E-Bike World Records: 16 Guinness Titles, Verified

16 live Guinness titles for electric bicycles · 351.4 miles in 24 hours · 228.1 miles on one charge · 1,064 riders in Portland · read at Guinness November 4, 2026

How we verified this: Every record below was read on Guinness World Records' own record pages on November 4, 2026, and a copy of each page was saved. The 16 titles are every one we found through three routes into Guinness's records, and the headline marks were checked against a second, independent source. Full method.

Quick Answer: Guinness's e-bike records include 565.60 km (351.44 miles) in 24 hours, by Valerio Boni of Italy in 2024; 367.037 km (228.066 miles) on one charge, with pedaling barred, in 2017; and 24,848.2 km from Alaska to Argentina by a rider who set off at 71. The 283 mph "fastest e-bike" is an electric motorcycle.

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Tilikum Crossing over the Willamette River in Portland, the bridge the record ride of July 19, 2026, crossed, lit at dusk, in a scene generated with Playcut from a photograph by Michael Dunn.

Why e-bike records are back in the news

Portland's transportation bureau set a Guinness World Records title on July 19, 2026: the largest electric bicycle party, 1,064 people by Guinness's count (Guinness: largest electric bicycle party). The city's own release that day counted 1,060 riders on a two-mile loop over the Hawthorne and Tilikum bridges (PBOT news release).

The stakes are a buying decision. Buy on a "world record" figure and you may be paying for a number set by a motorcycle, on a velodrome at 13.8 mph, or by no record we could find. The records are real. The 283 mph e-bike isn't: Guinness lists that speed as the fastest electric motorcycle (Guinness).

This page sorts what Guinness has actually ratified from what gets called a record, starting from Guinness's own record pages, then shows what each number means for the e-bike you ride.

In this guide

• How we verified the records
• E-bike world records: the 16 Guinness titles in one table
• How far an e-bike has gone: the distance records
• What is the fastest e-bike in the world?
• The biggest e-bike rides: Portland, Seattle and the crowd records
• The lightest, the smallest and the longest wheelie
• What changed in 2025 and 2026
• Where buyers get caught out
• Before you buy: what the records mean for your next e-bike
• Frequently asked questions
• The bottom line
• Limitations
• References

How we verified the records

The census behind this page holds 26 Guinness pages, found three ways and each read in full.

Guinness's record sitemap. We read all 49,552 record addresses in Guinness's sitemap (sitemap index) and opened the 1,144 pages whose address names a bicycle, an e-bike or an electric, battery-powered or motorized vehicle, reading each one for an electric bicycle. The sitemap's newest entry was last changed on August 8, 2024, so pages added since then are missing from it.

Guinness's own search and a search index. We ran 13 e-bike search terms through Guinness's record search, rendered in a browser (Guinness search), and searched an index restricted to Guinness's site. 5 of the 16 live titles turned up only this way.

A person read the 26 census pages. Each was classed by its own definition. That left 16 live electric-bicycle titles, one title from 1881 counted as history, one removed page and 8 look-alikes that are motorcycles, towed stunts or pedal bikes, listed in Where buyers get caught out.

What was read, and what was not. Besides the 26 Guinness record pages in the census, we requested 33 other source pages and read 28 of them in full.

Second sources. The headline records were checked against an independent source: the holder's release or an agency or news report. Where two sources disagree, both figures are printed. The questions this page answers come from 715 search and forum phrasings from 5 kinds of source, of which 166 map to a section.

The law. Statutes are quoted from official copies, govinfo.gov for federal law and the Washington Legislature's own site for its code, so each rests on its publisher alone. Washington's registration and license sections were read twice, as web pages and as the code's own PDFs, and the quotes agree.

By Milad Ghobadibeygvand, BScN (Western University, 2014), Redtail eBikes. Last verified November 4, 2026: every record here was read at Guinness World Records that day, and the shipping and returns terms on our own policy pages the same day. Spotted a record that has changed? Write to support@redtailebikes.com and we will update the page.

Datasets

The full census, with every page's class, routes, figures and source note, is published as a CSV file and a JSON file with the same rows.

