Brisbane couple Adam and Sarah Stevenson have noticed the business downturn at Miala Teahouse, Mt Glorious. Credit:Tony Moore Miala Teahouse owner Karl Winter says if the harassment from police does not stop, he will not survive until Christmas. "I've survived the wet, I've survived everything, but I don't think I am going to survive this," Mr Winter said. "If this goes into Christmas and we lose that Christmas trade, I will have to get out." He said his trade was down 30 per cent and falling.

Manager of Miala Teahouse at Mt Glorious, Lara Seville. Credit:Tony Moore "I've looked at the figures. I know exactly, I can graph it all," he said. Both cafes - serving coffee, lunches and cake - are on the weekend biker circuit behind Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast. "We've got no lunch-trade left," Mr Winter said. "We get the morning riders, they seem to ride early - but the day cruisers, the husband and wife on the back of the bike - they are not riding at the moment."

Miala Teashop manager Lara Seville said the change was obvious. "Usually every Saturday and Sunday we would have bikers lined up on the road waiting for a coffee," Ms Seville said. "But now, we have a morning spurt and that's it for the day. "And there are so many police up here now." Mr Winter said there were now lots of smaller "tourist trade businesses" throughout Esk, Kilcoy and the Brisbane Valley - also on the weekend biker ride route - that were beginning to suffer.

"We're all still tourist trade," he said. "They're motorcyclists going out on the weekend with their family and friends spending money in these businesses. "So it is not just our business, it is business throughout the region," he said. Mr Winter said police were "everywhere" on Mt Glorious and Mt Nebo over the weekend and said they were harassing his customers in the morning. Mt Mee's Pitstop Cafe owner John Alexander said his trade was down between 20 and 30 per cent.

He said they normally had 130 bikes at the cafe each Sunday, but today had around 80. However, he felt slightly optimistic and hoped the trend would stop. "I can understand it, riders would prefer not to be - I wouldn't say targeted - but highlighted by the police - as people of concern, whether they are part of a motorcycle gang or not." Mr Alexander said he did not have a problem with police pulling over motorists, whether they where motorcyclists or not. "But to target a certain group - groups of three or more - is a bit of a problem."

"I had some guys from the Ulysses motorcycle club coming here today and the average age of those guys is in the late 50s and early 60s. "Now, I doubt that they would have meth labs at their home." At Miala tea rooms, Adam and Sarah Stevenson both ride motorbikes on the weekend and said the way the new anti-bikie laws were explained to the public was appalling. The pair said they had noticed the impact on the Miala Teahouse. "There's definitely been an impact up here, there's definitely less groups coming up," they said.

"We were also at the PitStop Cafe at Mt Mee today, and there was two bikes,"Mr Stevenson said. "Where normally they would have had 15 or 20 bikes." Loading Mr Winter said the harassment at his Mt Glorious business was hard to understand. "We're not running drugs, we're not running guns, we're not an (OMG) club. We make coffee and really good cake.