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eBIKE DROP, an electric bike rental delivery service that's the brainchild of Erie native Will Mowris, 33, and his family, began rolling out its e-bikes at the beginning of June.

"I’ve been in the outdoors industry for about 15 years now, and over the past couple years as e-bikes have grown out here in Colorado, I’ve started to see how much of a demand there is," Mowris, who lives in Steamboat Springs, Colorado said. "Looking in Erie, there was nothing like this, so my family and I decided it’d be an awesome opportunity for us to help guests and locals of Erie explore Erie a little more."eBIKE DROP offers three types of rental experiences: A 24-hour doorstep delivery rental for $95, The Long Haul 4-hour rental for $75 and The Bayfront Cruise 2-hour rental for $50.To get more news about e bike, you can visit magicyclebike.com official website.

Customers ages 16 and up can rent any of three styles of e-bikes. Each comes with a helmet, bike lock, battery charger, e-bike instructions, side mirror and a basket for storage.

Pick-up and drop-off locations vary by reservation, but Mowris said the e-bikes' primary usage will be deployed primarily around Presque Isle State Park and Erie's Bayfront.

Recently an individual posted on one of the local Facebook pages regarding receiving a ticket from North Island Traffic Services while operating their e-bike in Campbell River.

RCMP spokesperson Const. Maury Tyre says in a weekly RCMP report that there is much confusion regarding the use of e-bikes and their place in legal operation and recent case law has shaped the way police may deal with e-bike operators.

Officially, e-bikes do not require a licence or insurance if they are pedal assisted, are under a certain wattage and cannot operate beyond a 33km/hr threshold. However, this means they must be treated as bicycles.

Where riders of these e-bikes are getting into an issue is how the E-bikes are being used. Again, the use of these E-Bikes and E-scooters must be equivalent to that of a bicycle, meaning:
Presently, there is no insurance or licence available for e-bike operation, but when the bikes weigh several hundred pounds, they become an extremely dangerous commodity on the road if not operated the way in which they were intended. There have been pedestrians struck, accidents, failed signals, and failures to stop associated with these e-bikes over the last year and for the most part, the operators at those times were very much treating their E-bike like a motor bike and operating in a very dangerous manner including operating while being impaired.

At this point it is very much an officer’s discretion whether an operator of an E-bike will be pulled over, spoken to, or ticketed and for the most part that is based on their ability to follow the rules associated to cycling or whether they are treating their E-bike like a motorbike, Tyre says.“Police have found that some of the e-bike operators are individuals who have lost their licences to drive for various reasons over the years and unfortunately they have transferred that unwillingness top follow road rules to their new form of transportation,” Tyre says. “It’s these same bad drivers that have brought the extra scrutiny to e-bike operations.”

The Campbell River RCMP responded to 337 files for service from Nov. 25 to Dec. 1, bringing Campbell River’s total files to date up to 15,723 calls for service.