https://www.evshift.com/528739/emoto-live-hottest-e-bikes-e-motos/ EMOTO Live | Hottest E-Bikes & E-Motos #Ebikes #ElectricBikes #ElectricMotorcycles #ElectricVehicles #eMoto #emotos #EV #Hottest #Live #motorcycles
#emotos — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #emotos, aggregated by home.social.
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"On August 21st, 2026, the Thousand Oaks Police Department conducted a E-Bike safety and enforcement operation in the Newbury Park area. The operation focused on promoting rider safety and addressing violations involving illegal electric bicycles (E-Bikes) and electric motorcycles (E-Motorcycles).
During the enforcement operation, five illegal E-Bikes/E-Motorcycles were impounded, and nine citations were issued. Violations included failing to wear a helmet or wearing a helmet improperly, modifying an E-Bike, operating without a valid license, operating an unregistered vehicle, failing to provide proof of insurance, traveling at an unsafe speed, and failing to yield to vehicles or pedestrians."
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https://www.fogolf.com/1368360/lincoln-golf-course-faces-up-to-15k-repair-bill-after-riders-allegedly-tear-up-green/ Lincoln golf course faces up to $15K repair bill after riders allegedly tear up green #bike #California #EBikeRiders #EBikes #EMotos #ElectricBikes #felony #Golf #GolfNews #LINCOLN #LincolnHills #NorthernCalifornia #police #SacramentoArea #SacramentoGolf #vandalism #YoungEBikeRiders
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Lincoln golf course faces up to $15K repair bill after riders allegedly tear up green
Lincoln golf course faces up to $15K repair bill after riders allegedly tear up green Course management says…
#Golf #News #bike #california #ebikeriders #ebikes #emotos #electricbikes #felony #lincoln #lincolnhills #northerncalifornia #Police #sacramentoarea #sacramentogolf #vandalism #youngebikeriders
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https://www.europesays.com/people/179241/ Mamdani admin warns over 40 companies to halt selling illegal e-bikes or face thousands of dollars in fines #BenFurnas #CityDepartmentOfTransportation #CorporationCounselSteveBanks #deepower #DotCommmissionerMikeFlynn #EBikes #EMotos #EScooters #IllegalEBikes #MayorZohranMamdani #TransportationAlternatives #ZohranMamdani
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"...Ventura police officers involved in an e-bike sting operation at Ventura Community Park on June 10 attempted to stop the juvenile riding his e-motorcycle on the park grass, according to authorities...."
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LA Times: entura teen who fled officers the wrong way on the freeway is charged with two felonies
The Ventura County district attorney’s office brought eight total counts against a young Ventura resident who was not identified due to his age.
Charges include one felony count each for evading a peace officer and evading an officer while riding an e-motorcycle.
The rider reached 60 mph while traveling in the wrong direction on the highway, according to authorities.
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Californians, legislature's recess ends Aug 3. Get informed on what’s coming & communicate your positions to your elected representatives in senate & assembly.
California Bicycle Coalition / #CalBike is your voice for state policies that enable your community & your neighbors to feel safe & comfortable using #ActiveTransportation. Note tips on "Using CalBike’s Legislative Watch table”: https://www.calbike.org/legislative-watch/
As of 7/8, CalBike-sponsored bills include:
SB 569 (Blakespear) Preserving Safe #Bikeways. Creates a process a local agency must take to remove a bikeway or reduce the physical separation. Passed Assembly Transportation hearing 6/29, headed to Assembly Floor in Aug.
SB 1167 (Blakespear) Illegal #eMotos unanimous passage into Assembly. Passed Assembly Transportation hearing 6/29, headed to Assembly Appropriations in Aug. Co-sponsored with #PeopleForBikes, #StreetsForAll, #StreetsAreForEveryone.
