San Diego police say kids are riding them on streets, and parents might not realize difference between e-dirt bikes and e-bicycles.
San Diego police Traffic Officer Nick Tamagni was writing a ticket to a man for riding an electric off-highway motorcycle on a Rancho Bernardo street a couple of weeks ago when he spotted an even more urgent concern. Two young teens whizzed past him on the same kind of vehicle — an e-motorcycle, the kind not legal for the streets.
Tamagni headed off after them. The teen driver got a ticket. The e-motorcycle got towed.
It’s a ticket he’s writing more frequently.
San Diego police say they have seen more people on city streets riding e-motorcycles designed only for off-highway use, including teens not old enough to drive. The e-motorcycles in question are generally known as dirt bikes, off-highway vehicles that are now also offered in an electric version. Don’t confuse them for full-size, street-legal motorcycles, which are also now offered in an electric version.
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Parents be warned: e-dirt bikes are not e-bicycles. And they are not legal on city streets.
