There has been, and is on-going, a mad-rush of localities to “do something” about e-bikes. Queen Creek earlier this year went in an odd direction… despite public info statements from e.g. the mayor, and the Police Department that emphasized they were placing regulations on youth, and e-bikes… they ended up with no age-based restrictions, so any child can legally operate any e-bike including class 3 (assist up to 28mph). And on top of that came up with a blanket speed limit of 15mph for all bicyclists riding in the road in a bike lane.
To begin with, I don’t like local laws for bicyclists that in any way affect bicyclists’ operation in the roadway (includes the bike lane, where existing). We already have state-level rules-of-the-road. Local authority over bicyclists is rooted in the idea that the locality somehow knows better; and either way, they lead to a horrendous (and getting worse) patchwork of disparate rules.
Cities in Arizona are granted the authority to further regulate the operation of bicycles within their jurisdiction.
This in general is bad for bicyclists.
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It’s worth reflecting back on how we got here w.r.t. automobiles in the US.
The standard three class electric bicycle definition was 
May 23, 2026 ~ 11pm. Mesa Grand Shopping Center (Baseline and Stapley) parking lot. Fatal hit-run suspect driving grey or silver newer Ford F-150.
2026-07-02 4pm. 
In some ways, this is a typical fatal crash, a negligent driver kills another person, in this instance, a fellow motorist. In other ways, something else must be going on because precious few drivers who kill go to prison; and ones that do nearly always involve DUI, yet there’s (apparently) no evidence of impairment, only recklessness presumably due to excessive speed. 