AB 2168 (Wicks) ATP Reform. Passed Senate Transportation hearing 6/30, set for Senate Appropriations 8/3. -
CHS: 14-year-old dies in e-moto crash on stairs in I-5 Colonnade mountain bike park – UPDATE: RIP Çınar Doğan
A 14-year-old boy died Tuesday while riding an electric motorcycle in the I-5 Colonnade mountain bike park, Capitol Hill Seattle reported. Our condolences to his friends and family. UPDATE 7/10: The King County Medical Examiner has identified the child as Çınar Doğan. A memorial is growing on a landing near the bottom of the Howe Street stairs. Loved ones have left notes, flowers and other personal items in his memory. There is also a GoFundMe campaign to support his family. Near the bottom of the Howe Street stairs. Initial reports stated the child was riding a bicycle, but Seattle Police told CHS that it was instead an electric motorcycle or e-moto. E-motos are not allowed to be used in Seattle Parks, though they are increasingly common: A Seattle Fire spokesperson tells CHS the young rider died of his injuries. Seattle Police and the King County Medical Examiner were at the scene to investigate. The crash was reported to have occurred within the park and did not involve a motor vehicle. A chaplain was called to the scene to provide support. KIRO 7 News reports that the crash occurred when the child was riding down a steep set of stairs. He was wearing a bicycle helmet, but not a motorcycle helmet. I-5 Colonnade Park was a ground-breaking project when it opened in 2007, a pioneering and still rare urban mountain bike park. With designs by Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, the park provides a mostly-covered area for riding various mountain bike trail elements year-round on a steep hillside underneath the elevated freeway. It had fallen a bit into disrepair, but Evergreen and its volunteers renewed efforts to get it back into good shape in recent years while also installing a new pump track with funding from Seattle Parks, King County Parks and a few other sources. No e-bikes or electric scooters of any kind are allowed in Seattle Parks, including the skills trails in I-5 Colonnade Park, unless they are on roads or multi-use trails. The information about Tuesday's tragic crash is still early, and details often change once the final report is complete during the coming weeks. It is best to be cautious before jumping to conclusions. […] -
https://www.evshift.com/473439/e-bikes-vs-e-motos-washington-draws-the-line-pace-5-vs-breeze-1-twr-ep-87/ E-Bikes vs E-Motos: Washington Draws the Line! + Pace 5 vs Breeze 1 TWR Ep 87 #Breeze #CyclingNews #draws #ebike #EbikeNews #Ebikes #ElectricBicycle #ElectricBike #ElectricBikeReport #ElectricBikeReview #ElectricBikeReviews #ElectricBikes #ElectricMotorcycles #ElectricVehicles #emotos #EV #line #motorcycles #PACE #TWR #washington
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“It is important that we keep our bicyclists safe, as they do not have the same protections as drivers and passengers,” said Gonzales Police Chief Keith Wise. “People of all ages use bicycles to commute to school, work, and other activities. Bicyclists, like all road users, have the right to #SafeStreets. We encourage drivers and bicyclists to look out for one another and practice safe habits so we may all go safely.” https://salinasvalleytribune.com/gonzales-police-promote-bicycle-safety-awareness/
#MontereyCounty #eBikes #eMotos #ElectricMotorcycles #eMobility #Gonzales #SalinasValley
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From the Amped Adventure website.So far, the legislature has heard from bike and trail organizations as well as cities and engaged high school students about the problems caused by the proliferation of high-powered electric two-wheelers that are often confused for or are masqueraded as e-bikes. Especially in the hands of kids too young for a driver’s license, high-speed e-bikes can be very dangerous. There’s a very good reason why we don’t let children ride motorcycles.
Gordon Smith, one of three partners behind the locally-owned Amped Adventure shop in Lake Forest Park, told Seattle Bike Blog that even though two bills going through the Washington state legislature “will definitely hurt sales” for some of their products, he supports rule changes to clarify the difference between e-bikes and e-motos. He also confirmed something I suspected: There is no organization that he is aware of that is advocating on behalf of e-motos or their riders. The bike orgs “hate” e-motos, he said, and the motorcycle orgs have also been slow to embrace them. So that leaves them without anyone to stand up for the potential good that e-motos can provide to our state.
“Being a shop that sells both of them, we welcome this sort of legislation,” he said. “They are so powerful and have a really high-end top speed” that many of these devices have more in common with off-road-only dirt bikes or ATVs. “It will help parents because they feel pressure from their kids and their neighbors to get them.”
