List of the Best Bike Stores

• Amazon – The best selection
• Walmart – Great selection
• R&A Cycles – Good selection
• Nashbar – Good selection
• Academy – Decent selection
• Bikes Direct – Decent selection

Read on for information about each store.

Amazon – Large Selection of Bikes Online

Naturally, Amazon and the sellers on its platform does also sell bikes. The selection is great for all sorts of bikes.

Bike selection

• Electric bikes: 1,000.
• BMX bikes: 3,000.
• Mountain bikes: 650.
• Road bikes: 240.
• Kid’s bikes: 180.
• Helmets: 200.

Amazon info

• Shipping: Amazon offers free and super-fast shipping within the USA for its Prime members. A Prime membership is $12.99/mo at the time of writing this. For non-Prime members, the threshold for free shipping is $25 on eligible items. Your order will be delivered 5-8 days after all your items are available to ship.
• International shipping: International shipping to most countries worldwide is possible.
• Delayed payments: No.

Keep in mind that Amazon is a huge online store with hundreds of product categories. The stats below does therefore not show how popular the bike section is in particular.

Amazon stats

• Monthly Google searches in the US: 124m.
• Website Alexa rank: 12. (This means that Amazon is ranked as the #12 most visited website in the world)
• Followers on Instagram: 2.8m.

Walmart – Large and Well-Organized Online Bike Selection

Walmart has a large selection of bikes in its inventory when including other sellers part of the Walmart online shopping experience.

Bike selection

• Electric bikes: 510.
• BMX bikes: 20.
• Mountain bikes: 120.
• Road bikes: 40.
• Kid’s bikes: 1,000.
• Helmets: 1,000.

Walmart info

• Shipping: Free 2-day shipping over $35. Some products qualify for next day delivery as well.
• International shipping: Walmart does not ship internationally.
• Delayed payments: Affirm allows qualified applicants to check out with Affirm and make monthly payments with no interest.

Keep in mind that Walmart is a huge online store with hundreds of product categories. The stats below does therefore not show how popular the bike section is in particular.

Walmart stats

• Monthly Google searches in the US: 55.6m.
• Website Alexa rank: 120.
• Followers on Instagram: 2.4m.

R&A Cycles – Online Bike Store based in the US

This online store guarantees exceptional service, excellent prices, and super-fast delivery. They offer a price protection guarantee that ensures you get store credits if they lower the price of the bike you’ve bought within 30 days of purchase. In addition, they offer a price match guarantee.

Bike selection

• Electric bikes: 28.
• BMX bikes: N/A.
• Mountain bikes: 48.
• Road bikes: 155.
• Kid’s bikes: N/A.
• Helmets: 73.

R&A Cycles info

• Shipping: US-based store.
• International shipping: Yes, worldwide shipping.
• Delayed payments: Make monthly payments over 6, 12, or 36 months with Affirm.

R&A Cycles stats

• Monthly Google searches in the US: 4,400.
• Website Alexa rank: 102,800.
• Followers on Instagram: 12,800.

Nashbar – Great Selection of BMX Bikes

This online store has a great selection of BMX bikes but is lacking when it comes to other types of bikes. It has a large selection of helmets as well though.

Bike selection

• Electric bikes: N/A.
• BMX bikes: 110.
• Mountain bikes: 20.
• Road bikes: 9.
• Kid’s bikes: 19.
• Helmets: 730.

Nashbar info

• Shipping: Most bikes seem to qualify for free US shipping. With warehouses both in California and in North Carolina, Nashbar says it can reach 90% of domestic customers within 3 days using standard shipping methods.
• International shipping: Yes. You can read more about this on their website.
• Delayed payments: Split your purchase into 3, 6, or 12 monthly payments with Affirm.

Nashbar stats

• Monthly Google searches in the US: 22,200.
• Website Alexa rank: 93,600.
• Followers on Instagram: 5,450.

Academy – Top US Sports Store with a Decent Bike Selection

Academy Sports + Outdoors is one of the nation’s largest sporting goods and outdoor stores with 259 stores. Not shipping to California or anywhere outside of the contiguous US. To find the electric bikes you need to do a search for “electric bike” at the store’s website.

Bike selection

• Electric bikes: 2.
• BMX bikes: 8.
• Mountain bikes: 43.
• Road bikes: 6.
• Kid’s bikes: 190.
• Helmets: 120.

Academy info

• Shipping: Academy does not ship outside the contiguous US and not to California either. Free shipping for orders over $25.
• International shipping: No.
• Delayed payments: No.

Note that the stats below might be a bit skewed considering that people may be searching in Google for “Academy” looking for other things than this online store.

Academy stats

• Monthly Google searches in the US: 2.7m.
• Website Alexa rank: 6,702.
• Followers on Instagram: 169,000.

Bikes Direct – This Online Store Advertises Low Prices

Bikes Direct states on their website that they can offer low prices by replacing the importer and physical store costs. The website is really bad though and hard to navigate. Unfortunately, they do not show numbers for how many bikes they’ve got on their website. Looks to be maybe 50 or 100 bikes to choose from in total.

Bike selection

• Electric bikes: Yes.
• BMX bikes: N/A.
• Mountain bikes: Yes.
• Road bikes: Yes.
• Kid’s bikes: Yes.
• Helmets: N/A.

Bikes Direct info

• Shipping: Free shipping to 48 US states. Add $189 per package for shipping to Alaska and Hawaii.
• International shipping: No.
• Delayed payments: Buy now and pay over time with PayPal Credit. No interest if paid in full in 6 months on purchases of $99 or more.

Bikes Direct stats

• Monthly Google searches in the US: 74,000.
• Website Alexa rank: 46,500.
• Followers on Instagram: 7,800.

About this list

We’ve written about several online bike stores at Ostorei and decided to present the best ones right here. In addition to the ones mentioned on Ostorei, we had to dig out some additional contenders to make sure to show all the best ones in this article.

The stats for each store was gathered in October 2020.

Data sources:

• SEMRush – For monthly Google search volume data.
• Alexa – For Alexa rank. Alexa rank is based on how many estimated visitors a website has. Lower is better. A rank of 1,000, for instance, means that that website is estimated to be the #1,000 most trafficked website in the world.
• Instagram – For Instagram follower count.