Coeur d'Alene, ID Mobility & Curb Rules: E-Bike Classes (2026)

Chapter 4.40 of the Coeur d'Alene Municipal Code, adopted by the City Council as Ordinance 3763 in 2025, governs Trails, Bicycle Paths, Pedestrian Paths and Multi-Use Paths. Its definitions section sets the class system. Every Electric-Assisted Bicycle must have fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than seven hundred fifty (750) watts. A Class 1 bike gives assistance only while the rider pedals and cuts off at twenty (20) miles per hour. A Class 2 bike carries a motor that can propel the bicycle by itself, with no pedaling, and is not capable of providing assistance once the bicycle reaches twenty (20) miles per hour. A Class 3 bike also assists only while pedaling, but the cutoff is twenty-eight (28) miles per hour.

The classification matters because of what the same chapter says about motorized vehicles. The chapter's definition of Motor Vehicle expressly leaves out Electric-Assisted Bicycles, and the definitions of Motorcycle, Motor-Driven Cycle and Moped each exclude them too. The Moped definition adds that a vehicle falling within the Electric-Assisted Bicycle definition is not a Moped. As a result, the ban in section 4.40.030 on driving a Motor Vehicle on a Trail, Bicycle Lane, Bicycle Path, Pedestrian Path or Multi-Use Path does not reach a qualifying e-bike. Electric motorcycles, golf carts, electric scooters and other electric vehicles are treated separately, and an Electric Motorcycle is barred from Trails, Bicycle Lanes, Pedestrian Paths and Multi-Use Paths.

The chapter does not print a different riding rule for each class. Once a bike qualifies, the operating rules in section 4.40.040 apply to it as a Vehicle: a fifteen (15) miles per hour maximum on any Trail, Bicycle Path, Pedestrian Path or Multi-Use Path unless a lower speed is posted, riding on the right half, no more than two abreast, yielding to pedestrians, and lights from sunset to sunrise. The Pedestrian Path is the exception, because section 4.40.030 says no person shall operate a Vehicle on a Pedestrian Path. A bike that lacks pedals, or whose motor is 750 watts or more, falls outside the e-bike definition and is judged under the motor vehicle rules instead.