Source register

E-bike world records: the 16 Guinness titles in one table

Guinness World Records prints 16 live titles for electric bicycles that we could find: 15 for motor-assisted e-bikes and one for a bicycle pushed by electric ducted fans. Each row below is quoted from the title's own Guinness page, read November 4, 2026, and links to it.

Guinness lists the holder by name, team or sponsor, and the table follows its wording; the hydrofoil record, for one, is listed under the BBC (Guinness). Where a Guinness page disagrees with itself or with the holder's own announcement, the row says so, and the section on that record prints both figures.

One more title appears in Guinness's record list and is not counted: the fastest lap of the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course on an electric bicycle, whose page now answers "Page Not Found" (Guinness record page 114967).

How far an e-bike has gone: the distance records

The farthest anyone has ridden an e-bike in 24 hours is 565.60 km (351.44 miles), by Valerio Boni in Segrate, Italy, according to Guinness (24-hour record). That works out to an average of 14.6 mph (23.6 km/h), our arithmetic, held for a full day.

Read the chart by its rules: the one-charge bar is one battery's worth, and the other bars are set by the clock.

Six of the 16 titles are distances, and each tells you something different about range: one hour, 12 hours, 24 hours, one week, one charge and the longest journey (one hour, one week). Each rewards something different: the hour rewards speed, the week endurance, and the single charge a slow, steady pace.

24 hours: 351.44 miles on a 40 kg fat bike

Boni rode a Murgese Marathon fat bike weighing more than 40 kg on a 2 km loop of Milan's East Ring Road, a finished road not yet open to traffic, according to the release announcing his records (LDL COMeta release, December 18, 2024, as archived from eBikes International).

The release names the record he beat: 455 km. Guinness's page gives his 565.60 km with the date December 1, 2024 (24-hour record).

Boni was 65 when he rode it, the release says (LDL COMeta release), and Guinness calls him "a multi record-holder" (12-hour record).

12 hours and one hour: the same ride, three printed dates

Boni's 12-hour mark is 323.20 km (200.82 miles) and his one-hour mark is 36.36 km (22.59 miles), both in Segrate (12-hour record; one-hour record). The dates do not agree.

A release dated December 18 cannot describe a ride on December 30, so the sources cannot all be right about the dates. The distances agree in every source, and Guinness's own pages are where a correction would appear.

One charge: 228.066 miles with pedaling barred

The greatest distance on an electric bicycle on a single charge is 367.037 km (228.066 miles), ridden by Vitalii Arhipkin at the Kyiv velodrome on October 12, 2017, on a Delfast Prime (single-charge record). Guinness's rules for this title say "actual pedalling is not allowed."

The run took 16 h 34 min 07 s by the official protocol, Texty reported, which is an average of 13.8 mph (22.2 km/h) around the velodrome, our arithmetic (Texty, October 15, 2017). The team had planned 400 km, and low air temperature drained the battery sooner than expected, the same report says.

Electrek reported the record as a Guinness title in August 2018 (Electrek). The 228 miles came at an average of 13.8 mph on a velodrome, which is the trap in reading it as a commuter's range.

One week: 1,706.85 km

Gordon Miller of the United Kingdom covered 1,706.85 km (about 1,060.6 miles, our conversion) on an electric bicycle in one week, in Mallabia, Spain, recorded on October 8, 2021, which is about 151.5 miles a day, our arithmetic (one-week record). Guinness says he rode "to shed a light on a documented human trafficking route."

The longest journey: Alaska to Argentina at 71

Gustáv Stibrányi of Slovakia holds the record for the longest journey by motorized bicycle: 24,848.2 km (15,439.9 miles) from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, between June 12, 2022, and March 23, 2023 (Guinness). In Guinness's rules the bike is a "motorized bicycle," with "electric" added in brackets.

Guinness says he was 71 when he set off and took 284 days. Slovakia's national news agency, TASR, reported the same 284 days by e-bike on the Pan American Highway and gave the distance as 25,750 km (TASR, November 14, 2023). The certified figure is Guinness's 24,848.2 km.

That is 54.4 miles a day for 284 days, our arithmetic, on a route that began on American roads.

