LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Another video of a group of young kids on electric bikes in the valley is making the rounds online.
This time, they seem to be getting way too close to a traditional bicyclist.
Some say they’re driving recklessly. FOX5 wanted to hear from bike riders on safety concerns they have when trying to get around town.
Regular bikers like Kobe Arinwine worry these videos could have a very different ending.
“I understand like the fun part of it, but it could badly injure somebody,” Arinwine said.
Arinwine has an e-bike and uses it when he needs to get somewhere quickly but also rides a traditional bike.
He says the actions of the e-riders in the video crowding the bicyclist would make anyone distracted.
“I’m like, ok, this could be a little bit disturbing trying to just have a peaceful bike ride and having that many kids on a fast e-bike in the middle of the street,” Arinwine said. “A car could come and you wouldn’t see it, and then you could potentially get hurt from that.”
That’s what worries Erin Breen of UNLV’s Road Equity Alliance Project after seeing the video.
“I think it’s not a question of if a young person’s going to die on one of these, it’s a question of when,” Breen said.
She loves the idea of kids getting outside and having a good time, but not like what FOX5 showed the audience a few months ago of kids in the same area of Summerlin running red lights.
Breen tells us not only could your child get hurt, but they could also get hit with a ticket.
“If it does not have pedals, if it has pegs, it’s probably not street legal. And if it is street legal, it’s a motorcycle,” Breen said. “If it’s a motorcycle, you can’t drive it under 16, you have to have a license, you have to have a helmet, you have to have insurance.”
Breen says the problem isn’t limited to the streets.
“As a pedestrian advocate, I don’t like them on the sidewalk because they go 17 to 30 miles an hour, and they have the potential of critically injuring or killing a pedestrian,” Breen said.
That is something Arinwine worries about especially after the most recent video.
But he says there’s more where that came from.
“I see a lot of clips of kids on TikTok or Instagram doing wheelies in the middle of the street, sometimes in the wrong direction,” Arinwine said. “So it’s like, no!“
Lawmakers are pushing to get an ordinance to make our roads safer.
It will clarify how e-bikes and e-scooters can be used on roads and restricts the use of certain high-speed e-bikes at parks.
If passed, we’re told it will come with a lot of education and new signage.
A Clark County commissioner tells FOX5 they hope to introduce it officially within the next 30 days.
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