The Latest From The DMV In Austin, TX

That's the way it should be everywhere......Soon you'll have to have a license to walk down the street......

I live in Port Aransas, a small barrier island w/ about 3000 people in the winter....50-100,000 in summer..... I live next door to a cop and he says it's all good w / motorbikes.......

There are at least 30 that run around here regularly....

You gotta love Texas. Yea Texas. Nobody ever bothers me riding around Dallas.

Texas is the only state that i have broke down in my truck. that the pople went out of there way to help me. go Texas.

I ride a fast ebike responsibly in Austin. It's safer because it's faster.

I've never been stopped once in over 8,000 miles for riding an electric bike. I am about 50/50 pedaling or not at fast speeds. I think I technically am legal if I am pedaling, up to the speed limit.

Here is the definition of a bicycle:

Definition of Bicycle
Sec. 541.201. Vehicles.

In this subtitle:


... (2) "Bicycle" means a device that a person may ride and that is propelled by human power and has two tandem wheels at least one of which is more than 14 inches in diameter.


The following definition of electric bicycle was passed by the Texas legislature in 2001:


(10) "Motor-driven cycle" means a motorcycle equipped with a motor that has an engine piston displacement of 250 cubic centimeters or less. The term does not include an electric bicycle.



(11) "Motor vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle or a vehicle that is propelled by electric power from overhead trolley wires. The term does not include an electric bicycle.

(24) "Electric bicycle" means a bicycle that:

(A) is designed to be propelled by an electric motor, exclusively or in combination with the application of human power;

(B) cannot attain a speed of more than 20 miles per hour without the application of human power; and

(C) does not exceed a weight of 100 pounds.

Source: http://bicycleaustin.info/laws/tx-bike.html#definition

We're very lucky about the way Texas treats Motor bicycles. In Florida the law is almost exactly the same, and they're trying to harass motor bicycles off the streets.