The Six-Point Plan for Strategic E-Bike Solutions
A Comprehensive, Coordinated, Effective Resource
1. Compliance Motivation
Compliance motivation means convincing riders, through an effective behavior-management program, to follow the rules. The Incline Program is our initiative to serve this point in the plan. It helps young riders recognize the slick marketing tactics used to influence their choices and then consider the real-life harm and community-wide pain caused by crashes. The program also helps parents coach their teens through developing more-mature riding conduct. Designed as a cost-effective initiative, the Incline Program provides an innovative turning point that cities have been seeking.
3. Policies and Communications
Policies and communications are where we can help you make a lasting difference throughout your region. We provide a longstanding legal mechanism, an e-bike/e-moto specific playbook to help you roll into that success strategy efficiently, and easy-to-use templates to help your regional stakeholder-agencies work together. Whole regions will manage e-bike and e-moto safety much better than the current patchwork approach. Leaders will provide consistent, effective strategies in a unified safety framework based on solid research that’s far more powerful than isolated efforts.
2. Consumer Awareness
Consumer awareness means helping parents learn how to shop for legal e-bikes rather than trusting misleading sales pitches. Beth Black’s book, The Caring Parent’s E-Bike Survival Guide, provides a handy checklist of questions they need to ask, the answers they should expect, and what they should look for in an e-bike. When shopping for e-bikes, parents will know when to stay and when to walk away. The other side of this is that retailers will have to deal with informed families, which will help to motivate marketing and sales of legal models.
4. Informed Enforcement
Informed enforcement is more than most people realize. Yes, the traffic division must be fully informed and engaged in supporting legal e-bikes and appropriate models for teens and tweens. They’re also on the front lines of managing teen riding conduct. But we must all go a step further to promote a healthy understanding of all factors involved for every member of a police force. From fraud investigation to recovering stolen bikes, everyone in uniform should better understand what they are dealing with.
5. Infrastructure Improvements
Infrastructure Improvements starts with Vision Zero types of safety improvements. And it can go much farther than the intersections, streets, and paths. Many cities can be helped by rethinking their recreational facilities as valuable infrastructure. Just as past generations created skateboard parks and training facilities that rocketed skateboards from being the scourge of the sidewalks to an Olympic Sport, infrastructure evolution across your region will provide the opportunities for training and events that teens need. Bonus: They’ll give communities a chance to be proud of their e-biking teens.
6. Developing E-Biking as a Sport
Developing e-biking as a sport is how we inspire better conduct by offering legal opportunities for teens to gain status, recognition, and respect for their skills and talents. Participation requires teens to keep their street riding record clean. The infrastructure improvements in Step 5 play a role, as cities develop safe spaces to train, ride, and compete for prizes. Let’s draw kids away from busy intersections. We can also rethink Motocross, as we work with manufacturers to invest in legal ways to profit from their motorized bike products.
What Marin Safe Routes to Schools Has to Say About This
In her 2025 presentation to the national organization, Marin Safe Routes to Schools Education Director Gwen Froh explained how communities can benefit from working through the six-point plan with the Bellemont Project. See the brief clip here:
According to children’s hospital orange county
The Four Main Mechanisms of E-Bike Injury
Falling off the E-Bike
Losing control of a powerful ride.
Collision With Static Object
Running into a wall, tree, bus, etc.
Struck by an Automobile
Failing to be seen or predictable.
Pedestrian Hit by E-Bike
Riding carelessly around walkers.
To Local and Regional Leaders
The E-Bike Safety Gap: What the Next Report Can’t Say.
We are witnessing the launch of rising risk as e-bikes become the new norm for our youth. While current data may not yet rise to the level of historical losses relative to automobile-related injuries and deaths, this is nevertheless a real, new problem demanding immediate, proactive solutions. Ignoring the risk today guarantees a crisis tomorrow. We are asking civic leaders to move beyond reports and adopt proven strategies.
The e-bike trend is here to stay. Your leadership must evolve with it.
We’ve been risk-signaling the growing threat to youth safety because traditional rules don’t apply to this new, fast-moving vehicle. Data gaps are not safety guarantees. We offer proven, professional programs—like the Incline Program—that focus on behavior management and effective education to bridge the knowledge gap immediately. Partner with us to make your community the national standard for e-bike safety.
Please don’t wait for tragedy to define your response.
New Technology. New Risks. Your Community Needs a New Plan.
We recognize that reports like California’s Mineta study may suggest low initial loss figures. But the simple truth is that a rising market trend equals a rising threat for our youth. Whatever your region lacks in proper strategic planning will likely prove that the rise in e-bike and e-moto use means a parallel rise in risk of crashes, injuries, and fatalities. We are not waiting for accidents to accumulate high enough for comparison to cars. The Bellemont Project offers professional advisory, tools, and education to help your community develop proactive e-bike safety protocols — a commonsense approach to injury prevention.