eBike Shops in San Bernardino (2026): 2 Verified Stores

An electric bike shop in San Bernardino is harder to find than the city's size suggests. This is California's 18th-largest city at 224,775 residents.

Ask a search engine where to buy one and you will be handed a shop in Riverside, two in Redlands and one in Fontana — all of them in San Bernardino County, none of them in the city. OpenStreetMap is worse: a query of the city limits returns no bicycle shop at all.

That is a fact about the maps rather than about the city. Rebuilt from six independent routes on September 11, 2026, San Bernardino has two storefronts inside its limits whose own pages say they sell electric bikes, and three more bicycle shops that trade here without publishing a word online.

The 2 Verified eBike Shops in San Bernardino

Both stores below were read on their own websites on September 11, 2026, and both sit inside the city limits by Census lookup rather than by mailing address. Neither is a traditional bicycle shop, which is itself the finding.

Chaparral Motorsports — 555 South H Street

Address: 555 South H Street, San Bernardino, CA 92410
Phone: 1-909-889-2761
Website: chapmotors.com
Brands: Kawasaki, KTM and Stacyc in stock; the shop's own page also names Super 73 and Xero2
Hours: published on the dealership's own map-and-hours page
Focus: a large franchise powersports dealership with a dedicated eBike department

Chaparral is the only San Bernardino business with a page of its own titled for e-bikes. It defines the category correctly — "an eBike, or electric bike, is a bicycle that is equipped with an electric motor to assist with pedaling" — and says it offers "a wide selection of eBikes from top brands like Kawasaki, KTM, Super 73, Xero2, and Stacyc."

Read the floor as well as the page, because the two say different things. Its own "Electric Bicycle" inventory returned "1-9 of 9 results" on September 11, 2026, and all nine units are electric balance bikes.

They are the Stacyc 12, 16, 18 and 20eDRIVE, the KTM 16eDrive and 18eDrive that rebadge them, and a Kawasaki Elektrode that Kawasaki's own copy calls "the all-new Elektrode electric balance bike." Super 73 and Xero2 appear on the marketing page and not in that inventory.

That distinction has legal weight. A balance bike has no pedals, and Vehicle Code § 312.5(a) requires "fully operable pedals" before anything is an electric bicycle in California. The dealer platform files these under "Vehicle Type: Bicycle, Category: Electric", which is the platform's taxonomy rather than the state's.

Go here for a child's first electric bike, and call ahead before driving over for an adult pedal e-bike. If you are weighing the brands you will meet on any floor in this region, our brand guide sets out who actually makes what.

Topline RV and Marine — 512 East Redlands Boulevard

Address: 512 E Redlands Blvd, San Bernardino, CA 92408
Phone: 1-800-601-9616
Website: toplinervsales.com
Brands: Himiway
Hours: Monday to Friday, weekends closed, per the dealership's own listing
Focus: an RV, boat and golf-cart dealership carrying a named e-bike line with published prices

Topline is the shop the search engines miss and the one an adult buyer is most likely to want. Its site carries a page headed "Himiway Electric Bicycles — The Longest Range Ebike Anywhere," with models and prices on it, and its products navigation lists "Himiway Electric Bicycles" alongside its boats and golf carts.

It is also the only San Bernardino business listed by the independent electricbikesshops.com directory, which reaches it by a different route and files it under "Electric bicycle store" at the same Redlands Boulevard address. Two independent retrievals agreeing is the standard this directory uses before counting a shop.

Set expectations before you go. This is a recreation dealership with an e-bike line rather than a bike shop with a workshop queue — its own services page leads with RV and marine work and lists cycles and electric bikes among them.

Checked and Not Counted

Fifteen candidates were assembled and thirteen were not counted. Each is named with the reason, because a shop left out silently looks the same as a shop that does not exist.

Eddie's Bicycle Shop — 608 West Base Line Street

The city's best-known bike shop by a distance — it is the only San Bernardino shop Google's own autocomplete offers by name, and it does so four separate ways. It has traded here for decades, it sits inside the city limits by Census lookup, and every listing that describes it describes repairs, tune-ups, parts and refurbished bicycles.

