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Bike Law Pocket Guide · by Two Wheel Junction

Know the law where you ride.

So few cyclists understand the laws where they live and ride. Even fewer drivers do, and many police officers are equally unaware. Making matters worse, these laws are changing faster now than they have in over 30 years.

Safer streets start with education. So we built a pocket guide for every state.

Get it

Native on every platform.

Swift on Apple, Kotlin on Android, C# on Windows. More work for us, a better app for you.

Available

Web

Works in any browser. For now, the best way in on Android too.

Side-load

Android

The app is done. The Play Store is another story. Side-load it while we keep working with Google.

If it happens

Ready for the minutes after a crash.

When something goes wrong, the If It Happens guide walks you through the critical steps to take in the moments after a crash. It helps you protect your rights, preserve evidence, and stay focused while adrenaline is still running high.

  1. Get to safety
  2. Call 911
  3. Capture the vehicleCapture
  4. Document the sceneCapture
  5. Capture your locationCapture
  6. Identify all partiesCapture
  7. Watch what you say
  8. Preserve the evidence
  9. File your report
  • Capture it at the scene

    Capture buttons on the steps that need them save photos and video, scene notes, your location, and everyone involved: witnesses, other riders, the responding officer.

  • File a report

    Record the plate, the vehicle, and what happened while it is fresh. Anything captured in If It Happens imports with one tap, and you can attach photos, video, audio and PDFs. Filing needs a free account; browsing the laws and the checklist never does.

  • Preview and share it

    Preview any report as a PDF, then share or email it yourself. The app hands it to your share sheet and sends it nowhere else.

Nothing you capture leaves your device unless you submit a report that includes it or choose to share one. How we handle incident reports →

Capture and reporting are in the Apple, Android and Windows apps. On the web, the checklist is a read-only list. Open the checklist on the web

What's inside

11 questions, answered for every state.

  1. Riding far right as practicable
  2. Riding two abreast
  3. Single-file requirements
  4. Safe passing distance
  5. Mandatory helmet use
  6. Mandatory bike lane use
  7. Sidewalk riding
  8. Whether impeding-traffic laws apply to bikes
  9. Stop sign as yield
  10. E-bike restrictions
  11. Contributory vs. comparative negligence after a crash
  12. Plus the If It Happens checklist, incident reporting, and an advocacy events calendar

How we source it

Every answer links to the law.

In September we audited every one of the app's citations. Wherever a state publishes its own free, linkable text, we link to it. Where it doesn't, we say why.

561

CITATIONS AUDITED

88.8%

498 LINK TO OFFICIAL SOURCES

0

CITATIONS WITHOUT A LINK

63

VIA FREE LEGAL PUBLISHERS, EACH EXPLAINED

  • Paywalled state codes · 44

    Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee publish their codes only through LexisNexis, so we link to free copies on Justia.

  • Whole-title PDFs · 11

    Colorado publishes free, but only as dated title-length PDFs, so we link section by section on Public.Law.

  • Court decisions · 8

    In some states the negligence rule comes from a court case, not a statute, and we could not find an official government site hosting the opinion.

Read the full statute source audit →

Latest update · OCT 17, 2026

One Last Note about the Google Play Store

At this point, I think we can safely say that the Bike Law Pocket Guide is unlikely to ever make it into the Google Play Store. So, with that said, we are enabling side loading the APK to any Android device, and moving forward with the project on all of the platforms, just acknowledging that Google Policy implementation and decisions create a difficult situation for the Pocket Guide. What follows is long, detailed, and we suspect quite clear on the frustrations that we feel regarding Google, the Play Store, and their process.

If you do not want to get into that, now would be a good time to wander off and go for a bike ride. However, if you want the full nitty gritty details, read on.

Read the full post →

The Bike Law Pocket Guide is not a government agency and does not represent one.

Support the project

Built on evenings and weekends.

No ads, no third-party trackers, and no one paying us to build it. We do keep an anonymous count of which states get looked up, so we know where to focus. If the guide has helped you, help keep it current as the laws change.

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