Action from police over the summer has reduced the danger and nuisance from bikers who illegally ride around housing estates, parkland and waste ground.
And new schemes to give bikers somewhere legal to ride have also been launched across South Yorkshire.
Today police announced the results of another crackdown on illegal bikers in Sheffield, the latest in a series of operations supported by new legislation which gives officers more powers to seize the bikes riders use.
On one day officers swooped on illegal bikers using land on the Manor estate, Woolley Woods and Richmond Park in Sheffield.
One trials bike was confiscated from its rider and a moped and riding equipment was seized.
Warnings were also handed out to motorcyclists and a quad-bike rider. If they are caught again, they also face having their machines seized by officers.
Police have pledged to continue the crackdown at trouble hotspots across the county plagued by bikers.
They use a number of techniques to combat the problem, including undercover officers and the force helicopter to help ensure culprits involved are dealt with effectively.
The force is now running similar operations virtually every weekend at problem areas in the county.
And a police spokeswoman today pledged: "We will continue these operations on a regular basis."
But developments since The Star's campaign was launched also offer some hope for those who enjoy motorbike scrambling as a hobby.
Already, Sheffield's first off-road motorbike track has been opened by businessmen who recognised the need for facilities.
Sheffield Motocross is an indoor track, housed in a former warehouse at an old steelworks off Station Road, Ecclesfield.
Organisers believe it provides the biggest indoor facilities for motorbikes in this country.
They expanded their plans for the business after reading of the scale of the problem in The Star and hope to open a track for juniors in an adjoining building before the end of the year.
A second new indoor track is also being constructed at another former steel industry site between Sheffield and Rotherham. The former factory building in Sheffield Road, Templeborough, could attract motorcycling enthusiasts from all over the region and hundreds of spectators at weekends.
It is expected to give a massive boost to the region's motorcycling facilities and help tackle the problem of off-road biking.
As well as providing practice facilities for riders, there will also be a spares shop, cafe and changing facilities, and long and short term parking. Planning permission has yet to be granted by Rotherham Council for the track – but planning officials are recommending that it be given.
Sheffield Council is also looking for a location to open its own facilities, likely to be outdoors.
They are using a panel of youngsters to offer observations to help them identify a site which will satisfy those who want to ride their bikes off-road.
Other authorities in the county are also examining the possibility of setting up tracks which would help remove motorbikes from areas where they damage the environment, put other people at risk or create a noise nuisance for other residents.
But it is not just businesses and the authorities who are having to react to the problem.
Community organisations have been galvanised into action because people have been so badly affected.
Motorbikers used the Thorncliffe playing fields in High Green so blatantly as an off-road dirt track they even forced a youth football competition to a halt.
Now parents involved in sports are trying to raise cash to get a fence around the area – and are even offering to put it up themselves.
Law-abiding bikers admit there are rogues who cause trouble, but insist the majority want to avoid problems even though they have been left with nowhere accessible to ride.
Biker Andrew Hirst, of Tinsley, said: "No-one would defend the lads who ride around on stolen bikes but most people are not like that.
"Motorcycling is an expensive hobby and people spend a lot of money. We don't want to cause trouble for other people."

FACTFILE
In the same week The Star launched its campaign, a Sheffield pensioner was left fighting for his life after a confrontation with two rogue riders.
Barry Worthington, aged 67, suffered serious head injuries during an altercation with two men after they allegedly clipped his car outside his home on Ravenscroft Crescent, Richmond.
Two weeks later on July 14, a 65-year-old man was lucky to escape without serious injuries after he was hit by a bike as he strolled through Parkin Wood, off White Lane, Chapeltown, with his wife.
Three days later on July 17, grandmother Pat Dunleavie, aged 65, of Keppel Road, Shiregreen, suffered neck and rib injuries after being mown down by an illegal biker on Deep Lane, Shiregreen, as it raced round a corner.
On August 3, a 15-year-old off-road biker was left with neck and leg injuries after coming off his bike as he rode around fields off Pipworth Road on Sheffield's Manor estate.
Later that month a 26-year-old West Melton man broke a leg and suffered hand and arm injuries after his off-road bike smashed into a wall on Masefield Road, Wath.