Not one of those listings is the shop speaking. Eight plausible domains were probed and every one returned NXDOMAIN; Yelp, Facebook and Nextdoor all refused; the Internet Archive holds no capture of any listing page.

Could not read its own words on any route tried — which is a different finding from having read them and found nothing, and is why the shop is not counted either way. If you want an e-bike serviced in San Bernardino, this is the first phone call to make, at (909) 884-9546.

R&V Bicycle & Parts — 460 West Highland Avenue

A real bicycle shop inside the city limits, and the only one here carrying a brand dealer badge. The brand is Levy Electric, and Levy makes electric scooters — the page R&V appears on is headed "Electric Scooters at R&V BICYCLE & PARTS." A scooter dealer badge says nothing about bicycles. Same eight-domain probe, same NXDOMAIN result, same verdict: unread rather than absent.

El Orejon Bike Shop — address unresolved

Sources split on which city it is in. Waze and CityOf place it at 1039 W Mill Street in San Bernardino; Yelp, Nextdoor, Giftly and hub.biz all give 2100 N Rancho Avenue in Colton. The Census resolves the Mill Street address to San Bernardino city and returns could not determine on the Colton address across three formats. The conflict is left open here rather than settled by picking the source that suits the count.

Walmart, 4001 Hallmark Parkway, and Best Buy, 888 Harriman Place

Both are inside the city limits, and Walmart's own store page for store 3276 does list electric bikes. They are excluded on type rather than on evidence: a bike aisle inside a supercentre has no mechanic, no assembly bench and no e-bike service, which is what this page is for. They are named rather than dropped, because a search engine will offer them to a San Bernardino reader first.

Sports Treasures — 500 Inland Center Drive

Entered the pool only because OpenStreetMap tags it shop=sports inside the city limits. It is a sports-merchandise retailer in the Inland Center mall, and its Yelp listing is marked closed. It sells no bicycles.

Seven shops in the county, not the city

These are the ones a search engine will hand you as San Bernardino answers. All seven are real, and none is in the city:

If you want several adult e-bikes in one room, QBEAR in Riverside and the two Don's Bicycles stores are the closest places to do it. All are a short drive, and none of them is what this page counts.

Omnitrans — Your eBike Rides the Rack

San Bernardino's transit agency is unusually clear on this, and unusually permissive. Omnitrans' own How to Ride page states that "electric and folding bikes with lithium batteries are allowed on the bike rack, or onboard sbX vehicles."

That is a published rule naming electric bikes and allowing them, which is rarer than it should be. Many California transit agencies bar e-bikes from racks on weight grounds and say so in the same breath — Modesto's MAX is one of them, and it names the weight limit as its reason.

Four details decide whether your particular bike gets on:

• Racks hold two or three bikes depending on the bus. Omnitrans says "some Omnitrans buses can carry two bikes, and other buses can carry three bikes." If the rack is full, you wait for the next one.
• Your tires must be at least 20 inches. Omnitrans states the minimum and adds that "this excludes most children's bicycles." It excludes the 12, 16 and 18-inch balance bikes on Chaparral's floor too.
• Bikes do not go inside the bus — with one exception. sbX, the rapid-transit line, takes bikes on board. A folded bike may be carried on any bus if it stays out of the aisle. Weight is not in the published rule here, but a rack still has to hold what you lift onto it — our heavy-duty guide lists the weights of the bikes it picks.
• Load only at designated stops, and racks are usable whenever buses run.

Trail Access, and the Forest the City Is Named After

The best riding near San Bernardino is on paths rather than roads, and the rules change sharply depending on whose land you are standing on. Inside the city the Santa Ana River Trail is a separated Class I path you may ride; above the city, in the national forest the city is named after, a pedal-assist bicycle is barred from every non-motorized trail.

