Disturbing the peace
Discussion
It's a lovely midsummer evening here and, doubtless like many of our neighbours, we are still sitting outside, having a drink, listening to the birds and enjoying the peace and quiet of the countryside. Or we were until ten minutes ago some utter kn*bhead on a minimally silenced rice rocket turned up in the lane and proceeded to do burnouts at maximum revs.
At the end of this process, and after the bike had been bouncing off the rev limiter for some time, as they rode off it sounded distinctly sick. I did find myself hoping it had dropped a valve or similar. Two questions: 1. Does that make me a very bad person? and 2. Why do people find it necessary to do this? It's bound to give us motorcyclists a bad name.
At the end of this process, and after the bike had been bouncing off the rev limiter for some time, as they rode off it sounded distinctly sick. I did find myself hoping it had dropped a valve or similar. Two questions: 1. Does that make me a very bad person? and 2. Why do people find it necessary to do this? It's bound to give us motorcyclists a bad name.
It’s a perfectly reasonable response and this sort of bellend behaviour is really selfish and annoying to normal people. Thing I hate are those single cylinder 125 things owned by yoofs that take the exhausts off. There’s one goes past my house at 6am most mornings. At least I’m not neighbours with the toe rag.
There’s another bloke on an R6 that rides everywhere in 2nd gear for some reason, just opening and closing the throttle like a twist and go scooter. Guess he hasn’t mastered the gearbox.
There’s another bloke on an R6 that rides everywhere in 2nd gear for some reason, just opening and closing the throttle like a twist and go scooter. Guess he hasn’t mastered the gearbox.
I feel for you. I’d hope it was broken too.
We’ve had a bell end on a bike riding through our village on the loudest bike I’ve ever heard. Not only that but it makes and obscenely loud bang and the rider rides it like a t
t.
Hopefully when he eventually bins it he won’t collect someone else.
We’ve had a bell end on a bike riding through our village on the loudest bike I’ve ever heard. Not only that but it makes and obscenely loud bang and the rider rides it like a t
t. Hopefully when he eventually bins it he won’t collect someone else.
wormus said:
Thing I hate are those single cylinder 125 things owned by yoofs that take the exhausts off. There’s one goes past my house at 6am most mornings. At least I’m not neighbours with the toe rag.
There's a couple of 17 year olds around here that have clearly just become 17 and got their CBT, and are doing exactly that with their fart cannon exhausts, rev bombing people in the town centre etc. I hope a) they fall off and b) stop biking.bgunn said:
wormus said:
Thing I hate are those single cylinder 125 things owned by yoofs that take the exhausts off. There’s one goes past my house at 6am most mornings. At least I’m not neighbours with the toe rag.
There's a couple of 17 year olds around here that have clearly just become 17 and got their CBT, and are doing exactly that with their fart cannon exhausts, rev bombing people in the town centre etc. I hope a) they fall off and b) stop biking.Zarco said:
Yep, one local to me with a nice looking little KTM. On the one hand I'm glad he's out enjoying it on a summer evening. Just wish he'd realise it's not a nice noise at all.
Would mind less if they were out on the lanes, but all this noise around relatively busy streets, speeding etc is unnecessary.runnerbean 14 said:
It's a lovely midsummer evening here and, doubtless like many of our neighbours, we are still sitting outside, having a drink, listening to the birds and enjoying the peace and quiet of the countryside. Or we were until ten minutes ago some utter kn*bhead on a minimally silenced rice rocket turned up in the lane and proceeded to do burnouts at maximum revs.
At the end of this process, and after the bike had been bouncing off the rev limiter for some time, as they rode off it sounded distinctly sick. I did find myself hoping it had dropped a valve or similar. Two questions: 1. Does that make me a very bad person? and 2. Why do people find it necessary to do this? It's bound to give us motorcyclists a bad name.
Calling it a rice rocket is pretty racist IMO. At the end of this process, and after the bike had been bouncing off the rev limiter for some time, as they rode off it sounded distinctly sick. I did find myself hoping it had dropped a valve or similar. Two questions: 1. Does that make me a very bad person? and 2. Why do people find it necessary to do this? It's bound to give us motorcyclists a bad name.
Used to be a bloke, who I won't call a biker, lives down the end. He had a gsx 11 ( the coffin tank one ) which he would start up every Sunday morning, then without warming it up, would rev up to the redline for 5 minutes, then switch off and go indoors. One day it wouldn't start, so his mate come round and had a look. They couldn't get it to start, so his mate took it away in his van, and I never saw it again. Real shame, as it was a lovely bike. Ironically enough he drove a Volvo!
runnerbean 14 said:
It's a lovely midsummer evening here and, doubtless like many of our neighbours, we are still sitting outside, having a drink, listening to the birds and enjoying the peace and quiet of the countryside. Or we were until ten minutes ago some utter kn*bhead on a minimally silenced rice rocket turned up in the lane and proceeded to do burnouts at maximum revs.
