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New South Wales police have levied a penalty against an American social media personality and served two traffic infringement notices for alleged reckless operation following a swarm of electric bicycle users gathered on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the busy commute on Tuesday.

The Incident: An Illegal Gathering

A group of approximately 40 individuals riding e-bikes and motorcycles travelled along the primary roadway of the bridge, where cycling is prohibited. The riders subsequently reversed direction and traveled through the city’s CBD and Haymarket.

"This had a risk of serious injury or fatalities," stated a senior police official the officer on the following day.

Police said they did not immediately pursue the riders out of concerns for public safety but rather found the group at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair near the Botanic Gardens, where they dispersed.

Fines Imposed for Influencer

Later in the week, police stated they had issued the American online personality who goes by the influencer, twenty-six, with two violation tickets for careless operation (with no death or previous bodily harm), with a fine of $562 and penalty points each, in relation to the bridge incident. They added that the investigation is ongoing.

The influencer is said to have more than 3.4m subscribers on YouTube and more than 1.2 million on the social media app.

Creator's Response

The content creator gave comments to a major newspaper this week after the incident gained traction on news sites and social media, saying he was sorry for giving "the biking community" a negative image.

"I’ll probably take responsibility. It was among the safest ride-outs I’ve ever seen," he said. "I am a visitor here, and I intend to abide by the rules and standards of the city. When I decided to do a meet and greet it did not involve a group ride, it was just to greet people near the bridge."

"I did not know the area well, it was my fault we found ourselves on the bridge and I had a decision to make: whether the group completes the entirety of the bridge and comes back, an illegal act. Or we reverse, essentially, before entering the bridge. And I made the decision at the time to turn around."

National Debate on E-Bike Regulation

The increase of e-bikes on streets across the country has prompted growing calls for regulation. The federal health minister, Mark Butler, recently said that non-compliant electric bikes were a "complete hazard on the road."

"Young people have engaged in reckless acts on bikes ever since the penny-farthing [but] the harm that are coming into our ERs are absolutely devastating," he said. "We must make sure we prevent these things entering the country [and] officers are granted the authority to take strong action, to take them away, to destroy them, to destroy them."

NSW recorded 226 injuries related to ebikes in 2024. However, in the first seven months of 2025, that figure surged to two hundred thirty-three injuries plus four deaths.