I’ve been riding e-bikes for eight years now, and I’ve got several sitting in my garage as I write this. I love them — for the commute, for errands, for the sheer fun of it — and nothing about what I’m going to say here is meant to talk anyone out of riding. But I’m also a lawyer who handles cases involving lithium-ion battery fires, and that combination has taught me something: the same battery pack that makes these rides so enjoyable can, in rare but devastating cases, turn into the worst night of someone’s life. If that’s happened to…
I ride an e-bike every single week, usually more than once a week. It gets me to beautiful locations in my county as well as into the City of San Francisco, sometimes faster than I’d ever get there in a car — and on the right stretch of road or trail, it’s honestly one of the best parts of my week. So when I saw that San Mateo County’s Board of Supervisors unanimously advanced a new e-bike safety ordinance this week, I read it not just as a San Francisco personal injury attorney who handles bicycle and e-bike crash cases,…
