bicycles" (R.S. 32:401(20)). For the registration tax, "a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle" (R.S. 47:451(41)). Compulsory insurance covers "Every self-propelled motor vehicle registered in this state" (R.S. 32:861(A)), and the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Law defines a motor vehicle with "electric-assisted bicycles" left out (R.S. 32:851(5)). A city may still register bicycles: R.S. 32:41(A)(7) lets it require "the registration and licensing of bicycles, including the requirement of a registration fee".
• Streets, shoulders, lanes and paths. Your e-bike "may be ridden in places where bicycles are allowed, including but not limited to streets, highways, roadways, bicycle facilities, bicycle lanes, shared-use trails, bicycle paths, or trails" (R.S. 32:204(F)). Keep "as near to the right side of the roadway as practicable", ride no more than two abreast except on paths and lanes "set aside for the exclusive use of bicycles", and use the shoulder when you want it: "Persons riding bicycles shall be allowed to operate on the shoulder of a roadway" (R.S. 32:197). In a bike lane, ride "at no speed greater than what is reasonable or prudent" and "in a manner which does not endanger the safety of bicyclists" (R.S. 32:203(C)).
• Sidewalks are your city's call. Of the bicycle sections, R.S. 32:193 to 32:204, only two mention a sidewalk: one keeps a motorized bicycle off it (R.S. 32:198), and the other lets parishes and towns allow motor scooters on it (R.S. 32:200). Neither speaks to an e-bike, so the city's code decides (town rules).
• Lights from sunset to sunrise, and in the rain. Between "sunset and sunrise", in light too poor to see 500 feet ahead, and whenever "precipitation necessitates the continuous use of windshield wipers" (R.S. 32:301(A)), a bicycle carries a white front lamp seen from 500 feet, a red rear lamp, steady or flashing, a red rear reflector and side reflectors (R.S. 32:329.1(A)). No retailer in the state may sell a bicycle without them (subsection (E)).
• Who can close a path. A parish, a municipality or a state agency that runs a shared-use trail or bicycle path may close it to Class one or two only "Following notice and public hearing", and only "if it finds that such a restriction is necessary for safety reasons or compliance with other laws or legal obligations"; for Class three the subsection names no hearing (R.S. 32:204(F)(1)-(2)). A natural-surface trail "specifically designated as nonmotorized" sits outside that rule, and its manager "may regulate" e-bikes there (subsection (F)(3)).
• New since August 1, 2026: the red light that never turns. At a signal "influenced by a vehicle-actuated control", the rider of a "bicycle or any electric bicycle" may go through a steady red after stopping "for two complete cycles of the traffic-control signal or for two minutes, whichever occurs first", treating the signal as a stop sign, judging it safe, and yielding to pedestrians in an adjacent crosswalk and to any vehicle approaching from either direction (Act 951 of 2026, rewriting R.S. 32:232(3)(e)). The Legislature's online code runs through the 2025 First Extraordinary Session and still prints the older R.S. 32:232, so the act is the text to carry.

Two readings the code leaves open. Class two's motor "may be used exclusively to propel the bicycle" (R.S. 32:1(25)), while R.S. 32:204(E) wants it to stop "when the rider stops pedaling". Read one way, a throttle ride is what Class two is for; read the other, the motor must quit when your feet do.

Both readings keep the brakes limb, so a Class two whose motor cuts the moment you touch a brake lever satisfies the part they share.

The helmet section carries its own definition of a bicycle, "a human-powered vehicle with two tandem wheels designed to transport, by pedaling, one or more persons" (R.S. 32:199(A)), while R.S. 32:204(A) hands an e-bike's rider "all of the duties" of a cyclist.

So whether the under-12 rule reaches an e-bike can be read either way, and the section assesses "No civil penalties or court costs" in any case (R.S. 32:199(F)). Put the helmet on the child regardless; on a Class three, every rider needs one.

Where you can ride a Louisiana e-bike, at a glance. Each row links its source.