The Santa Ana River Trail is the through-route. Its San Bernardino section is a Class I path, fully separated from traffic, and it runs from Redlands through the city toward Colton and the Riverside County line. It is the one piece of infrastructure here that makes a car-free errand realistic.

The Pacific Electric Trail runs along a former interurban railway alignment across the western Inland Empire and connects onward into the regional network.

The San Bernardino National Forest is the mountain wall you can see from almost anywhere in town, and it is where the rules tighten. Its own biking page sets out both halves: "electric bicycles are allowed on roads and trails open to all vehicles, 50 inch OHV and motorcycle only routes," and "electric bicycles (including pedal assist) are not permitted on non-motorized trails."

The Forest publishes its own count of riding opportunities, and it is worth reading before you load the car. Of 53 biking opportunities it lists, 12 are tagged for e-biking and 49 for mountain biking — the tags overlap, so those are not slices of a pie.

The direction is still plain. Most of the singletrack up there is closed to you, pedal-assist included, and the routes that stay open are shared with motorcycles and off-highway vehicles.

That is a rule about the surface rather than about your bike's class. A Class 1 pedal-assist bike is barred from a non-motorized forest trail in exactly the same way a throttle bike is.

California eBike Laws in San Bernardino

San Bernardino is the opposite of a city with nothing to say. Its code carries eleven sections of bicycle law in Chapter 10.48 alone, plus park, parking-structure and public-building rules elsewhere — and not one word about electric bicycles.

That was measured rather than assumed. Every term in California's e-bike vocabulary was run against the full text of the code through American Legal Publishing's search API on September 11, 2026: electric bicycle, electric bike, e-bike, ebike, pedal assist, pedal-assist, Class 1/2/3 electric bicycle, low-speed electric bicycle, electric personal assistive mobility device and motorized bicycle. Every one returned zero.

The instrument was validated before its silence was believed. The control term bicycle, run identically against the same code, returned 25 sections — the whole of Chapter 10.48, the park regulations, the parking-structure rules and the Vehicle Code definitions chapter. The search works. The code is genuinely silent on e-bikes.

What a San Bernardino shop owes you at the till

Most city bicycle law tells the rider what to do. One section here tells the seller what to do, and it is the most useful thing in the chapter for anyone buying a bike in this city. From § 10.48.040:

"(A) No bicycle dealer shall sell any new bicycle in the city unless such bicycle has permanently stamped or cast on its frame a serial number unique to the particular bicycle of each manufacturer… (B) Each bicycle dealer shall supply to each purchaser of a new or previously owned bicycle a record of the following information: name of dealer, address of dealer, year and make of bicycle and serial number of bicycle."

Ask for that record. It is four fields, it costs the shop nothing, and it is the single most useful piece of paper you can hold if the bike is ever stolen — police recovery runs on frame serial numbers, and an owner who cannot produce theirs usually does not get the bike back.

The same section tells you where to look for the number: the head of the frame, either side of the seat down-post tube, or the bottom bracket.

The chapter goes further than a prohibition, and this is where the stakes stop being theoretical. § 10.48.110 lets officers "impound and retain possession of any bicycle operated in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, and retain possession of the same until the license provided for in this chapter is obtained by the owner."

So the written penalty is not only a citation. § 10.48.100 makes any violation of the chapter an infraction, and § 10.48.110 adds the power to impound the bicycle itself and keep it.

A ticket you pay; an impound takes the bike you commute on. Both sit in a chapter that Vehicle Code § 39002(a) says the city may not enforce this way, which is why the statute number is worth knowing before anyone quotes the ordinance at you.

There is a second reason the chapter is unlikely to reach an e-bike at all, and it is worth knowing if the question ever comes up. § 10.48.030 enacts the whole scheme "Pursuant to the Cal. Vehicle Code, Division 16.7," and the chapter's own cross-reference sends the reader to "Cal. Vehicle Code, §§ 39000 et seq."

That division opens by defining its terms. Section 39000 says a bicycle, for its purposes, is a device "propelled by human power through a system of belts, chains, or gears."