Most cities in one journey: 18

Ali Abdo Ali of Egypt rode a motorized electric bicycle through 18 cities in a row, from Muscat, Oman, to Abu Dhabi between October 11 and 17, 2024 (Guinness). Stops were allowed only for recharging and border crossings, Guinness's rules say.

What is the fastest e-bike in the world?

Guinness prints no top-speed record for a pedal-assist e-bike among the 16 titles we found. Its fastest electric bicycle mark is 72 mph (115.87 km/h), set in 2011 on a bicycle pushed by electric ducted fans (Guinness).

If you have seen 283 mph given as the fastest e-bike, that figure belongs to an electric motorcycle (Guinness).

The ducted-fan record belongs to Ortis Deley, filmed for The Gadget Show at Santa Pod Raceway in Northamptonshire, UK, on August 24, 2011 (Guinness). The page's record text says 72 mph (115.87 km/h), while its summary line prints 72 with the unit km/h; the record text is the fuller one.

Only one bar in this chart is an electric bicycle record, and the shortest bar is Washington's Class 3 assist cutoff.

The 283 mph "e-bike" is a motorcycle

The fastest electric motorcycle in Guinness's books is the Voxan Wattman, ridden by Max Biaggi to 455.737 km/h (283.182 mph) at the Kennedy Space Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida (Guinness). The title "must be attempted under the auspices of the FIM," the motorcycling federation.

Guinness dates the record December 1, 2021 (Guinness), while the maker's release of November 30, 2021, says the run came on Monday, November 22 (Venturi). The Guinness page's summary line also prints 455.444 km/h against the 455.737 km/h of its record text. Either way it is a "partially streamlined electric motorcycle under 300kg," by Guinness's own description.

The fastest bicycle speed belongs to a bicycle, not an e-bike

Denise Mueller-Korenek of the United States reached 296.009 km/h (183.931 mph) on a bicycle in the slipstream of a motor vehicle at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah on September 16, 2018 (Guinness). Guinness adds that she beat the men's record of 268.831 km/h as well.

That record is filed under bicycles, and it is faster than any electric bicycle mark among the 16 titles, the ducted-fan bicycle's 72 mph included (Guinness). It was set in a vehicle's slipstream, which is why a speed means little without the conditions it was set in.

The fastest e-bike you can ride on US roads

Under federal law, a "low-speed electric bicycle" has "an electric motor of less than 750 watts" and a top speed "less than 20 mph" on the motor alone with a 170-pound rider (15 U.S.C. § 2085(b)). The Consumer Product Safety Commission's bicycle rule repeats that definition word for word (16 CFR 1512.2(a)(2)).

States write their own riding rules, and Washington's shows the fastest class: a "Class 3 electric-assisted bicycle" gives assistance "only when the rider is pedaling" and stops "when the bicycle reaches the speed of 28 miles per hour" (RCW 46.04.169). Its motor must have "a power output of no more than 750 watts."

Washington also excludes any vehicle "designed, manufactured, or intended by the manufacturer or seller to be easily configured in order not to meet the requirements of an electric-assisted bicycle," whether "by a mechanical switch or button" or "by changing a setting in software controlling the drive system" (RCW 46.04.169(2)(b)). A bike sold as fast once unlocked can fall outside the e-bike definition in that state.

Outside that definition, Washington's vehicle rules apply. The legislature wrote that the state's "motorcycle" and "moped" definitions "apply to many of the vehicles excluded" from the e-bike one (ESSB 6110, section 1). On an e-bike you need no registration (RCW 46.16A.080(2)), and "No driver's license is required for operation of an electric-assisted bicycle" (RCW 46.20.500(3)).

On a two-wheeled motorcycle you need both. Riding one on a public highway without a current registration and plates is "unlawful," and riding before you register it is a traffic infraction with a $529 fine "which may not be suspended or reduced" (RCW 46.16A.030). Without a license "specially endorsed" for motorcycles, you face "an additional monetary penalty of two hundred fifty dollars" on top of the base penalty (RCW 46.20.500(1)).

If you are buying a Class 3 bike for a teenager, Washington sets an age line: "Persons under sixteen years of age may not operate a class 3 electric-assisted bicycle" (RCW 46.20.500(3)). Your own state's rules are in our state-by-state e-bike law guide.

