View Comments The controversial issue of how to regulate electric bikes has again surfaced on Pensacola Beach as the only e-bike rental company on the island is asking for restrictions to be relaxed. Pedego Electric Bikes owner Daniel Sloan has been operating since last summer on the beach with restrictions that allow only 10 bikes to be rented at a time, mandate that bikes be physically picked up and returned to the store to avoid dumping and require users to use a helmet and complete a safety training to ride. Now, coming into the summer season and with the Pensacola Bay Bridge likely to reopen soon, Sloan wants the Santa Rosa Island Authority to relax some of those rules and allow the bikes anywhere on the island, rather than being restricted to outside of the core area as proposed.