Whether a motor-assisted bicycle sits inside a definition written around human power — last amended in 1978 — has never been settled here, and nothing in the code answers it. Either way a rider lands in the same place: outside the chapter, or inside it and protected by § 39002(a).

One more thing about that license scheme is worth knowing before anyone tells you to go and get one. The city does not issue the license itself. Section 10.48.030 has the Police Department obtain the registration forms and the license indicia from the State Department of Motor Vehicles, and § 10.48.030(B)(1) still sets its renewal cycle against licenses that "expired on December 31, 1978."

Where to Ride, and Where You Cannot

San Bernardino has a rule that catches almost every rider out, and it is older than the bicycle boom, the car and the city's current charter.

Section 12.68.010 — first passed as Ordinance 295 on December 15, 1903 — makes it "unlawful for any person to operate, drive or ride a bicycle, unicycle, tricycle, motorcycle, horse or any other animal in any public park or on school grounds except in areas designated and posted specifically for such use."

The same prohibition appears a second time in the park regulations. Section 12.80.130(E) makes it unlawful to "operate, drive or ride upon any bicycle, unicycle, tricycle, horse or any other animal in any park except in areas designated and posted specifically for such use."

Read that the way it is written. In a San Bernardino city park, riding is closed by default and open only where it is posted — the reverse of the assumption most riders bring, which is that a park path is fair game unless a sign says otherwise. Here the sign has to say yes.

The same park section bans riding on tennis courts outright, and Chapter 8.93 bars bicycles from certain public buildings, with its own exceptions.

So the practical map for a San Bernardino rider looks like this:

The rebate route, stated exactly

There is a real incentive available to San Bernardino residents, and it is not the one usually quoted. South Coast AQMD runs Replace Your Ride, and its own program FAQ, revision 1/2025, says the program "provides low income, qualifying applicants an incentive of up to $12,000 to replace their 2010 or older high polluting vehicle," adding that "applicants also have the option to replace their vehicle with an e-bike or a voucher for public transportation."

If you qualify, that is the single largest e-bike subsidy available in the Inland Empire, and it changes which shelf you should be shopping — our under-$1,000 guide covers the range a voucher of that kind usually lands on.

Three things follow from that wording. You must own a qualifying vehicle — the FAQ is explicit that the program "requires that a qualifying vehicle is scrapped at the end of the process." The e-bike is an alternative to a replacement car rather than a top-up. And AQMD publishes no e-bike-specific dollar figure in either its program page or its FAQ; the $12,000 is the vehicle figure.

You will see "up to $7,500 toward an e-bike" quoted for this program. That number appears nowhere in AQMD's own material, and the program's own site refused every route tried on September 11, 2026, so no e-bike figure is printed here. Ask AQMD directly for the current award.

Frequently Asked Questions — San Bernardino, CA eBikes

How many e-bike shops are in San Bernardino, and which are verified?

Two, inside the city limits, as of September 11, 2026: Chaparral Motorsports on South H Street and Topline RV and Marine on East Redlands Boulevard. Both were counted because their own websites say they sell electric bikes. Three further bicycle shops trade in the city — Eddie's Bicycle Shop, R&V Bicycle & Parts and El Orejon — and publish no website we could read, so they are listed as unread rather than counted.

Do I need a license or registration for an electric bike in San Bernardino?

Not from the DMV. California requires no driver's license, registration, plate or insurance for a bicycle meeting the Vehicle Code § 312.5 definition.

The city is where it gets complicated. San Bernardino Municipal Code § 10.48.020 makes it unlawful to operate any bicycle on a city street unless it is licensed, while Vehicle Code § 39002(a) says a city that adopts such an ordinance "shall not prohibit the operation of an unlicensed bicycle." The state provision is the later and higher authority.

Can I ride my e-bike in a San Bernardino city park?

Only where the city has designated and posted for it. Section 12.68.010, on the books since 1903, and § 12.80.130(E) both make riding in a public park unlawful "except in areas designated and posted specifically for such use." That is the reverse of the usual assumption — look for a sign permitting it, not a sign forbidding it.

