AUSTIN — Thursday's KVUE Daybreak adventure when the team road mini bikes with Your Biker Gang wasn't well received by some people on social media. In fact, a few questioned whether it is legal for electric bikes to ride in bike lanes or on city trails.

KVUE's Ashley Goudeau verified if the team broke any rules, and the short answer is they didn't.

Now to the long answer; at the federal level, HB 727 amends the Consumer Product Safety Commission definition of electric bikes, defining them as "a two- or three-wheeled vehicle with fully operable pedals and an electric motor of less than 750 watts (1 h.p.), whose maximum speed on a paved level surface, when powered solely by such a motor while ridden by an operator who weighs 170 pounds, is less than 20 mph.” It goes on to say that these are not motor vehicles, but rather bicycles.

During the Daybreak Adventure Yvonne Nava pointed out, the bikes "max out at 20 miles per hour."

Now to state law.

According to the State of Texas Transportation Code, Title 7, Subtitle C, Chapter 551, electric bicycles must follow the same rules as bicycles. And when traveling on a road where the speed limit is at or more than 35 miles per hour, they have to use bike lanes or ride as near as practicable to the right curb or edge of the roadway. Unless, of course, they're turning. They can also ride two side-by-side. And because they're considered bicycles, they can also ride on the trails as long as they control their speed and give three feet when passing.

KVUE also checked in with the City of Austin Transportation Department whose staff confirmed that electric or motorized bikes are allowed in bike lanes within the City limits.

So rest assured, the Daybreak Team didn't break any rules or violate the law in the making of the Daybreak Adventure.