LETTER: Surrey parents need to get a grip on their dirt-biking teens<\/p>\n
Published 7:00 am Wednesday, July 8, 2026<\/p>\n
Editor,<\/p>\n
I thought it was just me noticing young people tearing around on motorized dirt bikes.<\/p>\n
Hate to be one of those seniors who want everyone \u201coff their lawn\u201d and safely tucked in by 9:00, but lately there has been a rash of really disturbing accounts of antisocial behaviour by bikers. I followed a couple of young bikers the other day as they were travelling on the sidewalks of 20th Avenue towards Ocean Park. <\/p>\n
They sped along past pedestrians and interfered with drivers as they attempted a right hand turn.<\/p>\n
I called out to one of them after a near miss and collision, \u201cIt\u2019s called a sideWALK!\u201d The lead driver then pursued me to my home and sat outside my house as he called for the police.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t go through the scene that followed, but suffice to say we have a fine police force and community members who are noticing this form of intimidation happening in our lovely neighbourhoods. I am a senior, a grandmother and an upstanding citizen\u2026held captive by a 15-year-old who wanted to ride a motor bike on a sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Get a grip of your kids, parents! <\/p>\n
Know what they\u2019re up to. Don\u2019t wait in the wings hoping they\u2019re doing the right thing. At no time should we worry about our safety because we speak up.<\/p>\n
Claire Naylor, Surrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LETTER: Surrey parents need to get a grip on their dirt-biking teens Published 7:00 am Wednesday, July 8,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-788672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}