The five kinds of place a "near me" search returns, and the one most likely to fix a bike it did not sell.
How we verified this directory Every storefront in the 782 was read on the business's own website, or its maker's or chain's own page for that store, and dated, and each state's figure is re-derived from its city pages before it is quoted here. Retailer and brand network sizes are those companies' own published figures, taken from SEC filings where the company files one and from the company's own page otherwise, each carrying its reading date. Brand dealer locators are opened live rather than trusted from a screenshot. Excluded from the count, and named on each page: rental-only floors, online-only sellers with no address, and listings whose own site is dead. Re-verified every six months; current as of September 2026.
Quick Answer A "near me" search returns five kinds of place, and they are not interchangeable: single-brand dealers, full-line bike shops, big-box chains, direct-to-consumer brands, and independent local shops. Independent dealers are the one kind that will usually service a bike they did not sell. Redtail has verified 766 storefronts across 7 state directories and 84 city guides, each read on the business's own site, or its maker's own page for that store, on a stated date. Nothing good within a sensible drive? Every Redtail e-bike ships free to the lower 48, with US support and Shop Pay Installments at checkout. Then check your state's e-bike law before you buy.
Not everyone typing this phrase is asking a shopping question. Of 879 completions harvested around five store-finding roots on the US search surface in September 2026, 97 — one in nine — were about repair. This page answers both: the five kinds of store a search returns, how to judge them, and every city where the store list is already done.
The Five Kinds of eBike Store Near You
A "near me" search returns five kinds of place plus two things that only look like stores. Walk into the wrong kind and you get a test ride with no bench behind it, or a bench that will not touch your motor. Knowing which is which saves that drive.
| Store type | Will service an outside bike | Examples | What they carry | Test ride |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single-brand stores & dealers | Usually only its own brand | Pedego, Rad Power, Aventon, Velotric | One brand only | Usually, brand-specific |
| Full-line bike shops | Sometimes, by brand and system | Trek, Specialized, Giant/Liv | That brand plus a full bike line | Yes, with a service department |
| Big-box & warehouse | Unlikely; REI says it services e-bikes | Best Buy, Costco, Walmart, DICK'S, REI | Rotating multi-brand | Varies; REI has a bench |
| Direct-to-consumer, single brand | N/A — support is remote | Ride1Up, Lectric | One brand, ship-to-door | Mostly online |
| Direct-to-consumer, multi-brand | N/A — support is remote | Redtail | 12 brands on one shelf, ship-to-door | No — test a sibling locally, then order |
| Independent local shops | Most likely of the five | IBDs via the NBDA directory | Multiple brands | Yes |
| Marketplaces & classifieds | No bench behind the sale | Amazon, eBay, Facebook Marketplace | Anything, unverified | No |
| Doorway pages | No door to walk through | Brand "[city]" landing pages with no local floor | Nothing on a shelf near you | No |
A single-brand locator only shows you that brand's dealers. A big-box chain treats e-bikes as one aisle among thousands. The independent shop is the one most likely to touch a bike it did not sell — which, as the repair section below shows, is what one search string in nine is asking for.
Single-brand stores and dealer networks
Velotric says it is "in 1,600+ Retail Stores" on its dealer page (read September 8, 2026). Aventon advertises "2,000+ bike shops" in its authorized dealer network, with a working ZIP and city search on its dealer locator (read September 8, 2026). Pedego lists "100+ Pedego Store locations or 70+ certified service centers across the United States" on its dealer-finder page (read the same day). Rad Power lists eight RadRetail locations on its RadRetail page (read the same day); its brand and assets were acquired by Life EV in March 2026, per Rad's own announcement.
The catch is in the name: a brand locator answers "where can I buy this brand", not "which store near me is best". Rad Power changed hands in March 2026, so treat any network size as a moving figure.
Full-line bike shops
Trek, Specialized and Giant (with its Liv label) each sell e-bikes through a large US dealer network, and each runs its own store-finder: Trek, Specialized, Giant. All three confirmed live September 8, 2026.
These shops pair the bike with a fitting-and-service department, which matters more over three years than the sticker price does on day one. No current US store count appeared on the three pages read on September 8, 2026, so use the live finder rather than a number quoted second-hand.
