ORGANISERS of a rally to protest trail bike riding around Visko Park expect around 200 to turn out.

Graham—no surname thanks—says locals are sick of noisy riders damaging the park as well as verges and lawns.

“This has been going for around two years now and we are at our wits’ end,” he says.

“Riders come down up to six times a day, sometimes at 2am in the morning, waking everyone up and carving up the park.

“They’re zooming around the streets with no lights on at night, it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.”

Marion Lawrence says she saw a near miss between a car and two riders “dinkying” on a bike.

Volunteers have letter-dropped 400 houses to drum up support for Saturday’s 10am rally at Visko Park.

• Locals say trail bike riders are damaging Visko Park in Yangebup. Photo supplied.

Attendees apparently include mayor Logan Howlett and local Labor MP Fran Logan, who says there is a more sinister criminal element to urban trail biking.

“Only yesterday, four individuals on trail bikes broke into a house in Cockburn and used the railway track as a getaway route,” he told the Herald.

“Most of these trail bikers are underage, with no licence or helmet.

“Part of the problem is that police have a policy of not pursuing trail bikers in case they fall off and get injured.

“I would like to see council introduce a by-law that allows rangers to stop and impound bikes, and the implementation of Labor’s trail bike strategy which we put together when in power in 2008.”

Mr Logan says Cockburn is popular for trail biking because it’s crisscrossed with railway tracks that allow riders to ride from Atwell to Fremantle without using a sealed road.

Graham reckons most riders causing problems are teenagers.

by STEPHEN POLLOCK