• State parks treat your e-bike as a bicycle. "Low-speed electric bicycles (electric motor of less than 750 watts, 1 hp) are treated like bicycles", which ride "only on those roads, lanes, or byways designated for vehicular traffic unless otherwise authorized by the site manager", and "No person shall operate a vehicle in excess of 15 miles per hour on any OSP sites unless otherwise posted" (LAC 25:IX.305(B), (D), (E)(3)). Breaking a park rule can bring "administrative fines for each violation of not less than $15 nor more than $250" and eviction from the site (LAC 25:IX.321(A)).
• Wildlife management areas keep you on the road map. "Electric bicycles are restricted to designated roads and ATV/UTV trails" (LAC 76:XIX.111(G)(9)(q), in the State Register's Title 76 file, last modified September 29, 2026). Hunters may haul out their own downed deer and hogs "with the aid of an ATV or electric bicycle", carrying no firearm or bow, except on nine named WMAs (item (o)), and Bussey Brake allows none at all: "No ATVs/UTVs or electric bicycles allowed."
• Kisatchie, the state's one national forest, counts your e-bike as a motor vehicle. The Forest Service defines a motor vehicle as "Any vehicle which is self-propelled", with no e-bike exception (36 CFR § 212.1), and once a district's designations are on its map "it is prohibited to possess or operate a motor vehicle" there "other than in accordance with those designations" (36 CFR § 261.13). Kisatchie, "Louisiana's ONLY national forest", publishes those motor vehicle use maps district by district.
• National parks decide trail by trail, and two texts disagree on the watts. An e-bike rides where "The Superintendent will designate", is "prohibited in locations not designated", may not run on the motor alone "for an extended period of time without pedaling" where cars are not allowed, and Louisiana law applies on top (36 CFR § 4.30(i)). The Park Service defines the electric bicycle by "an electric motor of not more than 750 watts" (36 CFR § 1.4), while R.S. 32:1(25) says "less than"; a bike rated under 750 watts is inside both.

Town rules that change the ride

A city may register bicycles (R.S. 32:41(A)(7)) and close a path it runs (R.S. 32:204(F)), so a rule can change when you cross a city line.

Of the 181 Louisiana entries on Municode's list, searched on October 23, 2026 for every form of the e-bike's name, three codes set a rule for a bike you own and two regulate rental fleets only; four entries carry no code, and four (St. George, Washington Parish and two retirement systems) list a code with no published version there that day. Each rule below is quoted from its code as published that day.

• New Orleans. A Class 3 rider must be 16: "No person under the age of 16 may operate a class 3 electric-assisted bicycle" (§ 154-1433). A Class 3 "shall not be ridden on a bicycle or shared use trail" (§ 154-1432), a Class 1 "may be ridden on a bicycle or shared use trail where bicycles are permitted" (§ 154-1431), and the article sets no trail rule for Class 2. Your e-bike carries "all of the duties" of a bicycle in the city's code (§ 154-1425), so stay off the sidewalk from age 15: "No person 15 or more years of age shall ride a bicycle upon any sidewalk in the city nor will bicycles be allowed on sidewalks in the business district" (§ 154-1416).
• Registering and parking in New Orleans. Registration is your choice: a resident "may register the bicycle" to receive an identification number (§ 154-1403). Lock it where it blocks nobody, because "Unsecured bicycles, electric-assisted bicycles" that obstruct a sidewalk or street "may be immediately removed from the rights-of-way and stored" (§ 146-493(b)(2)).
• West Monroe. Since Ordinance No. 5642 of September 1, 2026, "electric bicycles" are on the list of vehicles "prohibited" in the city's parks and recreational facilities, "except when operated by the city, an emergency-response agency or another person expressly authorized by the city" (§ 6-2023(c)). The twelve parks it names include Kiroli Park and the Highland Park Wetland Trails (§ 6-2001), and a violation can cost "a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300.00), imprisonment for not more than ninety (90) days, or both" (§ 6-2038(a)).
• Abbeville. The city's license-tag section counts bicycles "operated by foot power, electric or otherwise", requires every one that is not foot-powered to carry "a proper state permit and/or tag as required by law", and issues "an official bicycle license plate" for a fee of $5. Since Ordinance No. 25-03 of February 18, 2025 the section ends: "All foot powered bicycles and electric bicycles shall operate within the designated bike lanes within the city limits is so provided" (§ 12-81). Ask the police department whether your e-bike needs the plate before you ride there.
• The Tammany Trace. St. Tammany Parish's rail-trail holds every user to 15 mph ("Do not exceed 15 miles per hour speed limit") and admits "Only authorized motorized vehicles" (§ 30-371(2)(m), (3)(c)). Neither that section, last amended in 2018, nor the parish's Trace rules page names the e-bike, and the state lets a trail manager close a trail to Class 1 or 2 only after notice, a hearing and a finding (R.S. 32:204(F)(1)). Ride it under 15 with your class label in place.
• Renting in Lafayette or Baton Rouge. A shared e-bike in Lafayette takes "a valid driver's license" and an age of 16, and its rider "shall wear a helmet" (§ 98-214(b)(3)-(4)); the rule binds the users of a rental fleet, not the owner of a bike. Baton Rouge's code names the e-bike in one place, the definitions of its shared-mobility chapter, which permits rental operators (§ 9:1301).