Big-box and warehouse retailers
National chains stock e-bikes as one category among thousands, and their own SEC filings are the place to size them.
Best Buy reported 886 Best Buy-branded US stores at January 31, 2026 — 926 counting its Outlet, Pacific Sales and Yardbird formats — in its fiscal 2026 Form 10-K (Store Summary table). Costco operated 629 US warehouses of 914 worldwide at August 31, 2025, per its fiscal 2025 Form 10-K.
DICK'S Sporting Goods ended fiscal 2025 with 721 DICK'S-branded stores, including 42 Field House and 35 House of Sport locations, per its Form 10-K store-count table. Walmart publishes 4,615 US Walmart stores as of July 31, 2026 on its corporate location-facts page.
Those are big numbers attached to a small shelf: the assortment rotates, the staff are rarely specialists, and the model on the floor today may be gone next month.
REI Co-op is the exception worth a drive: every REI has a full-service bike shop that, in its own words, can "service your mountain, road, hybrid or e-bike" (REI's page, archived September 7, 2026). We break each chain down model by model in our Best Buy e-bike listing table, the Costco e-bike comparison and the Walmart e-bike seller check.
Direct-to-consumer brands
Direct-to-consumer brands skip the store and ship to your door. Ride1Up and Lectric sell mainly online; Ride1Up backs it with phone support and a single San Diego storefront. Redtail sells the same way, with one difference: 12 brands on one shelf rather than one, and a phone that is answered at (213) 444-4020.
The trade is the test ride for a lower price and a doorstep delivery. The good ones back that with US-based support and a warranty someone administers; the weak ones back it with a chat box that goes quiet after checkout. Settle the support question before you pay.
Our guide to the best place to buy an electric bike runs seven checks on any seller, and how buying works here sets out our own shipping, return and warranty terms in numbers.
Independent local bike shops
The independent bicycle dealer is the classic buy-local, get-service shop: multi-brand, hands-on, and the one most likely to fix an e-bike it did not sell. The NBDA dealer finder searches them by name, location and category. Visit this channel when you want a test ride, a professional build and a mechanic you can go back to.
Takeaway
If service and test rides matter most, start with a full-line bike shop or an independent dealer. If price and doorstep delivery win, a direct-to-consumer brand ships to you. The big-box chains sit in between, with the largest footprints and the shallowest shelves.
Two more surfaces will meet you on the way, and neither is a store. Marketplaces and classifieds carry anything anyone lists, including bikes whose wattage or class is stated wrongly or not at all, with no bench behind the sale. Doorway pages are worse: a brand's "[city]" landing page that ranks on a local query while the company has no floor within a hundred miles of you.
The tell is that a doorway page never names a street address, only the city in the title. If a result cannot tell you which door to walk through, it is not a store, and one call during its published hours settles it.
The US eBike Store Map — City by City
A directory is worth the walking it saves you. These are the states and cities where that walking is done: every storefront read on its own website on a stated date, with dead listings named rather than dropped. Each page carries its own count and check date, because a number without a date is a guess with better manners.
The big four
- California — 270 verified stores across 178 cities
- Washington — 111 across 26 cities
- Florida — 107 across 63 cities
- Texas — 98 across 75 cities
And three more states
- North Carolina — 77 across 22 cities
- Massachusetts — 50 across 25 cities
- Arizona — 41 across 21 cities
California city guides
- San Francisco · San Jose · Oakland
- Los Angeles · Long Beach · Anaheim
- Sacramento · Fresno · Bakersfield
- San Diego · Chula Vista · Riverside · Stockton · Santa Clarita · Fremont · Modesto · San Bernardino · Fontana · Moreno Valley · Oxnard · Huntington Beach · Glendale · Ontario · Elk Grove · Santa Rosa · Rancho Cucamonga · Garden Grove · Oceanside · Lancaster · Roseville
Florida city guides
- Gainesville — 4 verified stores
Elsewhere
- Portland, OR — 11 verified stores
- Denver, CO — 9 verified stores
- New York City — 8 verified stores
Choosing the bike
The law where you ride
Two directories AI assistants cite for this query, ebikelistings.com and ebikelocal.com, advertise 11,500+ and 7,984 listings against our 782, and neither, in the passages the assistants quote, says how a listing was checked or when it was last read. The trade is deliberate: a smaller number you can act on beats a larger one you cannot.
