Caught With Your Helmet On

12/28/2025

Check out the new e-bike laws. Make sure you AND your kids are in the know 🪖🚲 Also, check out the new CHP requirement if your kids are caught WITHOUT a helmet on!!!
Safety starts at home 🏡

CHP HIGHLIGHTS NEW LAWS FOR 2026 🚨

As we head into the new year, the California Highway Patrol highlights the latest public safety laws passed and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. Unless otherwise noted, the laws referenced below take effect January 1, 2026.

-Crimes: Burglary Tools (AB 486, Lackey)
-Electric Bicycles: Required Equipment (AB 544, Davies)
-Off-highway Electric Motorcycles (SB 586, Jones)
-Pedestrian Safety: School Zones: Speed Limits (AB 382, Berman)
-State Highway Work Zone Speed Safety Program (AB 289, Haney)
-Vehicles: Highway Safety (AB 390, Wilson)
-Traffic Safety: Speed Limits (AB 1014, Rogers)
-Vehicle Removal (AB 875, Muratsuchi)
-Electric Bicycles, Powered Mobility Devices and Storage Batteries (SB 1271, Min)
-Autonomous Vehicles (AB 1777, Ting)

For descriptions of these new laws, check out this link: https://bit.ly/3YL8S09

12/26/2025

12/23/2025

Just a few days left of our 3rd annual Holiday Helmet Drive. You can find a drop box at your local bike shop and Redhawk Auto locations. Each new helmet donated will be distributed to our Temecula Sheriff, Cal Fire, Murrieta Police Dept and Murrieta Fire Dept. It takes a village to keep our kids safe 🪖🚲 Visit .southwest

12/21/2025

12/21/2025

🚲💛 Community Partnership in Action! 💛🚲

Bike Temecula Valley (BTV) and Caught With Your Helmet On are proud to be working alongside Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) to help provide bicycles for students in need through TVUSD’s Student Welfare and Success Department under the McKinney-Vento Program.

The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Program supports children and youth who are experiencing homelessness or housing instability. This includes students living in shelters, motels, cars, or doubled-up with other families. The program helps remove barriers to education by ensuring students have access to essential resources, stability, and opportunities to succeed in school and in life.

Through this partnership, our goal is to provide 8 children with a bike, helmet, and lock, giving them safe and reliable transportation, greater independence, and access to school and community activities.

🚨 We’re looking for sponsors! 🚨
If you or your business would like to help sponsor a bike, helmet, or lock, your support can make a direct and meaningful impact on a child’s life right here in our community. We anticipate each bicycle will cost $150 but will take donations in any amount.

📩 Interested in helping? Please reach out to Bike Temecula Valley or Caught With Your Helmet On to get involved. Contact us at BTV@TVBikecoalition.com or our website at https://www.tvbikecoalition.com/

Together, we can keep kids moving, safe, and supported. 💙🚴‍♀️

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Bike Temecula Valley a Bicycle Coalition Caught With Your Helmet On

12/20/2025

12/14/2025

Cities are cracking down. We all have the same goal…..keeping our kids and community safe. Happy Holidays ⛄️🎁🎄❄️

Holiday Safety Reminder for Parents

Parents: As you’re shopping this holiday season, please remember that electric motorcycles, including models like the Surron, are NOT e-bikes. These vehicles can exceed 50+ mph and are legally classified as motorcycles, not bicycles.

That means:

👉They must be registered with the DMV
👉The rider must carry insurance
👉The rider must have a valid M1 motorcycle license

In the incident referenced here, the 17-year-old rider was initially stopped for not wearing a helmet and doing wheelies in the intersection near Palm and G Ave. The rider and the vehicle did not meet any of the legal requirements above, so the motorcycle was towed.

Please be informed before you buy. Know the difference between an electric bicycle and an electric motorcycle—it keeps everyone safer and prevents costly consequences.

12/14/2025

The “best gift ever” could end up on a tow truck in a flash. If you’re buying an e-device for your child, take a moment to ensure it’s legal and not an e-motorcycle, which is illegal on City roads.

We’d hate to see your kid on the naughty list before the year even begins. A quick check before you buy can save a lot of frustration later. These two illegal e-motos were recently taken off the street.

12/02/2025

Thinking about purchasing an e-bike? Read this first ⬇️

12/02/2025

Safety starts at home!! Talk with your kids. Buy only safe LEGAL bikes that are age appropriate for your kids with the proper equipment. Monitor their bikes and check to make sure they have NOT been modified. Complete the Safe Riders course with your kids through TVUSD and attend one of the Riverside sheriffs E-Bike Safety classes.
Knowledge is Power! Knowledge keeps your kids safe!

The Riverside County DA's office appears inclined to pursue prosecution of parents and guardians in some e-bike crashes involving minors.

11/30/2025

Make sure you AND your kids know the laws AND the rules. Make sure their helmets are approved for their type of bike.
Did you know there are apps on your kids phone that tell you the speeds they are traveling? Keep your kids safe.

11/29/2025

CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death

The hazardous batteries can unexpectedly ignite and explode, posing a fire hazard to consumers, especially when the battery or the harness has been exposed to water and debris.

The importer, Rad Power Bikes Inc., of Seattle, Washington has refused to agree to an acceptable recall. Given its financial situation, Rad Power Bikes has indicated to CPSC that it is unable to offer replacement batteries or refunds to all consumers.

CPSC urges consumers to immediately remove the battery from the e-bike and dispose of the battery following local hazardous waste disposal procedures. Do not sell or give away these hazardous batteries.

Learn more: https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Immediately-Stop-Using-Batteries-for-E-Bikes-from-Rad-Power-Bikes-Due-to-Fire-Hazard-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-or-Death