What breaking a rule costs

Rebates and tax credits

New Orleans pays up to $1,200 toward an e-bike. The City "has budgeted funding for at least 2,500 rebates", and "1,500 rebates are reserved for income-qualified residents"; "Income-qualified rebates are $1,200 and all other rebates are $600" (E-Bike Rebate Program, updated October 16, 2026).

Round one opened for registration on September 28, 2026 with "100 rebates", half at $1,200 and half at $600 (the City's release of that day); the City's page says round two "is expected in Spring 2027" and that its registration "opens February 15th at 9:00 AM CST and closes March 1st at 8:00 AM CST".

The City's map of participating retailers names four shops: Bayou Bicycles, Bicycle Michael's, GNO Cyclery and Ride This Bike. You find every one of them in the New Orleans Region listings below.

If you plan to spend a voucher with eBike NOLA, its own site says to redeem it at 223 Dauphine Street, the French Quarter shop listed below as RideTHISBike: its Kenner showroom is "not a redemption or repair location".

No state law pays toward one. A search of the Louisiana Revised Statutes on the Legislature's law search on October 23, 2026, current through the 2025 First Extraordinary Session, finds "electric-assisted bicycle" in six sections, all in Title 32 (R.S. 32:1, 32:203, 32:204, 32:401, 32:851 and 32:1252), and "electric bicycle" or "electric bike" in none. Each of the six defines the bike or sets a road rule; none pays toward one.

Your electric utility is the other place a rebate could come from. EIA Form 861 lists 38 electric distribution utilities serving Louisiana in its 2025 and 2024 data. The websites of 35 of them were read on October 23, 2026, nineteen in full and sixteen in part, where a site refused some of its pages, and none offers an e-bike rebate.

The parent company of Entergy Louisiana and Entergy New Orleans names the e-bike only in a January 11, 2023 release on the New Orleans bike share, whose operator "is adding 300 new, pedal-assist e-bikes to the fleet" (Entergy), and offers no rebate.

The other three could not be read (one with no website we could find and two that answered no route we tried), so this page says nothing either way about them. Check with your own utility before you buy, since a program could open after October 23, 2026.

eBike Stores in Louisiana, District by District

Within each district, you find a store under the town on its mailing address. That is a post-office name, so a store grouped under one town may stand over a parish line.

Near the Texas line? Our Texas directory lists the verified stores on the other side, and the national directory collects every state we have published.

New Orleans Region (16 listed across 8 communities)

Covington (1 verified)

• Brooks' Bike Shop: 416 E Gibson Street, 70433 · (985) 237-3658 · brooksbikeshop.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23

Elmwood (1 verified)

• Trek Bicycle: 1126 South Clearview Parkway, 70123 · (504) 822-6006 · trekbikes.com, store page · site checked, 2026-10-23

Gretna (1 verified)

• The Pedal Shop: 1600 Lafayette Street, 70053 · (504) 361-8551 · thepedalshop.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Jefferson (1 verified)

• Bicycle World: 701 Jefferson Highway, 70121 · (504) 828-1862 · bicycleworldla.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Kenner (2 verified)

• Eastbank Cyclery: 1908 West Esplanade Avenue, 70065 · (504) 464-8803 · eastbankcyclery.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• eBike NOLA: 4240 Williams Blvd Ste 5, 70065 · (504) 533-9688 · ebikenola.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Mandeville (3 verified)