No page for your city yet? The five channels above are how to search it yourself, and the buying guide covers what to ask once you are standing in the shop.
Read the electric bike buying guideHow to Judge Any eBike Shop in Ten Minutes
A good e-bike shop lets you ride before you buy, services what it sells, and names the trade-offs instead of the hype. Store type matters less than these signals: a strong independent and a strong brand store share them, and a weak one of either fails them.

Green flags — a shop worth your money:
- Free test rides. You ride the actual model, or a close sibling, before paying.
- An in-house service department. Mechanics and a repair bench behind the sales floor.
- A battery certified to a named standard. Ask which one, and expect a number instead of a reassurance.
- More than one brand or model. Choice means they are matching you to a bike rather than clearing inventory.
- A written return and warranty policy. The window, the restocking fee and the warranty holder, all on paper.
- Questions before pitches. Good staff ask how far and where you ride before naming a bike.
Red flags — keep looking:
- No test rides allowed. A spec sheet cannot tell you a torque sensor from a cadence sensor.
- A single-brand landing page dressed as "#1 shop in [city]". A marketing surface wearing a storefront.
- No service department. A flat is any mechanic's job; a controller or battery fault is not, and a floor with no bench has no answer for it.
- Vague warranty paperwork. "It's covered" without terms is not coverage.
- No physical address or working phone. On a local listing, that is a dead or fake entry.
- Today-only urgency. A confident shop lets a $2,000 decision breathe.
The battery question, with the number to ask for. In June 2026 the Consumer Product Safety Commission proposed a mandatory safety standard for lithium-ion batteries in micromobility products, naming the voluntary standards it would make binding: ANSI/CAN/UL 2849:2020 for e-bike electrical systems and ANSI/CAN/UL/ULC 2271:2023 for user-replaceable battery packs (91 FR 38162, comments closed August 24, 2026). In the same document the Commission counts 227 micromobility electrical-system incidents between 2019 and 2023, with 90 of them associated with 39 deaths and 181 injuries. Ask which of those two numbers the bike is certified to. A shop that can answer has read the paperwork; one that reaches for "it's UL" has not.
Judge the shop, never the sign out front.
eBike Repair — Who Will Work on Your Bike
97 of 879 completions in this search family — 11% — are about repair. "Bike shops near me that fix e bikes", "e bike mechanic shop near me", "electric bike repair shop near me home service". A store page that only answers "where do I buy" leaves one reader in nine with nothing.
Why repair is the harder problem. A bicycle mechanic can fix any bicycle. An e-bike adds a battery, a motor, a controller and a loom, and a shop that did not sell it may have no diagnostic tool for your system, no parts account with your brand, and no warranty relationship to bill against. The common disappointment follows: a shop that fixes the bicycle half and cannot touch the electric half.
What the law says, because many buyers have it backwards. Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, "no warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumer's using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name …" (15 U.S.C. § 2302(c)). The same subsection lets the Commission waive that rule for a product on application. The Federal Trade Commission puts the rule in plainer words: tie-in sales provisions "state or imply that a consumer must buy or use an item or service from a particular company to keep their warranty coverage", and they are generally not allowed (FTC, Businessperson's Guide to Federal Warranty Law).
That cuts both ways. Having an independent shop service your e-bike does not by itself void the manufacturer's warranty; what a warrantor may still do is decline to cover damage the outside work caused. Keep the receipt, and use a mechanic who documents what they touched.
What to ask before you need the answer. Ask while you are still choosing where to buy.
- Do you service e-bikes you did not sell, and does that include motor and battery work or only the bicycle parts?
- Which motor systems do you have diagnostic access to — Bosch, Shimano, Bafang, or the brand's own?
- Do you have a parts account with my brand, and what is your typical wait on a controller or a display?
- Will you work on a bike bought direct from a manufacturer?
- What is your queue in the busy months?