The biggest e-bike rides: Portland, Seattle and the crowd records

Two US cities hold Guinness titles for e-bike crowds. Portland's 1,064 riders on July 19, 2026, hold "largest electric bicycle party," and Seattle's 405 e-bikes on September 15, 2018, hold "largest parade of electric bicycles" (Portland; Seattle). Both pages were live on November 4, 2026.

Two of these four crowds rode in US cities, Seattle in 2018 and Portland in 2026.

Portland, July 19, 2026: 1,064 riders

The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation organized the ride for the tenth anniversary of BIKETOWN, its bike-share system, and the two-mile loop crossed the Hawthorne and Tilikum bridges (PBOT news release). Guinness adjudicator Susana Reyes was there for the announcement, the release says.

The counts differ by four. PBOT's release reports "1060 counted attendees" (PBOT), KATU reported 1,060 the same day (KATU), and Guinness's own page prints 1,064 people (Guinness). The record keeper's number is the record.

PBOT said Portland took "the crown from the previous record holders in Seattle." On Guinness's pages the two are separate titles, a party and a parade, so by Guinness's own listing both cities hold one. Riding in Portland yourself? Our Portland e-bike guide matches your bike to its hills and bridges, and Oregon's e-bike laws are on one page.

Seattle, September 15, 2018: 405 e-bikes

Cascade Bicycle Club rode 405 e-bikes around a two-mile loop at Magnuson Park, breaking a previous mark of 271, according to the club's release that day (Cascade Bicycle Club). Guinness says the attempt was prompted by the club's successful push for local laws on electric bicycles (Guinness).

Our Seattle e-bike guide matches bikes to the city's neighborhoods, and Washington's e-bike laws are on one page.

857 time-trial riders and a 3,742-bike delivery

The E-Bike World Federation started 857 riders in an electric bicycle time trial in Ischgl, Austria, on September 2, 2023, to mark five years of its E-Bike World Championships (Guinness).

The largest electric bicycle delivery is 3,742 bikes, delivered in Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, India, on January 31, 2026, by EMotorad with the state government and partners, as part of a state social welfare initiative (Guinness).

The lightest, the smallest and the longest wheelie

The lightest e-bike in Guinness's books weighs 6.872 kg (15 lb 2.40 oz), a custom prototype built by Dennis Freiburg in Dortmund, Germany, and recorded on December 3, 2019 (Guinness). Guinness counts a bike for this title only with "a motor above 100W and a battery of above 100Wh."

TU Dortmund University reported that Dr. Freiburg, a former member of its Institute of Machining Technology, received the certificate in 2020 (TU Dortmund). He built it over a little more than a year and broke a lot of 3D-printed pedals along the way, Guinness says.

The most compact e-bike: YikeBike, 2010

Guinness's "most compact electric bike" is the YikeBike, a "mini-farthing" design that weighs 10 kg (22 lb) and folds to 15 × 60 × 60 cm (Guinness). The entry is dated 2010 and describes it as "on the market," so read it as a record of its year. If you need a bike that folds into your car or apartment today, see our folding e-bike guide.

11 km on the back wheel in one hour

Pruß Tobias of Germany, as Guinness lists him, covered 11 km (6.83 miles) in a wheelie on an electric bicycle in one hour in Stuttgart on January 18, 2025: 27.5 laps of a 400 m track, riding continuously for just over 36 minutes (Guinness). Guinness defines the bike for this title as propelled "by a combination of an electric motor and also by the rider pedalling."

On water: 1 km on a hydrofoil e-bike

Blue Peter presenter Adam Beales covered 1 km on a hydrofoil e-bike in 6 minutes 13.63 seconds on Lake Windermere in Cumbria, UK, on June 17, 2022 (Guinness). Guinness lists the BBC as the record holder.

Where the e-bike started: 1881

Guinness credits the first electric road vehicle to Gustave Trouvé: a British-made pedal tricycle he fitted with lead-acid batteries and a Siemens motor, which reached about 3 mph on the Rue Valois in Paris in April 1881 (Guinness). That makes the oldest title on this page a pedal cycle with a motor. Our history of electric bikes in the US picks the story up from the patents.