• Brooks' Bikes / Trikes & Beyond: 128 Girod St, 70448 · (985) 237-3658 · brooksbikeshop.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23
• Owheelies Bicycle Co.: 639 Girod St, 70448 · (985) 629-4211 · owheelies.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• Trek Bicycle: 3450 Highway 190, 70471 · (504) 499-0202 · trekbikes.com, store page · site checked, 2026-10-23

New Orleans (5 verified)

• Bayou Bicycles: 3530 Toulouse Street, 70119 · (504) 488-1946 · bayoubicycles.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• Bicycle Michael's: 622 Frenchmen Street, 70116 · (504) 945-9505 · bicyclemichaels.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• GNO Cyclery: 1426 South Carrollton Avenue, 70118 · (504) 861-0023 · gnocyclery.com · City of New Orleans rebate list, 2026-10-23
• JBird Bike Shop: 2336 St Louis St, 70119 · (504) 521-6997 · jbirdbikes.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• RideTHISBike: 223 Dauphine St, 70112 · (504) 533-9688 · ridethisbike.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Slidell (2 verified)

• 985 Bikes: 1361 Englewood Dr, 70458 · (985) 259-2711 · 985bikes.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• Brooks' Bike Shop: 208A West Hall Avenue, 70460 · (985) 265-4278 · brooksbikeshop.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23

Capital Region (5 listed across 2 communities)

Baton Rouge (4 verified)

• Capitol Cyclery: 5778 Essen Ln, 70810 · (225) 766-4004 · capitolcyclery.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23
• Capitol Cyclery: 8424 Florida Blvd, 70806 · (225) 927-1997 · capitolcyclery.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23
• eBike Baton Rouge: 12654 Perkins Rd, 70810 · (225) 773-2222 · ebikebr.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• Pedego Electric Bikes: 602 Main St., 70801 · (225) 256-6775 · pedegoelectricbikes.com · Pedego dealer map, 2026-10-23

Gonzales (1 verified)

• Capitol Cyclery: 1410 Louisiana 30 W, 70737 · (225) 644-1996 · capitolcyclery.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23

Acadiana (5 listed across 2 communities)

Abbeville (1 verified)

• EZ E-bikes: 1506 Veterans Memorial Dr, 70510 · (337) 385-2146 · ez-e-bikes.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Lafayette (4 verified)

• Acadiana Bicycle Company: 413 Coolidge Street, 70501 · (337) 354-7924 · cyclelouisiana.com · site checked, 2026-10-23
• Capitol Cyclery: 4498 Johnston St, 70503 · (337) 981-4449 · capitolcyclery.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23
• eBikes Plus: 2668 Johnston Street Suite B4, 70506 · (337) 806-9851 · sites.google.com, store page · site checked, 2026-10-23
• Hub City Cycles: 501 Jefferson St, 70501 · (337) 235-2453 · cyclehubcity.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Northwest Louisiana (3 listed across 2 communities)

Bossier City (2 verified)

• Bikes Etc: 3723 East Texas Street, 71111 · (318) 746-0174 · Velotric dealer map, 2026-10-23
• Flugers Outdoors: 1120 Airline Dr Ste 100, 71112 · (318) 759-0374 · flugersoutdoors.com · site checked, 2026-10-23

Shreveport (1 verified)

• The Adventure Provision Company: 3787 Youree Dr, 71105 · (318) 629-2453 · adventureprovisionco.com · Bosch dealer map, 2026-10-23

South Central Louisiana (1 listed across 1 community)

Houma (1 verified)

• BG Bicycles: 6860 W Park Ave Suite D, 70364 · (985) 327-8709 · bgbicycles.com · Velotric and Aventon dealer maps, 2026-10-23

Southwest Louisiana (2 listed across 1 community)

Lake Charles (2 verified)

• Capitol Cyclery: 722 E Prien Lake Rd, 70601 · (337) 479-7505 · capitolcyclery.com · chain site checked, 2026-10-23
• Southern Specialty Products: 615 E. Prien Lake Road, 70601 · (337) 474-9090 · southernspecialtyproducts.com · Bosch dealer map, 2026-10-23

North Delta (1 listed across 1 community)

Monroe (1 verified)

• Blue Bikes: 94 Lincoln Road, 71203 · (318) 307-0794 · Velotric dealer map, 2026-10-23

Central Louisiana (1 listed across 1 community)

Alexandria (1 verified)

• Red River Cyclery: 4023 Parliament Drive, 71303 · (318) 473-4256 · redrivercyclery.com · Velotric and Aventon dealer maps, 2026-10-23

If your city has none: the nearest verified store

One of Louisiana's nine communities of 50,000 or more has no verified store inside its limits. Each distance below runs in a straight line from the Census Bureau's point for the community to the closest listed store, so expect your drive to be longer.

