Overview

• Victoria recorded an 82% surge in e-bike crashes, rising from 79 incidents in 2023 to 144 in 2024 and at least 113 by July 2025.
• Operation Consider, active through the coming months, dispatches foot, bike, motorcycle and highway patrols across Melbourne’s CBD.
• Officers will use handheld speed detectors to fine riders up to $1,018 and impound or destroy unregistered or overpowered e-bikes.
• Under Victorian law, e-bikes with motors above 250 W or speeds over 25 km/h are classified as motorcycles and require licensing, registration and adherence to drug and alcohol rules.
• Coroner Audrey Jamieson and the Australian Medical Association have urged reclassification of e-bikes and a national safety strategy after a spike in injuries and a cyclist’s death.