Can I take an electric bike on an Omnitrans bus?

Yes. Omnitrans states that "electric and folding bikes with lithium batteries are allowed on the bike rack, or onboard sbX vehicles." Racks hold two or three bikes depending on the bus, your tires must be at least 20 inches in diameter, and bikes may only be loaded at designated stops.

Is there an e-bike rebate for San Bernardino residents?

Yes, through South Coast AQMD's Replace Your Ride program, which lets a qualifying low-income applicant scrap an older vehicle and take an e-bike instead of a replacement car. You must own and scrap a qualifying 2010-or-older vehicle to take part. AQMD publishes no e-bike-specific award amount; its stated figure of up to $12,000 applies to a replacement vehicle.

Is everything in a shop's "electric" section legally an e-bike?

No, and San Bernardino has a clear example. All nine units in Chaparral Motorsports' "Electric Bicycle" inventory on September 11, 2026 are electric balance bikes with no pedals. Vehicle Code § 312.5(a) requires "fully operable pedals," so none of them is an electric bicycle under California law. A dealer platform's category name is not a legal classification.

Who repairs an electric bike in San Bernardino?

Eddie's Bicycle Shop at 608 West Base Line Street is the city's established repair shop and the one local searches ask for by name, though it publishes nothing online, so call (909) 884-9546 and ask whether they take electric bikes before riding over. Topline RV and Marine lists cycles and electric bikes among its service work. For a dedicated e-bike workshop, the nearest is QBEAR in Riverside.

What should I ask for when I buy a bike in San Bernardino?

The dealer record required by Municipal Code § 10.48.040(B): the dealer's name, the dealer's address, the year and make of the bicycle, and its serial number. Every dealer selling a new or used bicycle in the city owes you that, and it is what a theft report is built on.

Why Buy From Redtail, When the Shop Is a Drive

Two stores in a city of 224,775 means most San Bernardino readers are choosing between a drive and a delivery. If that is you, here is what buying from us actually includes, stated plainly so you can hold it against the shop you were going to drive to.

None of that makes the drive wrong. Chaparral will let a child sit on a balance bike before you buy it, and no website can do that. What it does mean is that "the nearest shop is far" is a solvable problem rather than a reason to settle.

When you're ready, start with the guide that matches the ride rather than the brand — our buying guide if you are still deciding what kind of bike you want, our commuter guide if the Santa Ana River Trail is your route, and our under-$1,000 guide if a Replace Your Ride voucher is what put you here. Nothing on any of them asks you to decide today.

More from the US eBike Directory

San Bernardino is one of nineteen California cities with its own individually verified directory page. If you are shopping across the Inland Empire rather than inside one city, Riverside carries the nearest dedicated e-bike specialist and the state hub lists all 225 verified California storefronts with the date each was checked.

Sources, Limitations and How This Page Was Verified

What this page could not establish

1. Three city bicycle shops could not be read in their own words. Eddie's Bicycle Shop, R&V Bicycle & Parts and El Orejon Bike Shop are all real businesses at real San Bernardino addresses. Eight plausible domains were probed for each and every one returned NXDOMAIN; Yelp, Facebook and Nextdoor refused every route; the Internet Archive holds no capture of their listing pages. They are recorded as unread, never as absent of an electric-bike line.
2. El Orejon Bike Shop's city is unresolved. Two groups of sources give two addresses in two different cities. The Census resolves the San Bernardino address and returns could not determine on the Colton one across three formats.
3. No e-bike-specific award amount is published for Replace Your Ride. AQMD's program page and its Rev. 1/2025 FAQ both name the e-bike option without pricing it, and replaceyourride.com refused six routes on September 11, 2026.
4. Chapter 10.48's practical status is not stated here. The code is current through Ordinance MC-1666 of August 5, 2026 and the license requirement is still in it. Whether the Police Department issues bicycle licenses today, and whether the DMV still supplies the indicia the section depends on, are questions for the City and were not answered by the code itself.
5. Section text was recovered through the publisher's search interface. American Legal Publishing renders its chapter pages in the browser, and its document endpoint is not reachable from outside its own application, so each section's text was retrieved through the publisher's own search API and filed only where the returned section title matched the section number sought.

