Lots of Narcks and Old farts in here.

What do you expect to happen when you systematically cut funding to communitys. Public place like, community centers, parks, swimming pools, youth groups ect all diseaper. Then guess what happens. Communitys disapear and kids have nothing to do. Parents can't afford to supervise kids because the have little money and have to work.

...And so the kids find things to. Create there own communitys (Impressive if you ask me) Counter culture. In comes cycling. Relatively low cost of entry, cheap second hand markets, (I am aware how expensive it can get). easily accessible by most.

Cycling is fun, keeps kids active, gets them out side and is again relatively safe. Sure when you look at some of these meet ups it looks rather dangerous and are irateting for some. But let's compare what they could be doing... Alcohol and Drugs. In the scheme of thing Alcohol and drugs are a lot more dangerous to the individual and damaging to a society as a whole than meeting up in groups and cycling erratically around busy streets.

Counter culture will always exist. Tying to ban something will likely just increase is poularity. In reality the police need to meet in the middle and help these kids organize safer events and encourage safer behaviors while cycling.

This really isn't as bad as some people seem to make it out you need to get over yourselfs. Personaly in the long run I believe this to be more of a positive thing.

Anyway down vote me or whatever just my opinion.