What changed in 2025 and 2026

Four e-bike records and one law are dated in the last two years, and two of the five are in the United States: Portland's new crowd title and Washington's 2026 rewrite of its e-bike definition. Each is dated below to its own source, so you can check what is new against the table above.

Washington's act says why it moved: the legislature cited "the recent proliferation of electric motorcycle use statewide, especially among teenagers and young adults" (ESSB 6110, section 1). If you ride in Washington and shop for speed, that rule decides what counts as an e-bike.

What comes next is a re-read. A record can be broken at any time, so every record on this page is due to be read again at Guinness by May 4, 2027, and at once if a holder announces a broken record.

Where buyers get caught out

Five things get called e-bike world records that are not, and each one can steer your purchase the wrong way. Each is listed below with the record that shows it, so you can check the next claim you meet.

1. "Electric bike" can mean an electric motorcycle. When you see the words in a headline, check the vehicle. Guinness's own text for the 673 km single-charge motorcycle record says its holders swapped cars "for electric bikes" (Guinness), and its separate motorbike title is for a vehicle "propelled only by one or more electric motors" (Guinness).
2. Stunts Guinness calls "power-assisted" were towed. The 84-foot backflip in Providence, Rhode Island, in 2016 was set on a BMX bike "pulled by an ATV" (Guinness news), and the ramp jump of 2000 was towed "behind a motorcycle" (Guinness). Neither is an e-bike, and neither tells you what an e-bike can jump.
3. "The world's fastest e-bike" is not a Guinness title. No Guinness e-bike title among the 16 we found measures a pedal-assist e-bike's top speed, so the phrase, wherever you meet it, names no record we could find. The speed marks in our table belong to a fan-pushed bicycle, a bicycle in a slipstream and motorcycles (our speed table).
4. A range record is not a range figure. The 228-mile single-charge record was ridden on a velodrome at an average of 13.8 mph with pedaling barred (one-charge record). Your own range depends on your speed, your weight, your hills and the cold.
5. A record page can lag or disagree. Of the 16 titles, 4 carry a figure or date that differs inside the page or from another source, and Portland's 1,064 sits on a different title from Seattle's 405 (table).

Before you buy: what the records mean for your next e-bike

The records reward the same three things your everyday e-bike needs: a battery you can count on, a riding position you can hold for hours and a motor matched to the speed you ride. Each one maps to a choice you make before you buy.

Range. The single-charge record averaged 13.8 mph on a velodrome, and the 24-hour record averaged 14.6 mph on a closed 2 km loop. Plan your rides on the maker's published battery capacity with a reserve, and if you ride long, compare our dual battery e-bikes and long range e-bikes.

Comfort. Boni's 351 miles came on a fat bike weighing more than 40 kg, with wide tires. If you plan long days in the saddle, our fat tire e-bike guide compares the bikes we sell on the specs that decide comfort.

Speed. On US roads, your Class 3 bike's assistance stops at 28 mph where the class exists, and a bike built to be unlocked can leave the e-bike definition in Washington. Read your state's e-bike law before you pick a speed.

Age. Two of the distance records on this page were set by riders aged 65 and 71. If you have wondered whether long e-bike rides are still for you, those two riders answer it.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the fastest e-bike in the world?

Guinness prints no top-speed record for a pedal-assist e-bike among the 16 electric-bicycle titles we found. Its fastest electric bicycle mark is 72 mph (115.87 km/h), set in 2011 on a bicycle pushed by electric ducted fans. The 283 mph figure you may see quoted is the Voxan Wattman, Guinness's fastest electric motorcycle. On US roads, Class 3 assistance stops at 28 mph where the class exists.

What is the fastest legal e-bike in the US?

Under federal law (15 U.S.C. § 2085), a low-speed electric bicycle has a motor of less than 750 watts and a top speed of less than 20 mph on the motor alone with a 170-pound rider. States set riding rules: Washington's Class 3 assists only while you pedal, stops at 28 mph and excludes bikes built to be easily configured out of the definition. Check your state's code before you buy.

How far has anyone ridden an e-bike in 24 hours?