Where a direct seller stands. Buying direct means no shop down the road when a controller fails in March. What a direct seller owes you instead is a warranty someone administers, parts that ship without a dealer account in the way, and support that answers. At Redtail that means US-based support, remote diagnosis, and the manufacturer claim filed and chased on your behalf. Ask us the same five questions on (213) 444-4020, or read who answers, and how first.
Takeaway
One search string in nine around this phrase is looking for a mechanic. Settle service before you buy: who touches the motor, whose diagnostic tool fits it, and what the wait is in July. Federal law is on your side — an independent repair cannot itself void a warranty — and it decides how the second year of ownership feels.
Buying Online vs Buying Local
Local floors win on test rides, assembly and hands-on service. Online wins on price, selection and a bike that arrives at your door. Sharp buyers use both: learn the fit on a local floor, then order from whoever backs the bike best.
What a local store does better. You ride before you commit, the bike is professionally assembled, and you have a mechanic to return to. The cost is real: a local floor carries a limited set of brands, and its price has the assembly and the bench built in.
What buying online does better. Lower prices, wider selection, delivery to the door. The trade is no test ride and self- or partner-serviced repairs, which is why US-based support and a clear warranty matter more online than in a shop you can walk into.
A common and sensible path: research online, test-ride something similar locally to learn what fits you, then order the exact model you want. Every Redtail e-bike ships free to the contiguous US, support is handled in the US by Redtail, and Shop Pay Installments are available at checkout — the three things that make skipping the drive safe rather than merely cheaper.
Price is the clearest reason buyers choose online. Check what is marked down before you compare it against a local sticker.
See e-bikes on saleWhich eBike Guide Answers Your Question
Once you know where to buy, the question becomes what. Every guide below is one of ours, and each one names picks, verifies the decisive specs at the manufacturer, and says who should read a different guide instead.
Take the wattage row seriously before you fall for a number on a shop wall. Federal law defines a low-speed electric bicycle at less than 750 W and most states copied that number (50-state guide, verified August 29, 2026), so a 3000W machine is a different legal object with a different place to ride it, and each of those guides opens with the law before it names a bike.
eBike Laws — Check Before You Buy
Before you buy anywhere, know what is legal where you ride. The three-class framework the state guides turn on is PeopleForBikes' "three class system and its accompanying model legislation"; 41 states use a three-class system as of August 29, 2026, per our 50-state guide. Classes, helmet ages, path access and trail rules are set state by state, with cities and federal land managers adding their own.
This bites at the moment of purchase, because a bike that is road-legal in one state can be barred from paths one state over. Federal attention is moving too: the CPSC opened an advance notice of proposed rulemaking on electric bicycles in March 2024 (89 FR 18861), which is the proceeding to watch for any federal mechanical standard.
Confirm your state's limits first, using our guide to electric bike laws in all 50 states, so the bike you buy is the bike you are allowed to ride. A good shop knows the local rules; a better one asks where you will ride before it sells.
No eBike Store Near Me? What to Do Instead
Plenty of ZIP codes have no real e-bike shop within a sensible drive — just a big-box aisle and a dealer for a brand you did not want. If that is you, buying direct gets the exact model rather than whatever the nearest aisle stocks.
Redtail is a direct-to-consumer retailer with twelve brands on one shelf. Every e-bike ships free to the contiguous US, support is US-based, warranty claims are filed and chased by Redtail rather than handed to you as a phone number, and Shop Pay Installments are available at checkout. You research the way you would in a shop, and the exact model arrives at your door.
Match the shape to your riding: commuter and city e-bikes for a daily paved route, cargo e-bikes for children or a load, mountain e-bikes for trail, and folding e-bikes for an apartment hallway or a car trunk.
Buying direct means ordering the exact model built for how you ride, delivered free to the lower 48, instead of settling for a limited local aisle.
Shop all e-bikes — free shipping, lower 48Takeaway
No good shop nearby is not a dead end. A direct brand with free US shipping, US support and a warranty someone administers gives you a store's confidence without the drive.
Frequently Asked Questions — eBike Stores Near Me
Where can I test ride an electric bike near me?
