All e-bikes are officially banned in Hinsdale, Il, as well as in several nearby Chicago suburbs.
Posted: July 18th, 2025, 11:05 am
E-bike riders in the LaGrange/Brookfield/Countryside area that take long rides into Downers Grove, Naperville, and so forth and are used to getting there and back via that bridge near Spring Rock Park that goes over Interstate 294 are going to need to take a seriously huge detour if they want to avoid heavy fines and even jail time. That is correct, people, as of today, e-bikes, all classes, including regular bicycles that have been retrofitted with one of those electric bicycle wheel kits, are officially completely illegal in the Village of Hinsdale, Illinois, they can not be operated within the Village of Hinsdale, on neither street nor sidewalk, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Violators face heavy fines and up to 7 months in jail. Hinsdale now also enforces a strict speed limit of 8 mph for all regular bicycles, radar enforced, and if they catch you doing 9 mph, including going downhill on an incline, even if it is at 2 in the morning, you will be pulled over. E-bikes are also completely illegal, on both street and sidewalk, in the adjacent suburbs of Burr Ridge, Willowbrook, and Western Springs, and are also illegal in Elk Grove Village, Oak Park, and Schaumburg.
And I will agree, those people that hate e-bikes so much need to pack up and go move back to New York and Long Island, where both regular bicycles and e-bikes are completely illegal, on both street and sidewalk within the City of New York, as well as in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, and if you get caught by the New York Police Department in possession of a regular bicycle, let alone an e-bike, let alone riding a regular bicycle, let alone an e-bike, on street or sidewalk within the City of New York, it's 5 years on Rikers Island. In Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, operating a regular bicycle or e-bike, on street or sidewalk, and even being in possession of a bicycle or e-bike, carries up to one year in county jail. In New York City and on Long Island, there are but 4 legal ways of getting around, and they are walking, automobile, taxi/uber, and public transportation. In New York City and on Long Island, they seriously want your money, and getting around on wheels that require no gasoline or fossil fuels is considered tantamount even to theft.
And I will agree, those people that hate e-bikes so much need to pack up and go move back to New York and Long Island, where both regular bicycles and e-bikes are completely illegal, on both street and sidewalk within the City of New York, as well as in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, and if you get caught by the New York Police Department in possession of a regular bicycle, let alone an e-bike, let alone riding a regular bicycle, let alone an e-bike, on street or sidewalk within the City of New York, it's 5 years on Rikers Island. In Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island, operating a regular bicycle or e-bike, on street or sidewalk, and even being in possession of a bicycle or e-bike, carries up to one year in county jail. In New York City and on Long Island, there are but 4 legal ways of getting around, and they are walking, automobile, taxi/uber, and public transportation. In New York City and on Long Island, they seriously want your money, and getting around on wheels that require no gasoline or fossil fuels is considered tantamount even to theft.