People riding dirt bikes and ATVs on public roadways is a longstanding problem, but the proliferation of high-power electric two-wheelers, which are quieter and may even look similar to legitimate Class 1, 2 or 3 e-bikes, has brought the issue to legislator’s attention. Cities also have trouble regulating these e-motos because there is no state-level definition for them, which makes it difficult or impossible to write local codes that affect them. E-motos exist in a sort of legal gray area that HB 2374 – 2025-26 and, to a lesser extent, SB 6110 – 2025-26 are designed to illuminate. As we reported previously, both bills would clarify that any device with a motor capable of outputting more than 750 Watts or is capable of going faster than 20 mph without pedaling or that does not have working pedals (not pegs) is not an e-bike. Devices that make it easy for users to bypass power and speed limits would also not be considered e-bikes. Both bills also task the Department of Licensing with convening a work group to develop agency and legislative policy ideas ahead of the 2027 legislative session, setting up further action.
The primary difference at the moment is that the House version would also add a definition for an “electric motorcycle,” and then adds them to the existing sections regulating “motorcycles.” The Senate version would instead leave such a change to the work group to figure out ahead of the next session. Cities led by Mercer Island that are looking to add rules (potentially including bans) on e-motos prefer the House version and lobbied the Senate to add the definitions to their version, though they did not do so before passing it. The House bill is now waiting on action from the Senate Transportation Committee while the Senate bill already has a hearing in the House Transportation Committee at 1 p.m. Thursday (February 26). Only one of the bills needs to pass both chambers before it is sent to the governor to be signed into law.
But my conversation with Smith from Amped Adventure suggested that perhaps a more nuanced definition would be more appropriate. He was inspired by a recent trip to China in which he saw huge numbers of people riding electric sit-down scooters similar to a Vespa or moped. These are quiet, energy efficient, zero-emission vehicles, which are all good things the state typically wants to encourage. “You should absolutely be able to make these street legal,” he said, though he noted that in many cases it might require manufacturers to offer kits to bring the bikes in line with state motorcycle regulations.
Especially for the bikes that can go at or near freeway speeds, a motorcycle endorsement on a driver’s license is a way to “prove you know what you’re doing.” However, “I think there’s definitely room for” an in-between class, he said. Existing rules for mopeds, which are defined according to their engine cylinder displacement and therefore are not applicable to any e-bikes, exclude the vehicles from limited-access highways but allows them to be operated by someone with a regular driver’s license. This would require riders to be at least 16 and to have passed a driver’s test. It also requires registration, though at a lower cost. Other rules, such as regulating where they can be parked or how a dealer can offer legal test rides, may also need to be ironed out. The state’s moped laws also define the top speed as 30 mph on flat ground, but perhaps something closer to 35 or 40 would make sense for a device intended to travel on city streets and rural roads but not on limited access roads. These are questions I hope the work group explores.
Being able to register an e-moto as an e-moped or e-motorcycle does require costs and regulatory hoops, but it also comes with significant benefits and legal protections for riders. Right now, even if an e-moto rider is doing everything right and someone else’s driving error causes a collision, the e-moto rider is likely to be considered at least somewhat at fault because they are riding an illegal vehicle. With a legally-registered vehicle, they would have all the rights and privileges of any other road user. They would also have access to insurance. I don’t think any insurance company would sell a policy for an illegal motorcycle. Enforcing e-moto use is going to continue to be a low priority for police, and big police crackdowns can easily have negative consequences of their own. Instead, the state should encourage going legit by making the process painless and worthwhile.
Smith also noted that there are super fast electric foot scooters and unicycles that seem to be totally missing from the current legislation but that could use a similar state guidance. State laws allow these devices so long as they are limited to 20 mph, but there seems to be a similar legal gray area for devices that go faster than 20.
Washington should be careful both in passing a bill this session and in developing future policy to ensure that they are not effectively banning higher-speed electric devices. Instead, the focus should be on defining acceptable use. When is a driver’s license required? When is a motorcycle endorsement required? What safety equipment is required? The state also needs to do whatever they can to make sure it as straightforward as possible for riders to get their vehicles registered. The worst case would be a clumsy law that leaves e-moto owners with no practical way to comply, leading to continued illegal use and effectively no change.
