{"id":141,"date":"2012-05-19T18:19:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T22:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annawahrman.com\/wp\/?p=141"},"modified":"2012-05-19T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2012-05-19T22:19:19","slug":"electric-bikes-are-illegal-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/electric-bikes-are-illegal-in-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric bikes are illegal in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public service announcement. In case you were wondering, electric bikes (sometimes called e-bikes) are illegal in New York City. Oh, you can own one, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmv.ny.gov\/recreation.htm#motor\" target=\"_blank\">you can&#8217;t actually ride it<\/a> on &#8220;any street, highway, parking lot, sidewalk or other area that allows public motor vehicle traffic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More? OK: &#8220;A motor-assisted bicycle does not qualify for a registration as a motorcycle, moped or ATV and does not have the same equipment&#8221; and &#8220;you are subject to arrest if you operate one of these motorized vehicles and do not have a registration,&#8221; which we just found out you can&#8217;t get.<\/p>\n<p>So to summarize, as of the timestamp on this post, electric bikes are banned in NYC. The kind you can buy complete with motor, the kind you can trick out with a motor, every kind. For delivery guys and recreational riders alike. I learned this lesson the hard way, so take my advice: If you ride it, you&#8217;re breaking the law &#8212; don&#8217;t let anyone tell you otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public service announcement. In case you were wondering, electric bikes (sometimes called e-bikes) are illegal in New York City. Oh, you can own one, but you can&#8217;t actually ride it on &#8220;any street, highway, parking lot, sidewalk or other area that allows public motor vehicle traffic.&#8221; More? OK: &#8220;A motor-assisted bicycle does not qualify for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annawahrman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}