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NSW police have issued a fine against an US-based online influencer and served two traffic infringement notices for alleged reckless operation following a swarm of electric bicycle users converged on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during peak-hour traffic on a weekday.

The Event: A Prohibited Ride

A group of approximately 40 individuals operating e-bikes and motorcycles proceeded along the bridge’s main deck, where cycling is prohibited. The assembly subsequently reversed direction and traveled through the downtown area and Haymarket.

"This had a risk of people to be injured and killed," stated a senior police official David Driver on Wednesday.

Law enforcement said they did not immediately pursue the riders due to safety concerns but rather found the assembly at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair near the Botanic Gardens, where they dispersed.

Fines Imposed for Content Creator

On Saturday, authorities announced they had issued the American online personality who goes by the influencer, 26, with two traffic infringement notices for careless operation (not involving death or prior injury), with a fine of over five hundred dollars and penalty points each, connected to the bridge ride-out. They added that inquiries were continuing.

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

Influencer's Comments

The online figure gave comments to a local publication this week following the event spread rapidly on digital platforms, saying he regretted giving "bike life" a bad reputation.

"I’ll probably take responsibility. It was one of the safest ride-outs I have witnessed," he told the publication. "I’m coming here as a guest, so I’m going to come here respecting the rules and standards of the city. When I decided to do a public meeting it was not meant to include a ride-out, it was just to say hi near the bridge."

"I did not know the area well, it was my fault we ended up on the bridge and I had two choices: whether the group rides the full length of the bridge and turns around, an illegal act. Or we turn around, essentially, before entering the bridge. I chose at the time to go back."

National Debate on E-Bike Regulation

The increase of e-bikes on streets across the country has sparked increasing demands for stricter rules. The federal health minister, the minister, commented that illegal ebikes were a "complete hazard on the road."

"Kids have done reckless acts on bikes ever since the penny-farthing [but] the injuries that are presenting at our ERs are truly severe," the minister stated. "We’ve got to make sure we stop these things entering the country [and] officers are granted the powers to take strong action, to confiscate them, to destroy them, to destroy them."

NSW recorded over two hundred injuries related to electric bikes in 2024. But, in the initial half of 2025, that figure jumped to 233 injuries plus four deaths.