 The riders speed round on their bikes, often not wearing helmets and clearly not caring about anyone who happen to be walking their dogs or taking their children out for a game of football.The nearby Town Moor also has this problem, which has been known to scare the cattle which graze there

Illegal bike riders have also known to come from nearby Blakelaw to speed up and down Harehills Avenue, often doing wheelies and speeding across the roundabout on the A167 Ponteland Road, which puts the riders and motorists in danger.Because of this, house prices have plummeted because no one wants to live in an area which these riders are using as a playground.