#SEAbikes #Seattle
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From California Bicycle Coalition/ #CalBike —
Public Safety First: Call to action for District Attorneys and State Attorney General to enforce consumer protection laws against companies selling illegal e-motos as legal e-bikes. https://go.calbike.org/a/public-safety-first
#emotos #ElectricMotorcycles #ebikes #ebike #ConsumerProtection #ActiveTransportation #ClimateAction #PublicSafety #TrafficSafety #Youth #MoreKidsOnBikes
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We support statewide (not local patchworks) of “ebike” legislation.*
Kudos to John Ramos, whose report for #KION, "Some Bay Area cities aim to set rules on e-bike use,” is—overall—one of best such media reports on these issues. https://kioncentralcoast.com/news/2026/02/14/some-bay-area-cities-aim-to-set-rules-on-e-bike-use/
“Every ‘ebike’ sold in California would be unlawful for sale as an ebike in Europe. Our motors are allowed 750 watts, but in Europe, only 250.” —John Maa, MD, emergency trauma surgeon & ebike safety advocate
On Feb 13 “local officials gathered in Walnut Creek to support legislation that would require registration of Class 2 & 3 e-bikes.”
Re: e-motorcycle ridden by 16-yr-old Cash Krawetz, who died after his e-moto crashed in Half Moon Bay on Feb 9: "That’s what parents are buying 11-14-yr-olds."—Alan Kalin, #SFBA bike safety advocate. Al found 70 e-motos & only 12 regular bicycles at Stone Valley Middle School.
“Many of today’s ‘e-bikes’ aren’t really bicycles at all."
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*ICYMI, from #CalBike partners: https://bikemonterey.org/california-bicycle-advocates-call-on-elected-leaders-to-protect-e-bike-riders.html -
Excerpt from the initial draft of HB 2374 – 2025-26.A new bill in the Washington State House would make a number of changes to the statewide e-bike and motorcycle laws in an attempt to address the growing problem of very powerful and fast electric two-wheelers sold and operated with somewhat confusing and unclear legality. While many of the bill’s measures are common sense, bill writers may also want to explore what they can do to help electric motorcycle riders comply with state law. We will get to HB 2374 – 2025-26 later in this post, but first we need some background.
The core of the problem is essentially an extension of long-standing problems surrounding the use of non-street-legal motorized dirt bikes that are sold for “off-road use only” but are often ridden on public streets anyway. These motocross-style motorcycles are often missing the mirrors, lights and other requirements to legally license them for use on roadways in Washington State. However, electric motor and battery technology advancements have made electric versions of these bikes (“e-motos”) much more easily attainable, and in some cases they are even sold as electric bicycles (“e-bikes”) even though they are capable of power and top speeds far exceeding the existing electric bicycle classes defined in state law. Electric motorcycles are also much more easily disguised as legal electric bicycles, making the infraction much less obvious than someone riding a roaring motocross bike down the road. There are also serious questions about misleading marketing, including whether parents might think they are buying their child a regular electric bicycle when in fact they have bought them an illegal motorcycle disguised as an electric bicycle.
I see and hear people who are confused about the difference between these devices all the time. Current state law meets national standards by defining an electric-assisted bicycle as a bicycle with working pedals and an electric motor that can provide power up to a limit of 750 Watts that fits into one of three classes:
- Class 1: Pedal-assisted device that stops providing assistance beyond 20 mph
- Class 2: Throttle-controlled device that stops providing power beyond 20 mph
- Class 3: Pedal-assisted device that stops providing assistance beyond 27 mph
Different agencies and local jurisdictions can create their own rules based on the classes, such as Seattle’s rules that allow Class 1 and 2 bikes to use sidewalks, trails and bike lanes but not class 3 (except for certain cases in which a path is the only practicable option, like many of the city’s bridges). The state also limits the use of e-bikes on soft surface trails like mountain bike trails. But in most cases, Class 1 and 2 e-bikes are treated under the law the same as regular bicycles because 20 mph is a top speed that is within reasonable reach of many pedal bike riders.