From Metairie, the closest listed store is Trek Bicycle, 2.6 miles away in a straight line (Census Gazetteer). Call before you make the drive: a shop that sells e-bikes can still be out of your size or the model you want that day.

Frequently Asked Questions — Louisiana eBike Shops

Who sells electric bikes in Louisiana?

The 34 storefronts in the listings above do, in 18 communities spread over 13 of Louisiana's 64 parishes; St. Tammany Parish has the most, 6. Each listing ends with the evidence that the store sells e-bikes; where that evidence is a maker's dealer map, the grade links the maker's own locator, which shows the brands the store is authorized to sell.

Where are the e-bike shops in New Orleans?

Five verified stores are inside the city of New Orleans, Bayou Bicycles, Bicycle Michael's and GNO Cyclery among them (Census geocoder). You find each store's street, phone and verifying check in the New Orleans Region listing below.

Where are the e-bike shops in Baton Rouge?

Three verified stores are inside the city of Baton Rouge: Capitol Cyclery on Essen Ln, Capitol Cyclery on Florida Blvd and Pedego Electric Bikes on Main St. (Census geocoder). Outside the city, East Baton Rouge Parish has one more, in St. George. You find each store's street, phone and verifying check in the Capital Region listing below.

Where are the e-bike shops in Shreveport?

One verified store is inside the city of Shreveport: The Adventure Provision Company on Youree Dr (Census geocoder). You find each store's street, phone and verifying check in the Northwest Louisiana listing below.

Are electric bikes street legal in Louisiana?

Yes, when the bike fits R.S. 32:1(25): "fully operable pedals", a seat for each rider, wheels of at least 16 inches (20 on one wheel of a trike) and "an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts", built to Class 1, 2 or 3.

It "may be ridden in places where bicycles are allowed", streets, bike lanes, shared-use trails and paths included (R.S. 32:204(F)). At 750 watts or more it loses the e-bike's exemptions (R.S. 32:1(50)).

Do you need a license or registration for an e-bike in Louisiana?

No. The license law reaches a "motor vehicle" (R.S. 32:402(B)) and its definitions leave out "electric-assisted bicycles" (R.S. 32:401(20)), and for the registration tax "a bicycle or a ridden animal shall not be deemed a vehicle" (R.S. 47:451(41)).

New Orleans leaves registration to you: a resident "may register the bicycle" (§ 154-1403). Only Class 3 has an age floor, 12 statewide (R.S. 32:204(G)) and 16 in New Orleans (§ 154-1433).

Does Louisiana have a helmet law for e-bikes?

Yes, for every Class 3 rider: "All operators and passengers of a Class three electric-assisted bicycle shall wear an approved bicycle helmet", whatever their age (R.S. 32:204(H)).

A parent may not let a child under 12 ride a bicycle without one (R.S. 32:199(B)), which can be read either way for an e-bike, since that section defines a bicycle as "human-powered" (R.S. 32:199(A)). Put the helmet on your child anyway.

The Class 3 fine is $50, waived on proof that you bought a helmet (R.S. 32:204(H)(3)); the child rule carries no fine at all (R.S. 32:199(F)).

Can you ride an e-bike on the sidewalk in Louisiana?

It depends on the city, because the state's bicycle sections set no sidewalk rule for an e-bike. New Orleans keeps every rider 15 or older off its sidewalks and every bicycle off "sidewalks in the business district" (§ 154-1416). A motorized bicycle, which a bike over 750 watts can turn out to be, "shall not be operated upon sidewalks" anywhere in the state (R.S. 32:198).

The Bottom Line

The 34 verified counters are spread over 13 of Louisiana's 64 parishes, and eight of its nine communities of 50,000 or more have one inside their limits. New Orleans Region has 16, and Central Louisiana, North Delta and South Central Louisiana have one each. If your parish has none, look at the parishes next to it before you buy a bike you have never ridden.

