About this reference
An independent, statute-cited reference for U.S. e-bike law
allowed.bike answers one question—is this e-bike allowed where I ride, and what does it take?—from the enacted law itself, not a summary of it. This page says who publishes it and exactly how an answer earns its place on the map.
01 / Who publishes this
Published by Toth Labs
allowed.bike is built and maintained by Toth Labs, an independent studio—not a law firm, a manufacturer, or an advocacy group.
There is no sponsor deciding which answer appears. The site’s only commitment is to the primary law: if a statute settles a question, we publish it with the citation; if it does not, we say so. It is a companion to Scootable, the studio’s reference for low-speed vehicles. This is general legal information, not legal advice.
02 / How every answer is verified
A state earns color only after it survives the whole machine
Every published answer is a discrete claim tied to the statute, administrative code, or state motor-vehicle agency it rests on. Before a state gets a verdict, each claim runs a fixed pipeline: it is either cited to a primary source or openly marked unsettled; an independent second pass re-derives the answers cold, without seeing ours; any disagreement is adjudicated against the quoted statute; and a small program recomputes a three-leg receipt—citations, second pass, and a live source check—that must come back all-green before the state is colored. Today 50 states + DC clear every leg; 0 are not verified yet and stay grey rather than carry a guess.
This is the short version. The full pipeline, leg by leg, is on the methodology page. See how we verify →
03 / How it stays current
The sources are watched daily, and color can be taken back
- Daily source watch
- An automated job runs every day and re-fetches each cited source, comparing its fingerprint to the version we reviewed. If a statute page changes underneath us, the affected state’s live-source leg turns red and it reverts to grey until a person re-verifies it.
- Dated re-verification
- A colored state carries the date it was last verified against primary sources, shown on the state page. Color is earned and recomputed, never remembered—an old review cannot quietly vouch for edited text.
04 / Found something wrong?
Corrections are welcome, and cited ones are acted on
If an answer looks wrong—or a statute has changed and we have not caught it—tell us, ideally with the citation you are reading. A pointer to the primary source is what lets us verify and fix it quickly.
See the machine’s output