{"id":355080,"date":"2026-06-04T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/new-e-bike-law-could-help-legalize-those-30-and-40-mph-grey-zone-bikes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:03:16","slug":"new-e-bike-law-could-help-legalize-those-30-and-40-mph-grey-zone-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/new-e-bike-law-could-help-legalize-those-30-and-40-mph-grey-zone-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"New e-bike law could help legalize those 30 and 40+ MPH \u2018grey-zone\u2019 bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/06\/new-e-bike-law-could-help-legalize-those-30-and-40-mph-grey-zone-bikes.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Illinois is on the verge of adopting a major update to its e-bike laws, and unlike many recent proposals around the country, this one doesn\u2019t simply focus on traditional electric bicycles. In addition to the traditional 3-class electric bicycle system, it also sets in place a path forward for out-of-class models that are too fast or powerful to qualify as true electric bicycles. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/06\/04\/new-e-bike-law-could-help-legalize-those-30-and-40-mph-grey-zone-bikes\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/new-e-bike-law-could-help-legalize-those-30-and-40-mph-grey-zone-bikes\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":355081,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}