565.60 km (351.44 miles), by Valerio Boni of Italy in Segrate, according to Guinness, which dates it December 1, 2024. That is an average of about 14.6 mph for a full day, our arithmetic. The release announcing the ride says he rode a 2 km loop of Milan's East Ring Road on a fat bike weighing more than 40 kg and beat the previous record of 455 km.

What e-bike has the longest range in the world?

The Guinness record for distance on one charge is 367.037 km (228.066 miles), set on a Delfast Prime at the Kyiv velodrome on October 12, 2017, with pedaling barred by the rules. The run took 16 hours 34 minutes, an average of about 13.8 mph around the velodrome, our arithmetic from the published protocol. It was set at a slow, steady pace with pedaling barred, so it is not a figure to plan a commute on.

What is the longest journey ever made on an e-bike?

Guinness lists 24,848.2 km (15,439.9 miles) by Gustáv Stibrányi of Slovakia, from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, between June 12, 2022, and March 23, 2023. He was 71 when he set off and took 284 days, Guinness says. Slovakia's news agency reported the ride at 25,750 km; the certified figure is Guinness's.

Did Portland break the e-bike world record?

Portland set a Guinness title on July 19, 2026: 1,064 riders in the largest electric bicycle party, by Guinness's count; the city counted 1,060. Seattle's 405 e-bikes of 2018 still hold a separate Guinness title, the largest parade of electric bicycles, so by Guinness's own listing both cities hold a record.

Is there a Guinness World Record for e-bikes?

Yes. We found 16 live Guinness titles for electric bicycles, read at Guinness on November 4, 2026, covering distance in one hour, 12 hours, 24 hours, one week and on one charge, the longest journey, crowd rides, a delivery, the lightest and most compact bikes, a wheelie, a hydrofoil e-bike and a ducted-fan bicycle. These are the titles three routes into Guinness's records turned up, not a guaranteed total.

What is the world record for a wheelie on an e-bike?

Guinness's record for the greatest distance by wheelie on an electric bicycle in one hour is 11 km (6.83 miles), set by Pruß Tobias of Germany in Stuttgart on January 18, 2025. He rode 27.5 laps of a 400 m track and stayed on the back wheel for just over 36 minutes.

Is Max Biaggi's 283 mph record an e-bike record?

No. Max Biaggi rode the Voxan Wattman to 455.737 km/h (283.182 mph) at the Kennedy Space Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida in November 2021, by the maker's account; Guinness dates it December 1, 2021. Guinness lists it as the fastest electric motorcycle, a title attempted under FIM motorcycling rules, in the class of a partially streamlined electric motorcycle under 300 kg.

What is the lightest e-bike in the world?

Guinness's lightest custom electric bicycle weighs 6.872 kg (15 lb 2.40 oz), a prototype built by Dennis Freiburg in Dortmund, Germany, recorded on December 3, 2019. To count, the bike needed a motor above 100 W and a battery above 100 Wh. It is a custom prototype.

Is there a world record for an e-bike jump?

Not among the Guinness titles we found. The records that look like one, an 84-foot backflip in 2016 and a ramp jump in 2000 that Guinness files as power-assisted, were set on BMX bikes towed to speed by an ATV and by a motorcycle.

The bottom line

The e-bike world records are real, read at Guinness, and none of them is a bike you need to own. What they show you is what a battery, a frame and a rider can do over a day, a week or a continent, and what a 283 mph "e-bike" claim leaves out.

Limitations

1. Coverage. Guinness's sitemap stops at August 8, 2024, so a title added since then and missing from both Guinness's search and the search index would be missing here. The count is every title we found, not a guaranteed total.
2. Guinness's pages change. Records are broken and pages are removed; Guinness's own pages say "Records change on a daily basis and are not immediately published online." Each figure is dated to the day it was read.
3. Source conflicts. 4 of the 16 titles carry a figure or date that differs inside the page or from another source (Boni's 12-hour and one-hour dates, the ducted-fan speed and Portland's count), and the Voxan Wattman's page prints two speeds and a date its maker's release does not match; each is printed both ways where it appears.
4. The removed Isle of Man title. Guinness's page for the fastest e-bike lap of the Isle of Man TT course answered "Page Not Found" on November 4, 2026, and is not counted.
5. Other record keepers. This page counts Guinness titles only. Rides certified elsewhere, or announced and never ratified, are outside it.
6. Our arithmetic. Averages and per-day figures are computed from the published distances and times and rounded once.
7. One state's law. The registration, license and age rules quoted are Washington's, as its code read on November 4, 2026. Other states draw different lines, and whether a fast bike counts as a moped or a motorcycle depends on its own motor and top speed (RCW 46.04.304).