Start with brand dealer locators — Aventon, Pedego and Rad Power all search by ZIP — then a full-line bike shop (Trek, Specialized, Giant), an REI store, or an independent dealer through the NBDA directory. Ask for a test ride; availability varies by shop. Call ahead to confirm the specific model is on the floor, because a locator tells you the shop carries the brand while saying nothing about your size being in stock today.
Will a bike shop service an e-bike it did not sell?
Many independent shops will, though some limit which brands or motor systems they will touch — call first and ask about your brand and system specifically. A shop's willingness to work on outside bikes is a strong green flag.
Under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act (15 U.S.C. § 2302(c)) a warrantor may not condition coverage on using a named service provider, so an independent repair does not by itself void the warranty; the FTC's guide adds that a warrantor may still disclaim damage caused by outside parts or service.
Where can I get an e-bike battery serviced or replaced near me?
Ask the shop two questions: do they stock or order packs for your model, and are they willing to handle lithium-ion cells at all — and do not assume the answer is yes. For a replacement, buy the pack the manufacturer specifies for your frame and controller — a pack certified to ANSI/CAN/UL/ULC 2271:2023 is the standard the CPSC has proposed making mandatory.
How do I find an e-bike store that is open right now?
Hours published on a directory listing go stale faster than anything else on it, which is why our city pages print the shop's own published hours and say plainly when a shop publishes none. Call before you drive. If the phone is not answered during the hours a listing claims, treat the listing as unverified and drive to the next one that does answer.
Where can I buy a used electric bike near me?
Independent shops sometimes carry trade-ins and know the bike's history, which is the safest used route. Marketplace listings are the riskiest: the battery is the expensive part, it degrades invisibly, and a private seller rarely knows its cycle count or certification. If you buy used, price a replacement pack for that exact model first — sometimes it costs more than the difference to a new bike.
Why do local e-bike shops cost more than buying online?
A local price bundles assembly, a test ride and a service bench you can return to. That is worth paying for if you want a mechanic on call and hands-on setup. If you are comfortable with basic upkeep, buying online from a brand with US support and a clear warranty puts the difference back in your pocket.
What should I look for when buying an e-bike in person?
Run the green-flag list above on the floor you are standing in, and get the return window, any restocking fee and the warranty holder in writing before you pay. Staff who ask how and where you ride before naming a bike are a good sign.
Do e-bike laws affect which e-bike I can buy?
They can. Rules are set state by state, so a bike that is road-legal where you live may be barred from paths one state over, and most states use the federal definition, a motor of less than 750 watts. Check your state before you spend — the laws section above links our full 50-state guide.
The Bottom Line
There is no single best "e-bike store near me", and the search will not find you one. What it returns is five different kinds of business, and the right answer is whichever kind matches how you want to buy and who you want fixing the bike afterwards.
For test rides and long-term service, a full-line shop or an independent dealer from the NBDA directory is the safest bet. For one brand, use that brand's locator. For price and doorstep delivery, a direct seller ships to you.
Whatever the channel, judge the floor on four signals: a free test ride, an in-house bench, a battery certified to a number you can say out loud, and a warranty in writing. Skip the storefronts that fail those, however good the sign looks.
Settle the repair question in the same visit. It is what one completion in nine around this search is about, and it decides year two.
And if nothing good is near you, that is not a problem to solve with a long drive. Every Redtail e-bike ships free to the lower 48, support and warranty are handled in the US, and Shop Pay Installments are available at checkout — so you can buy with a store's confidence from your kitchen table. Not sure which shape fits? The buying guide walks the decision in order, and (213) 444-4020 answers the question the guide cannot.
Sources, limitations and how this page was verified
Limitations
- Author interest disclosed. Redtail eBikes is a direct-to-consumer e-bike retailer. This page names us as one of five channels and says where the other four beat us; no shop, brand or directory paid for a mention, and none was asked to.
- Retailer and brand network sizes are those companies' own figures, and they move. Chain store counts here come from each company's most recent Form 10-K or its own corporate page, on the date given. Rad Power's brand and assets changed hands in March 2026, so its network size is a dated reading.
- Best Buy's US store count is corrected on this revision. An earlier figure of 1,059 US stores did not match the company's own filing. Best Buy's fiscal 2026 Form 10-K reports 886 Best Buy-branded US stores and 926 total Domestic stores at January 31, 2026, and those are the figures used above.
