{"id":675495,"date":"2026-03-23T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675495\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T07:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T07:26:16","slug":"illegal-e-bike-riders-fined-in-sydneys-south-as-police-warn-of-further-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/675495\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal e-bike riders fined in Sydney’s south as police warn of further enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"

E-bike riders have been put on notice after more than 170 fines were handed out in a two-day crackdown on the illegal devices in Sydney’s south.<\/p>\n

NSW Police Superintendent Anthony Boyd said more than 300 e-bike riders were stopped, including e-scooter riders, during a police operation on Monday and Tuesday last week in the Sutherland Shire.<\/p>\n

Under Operation E-Voltage, five e-bike riders tested positive for drugs.<\/p>\n

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More than 170 fines were issued following last week’s crackdown. (Supplied: NSW Police)<\/p>\n

There were at least five charges laid related to criminal offences and 21 that were traffic related.<\/p>\n

“Some of the behaviour we are seeing is, silly. It’s dangerous,”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Superintendent Boyd said.<\/p>\n

“We need it to stop and we’re just putting everyone on notice with Operation E-Voltage that these operations are going to continue.”<\/p>\n

On Wednesday a 14-year-old boy was caught riding an illegal e-bike, deemed to be a motorbike, on Sturt Road in Woolooware.<\/p>\n

Police said he was provided with information about e-bike rules and was issued with a warning under the Young Offenders Act.<\/p>\n

Less than an hour later highway patrol officers stopped a 25-year-old man riding an e-bike with no pedals on Denman Avenue in Woolooware.<\/p>\n

He was issued with a Future Court Attendance Notice for driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n

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Police warn the crackdown under Operation E-Voltage will be ongoing. (Supplied: NSW Police)<\/p>\n

Police said the the man was fined for having an unregistered and uninsured bike, and for not wearing a motorcycle helmet. He was also cautioned for riding on the footpath.<\/p>\n

He allegedly tested positive in a roadside drug test, with a secondary test sent for analysis.<\/p>\n

His bike was seized and he is due to appear in Sutherland Local Court on April 16.<\/p>\n

“The feedback we’re getting from the community, from hospitals, from other organisations are that e-bikes are becoming an increasing problem,” Superintendent Boyd said.<\/p>\n

“They’ve grown exponentially [in popularity] over recent years and some of the behaviour we’re seeing just isn’t acceptable.”<\/p>\n

Strikeforce E-Voltage is aimed at disrupting and reducing the illegal and dangerous use of non-compliant e-bikes and associated anti-social behaviour.<\/p>\n

Seize and destroy powers coming<\/p>\n

Last month the government announced it was looking at introducing laws that would make it easier for police to seize and destroy e-bikes flouting the 25 kilometre per hour speed limit.<\/p>\n

At the time, Transport Minister John Graham said the measures were about taking control of the illegal devices to prevent “antisocial” and dangerous behaviour that had ended in deaths.<\/p>\n

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The new laws have been modelled on similar powers given to Western Australian police.<\/p>\n

Three portable “dyno” devices have been purchased to assist with enforcement.<\/p>\n

The new speed detectors will be moved around the state to high-use areas detecting whether an e-bike’s power cuts off at 25km\/h.<\/p>\n

“We will be crushing bikes in New South Wales. We hope people will get the message,” Mr Graham said.<\/p>\n

“There’s been a small number of bikes crushed in Western Australia. People have got the message.<\/p>\n

“We hope to crush one bike and educate 1,000 but we’ll keep going until people get the message.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We need to get these illegal bikes off our roads.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"E-bike riders have been put on notice after more than 170 fines were handed out in a two-day…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":675496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,284791,284792,70448,50,9309,284793],"class_list":["post-675495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-crackdown-on-illegal-e-bikes-in-nsw","tag-e-bike-operation","tag-e-scooter","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-operation-e-voltage"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116277306205158296","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}