When this page expires. Re-read every record page on or before May 4, 2027, six months from this check, and at once if Guinness publishes a new e-bike title, a holder announces a broken record or Washington amends a rule quoted here.

Image credit: The cover scenes of Tilikum Crossing were generated with Nano Banana Pro on Playcut (playcut.ai) from a photograph of the bridge by Michael Dunn (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0); their type was set in-house.

References

Each source links to the deepest page we could reach, with the day we read it; Guinness's record pages were read November 4, 2026.

1. Guinness World Records, "Largest electric bicycle party", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
2. City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, "News Release: Portland breaks GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the largest electric bicycle ride!", body: '1060 counted attendees'; 'taking the crown from the previous record holders in Seattle'; the 2-mile loop across the Hawthorne and Tilikum bridges; adjudicator Susana Reyes; issued 2026-07-19; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
3. Guinness World Records, "Fastest electric motorcycle (prototype)", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
4. Guinness World Records, "Record sitemap index", 26 yearly sitemaps, 1999 to 2024; the 2024 file's newest 2024-08-08; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
5. Guinness World Records, "Record search: 'electric bicycle'", Records tab, rendered in a headless browser; issued undated; read 2026-11-03. Archived.
6. Guinness World Records, "Fastest 1 km on a hydrofoil e-bike", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
7. Guinness World Records, "Page Not Found (removed record page)", the page answers Guinness's 'Page Not Found'; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
8. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance on an electric bicycle in 24 hours", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
9. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance by electric bicycle in one hour", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
10. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance covered by an electric bicycle in one week", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
11. LDL COMeta (release on Valerio Boni's records), as carried by eBikes International, "Valerio Boni, 65-year-old Italian journalist, achieves three ebike Guinness World Records", the release text: the weekend of November 30 to December 1, 2024; 1-hour 36.360 km, 12-hour 323.200 km, 24-hour 565.600 km; previous records 20, 286 and 455 km; a Murgese Marathon fat bike over 40 kg; a 2 km circuit on Milan's East Ring Road; issued 2024-12-18; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
12. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance on an electric bicycle in 12 hours", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
13. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance by electric bicycle, single charge", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
14. Texty.org.ua, "Український електровелосипед проїхав на одному заряді батареї 367 км (A Ukrainian e-bike rode 367 km on one battery charge)", the protocol figures: 367 km 37 m 36 cm in 16 h 34 min 07 s; planned 400 km; low air temperature; issued 2017-10-15; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
15. Electrek, "Delfast electric bikes set world record for range and enter full production", first paragraph: 'Guinness world record breaking 367 km (228 mi)'; issued 2018-08-22; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
16. Guinness World Records, "Longest journey made by a motorized bicycle", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
17. TASR (Tlačová agentúra Slovenskej republiky), "V Košickom kraji ocenili dobrovoľníkov (Košice region honors volunteers)", the paragraph on Gustáv Stibrányi: 284 days by e-bike on the Pan American Highway, 25,750 km; issued 2023-11-14; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
18. Guinness World Records, "Most cities visited in a continuous journey by a motorized bicycle", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
19. Guinness World Records, "Fastest bicycle powered by electric ducted fans", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
20. Washington State Legislature, "RCW 46.04.169, Electric-assisted bicycle", (1)(c) Class 3; (1) 750 watts; (2)(b) easily configured; issued as published; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
21. Guinness World Records, "Fastest electric motorcycle (150 kg-class)", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
22. Guinness World Records, "Fastest bicycle speed in slipstream (female)", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
23. Venturi (Voxan's parent), "456 km/h (283 mph): the Voxan Wattman remains the world's fastest electric motorcycle", paragraph 1: runs 18 to 23 November 2021; Monday 22 November; 455.737 km/h (283.182 mph); 'partially streamlined electric motorcycle under 300 kg'; issued 2021-11-30; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
24. U.S. Government Publishing Office (United States Code), "15 U.S.C. § 2085, Low-speed electric bicycles", § 2085(b) Definition; issued 2024 edition of the Code; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