- REI's store count is not stated, because no page carrying it could be read. REI's site refused every route attempted on September 8, 2026; its bike-shop page is cited from an archive copy of September 7, 2026, and no store count is published rather than one we could not confirm.
- "Verified" means published evidence, read and dated. Every one of the 782 storefronts is confirmed against what the business publishes about itself on a stated date. This page makes no claim about service quality anywhere.
- The city list is where the work has reached, not a map of where shops exist. Seven state hubs and 88 city guides is a floor. A city's absence means it has not been swept yet — never that it has no shops.
- The five-channel framework is editorial. The taxonomy of store types is an organizing choice rather than a standard published by anyone; the facts inside each channel are sourced individually.
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The 782 was re-derived on September 20, 2026, and the city-guide count with it. The total is the sum of each state hub's own re-derived figure plus the city guides in states with no hub yet; a hub already contains its city pages, so none is counted twice. It moved from 729 on September 11 when San Bernardino's own directory page went live with two verified stores and the California hub was re-derived from 223 to 225. Fontana's page went live the same day and the total did not move: twenty-four candidates were checked and none inside the city limits publishes that it sells electric bikes, so the city-guide count rose to 76 while the storefront total stayed 731. Moreno Valley's page went live on the same date and did move it: twenty-four candidates were checked, one of them publishes an electric-bike catalog of its own, and the California hub was re-derived from 225 to 226 — so the storefront total is 751 and the city-guide count 77. Oxnard's page went live the same day and did not move the total: thirty-two candidates were checked across eight routes, and the one business inside the city limits whose own words name an electric bike rents it rather than selling it — so the city-guide count is 78 and the storefront total stays 751. The city-guide figure had read 71 in the stat strip and limitations against 72 in the quick answer; both were superseded on September 11, 2026 by a direct count of published directory articles on the store, which returned 7 state hubs and 76 city guides. The working is kept with the page's data and re-run before every republish.
Roseville's page went live on September 20, 2026 and took the total from 777 to 782: fifteen businesses considered across nine routes and five storefronts inside the city limits. Lancaster's page went live on September 19, 2026 and took the total from 774 to 777: fifteen businesses considered across nine routes, three storefronts inside the city limits, and three of the candidates 2,400 miles away in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Oxnard's page went live on September 11 and did not move it: thirty-two candidates, and the only business inside the city limits whose own words name an electric bike rents one. Huntington Beach's page went live on September 12 and moved it more than any single city page has — forty candidates checked, thirteen of them publishing that they sell electric bikes, so the California hub was re-derived from 226 to 239 and the city-guide count reached 79. Glendale's page went live on September 13: thirty candidates, one business inside the city limits listed by its bike maker as an e-bike seller, so the California hub was re-derived from 239 to 240 and the city-guide count reached 80. Ontario's page went live on September 14: twenty-three candidates, three storefronts inside the city limits publishing that they sell electric bikes, so the California hub was re-derived from 240 to 243 and the city-guide count reached 81. Elk Grove's page went live on September 15: eleven candidates, five storefronts inside the city limits, and the California hub was re-derived from 243 to 246 — three of that five had been carried on the hub as two, because one Pedego door at 8519 Bond Road was listed twice. The city-guide count reached 82 and the total 758. Santa Rosa's page went live on September 16: eighteen candidates, seven storefronts inside the city limits, and the California hub was re-derived from 246 to 253, so the city-guide count reached 83 — a move this page first published only as a new link, with the 758 and 82 left in place until the count was re-derived on September 17. Rancho Cucamonga's page went live on September 17: twenty candidates, four storefronts inside the city limits, and the California hub was re-derived from 253 to 254. Garden Grove's page went live the same day: twenty businesses considered, two storefronts inside the city limits, and the California hub was re-derived from 254 to 256. Oceanside's page went live later that day: twenty-six names, seven storefronts inside the city limits where the hub had listed one, and the California hub was re-derived from 256 to 262; the California line in the state list above, which still read 240, was corrected at the same time. The city-guide count is 88 and the national total stands at 782, re-derived by
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The 11% repair share counts search strings, never searches or people. It is 97 of 879 unique completions returned by Google's public suggest endpoint for five store-finding seed roots on the US surface, September 8, 2026. A sixth root, "ebike repair near me", was harvested and is left out of the share because its completions are repair by construction. The figure shows only that these strings are typed, never how often; an earlier 12.5% reading came through an endpoint that geolocates on the caller's IP.
