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New South Wales authorities have levied a penalty against an US-based online influencer and handed out two driving violation citations for alleged negligent driving following a swarm of electric bicycle users gathered on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during peak-hour traffic on Tuesday.

The Event: An Illegal Gathering

A gathering of around 40 people riding electric bikes and motorbikes proceeded along the bridge’s main deck, an area where bicycle riding is banned. The riders then turned around and traveled through the downtown area and a nearby district.

"There was potential for people to be injured and killed," stated NSW police assistant commissioner the officer on the following day.

Law enforcement said they did not chase right away the riders out of safety concerns but instead located the group at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair near the Botanic Gardens, where they dispersed.

Penalties Issued for Content Creator

On Saturday, police announced they had served the US social media influencer who goes by the influencer, 26, with two traffic infringement notices for negligent driving (with no death or previous bodily harm), with a penalty of over five hundred dollars and penalty points each, connected to the bridge incident. They added that inquiries were continuing.

The personality reportedly has over 3.4m followers on YouTube and more than 1.2 million on the social media app.

Creator's Response

The content creator gave comments to a local publication this week following the event spread rapidly on digital platforms, saying he regretted giving "the biking community" a negative image.

"I accept the blame. That was among the safest ride-outs I’ve ever seen," he told the publication. "I am a visitor here, and I intend to come here respecting the laws and norms of the city. So when I decided to do a meet and greet it was not meant to include a ride-out, it was just to say hi near the bridge."

"I’m unfamiliar with the city, it was my fault we ended up on the bridge and I had a decision to make: either the group rides the full length of the bridge and comes back, which is a crime. Or we turn around, essentially, before we’re on the bridge. And I made the decision at the time to turn around."

Broader Context on Electric Bike Rules

The increase of e-bikes on streets across the country has sparked increasing demands for regulation. The federal health minister, the minister, recently said that illegal ebikes were a "total menace on the road."

"Young people have engaged in stupid things on bikes since the invention of the penny-farthing [but] the harm that are coming into our ERs are absolutely devastating," the minister stated. "We’ve got to ensure we stop these things entering the country [and] officers are given the authority to take strong action, to confiscate them, to crush them, to dispose of them."

NSW recorded 226 injuries associated with ebikes in the previous year. But, in the first seven months of 2025, that number surged to two hundred thirty-three injuries plus four fatalities.