Menifee, CA Mobility & Curb Rules: E-Bike Classes (2026)

020 defines an electric bicycle as a bicycle with fully operable pedals and a motor under 750 watts, split into three classes. Class 1 provides motor assistance only while pedaling and cuts out at 20 miles per hour. Class 2 has a motor that can propel the bike without pedaling but also stops assisting at 20 miles per hour. Class 3 assists only while pedaling but keeps assisting up to 28 miles per hour and must be equipped with a speedometer. 070 layers helmet and age rules on top of the state classification: anyone under 18 must wear a properly fitted, fastened bicycle helmet while riding any bicycle or e-conveyance on a public roadway, bikeway, path, trail or route in the city, regardless of e-bike class.

Riders or passengers on a Class 3 e-bike must comply with California Vehicle Code Section 21213's helmet requirement regardless of age, and no one under 16 may operate a Class 3 e-bike at all. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission bicycle standards, its motor must disengage when the brakes are applied or when a control switch is released, and it is unlawful to tamper with an e-bike to raise its speed capability past 28 miles per hour on any roadway, sidewalk, trail, path or public property in the city, or to do so without relabeling its classification. 30 was adopted by Ordinance 2025-408 on March 5, 2025, replacing older bicycle-only rules with this e-conveyance framework.