Why Marin Is Banning Kids From Riding Some E-Bikes
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 1:19.5 | Marin County is known as the birthplace of modern mountain biking, and it has long had a robust cycling culture, but over the last few years, e-bikes that can go up to 50 miles an hour |
| 1:25.6 | have surged in popularity, especially with young people. |
| 1:29.7 | That's led to a rise in serious bike accidents among young riders, |
| 1:34.1 | which has prompted county officials to ban anyone under 16 from riding the fastest e-bikes. |
| 1:40.5 | We'll talk about the rise of this mode of transportation, |
| 1:43.6 | Marin's attempt to regulate them and the future of biking. |
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| 2:00.5 | Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. So I'm on the record as loving e-bikes. I really do. I don't have one myself, but I find renting one and cruising across the city to basically be the perfect mode of transportation. And I wish that, for example, every single car in Los Angeles could be converted into an e-bike. |
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