An important detail that I see people get wrong or gloss over all the time (such as this video from the Berm Peak YouTube channel) is that people look at any e-bike that looks like a dirt bike as though it is an e-moto. Styling has nothing to do with it. There is nothing wrong with someone who wants a Class 2 e-bike that looks like a motocross bike. I don’t personally want a bicycle with a non-adjustable seat and poorly-functioning pedals, but to each their own. If it meets the power and speed limits of a Class 2 e-bike, then it’s a Class 2 e-bike. Of course if someone is riding one irresponsibly then that’s an issue, but you could say that about any non-licensed wheeled device from pedal bikes to skateboards.
However, if a bike is sold as a Class 2 e-bike but those power and speed limits can be easily bypassed, that is a serious problem. Motorcycles are not themselves bad, but they are regulated and licensed for very good reasons. Every bit of extra weight and speed makes a vehicle significantly more dangerous to both riders and others. People often do not understand that the impact force of an object quadruples when its speed doubles. So a person operating a vehicle going 40 mph not only has half the time to react to avoid a collision compared to a person going 20 mph, they also have a much longer stopping distance and quadruple the kinetic energy in the occasion that a collision does occur. So switching a mode on a 20 mph e-bike so it can go twice as fast is not a trivial action. It has turned the device into something very different that needs different rules and regulations.
HB 2374 – 2025-26 contains several actions. First, it clarifies the difference between legal e-bikes and e-motos, including a section that specifically defines vehicles that do not count:
(2) “Electric-assisted bicycle” does not include:
(a) Any vehicle capable of exceeding 20 miles per hour on solely its electric motor; or
(b) Any vehicle that is designed, manufactured, or intended by the manufacturer or seller to be easily configured in order not to meet the requirements of an electric-assisted bicycle, whether by a mechanical switch or button, by changing a setting in software controlling the drive system, by use of an online application, or through other means intended by the manufacturer or seller.
I am not a lawyer, so I have no idea if this is the best legalese to achieve the goal, something I imagine will be considered as the bill moves through the legislature, but the intent is to close the loophole that e-motos can be marketed and sold as e-bikes and then easily reconfigured by users to bypass the speed and power limits.
The bill then adds a new legal definition for an “electric motorcycle” (basically stating that it exceeds the e-bike limits) and adds them to existing sections in the law related to motorcycles. It also clarifies that “foot pegs are not considered pedals.”
Finally, the bill adds a new section that tasks the state Department of Licensing with convening a group of transportation, traffic safety, local government, and active transportation nonprofit representatives to develop a report addressing enforcement of these rules as well as the regulation of vehicle modifications and marketing. There are no teeth in this new section, but the group’s report could form the foundation for future action whether at the agency or legislative levels. It could be the basis for police crackdowns, for example. Or perhaps it could lead to lawsuits against companies marketing e-motos deceptively. These are details the group would figure out.
One of the more difficult tasks is how to determine whether a bike has illegal power limits or not. As we noted earlier, stylings mean nothing. It’s a simple matter of free speech, much like clothing. If someone wants their Class 2 e-bike to look like a motocross bike, that’s their right. So how, then, would a police officer know who to stop? This is going to be very tricky to get right since leaving too much up to officer discretion often leads to inequitable enforcement. Writing enforcement best practices that can be implemented without introducing new channels for biased policing will be challenging.
The bill is also missing efforts to support responsible e-moto riding. The bill reads as though e-motos are entirely bad, but don’t we want more people to get around our state using electric vehicles? While legislating against behaviors and outcomes we don’t want (like kids riding motorcycles!), perhaps it’s also worth figuring out how to support what we do want. Stay tuned for more.
#SEAbikes #Seattle
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People For Bikes separates fact from fiction to protect the future of e-bikes in America in this new series.
By Matt MoorePART I: The E-Bike ‘Problem’ is an E-Moto Problem https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/03/part-i-the-e-bike-problem-is-an-e-moto-problem
PART II: Unpacking the Risks for Riders and Families of Illegal E-Motos
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/04/part-ii-unpacking-the-risks-for-riders-and-families-of-illegal-e-motosPART III: Policy Solutions to the E-Moto Problem https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/11/05/part-iii-policy-solutions-to-the-e-moto-problem
#eBikes #cycling #biking #transportation #eMotos #PocketBikes #ElectricMotorcycles #PeopleForBikes #StreetsblogUSA