Bike Stunt competition in Otara for safety awareness

Community leaders in Otara, Auckland's suburb, are setting up a bike competition to educate young people about safety. A social worker, Rocky Misiepo said they came up with this initiative because they want to create awareness. He said they want to tell the young people riding down public roads doing stunts on their bikes.

"On a safety scale, it is a problem. But these are just fundamentals that these kids have grown up into an environment where madness is fun." Misiepo said they will try to pull off a wheelie bike competition for the area. He said the event would be a chance for the community leaders to help teenagers figure out their future. "A lot of our young people don't even know what they want to do. For example, to put into context, a lot of our young people in school will pass their NCEA Level 1, 2 and 3, but its actually about what you do with it when you leave school. So that's where the transition takes place."

Misiepo said it's about tapping into what young people are passionate about and putting their skills into practice, career pathways.