new york ebike speed limit

[sjpt]

New York have a new city wide ebike speed limit of 15mph.

When Does The E-Bike Speed Limit Law Take Into Effect?
The law, announced by Mayor Eric Adams in June 2025, will be enforced beginning August 1, 2025. Riders found exceeding the 15 MPH limit may face fines or even have their e-bikes impounded depending on the severity of the infraction. The speed cap applies to all electric bikes and e-scooters operating on city streets and bike lanes, regardless of brand or power level. Click here to read the press release.

NYC E-Bike Speed Limit Explained: How the 15 MPH Cap Affects You

NYC's new e-bike law sets a 15 MPH speed limit in 2025. Learn how this affects riders, what it means for your commute, and how to stay compliant. Read more now!

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This isn't that new, but I haven't seen it before and can't find it is search, so I apologise if it's a duplicate listing.
p.s. I'm one of those against the idea that the speed limit should be raised in UK (or EU, etc etc).

 

[flecc]

Like our Highway Code changes in 2022, this is part of a widespread trend to better protect vulnerable road users like pedestrians and cyclists.
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[Tony1951]

The key to universal e-bike acceptance and freedom from the impact of regulation is really simple: Reasonable behaviour and consideration for other people.

It is no surprise that it looks like the majority of police action against illegal e-bikes seems to be taking place in urban town centre pedestrian areas. This is just an impression - but isn't that what we see in the many power ebike busts we see in video clips? Town centre - illegally fast e-motorbikes - cops seizing bike - usually a delivery vehicle with a box on it.

If you want a largely unregulated (no tax, no insurance, no mot, no motorbike helmet space) just ride a legal bike and ride it in a considerate fashion, and don't ride it on pavements and pedestrian only areas.

We have all seen absolute morons riding over powered, ridiculous franken-bikes at speed - often endangering other people. The quicker these people are cleared off the road the better. They brought it on themselves, and to some extent, they brought it on us as well. There is also a strong criminal element involved as well - such as louts using illegal bikes to deliver drugs and contraband.

I also can't understand why so many of these deliveroo chappies don't ride a cheap Chinese motorbike. They would have almost limitless range and they'd get more deliveries done and you can get one for about £1600. Tax about £26, insurance about £150. Petrol consumption at urban speeds would be about 125 miles to the gallon.

 

[jarnold]

The key to universal e-bike acceptance and freedom from the impact of regulation is really simple: Reasonable behaviour and consideration for other people.

It is no surprise that it looks like the majority of police action against illegal e-bikes seems to be taking place in urban town centre pedestrian areas. This is just an impression - but isn't that what we see in the many power ebike busts we see in video clips? Town centre - illegally fast e-motorbikes - cops seizing bike - usually a delivery vehicle with a box on it.

If you want a largely unregulated (no tax, no insurance, no mot, no motorbike helmet space) just ride a legal bike and ride it in a considerate fashion, and don't ride it on pavements and pedestrian only areas.

We have all seen absolute morons riding over powered, ridiculous franken-bikes at speed in a dangerous fashion - often endangering other people. The quicker these people are cleared off the road the better. They brought it on themselves, and to some extent, they brought it on us as well. There is also a strong criminal element involved as well - such as louts using illegal bikes to deliver drugs and contraband.

I also can't understand why so many of these deliveroo chappies don't ride acheap Chinese motorbike. They would have almost limitless range and they'd get more deliveries done and you can get one for about £1600. Tax about £26, insurance about £150. Petrol consumption at urban speeds about 125 miles to the gallon.

Because then they'd be traceable, via registration plates, sanctionable, via penalty points etc., apart from being more expensive. Also noisier, which might be a consideration if you're trying to stay under the radar.

 

[flecc]

I also can't understand why so many of these deliveroo chappies don't ride a cheap Chinese motorbike. They would have almost limitless range and they'd get more deliveries done and you can get one for about £1600. Tax about £26, insurance about £150. Petrol consumption at urban speeds about 125 miles to the gallon.

In almost all my London borough of Croydon they only use mopeds and are properly kitted out, obviously law abiding. Much or most of their work is deliveries from Supermarkets which make special provision for their activities, allocated parking by front doors etc. Outside our Waitrose two or three are often to be seen waiting for order calls to come in, enabling an instant service.

The only time I've seen the odd EAPC is in the scruffy, congested northern fringe of the borough, and they have always been lash up conversions.
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[Tony1951]

In almost all my London borough of Croydon they only use mopeds and are properly kitted out, obviously law abiding. Much or most of their work is deliveries from Supermarkets which make special provision for their activities, allocated parking by front doors etc. Outside our Waitrose two or three are often to be seen waiting for order calls to come in, enabling an instant service.

The only time I've seen the odd EAPC is in the scruffy, congested northern fringe of the borough, and they have always been lash up conversions.
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Yes - I see those more sensible ones too. The greatest number of illegal delivery riders I saw was in the student areas of Newcastle where in a two hundred meter walk along a pedestrian precinct I saw maybe eight illegal frankenbikes being ridden by African gentlemen wrapped up in massive coats and hoods in mid June. It wasn't cold at all to a local. I think they might be new arrival boat people, but I can't be sure of that.

What puzzles me about students these days is that they seem incapable of making their own food like I did from raw ingredients they went out and bought. They must be made of money, either that, or they have not thought out how much it will eventually cost them in paying back massive loans - largely wasted on fast food and having cups of coffee delivered to them, rather than just making it with a cafetiere . There was a large Gregs store which was the source of a lot of this traffic, and the riders were headed for a big student hall of residence. I saw the riders getting off their bikes and taking stuff inside.

/oldgit ranting about yoof

 

[Nealh]

One day new york might even accept EN15194 fully and follow most of the rest of the world.

 

[thelarkbox]

I never considered that

Yes - I see those more sensible ones too. The greatest number of illegal delivery riders I saw was in the student areas of Newcastle where in a two hundred meter walk along a pedestrian precinct I saw maybe eight illegal frankenbikes being ridden by African gentlemen wrapped up in massive coats and hoods in mid June. It wasn't cold at all to a local. I think they might be new arrival boat people, but I can't be sure of that.

What puzzles me about students these days is that they seem incapable of making their own food like I did from raw ingredients they went out and bought. They must be made of money, either that, or they have not thought out how much it will eventually cost them in paying back massive loans - largely wasted on fast food and having cups of coffee delivered to them, rather than just making it with a cafetiere . There was a large Gregs store which was the source of a lot of this traffic, and the riders were headed for a big student hall of residence. I saw the riders getting off their bikes and taking stuff inside.

/oldgit ranting about yoof

You only need 1x Really wealthy foreign student in them halls of residence you know.. Uk-griftin student 101 identify the off-spring of oligarchs and royalty!! -

 

[georgehenry]

A 15mph blanket limit is more restrictive than our situation as the NYC law relates to a speed limit rather than when motor assistance should cease. Even on a gentle negative gradient I can go quite a few miles an hour faster than 15mph with my assistance turned off. On a steeper downhill I can exceed 30mph quite easily with no assistance.

 

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[Tony1951]

I never considered that


You only need 1x Really wealthy foreign student in them halls of residence you know.. Uk-griftin student 101 identify the off-spring of oligarchs and royalty!! -

What? One Oligarch's kiddie ordering goods from Gregs requiring about eight eager, illegals working as deliveroo riders in the five minutes it took me to walk from the front of the shop to the hall of residence. Besides.... LOL I doubt the Oligarch spawn are living in a hall of residence. There are plenty of very smart pads within half a mile of the same location. Who knows though.....