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New South Wales police have issued a fine against an American social media personality and handed out two driving violation citations for reported negligent driving after a swarm of electric bicycle users converged on the Sydney Harbour Bridge during peak-hour traffic on Tuesday.

The Event: An Illegal Gathering

A gathering of around 40 individuals riding electric bikes and motorbikes proceeded along the primary roadway of the bridge, where cycling is prohibited. The assembly subsequently reversed direction and traveled through the city’s CBD and Haymarket.

"This had potential for serious injury or fatalities," remarked NSW police assistant commissioner David Driver on Wednesday.

Police said they did not immediately pursue the group due to concerns for public safety but instead located the group at Mrs Macquarie’s Chair near the city gardens, where they dispersed.

Penalties Issued for Content Creator

On Saturday, police announced they had served the American online personality known as the influencer, 26, with two violation tickets for negligent driving (not involving death or prior injury), with a fine of over five hundred dollars and three demerit points per notice, connected to the bridge incident. They added that the investigation is ongoing.

The personality reportedly has over 3.4m subscribers on YouTube and over 1.2m on Instagram.

Influencer's Comments

The content creator spoke with a local publication this week following the event spread rapidly on news sites and social media, stating he was sorry for giving "bike life" a bad reputation.

"I’ll probably take responsibility. It was one of the safest gatherings I have witnessed," he told the publication. "I’m coming here as a guest, so I’m going to come here respecting the laws and norms of Sydney. So when I decided to do a public meeting it did not involve a group ride, it was just to say hi under the bridge."

"I did not know the area well, I am to blame we ended up on the bridge and I had a decision to make: whether the group rides the full length of the bridge and turns around, which is a crime. Or we turn around, basically, 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 sparked growing calls for stricter rules. The federal health minister, the minister, recently said that non-compliant electric bikes were a "complete hazard on the road."

"Kids have done stupid things on bikes ever since the penny-farthing [but] the harm that are coming into our ERs are truly severe," he said. "We’ve got to make sure we stop these things coming into the country [and] police are granted the authority to crack down, to take them away, to destroy them, to destroy them."

NSW recorded over two hundred injuries related to ebikes in 2024. However, in the first seven months of 2025, that number jumped to 233 injuries plus four fatalities.