Getting rid of the three class system was a galaxy brain move, lol.

Have fun with emotos on shared use trails, instead of gentle class I-3 bikes doing 15.

It's New Jersey for anyone wondering. Really didn't expect them of all places to do it.

Creating rules for Formula 1 cars that also apply to a Toyota Corolla might not be the best idea.

Am I missing something, or did Murphy sign this on his last day in office?

Are there not already laws about being reckless in public areas? Why are we not enforcing those? Why do we need new specific ones about bikes?

Main issue for me is that this gives cops a valid reason to stop and harass cyclists.

The laws aren't really harsh, they're just catching up with new tech. In my area there are tons of 10-15 year olds riding the motocross style e bikes, which isn't a problem, except that they go like 40+ mph in residential areas with no helmets, and they blow through stop signs all the time. Matter of time before one of those kids get veggied

For some context

https://youtube.com/watch?v=gjRNoVYuo28

Murphy pointed to several recent fatal crashes involving e-bikes as the motivation behind the law. He also pointed to a variety of cases that involved people using shoes to walk places, and encouraged the committee explore similar insurance and licensure to use shoes.

The committee attempted to explain that the most prominent commonality in those crashes was cars, but he had already stuffed his fingers in his ears.

I mean there's already laws for small engine equipped bikes, and e-bikes are just those but without the gasoline.

I'm not even required to insure my motorcycle, these laws are a bullshit money grab

This is entirely necessary. In the US, teenagers are ripping these things by the dozen in public parks and all over the place. I've seen 3 near collisions with small children. It is incredibly dangerous. When I was a kid, a handful of kids had 50cc dirt bikes, and they would ride them around town, but I never saw anything close to what I see these days. They'd use them to get from point A to B for the most part, and it was usually only 1 or 2 kids. Yes, they'd do occasional dumb shit, but again it was only a handful of kids in the whole town. Today I see kids age 12-15 rolling in gangs on these things, riding them in places where motorized vehicles have no business being doing wheelies and just being careless. This is a good thing.

Good. More please.

These things belong on the roads, not our trails.

With them being as fast and dangerous as other vehicles that have these requirements for decades, it is just a consequential move.

Italy here. I LOVE bikes, I do part of my commute by bike (the rest by train) and I wish my city made even harder for cars to drive in the city in favour of bikes.

With that said, we need a law like this here because e-bikes are a new kind of hell for everyone:

• Most of them are easily modifiable so they reach up to 50km/h without having to pedal. Making them electric motor-scooters.

• Because of this, they are basically a free for all: no need to respect traffic laws, red lights... fuck, they even pass pedestrians in the sidewalk at speeds that are superior to the speed limit of the street for car

• Also because of this, you better pray to not get involved in an accident with one. If you are on foot and get hit by one, they will simply run and let you in the ground. And if you are in a car... well, tough luck because you'll have to pay for your own repair even if they caused them.

And most of these assholes work for delivery companies like deliveroo, just eat and similars.

So yeah, since we can't have nice things, give me a law and fuck all these assholes dearly.

I like Seth from Berm Peak take on this and the whole issue, people like Micah "Faster E-bike are safer" Toll are basically asking for this sort of sweeping law to happen, because people just can't self-regulate.

Good. I'm tired of the armies of 12 year old kids with absolutely no awareness or caution whatsoever on bikes that can easily go 30+mph.