New Jersey now requires every e-bike to be registered with the state and every rider to hold a license, a framework no other state uses. Enforcement began July 19, and it arrived in a country where a family driving three hours can cross into a jurisdiction with entirely different rules for the same bicycle.
For parents, this is the part that has become genuinely difficult. Injury data have been accumulating for two years and are no longer contested. What has changed is that the legal answer to a simple question—whether a 14-year-old may ride a bike in the garage—now depends entirely on which state the garage is in.
