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Your beach cruiser just got a bureaucrat

Jason Weisberger
Feb 21, 2026
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A new idea to limit injuries and hooning on e-bikes in California has been introduced to the state’s assembly: register e-bikes like they are cars.

Apparently, e-bikes are too convenient, and their owners need to spend time at the DMV. Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, who represents Orinda, a community far, far away from the beach…

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