Menlo Park’s school district will soon begin enforcing a sweeping ban on ultra-fast e-bikes, citing recent crashes and concerns that a more serious collision is inevitable, the latest move by authorities across California to address what they view as a growing safety hazard.
Starting this week, the Menlo Park City School District will ban students under 16 from bringing e-bikes capable of exceeding 20 miles per hour or operating without pedaling onto campus. The ban includes two classes of legal e-bikes as well as those that have been illegally modified to go faster.
Many law enforcement authorities say these modified electric motorcycles are masquerading as e-bikes, and are capable of blasting past the speed limit rating they were sold under…