25. U.S. Government Publishing Office (Code of Federal Regulations), "16 CFR 1512.2, Definitions (Requirements for Bicycles)", § 1512.2(a)(2); issued revised as of January 1, 2025; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
26. Washington State Legislature, "Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6110, Chapter 159, Laws of 2026 (Electric motorcycles and electric-assisted bicycles)", section 1 (findings); section 2 (amending RCW 46.04.169); effective date June 11, 2026; issued 2026-03-23; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
27. Washington State Legislature, "RCW 46.16A.080, Registration, exemptions", (2) electric-assisted bicycles; (6) motorcycles only after initial registration; issued as published; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
28. Washington State Legislature, "RCW 46.20.500, Special endorsement, penalties, exceptions", (1) motorcycle endorsement, traffic infraction, $250 additional penalty; (3) no license for an electric-assisted bicycle; under 16 may not operate Class 3; issued as published; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
29. Washington State Legislature, "RCW 46.16A.030, Registration and display of plates required, penalties, expired registration, impoundment", (2) operating unregistered is unlawful; (4) failure to make initial registration: traffic infraction, $529 fine; issued as published; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
30. Guinness World Records, "Largest parade of electric bicycles", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
31. KATU, "Portland sets Guinness world record with 1,060 riders in largest e-bike group ride", headline and first paragraph; issued 2026-07-19; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
32. Cascade Bicycle Club, "PRESS RELEASE: Cascade Bicycle Club and Rad Power Bikes set new record on today's Ebike World Record Ride & Expo", body: '405 ebikes to break the previous record of 271'; the 2-mile loop around Magnuson Park; issued 2018-09-15; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
33. Guinness World Records, "Most participants in an electric bicycle time trial", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
34. Guinness World Records, "Largest electric bicycle delivery", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
35. Guinness World Records, "Lightest custom electric bicycle", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
36. TU Dortmund University, "E-bike Designed at TU Dortmund University Sets Guinness World Record", body: Dr. Dennis Freiburg received the certificate; issued 2020-07-31; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
37. Guinness World Records, "Most compact electric bike", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
38. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance by wheelie on an electric bicycle in one hour", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
39. Guinness World Records, "First electric road vehicle", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
40. Guinness World Records, "Greatest distance by electric motorcycle on a single charge", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
41. Guinness World Records, "Longest journey by an electric motorbike on a single charge", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
42. Guinness World Records, "X Games BMX veteran achieves a gripping new record title", paragraph 1: the bike 'pulled by an ATV'; issued 2016-08; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
43. Guinness World Records, "Longest power-assisted ramp jump by bicycle", Who / What / Where / When lines and the record text; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
44. Redtail Ebikes, "Terms of service", the opening paragraph (the Florida corporation); issued 2026-08-26; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
45. Redtail Ebikes, "Shipping policy", Processing & delivery; Where we ship; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
46. Redtail Ebikes, "Refund policy", When we make it right: damaged in transit; defective or dead on arrival; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
47. Redtail Ebikes, "Contact", Email and phone; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
48. Washington State Legislature, "RCW 46.04.304, Moped", definition: motor output and a top speed of not more than 30 mph on level ground; issued as published; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
49. Playcut, "Playcut", home page; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Deposit copy kept.
50. Wikimedia Commons (photograph by Michael Dunn), "Tilikum Crossing at night Nov 2015", file page: author, date taken 2015-11-04, license CC BY 3.0; issued 2015-11-04; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
51. Creative Commons, "Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)", the license deed; issued undated; read 2026-11-04. Deposit copy kept.
52. Redtail eBikes, "E-bike world records census (CSV)", 26 rows, 13 columns, 5 provenance lines; issued 2026-11-04; read 2026-11-04. Archived.
53. Redtail eBikes, "E-bike world records census (JSON twin)", the same 26 rows as the CSV (dataset_json_twin.py --check PASS); issued 2026-11-04; read 2026-11-04. Archived.