Buy from a counter near you if you want to ride before you pay, want a mechanic to adjust the brakes and the saddle height to you, and want somewhere to bring the bike for its first tune-up. In New Orleans, a participating counter is also the only place the City's rebate voucher can be spent.

Order online if the model you want stands on no floor near you. Read the spec sheet first: Louisiana's definition takes "an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty watts" (R.S. 32:1(25)), so a motor rated at exactly 750 W is outside it, and every Class 3 operator and passenger wears a helmet (R.S. 32:204(H)).

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Sources, limitations and how this page was verified

How the count was reached

Every storefront counts once: 34 verified storefronts, each one listed above.

The candidate pool. OpenStreetMap held 37 entries tagged as bicycle shops inside Louisiana; dropping the unnamed ones and merging repeats left 32, of which 23 list a website. Eight makers' dealer locators added 36 storefront rows: the dealer maps of Bosch, Aventon, Giant, Trek, Specialized, Velotric, Pedego and Lectric.

Two more makers' store finders were read whole for Louisiana: QuietKat's lists ten locations in the state and Magnum's three locations. Lectric's one Louisiana location, tagged as a retail store, is among the dealer-map rows above, and SWFT, which sells through Best Buy, has no Louisiana store page on its own site.

REI's store directory lists no store in Louisiana, and none of the other chains' own store pages led to a Louisiana storefront this list does not already carry.

The Google Maps search asked for bike shops and then for electric bike shops in each of those places: 628 searches, which with the follow-up reads they led to produced 64 candidates to check.

Every business the AI engines named in answering the 15 questions was checked against the sweep, and the nineteen it lacked were looked up on Google Maps.

Of those nineteen, five are stores listed here (Owheelies Bicycle Co., The Adventure Provision Company and three Capitol Cyclery stores), four are open leads (Bayou City Bicycles, Front Yard Bikes, KY's Olde Towne Bicycle Shop and The Bike Path), three are marked permanently closed, two are motorcycle businesses and five have no listing of their own (the search returned other businesses).

Reddit was searched as well, for the questions riders ask and the shops they name: 35 of 36 searches across twelve subreddits named for Louisiana and its cities returned an answer, and the one search Reddit left unanswered, in r/Mandeville, could not be read; the 244 replies under the 8 posts they found were read for shop names as well.

The test each store passed. Its own website had to offer e-bikes for sale in its own words: a price, a category of e-bikes, or a sentence saying the shop sells them. An e-bike named only on a repair menu, a rental rate sheet, a raffle, a trail notice or a parts page does not count, nor does a car or powersports dealer's e-bike page.

A site that would not load was opened again in a real browser, through a text reader and from an archived copy, and every candidate whose first read showed no e-bike for sale was crawled page by page, so a shop that keeps its e-bikes deep in its catalog still counts.

Every one of the forty leads with no site of its own, or none that would load, was then searched for by name and checked again on Google Maps:

• Three sell e-bikes and are listed above: Capitol Cyclery in Baton Rouge, Trek Bicycle in Mandeville and Acadiana Bicycle Company in Lafayette.
• Two have closed, marked permanently closed on Google Maps.
• Two have pages of their own, read on October 23, 2026, and neither offers an e-bike for sale.
• Nineteen are not bicycle stores (nine businesses in other trades, seven motorcycle and powersports businesses, one club or repair co-op, one listing for an event and one maker's office or workshop).
• One rents bikes and sells no e-bike.
• One was a second listing of a place already read.
• The other twelve are still open leads.

A dealer map is the other way onto this list: a store counts when the Velotric, Bosch, Aventon and Pedego map places it at its address as an e-bike dealer.

Last came each store's own Google Maps listing: 32 of the 34 resolved to one business at the listed address that Google shows open; the other two appear on their own Google Maps panels, with their hours, no closed notice and the streets the listings print, and a store Google marks closed, even for a while, is left off.

How to read the listings

The grade that ends each listing names what confirmed the store sells e-bikes.

Site checked applies to 18 of the 34: the shop's own website sells e-bikes.

Chain site checked applies to 8: one website serves several storefronts (for example Capitol Cyclery and Brooks' Bike Shop), so it proves the business sells e-bikes, and the listing tells you which branch you are visiting.

