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New South Wales police have issued a fine against an American social media personality and served two driving violation citations for alleged reckless operation after a large group of electric bicycle users converged on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during the busy commute on a weekday.

The Event: A Prohibited Ride

A group of approximately 40 individuals operating electric bikes and motorbikes travelled along the primary roadway of the bridge, where cycling is prohibited. The riders then turned around and rode through the city’s CBD and a nearby district.

"There was potential for people to be injured and killed," stated a senior police official David Driver on the following day.

Law enforcement said they did not immediately pursue the riders out of safety concerns but instead located the group at a scenic Sydney lookout near the city gardens, where they dispersed.

Fines Imposed for Influencer

On Saturday, police stated they had served the American online personality known as the influencer, 26, with two traffic infringement notices for negligent driving (with no death or previous bodily harm), with a fine of over five hundred dollars and penalty points per notice, in relation to the bridge incident. They added that the investigation is ongoing.

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

Creator's Response

The online figure gave comments to a local publication this week following the event gained traction on digital platforms, saying he regretted giving "the biking community" a bad reputation.

"I’ll probably take responsibility. That was among the safest ride-outs I’ve ever seen," he told the publication. "I am a visitor here, so I’m going to come here respecting the laws and norms of the city. So when I decided to do a meet and greet it did not involve a group ride, it was just to greet people under the bridge."

"I did not know the area well, I am to blame we found ourselves on the bridge and I had two choices: either the group rides the full length of the bridge and comes back, an illegal act. Or we turn around, basically, before entering the bridge. And I made the decision at the time to go back."

National Debate on Electric Bike Rules

The spate of e-bikes on roads nationwide has prompted increasing demands for stricter rules. The federal health minister, the minister, commented that illegal ebikes were a "complete hazard on the road."

"Young people have engaged in reckless acts on bikes ever since the early bicycle [but] the harm that are coming into our hospital emergency departments are absolutely devastating," he said. "We must ensure we prevent these things coming into the country [and] police are granted the powers to take strong action, to take them away, to destroy them, to destroy them."

NSW recorded 226 injuries related to electric bikes in 2024. However, in the first seven months of 2025, that figure surged to 233 injuries plus four fatalities.