What changed, and what would date this page

Changed September 11, 2026. San Bernardino was carried in our own California hub as a city with no verified store, and as the largest city in the state with none. A six-route re-harvest found two, and both the hub's count and that claim have been corrected — Fontana now holds that place. The city's bicycle chapter was also read in full for the first time, which is where §§ 10.48.040 and 10.48.020 came from.

We re-check this page every six months, and the next check is due March 2027. These are the things that would date it sooner

A repeal or rewrite of Chapter 10.48. A change to Omnitrans' bike policy. Either verified store dropping or adding its e-bike line.

Any of the three unread shops publishing a website would also change it, as would a new Santa Ana River Trail segment opening in the city or a change to the Replace Your Ride award structure. The page is re-verified every six months, next due March 2027.

How the shop list was built

The candidate pool came from six independent routes, because no single one is sufficient: OpenStreetMap Overpass, both a city-limits area query and a wider bounding box; the archived state e-bike incentive approved-retailer roster; web search across six query shapes; brand dealer listings from Levy Electric, Himiway, Aventon and Ride1Up; dealer-platform inventory endpoints; and the independent electricbikesshops.com directory.

The Overpass result is worth stating plainly, because it is why this page exists. A query of the San Bernardino city limits returned zero bicycle shops. The wider bounding box returned three, and the Census places all three outside the city. A page built from the map alone would have reported that California's 18th-largest city has no bike shop at all.

Every address was then put through the Census geocoder's incorporated-places layer, which is what separates San Bernardino city from San Bernardino County, and each candidate with a website was read on its own pages.

Source register

References

1. San Bernardino Municipal Code § 10.48.020, License — Required — retrieved September 11, 2026
2. SBMC § 10.48.030, License — Registration forms, indicia, fees, renewal — retrieved September 11, 2026
3. SBMC § 10.48.040, Sale of bicycle — Unique serial number required — retrieved September 11, 2026
4. SBMC § 10.48.110, Impoundment and retention of bicycle for violation — retrieved September 11, 2026
5. SBMC § 12.68.010, Operation of vehicles in designated areas only — retrieved September 11, 2026
6. SBMC § 12.80.130, Park regulations — retrieved September 11, 2026
7. California Vehicle Code § 39000 — retrieved September 11, 2026
8. California Vehicle Code § 39002 — amended by AB 1909, Stats. 2022 Ch. 343
9. California Vehicle Code § 312.5 — the three-class definition
10. Health & Safety Code § 26302 — battery certification, operative January 1, 2026
11. Omnitrans, How to Ride the Bus — retrieved September 11, 2026
12. San Bernardino National Forest, Biking — retrieved September 11, 2026
13. South Coast AQMD, Replace Your Ride — retrieved September 11, 2026
14. South Coast AQMD, Replace Your Ride FAQ, Rev. 1/2025 — retrieved September 11, 2026
15. Chaparral Motorsports, eBike Shop — retrieved September 11, 2026
16. Chaparral Motorsports, electric bicycle inventory — retrieved September 11, 2026
17. Topline RV and Marine, Himiway Electric Bicycles — retrieved September 11, 2026
18. electricbikesshops.com, San Bernardino — retrieved September 11, 2026
19. City of San Bernardino, Arrowhead Landmark — retrieved September 11, 2026
20. US Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates — San Bernardino, 224,775
21. City of San Bernardino — the city's own site, used to place the three unread shops and for the Arrowhead record
22. San Bernardino Mountains — background only for the cover research; no figure from it is printed on this page

Reviewed and verified by Milad Ghobadibeygvand, BScN (Western University, 2014). Corrections to support@redtailebikes.com — every one is checked against the primary source and the page is re-dated when it changes.