A maker's dealer map applies to 7: the maker lists the store as an authorized e-bike dealer, and the grade links to that maker's locator. Of those seven, six have sites of their own that did not show e-bikes for sale in their own words or could not be read and one, Pedego Electric Bikes, has only the page its maker keeps for it, so the maker's map is the evidence for all seven.

City of New Orleans rebate list applies to 1: GNO Cyclery is counted on the City's list. The City names it among the four participating retailers in its e-bike rebate program, whose rebates "can be used only for Class 1 and Class 2 e‑bikes purchased through participating New Orleans retailers", and the grade links that list.

You see a phone number on a listing when its sources agree or only one gives one; when a maker's roster and Google Maps disagree, the store's own site settles it, and when the site settles nothing the listing carries no number. Whatever the grade, call before you drive.

Why the map is thin where it is thin

OpenStreetMap carries 15 of the 34 storefronts on this page, so a directory drawn from that map alone would miss 19 of them. The makers' dealer maps, the City of New Orleans' retailer map and the statewide Google Maps search each turned up stores the other sources lacked.

Google Maps and the shops' own sites settled which stores have closed: 4 storefronts still listed by a maker's roster or another source are closed permanently.

Limitations

1. 47 candidates remain open leads, named in the research files and not counted: 34 with sites that name no e-bike for sale, 6 that could not be confirmed and 7 with no website of their own. Each deserves a phone call before you rule it out; none is a finding that the business does not sell e-bikes.
2. Why 6 could not be confirmed: two whose sites would not load, one whose website's domain no longer resolves, one whose only listed site is a social network's front page, one whose address its own site's list of stores does not carry and one whose own site now shows only a placeholder page.
3. Named and not counted: 25 listings that are not a bicycle store (ten motorcycle and powersports businesses, nine businesses in other trades, two listings for events, one club or repair co-op, one maker's office or workshop, one golf-cart dealer and one online seller's office), 4 closed storefronts, 1 business that rents bikes and sells no e-bike, 1 shop that declines e-bike work and 2 duplicate listings.
4. Parish and city lines are the Census Bureau's. A store counts toward a parish, or toward a community of 50,000 or more, only when its own point stands inside that boundary, so a store with a New Orleans, Baton Rouge or Lafayette mailing address can stand in a neighboring city or on unincorporated parish land. Populations are the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates (Vintage 2025) for parishes and municipalities, and the 2020 Census for census-designated places such as Metairie, which the estimates do not cover.
5. Local rules come from the codes that could be read. A parish, a municipality or a state agency may close a path it runs to e-bikes (R.S. 32:204(F)), and Louisiana has 305 municipalities. On October 23, 2026, all 173 Louisiana codes Municode publishes were searched for 23 e-bike phrases in their singular, plural and bare forms ("electric-assisted bicycle", "e-bikes", "electric-assist" and the rest), and each answered every search; eCode360's library lists one Louisiana code, Cankton's, and American Legal's Louisiana list would not load. The seven municipalities of 5,000 or more whose code none of them publishes could not be searched this way: Central, Grambling, Jennings, Oakdale, St. Gabriel, St. George and Tallulah (St. George is listed on Municode with no published code there). The rules cited above come from the codes of New Orleans, West Monroe and Abbeville, of St. Tammany Parish, of the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government and of the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge.
6. This is a floor, not a census. A shop on no maker's dealer map, missing from OpenStreetMap and the City's retailer map, and absent from Google Maps would not be found here. A Maps search by name can also return a same-named shop in Texas, Mississippi or Arkansas, so every address was checked for Louisiana before a store was counted.
7. Demand evidence. The questions this page answers come from 1,517 Google and Bing completions and related searches and 8 Louisiana forum posts read on October 23, 2026, and from AI search engines' answers to 15 questions on October 23, 2026: Gemini and a web-search tool run in place of the engines that refused answered all 15.
8. What could not be measured. Brave Search, ChatGPT, Copilot Search, Google AI Mode and Perplexity gave no usable answer: each met our headless browser with a bot check or an empty reply, and none was retried in a visible window. No search-volume figure is used: the paid keyword tool's account had no API units left on October 23, 2026, so no volume was measured, and an unmeasured volume is not a zero.
9. What would age this page. It is due for re-checking in April 2027, and sooner if a listed shop closes or moves, if the Legislature's 2027 session, which convenes on April 12, 2027, amends the sections cited above, if the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries or the Office of State Parks changes LAC 76:XIX.111 or LAC 25:IX.305, if a city adopts an e-bike ordinance, when New Orleans opens its second rebate round, or when the Census Bureau publishes new local estimates.
10. Distances are straight lines. The nearest-store table measures from each community's Census point to each store's coordinates; the road distance is longer.

