About ScooterHound

ScooterHound is an independent directory of the American scooter trade: the dealers who sell mopeds and motor scooters, the shops that stock electric scooters and their parts, the counters that rent them by the hour, the operators who run guided tours, the bays that repair them, and the freestyle shops that sell the kind you kick.

It exists because that trade is badly served by search. A dealer, a rental counter and a repair bay are three different businesses answering three different questions, and lumping them together under "scooter shop near me" helps nobody. Every listing here is sorted into one of six categories so you can skip the five results that are not what you need.

Where the data comes from

Listings are built from Overture Maps, an open place dataset published by the Overture Maps Foundation and released under an open licence. We pull the US places whose category or name indicates a scooter business, then narrow and classify them ourselves.

That second step matters. The raw data contains roughly thirty thousand candidate records, and the great majority are not scooter businesses at all: motorcycle dealers, a nine-hundred-location drive-thru coffee chain that happens to be called Scooter's, medical mobility scooter suppliers, and a long tail of boat rentals and lawnmower shops named after somebody's dog. Filtering those out is most of the work, and it is why the directory has around fifteen hundred listings rather than thirty thousand.

What we do not have

Open place data carries no opening hours, no prices, no fleet sizes and no reviews, so this site does not invent any. The description on each listing page describes what that kind of business normally does, and it says so. If a page tells you a rental counter will ask for a deposit, that is a statement about rental counters, not a fact we hold about that specific shop.

We do not rank listings, and no business can pay to appear, to move up, or to have a competitor removed.

Corrections

Every listing page has a "submit a correction" link that opens a prefilled email. Closures, moves, wrong phone numbers and businesses that no longer touch scooters are all worth reporting, and closures especially: nothing wastes a Saturday like driving to a shop that shut two years ago.

Affiliate disclosure

This site contains affiliate links and may earn a commission when you buy through them, at no extra cost to you. Advertising is clearly labelled as such wherever it appears. It never affects which businesses are listed, how they are described, or the order they appear in, because the directory is generated from open data by rule and not curated by hand. See the full affiliate disclosure for details.

Not advice

Nothing on this site is legal advice. Scooter, moped and low-speed vehicle rules differ by state and by city and change regularly. The law checker will tell you which class your machine most likely falls into and which agency to ask, but the agency is the authority, not us.