When Skye Hermans approached his parents last month about getting an electric bike, it set off a weekslong discussion: Was this 12-year-old ready to make the switch from a mountain bike to a motorized one?
Some of Skye’s friends have e-bikes and he wants to keep up with them during rides. He researched how fast different e-bikes go, how long they take to charge and how far he could go on the battery. Jenna and Kyle Hermans, who run a business-consulting firm in San Anselmo, Calif., began conducting their own due diligence. The more they learned, the more questions they had.
