Bike shops in Jupiter showed WPTV several YouTube videos, illustrating ways people can alter an electronic bike, commonly called an e-bike, to travel at speeds higher than their legal limit.
WPTV’s Ethan Stein dug into the issue after listening to Jupiter Town Council Member Andy Fore discussing an “altered” bike’s role in a crash last year, during the town’s regular scheduled meeting on Tuesday night.
Jupiter is hosting a town hall about e-bike safety after a middle school student was killed in a crash March 13.
E-bikes easy to ‘hack,’ raising safety concerns
“When these bikes are going 50 miles per hour it’s possible to do incredible harm to your body, bike and car,” Fore said…