The executive director of the Iowa Bicycle Coalition says there needs to be more regulation on one of the hottest new type of bikes rolling around Iowa. Luke Hoffman says electric bikes and gravel road riding are the top two trends in the industry.
E bikes are pedaled, but you can get an assist from the electric motor. Hoffman says there’s a problem as some of the models are E bikes in name only, and riders are causing problems by speeding past regular riders.
Hoffman says some of them don’t even have working pedals. He says the riders of these fake E bikes can give the riders of the real thing a bad name.
Hoffman says we’re all subject to the same rules of the road, and we all have a mutually important obligation to that for safety purposes.
