When it comes to finding an eBike for kids, safety, reliability, and ease-of-use is paramount. Electric bikes are an awesome way for kids to cruise around the neighborhood or take on the great outdoors, allowing for awesome performance without sacrificing peace of mind for parents.
In this article, we’re giving you the complete guide for finding a kids electric bike, so that you can send your kid out of the house confidently with less reliance on the minivan.
Let’s get motorized!
Because electric bikes are more powerful than non-motorized bikes, you can’t just slap the training wheels on at a young age and push them down the sidewalk.
The minimum age requirement for riding an electric bike is 12-years-old, ensuring that the child (soon to be teenager!) is ready for the responsibility of operating a motor vehicle.
While most of us never had the opportunity to have an electric motor strapped to our childhood bike, today’s electric bikes for kids are intuitively designed for simple operation.
The jump from a regular bike to an eBike will be relatively simple for this age group, making for an exciting new riding experience that kids absolutely love.
Make no mistake — you won’t be letting your kid mount a motorcycle and head out on the highway with an eBike.
The modern eBike for kids is designed with residential and mountain travel in mind. By law, each bike must adhere to the following guidelines:
Motor output must not exceed 500 Watts
eBikes cannot travel faster than 20 mph (32 km/h)
Fully operable pedals are required
All operators must wear a helmet
In order to make eBikes as safe as possible, make certain that your kid never gets on without a helmet. It’s written in the law, and as a parent, you know that it’s important to lay down your own set of laws when it comes to safe practices.
But here’s the deal — an electric bike for kids actually makes the riding experience safer in many ways as opposed to regular bikes. With increased control and handling and a maximum bike speed of 20 mph, your kids are likely to feel more secure during their ride — especially on the mountain.
And one last safety precaution to keep in mind: your kid should be a proficient rider of a regular bike before taking a spin on it’s motorized counterpart.
Once your kid is helmeted up and ready to take on a more powerful riding experience, then you can set out on your journey to finding the perfect eBike for kids.
Your kid is anxious to learn new things and eager to take on the challenges ahead. You’ve instilled values of sustainability and land protection to make for awesome recreational experiences.
You want to find an eBike for kids that is specifically designed for young riders, and is built with ethical practices that contribute to a healthy and beautiful planet.
To find the best electric mountain bike for your kid, make sure to consider:
Brake Quality
Tire Size
Battery life
Here at Quiet Kat, we’ve applied the outstanding engineering used to build our larger bikes to design an electric bike for kids that will empower your little outdoorsman to have the riding experience they’ve always dreamed of.
2020 Ripper EBike for Kids
Sized specifically for riders under 5’6” tall, The Ripper is a small package that delivers a ton of performance and value.
Our eBike for kids comes with a 35 mile range life with a single charge, Kenda Juggernaut 20” x 4” fat tires, and Tektro mechanical brake discs for the ultimate electric bike riding experience.
Safe, reliable, and durable — it’s everything you and your kid are looking for in a modern electric electric bike.
Oh, and did we mention that every Ripper comes standard with:
A high-performance
hub-drive motor
that provides direct power to the rear wheel, resulting in consistent power across all gears
An adjustable coil-suspension
A single-speed drivetrain
A 500W motor
A lightweight design (70 lbs) paired with a high load capacity (300 lbs)
No need to call the babysitter — the next time you head out for a day of riding on the mountain, your cruising kid will have all the power he or she needs to come along for the ride.
And when you get home, don’t be surprised if your kid charges up again for a ride around the neighborhood with friends. They’re going to want to show off their awesome new toy, after all.
With The Ripper, you won’t be able to keep them inside!
Bikes for kids have been around forever. For most of us, riding our bikes are among our fondest memories as children.
We never could have known it then, but bikes have evolved and accelerated into performance machines that make new riding experiences, such as mountainous excursions, possible for kids like yours.
Here at Quiet Kat, our mission is to deliver the highest quality eBikes that can take on any terrain for deeper access to the outdoors—including an electric bike for kids.
All of our eBikes are compliant with the 3-class system for electric bicycles that are allowed in public lands and National Parks, and we want your kids to be with you while you make memories in the great unknown.
Looking to go on a backcountry fishing trip?
Charge up your electric bikes to find the perfect fishing hole and share the classic father-son moment of pulling a trout out of a fresh mountain stream.
Want to take a casual sunset ride around town or the farm?
Strap on your helmets and enjoy the simple pleasure of cruising along your favorite route with your kid.
A powerful eBike for kids enables a new generation of sustainable riders, and The Ripper is the best option on the market today.
Just don’t be surprised when your kid wants to start taking their Ripper with them everywhere — including on their ride to school!
Hey everyone, I'm Dustin. I have nearly 20 years of experience in the bike and e-bike industry today. I'm going to answer the question, "What's the best type of e-bike to transport kids?" Stick around.
All right, so today I'm going to answer the question, "What's the best type of e-bike to transport kids?" But before I do, hit the subscribe button below. Stay in touch with us here at sixthreezero. Be the first to know about all the new content we're doing, giveaways, and of course new product releases. So hit subscribe. All right, seeing a lot of parents now bringing kids on e-bikes for school pickups, driving around communities, around town, you name it. There are a lot of e-bikes that have back areas right here. Kids are sitting in the middle holding onto the bars, and I'm seeing up to three children in the back here. And it's great actually. It's been a great way to decrease car trips. It's simplified a lot of school pickups, because a lot of parents that you know would still be crowding the lots with cars have opted for e-bikes, and I think kids love it as well.
As long as you practice safe procedures and wear helmets. A great, great thing that's popping up. Now on the flip side, at sixthreezero, we've developed this electric bike, a rickshaw with an actual passenger seat on the back. And I'm going to tell you why I believe transporting kids, is actually your safest option and in my opinion, the best if you're going to put your young children on your e-bike and ride around with them. Now, this has been one of the most common setups you're seeing with these bars back here, and your kids, either you grab them or put them in here, or if your kids are old enough, they can step up and get into here. Now, I will say, I love these bikes. I personally have used it. I do still use it. This is a sixthreezero prototype that we're thinking about bringing out, and I think it's a great type of bike.
Now, there are a couple of precautions that I've learned as I've been developing both of these products and why ultimately, we're going to put more emphasis on the electric bike rickshaw, for the time being. Number one, what I've found, I have a seven-year-old, a four-year-old, and a two-year-old. Both can fit in here. It's a little squished. And on top of that, if they're climbing in here, my seven-year-old can climb up on her own. You got to make sure you're holding the bike. Once she's in, I cannot let her sit up here without somebody else placing the other children in with me holding the e-bike up. So the loading process and the unloading process can at times be a little bit complicated because you can't let the bike on its own. I can't have somebody climbing up here and not holding the bike.
Now, some other models have different kickstands that are in the middle. For me personally, though, I need to make sure that I'm monitoring that. In addition to that, my two-year-old and my four-year-old cannot get on this bike by themselves. I have to get them over the bars and into the seat and make sure they're properly secure in there before I'm riding. So again, when you stop and park the bike, it becomes a little cumbersome, make sure you're bracing it and get all the children off. Now the thing that is the most nerve-wracking I would say, is when you're riding. Now you are adding, let's say, up to a hundred pounds plus in the rear here, which the stability of these frames is never really an issue. You can see we've got lots of welding and support going on here, and for one child, it's not as big of a deal, but it's something that takes a little bit of getting used to because you've got the weight on the back and the bike's going to move and the whip in the back here a little bit differently.