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Fewer than one paragraph in ten carries an external citation, and that is by design. The central evidence is 782 storefronts read on their own websites, which is first-party verification and a different thing from external citation. Every external claim the page does make is linked at the sentence it supports.
EXPIRY: any brand locator moving or closing; a change of ownership at Pedego, Rad Power or Aventon; a new chain 10-K; a final CPSC rule on micromobility batteries; a new state or city directory going live; six-month re-verification (next March 2027).
Source register
| Source | Tier | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 U.S.C. § 2302(c) via GPO govinfo | T1 | the warranty anti-tie-in prohibition, quoted verbatim | 2026-09-08 |
| CPSC, NPR, Safety Standard for Lithium-Ion Batteries Used in Micromobility Products, 91 FR 38162 | T1 | UL 2849 / UL 2271 as the proposed mandatory standards; the 227-incident count | 2026-09-08 |
| CPSC, ANPR, Electric Bicycles, 89 FR 18861 | T1 | the open federal proceeding on e-bike mechanical hazards | 2026-09-08 |
| FTC, Businessperson's Guide to Federal Warranty Law | T1 | the tie-in prohibition in plain language; corroborates the statute | 2026-09-08 |
| Best Buy Co., Inc., Form 10-K, FY2026 (SEC EDGAR) | T1 | 886 Best Buy US stores; 926 total Domestic, at 2026-01-31 | 2026-09-08 |
| Costco Wholesale Corp., Form 10-K, FY2025 (SEC EDGAR) | T1 | 629 US warehouses of 914 worldwide, at 2025-08-31 | 2026-09-08 |
| DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc., Form 10-K, FY2025 (SEC EDGAR) | T1 | 721 DICK'S-branded stores at 2026-01-31 | 2026-09-08 |
| Walmart Inc., corporate location facts | T2 | 4,615 US Walmart stores as of 2026-07-31 | 2026-09-08 |
| Aventon dealer locator (company's own page) | T2 | the "1k+ bike shops" network claim and the ZIP search | 2026-09-08 |
| Pedego dealer finder (company's own page) | T2 | "100+ Pedego Store locations or 70+ certified service centers" | 2026-09-08 |
| Rad Power RadRetail page (company's own page) | T2 | 7 company-owned stores plus 500+ partner shops | 2026-09-08 |
| Trek, Specialized and Giant store finders (each company's own page) | T2 | that each full-line brand runs its own dealer search | 2026-09-08 |
| NBDA dealer finder (trade association's own directory) | T2 | the independent-dealer channel and how to search it | 2026-09-08 |
| UL Standards, ANSI/CAN/UL 2849 | T2 | that UL 2849 is the published e-bike electrical-system standard | 2026-09-08 |
| PeopleForBikes, electric bikes | T2 | the three-class framework and its model legislation | 2026-09-08 |
| Consumer Reports, electric bike buying guide | T3 | the independent consumer-testing view of in-store buying | 2026-09-08 |
| Redtail eBikes city and state directories | T2 | every city and state figure in the mapped section | 2026-09-08 |
| Redtail eBikes shipping and refund policies | T2 | free contiguous-US shipping; warranty administration | 2026-09-08 |
Primary sources
- U.S. Government Publishing Office (United States Code). 15 U.S.C. 2302 - Rules governing contents of warranties, subsection (c), 'Prohibition on conditions for written or implied warranty; waiver by Commission'. 2023 edition of the U.S. Code. Retrieved 2026-09-08. govinfo.gov · archive
- U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Businessperson's Guide to Federal Warranty Law, section 'Tie-In Sales Provisions'. undated agency guidance. Retrieved 2026-09-08. ftc.gov · archive
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Safety Standard for Lithium-Ion Batteries Used in Micromobility Products and Electrical Systems of Micromobility Products Containing Such Batteries (NPR), 91 FR 38162; the bulleted list of applicable voluntary standards in the preamble, and the incident count in the preamble's incident-data discussion. 2026-06-24. Retrieved 2026-09-08. federalregister.gov · archive
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Electric Bicycles; Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Request for Comments and Information, 89 FR 18861, abstract. 2024-03-15. Retrieved 2026-09-08. federalregister.gov · archive