Source register

Every source below was retrieved on October 23, 2026.

No statement of a rule rests on a T5 source.

A statute, a regulation or a code is cited to its official publisher alone, the only source of the authoritative text; the same holds for a shop's own website and a maker's own dealer map, which nobody else publishes.

Primary sources

1. Louisiana Legislature, Louisiana Revised Statutes, via legis.la.gov: R.S. 32:1(7), (25), (50)-(52); 32:41; 32:193 to 32:204, including 32:197, 32:198, 32:199, 32:200 and 32:203; 32:232; 32:301; 32:329.1; 32:401; 32:402; 32:851; 32:861; 32:1252; 47:451; the enrolled text of Act 951 of the 2026 Regular Session; and the Legislature's session information. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
2. Office of the State Register, Louisiana Administrative Code: Title 25, Part IX (§ 305, Vehicle Use; § 321, Fines and Enforcement) and Title 76 (§ XIX.111, General and Wildlife Management Area Hunting Rules and Regulations). Retrieved October 23, 2026.
3. Federal rules, via eCFR, current through October 21, 2026: 36 CFR § 1.4, 36 CFR § 4.30, 36 CFR § 212.1 and 36 CFR § 261.13; and the U.S. Forest Service's Kisatchie National Forest page. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
4. City of New Orleans, Code of Ordinances (Municode): § 154-1433, § 154-1432, § 154-1431, § 154-1425, § 154-1416, § 154-1403 and § 146-493(b)(2); City of West Monroe, Code of Ordinances (Municode): § 6-2023(c), § 6-2001 and § 6-2038(a); City of Abbeville, Code of Ordinances (Municode): § 12-81; St. Tammany Parish, Code of Ordinances (Municode): § 30-371(2)(m), (3)(c); Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government, Code of Ordinances (Municode): § 98-214(b)(3)-(4); City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Code of Ordinances (Municode): § 9:1301. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
5. City of New Orleans, E-Bike Rebate Program (last updated October 16, 2026), its release City of New Orleans Launches E-Bike Rebate Program (September 28, 2026) and the map of participating retailers published on the program page. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
6. Louisiana Association of Planning and Development Districts, district pages (District 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), and Division of Administration, District & Parish Codes. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
7. St. Louis Cathedral, Our History, and Carol M. Highsmith, St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana, [between 1980 and 2006], Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith Archive, LC-DIG-highsm-14835: item page. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
8. U.S. Census Bureau, City and Town Population Totals: 2020-2025 (SUB-EST2025, whose file also carries each parish's total) — census.gov, the 2020 Census redistricting data for census-designated places, the 2025 Gazetteer files and the Census geocoder. Retrieved October 23, 2026.
9. OpenStreetMap contributors, bicycle shops within Louisiana, via the Overpass API. Retrieved October 23, 2026. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
10. Makers' dealer locators, read whole for Louisiana on October 23, 2026: Bosch, Aventon, Giant, Trek (through its own store-locator service), Specialized (through its own store-locator service), Velotric, Pedego's dealer directory and Lectric's store locator.
11. Google Maps listings: a statewide search of 628 queries, 195 follow-up reads of the businesses it and the AI search engines named, and a read of every listed store's own listing for open, temporarily closed or permanently closed status, October 23, 2026.
12. Individual shop websites and maker dealer-locator pages, one per listing, each read on the date printed beside its grade.
13. U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 detailed data files, 2025 and 2024 final, Louisiana's 38 distribution utilities, the websites of 35 of them read on October 23, 2026; Entergy Corporation, New Orleans celebrates the arrival of 300 more Blue Bikes, January 11, 2023. Retrieved October 23, 2026.

Image credit: the cover scene was generated with Nano Banana Pro on Playcut, with St. Louis Cathedral drawn from Carol M. Highsmith's photograph (Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; the record's rights advisory reads "No known restrictions on publication.") given to the model as its reference, and checked at full size against that photograph.