E-bikes need regulation. They're not just bicycles.

Ihad a "get off my lawn" moment not long ago, although I wasn't actually on my lawn at the time.

As I drove through my neighborhood at a speed somewhat close to the posted limit, three kids on electric bicycles pulled in front of me. None of them appeared to be more than 12, but there they were, holding their own with the cars on the road. Only moments before, I had seen them zipping along the narrow, winding sidewalk that parallels the street.

That sidewalk is narrow ‒ maybe wide enough for two people to walk shoulder to shoulder if they're friendly ‒ and it has many blind spots as it meanders around mailboxes, trees, privacy walls and other structures along the roadway.

Before the kids pulled in front of me, I was thinking about how much damage e-bike riders could do if they plowed