- Best Buy Co., Inc. (SEC filing). Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, Item 7, 'Store Summary' table: Best Buy 886, Outlet Centers 18, Pacific Sales 20, Yardbird 2, Total Domestic stores 926. 2026-03-18. Retrieved 2026-09-08. sec.gov · not archived: SEC EDGAR refused the Wayback save endpoint on 2026-09-08. No snapshot…
- Costco Wholesale Corporation (SEC filing). Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, Item 1, Business: "At August 31, 2025, Costco operated 914 warehouses worldwide: 629 in the United States". 2025-10-08. Retrieved 2026-09-08. sec.gov · not archived: SEC EDGAR refused the Wayback save endpoint on 2026-09-08. No snapshot…
- DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. (SEC filing). Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, 'Store Count Information' table, Total DICK'S ending stores 721. 2026-03-27. Retrieved 2026-09-08. sec.gov · not archived: SEC EDGAR refused the Wayback save endpoint on 2026-09-08. No snapshot…
- Walmart Inc.. Location facts, 'U.S. and International Retail Units' block: Walmart U.S. 4,615; Total U.S. retail units 5,217; footnote 'Total retail units as of July 31, 2026'. figures as of 2026-07-31. Retrieved 2026-09-08. corporate.walmart.com · archive
- REI Co-op. Bike Shop Services, "Every REI has a full-service bike shop" and the service line naming e-bikes. undated page; archived 2026-09-07. Retrieved 2026-09-08. web.archive.org · archived copy is the link
- Velotric. Find a dealer, the "1,600+ Retail Stores" line. undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. velotricbike.com · archive
- Aventon. Aventon dealer locator, the "2,000+ bike shops" figure and the ZIP search field. undated page; figure read 2026-09-08. Retrieved 2026-09-08. aventon.com · archive
- Pedego Electric Bikes. Pedego dealers page, the 100+/70+ figures. undated page; figures read 2026-09-08. Retrieved 2026-09-08. pedegoelectricbikes.com · archive
- Rad Power Bikes. All RadRetail locations, the eight listed locations (Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Huntington Beach, San Diego, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, St. Petersburg). undated page; read 2026-09-08. Retrieved 2026-09-08. radpowerbikes.com · archive
- Rad Power Bikes. Life EV Completes Rad Power Bikes Asset Acquisition, first paragraph. 2026-03-05. Retrieved 2026-09-08. radpowerbikes.com · archive
- Ride1Up. Contact, the address and phone block. undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. ride1up.com · archive
- Trek Bicycle. Trek store finder, the existence and function of the store finder. undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. trekbikes.com · archive
- Specialized. Specialized store finder, the existence and function of the store finder. undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. specialized.com · archive
- Giant Bicycles. Giant stores, the existence and function of the store finder. undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. giant-bicycles.com · archive
- National Bicycle Dealers Association. NBDA dealer finder / member directory, the directory and its search by name, location and category. undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. nbda.com · archive
- UL Standards & Engagement. ANSI/CAN/UL 2849, Standard for Safety for Electrical Systems for eBikes, the standard's own catalog record (title and designation). 2020 edition, as named by the CPSC in 91 FR 38162. Retrieved 2026-09-08. shopulstandards.com · archive
- PeopleForBikes. Electric bikes, the sentence quoting "the three class system and its accompanying model legislation". undated page. Retrieved 2026-09-08. peopleforbikes.org · archive
- Redtail eBikes. Electric bike laws in every state (50-state guide), the three-class count sentence and "The watt word" paragraph. last verified 2026-08-29. Retrieved 2026-09-08. redtailebikes.com · not archived: our own live page, rebuilt from primary statutes each of which is link…
Last verified September 8, 2026: chain store counts from each company's most recent SEC filing or corporate page; every brand locator opened live. Corrections: sales@redtailebikes.com.





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