At the end of this process, and after the bike had been bouncing off the rev limiter for some time, as they rode off it sounded distinctly sick. I did find myself hoping it had dropped a valve or similar. Two questions: 1. Does that make me a very bad person? and 2. Why do people find it necessary to do this? It's bound to give us motorcyclists a bad name.
Kind of the same but where I live we have a guy who drives a Nissan 370Z which is straight piped, he goes past 4-5 times a day sometimes at 11pm. I had a Porsche with race headers a few years ago but I could turn the PSE off and it went a lot quiet, every time this Nissan goes past I think tosser. At the end of this process, and after the bike had been bouncing off the rev limiter for some time, as they rode off it sounded distinctly sick. I did find myself hoping it had dropped a valve or similar. Two questions: 1. Does that make me a very bad person? and 2. Why do people find it necessary to do this? It's bound to give us motorcyclists a bad name.
Zarco said:
Yep, one local to me with a nice looking little KTM. On the one hand I'm glad he's out enjoying it on a summer evening. Just wish he'd realise it's not a nice noise at all.
We were all young once, I’m sure our neighbours felt the same about my Fizzy which was fitted with a spanny 
gareth h said:
We were all young once, I’m sure our neighbours felt the same about my Fizzy which was fitted with a spanny
Exactly!You can't win - people want more young people involved in bikes then moan when they're a bit daft. Some of the antics we got up to makes me shudder now but back then it was just kids being kids...
We were all young once.
When I was sixteen I took the baffles out of the silencer on my Honda 90 sports hoping it sounded like a 250cc BSA Starfire
Also used to put a bit of Castrol "R" in the petrol so it smelt like a Belle Vue speedway bike.
In addition, painted Hells Angels on my piss pot, until after three months someone noticed I had spelt it Hell's Angles.
ffs!
When I was sixteen I took the baffles out of the silencer on my Honda 90 sports hoping it sounded like a 250cc BSA Starfire
Also used to put a bit of Castrol "R" in the petrol so it smelt like a Belle Vue speedway bike.
In addition, painted Hells Angels on my piss pot, until after three months someone noticed I had spelt it Hell's Angles.
ffs!
KTMsm said:
It's called being a teenager
Fair enough to complain if they're still doing it at 25
The Police were regularly around to our house when I was 17 with complaints about my driving and my stereo was so loud the lights dimmed with the bass
Gold wing? I bet you played country music too Fair enough to complain if they're still doing it at 25
The Police were regularly around to our house when I was 17 with complaints about my driving and my stereo was so loud the lights dimmed with the bass
KTMsm said:
It's called being a teenager
Fair enough to complain if they're still doing it at 25
The Police were regularly around to our house when I was 17 with complaints about my driving and my stereo was so loud the lights dimmed with the bass
What about 35? Theres an idiot across the road from us, although its a very loud car, not bike. I'm much younger and he lives with his parents still. Not sure why they dont kick him out?Fair enough to complain if they're still doing it at 25
The Police were regularly around to our house when I was 17 with complaints about my driving and my stereo was so loud the lights dimmed with the bass
People will say live and let live/don't snitch on another bike but it's a fking nightmare if you have to live with it. We live on a very long cul-de-sac and have had no end of problems with scumbags on dirtbikes and UNBELIEVEABLY loud 125s. I've lost it a number of times and had a go at them which stopped certain individuals, for the others i've passed it onto the filth and the council to deal with (which they did after a while).
To hell with them.
king nightmare if you have to live with it. We live on a very long cul-de-sac and have had no end of problems with scumbags on dirtbikes and UNBELIEVEABLY loud 125s. I've lost it a number of times and had a go at them which stopped certain individuals, for the others i've passed it onto the filth and the council to deal with (which they did after a while). To hell with them.
I did manage to catch up with this individual today at dusk, while he was having a fag in a local lay-by. Sadly his bike hadn't dropped a valve after all. It also had no rear number plate - "it fell off earlier today" - otherwise his registration would have found it's way to the local plod who would have popped round for a word in his shell-like.
I guess the absence of a plate is why he chooses to ride it at dusk. He seemed genuinely surprised that anyone should object to his tw*ttish riding manner and/or the resulting Apollo 13-sized noise footprint. After having a chat with him I'd ascribe that to a severe lack of imagination or indeed most other cognitive functions.
I guess the absence of a plate is why he chooses to ride it at dusk. He seemed genuinely surprised that anyone should object to his tw*ttish riding manner and/or the resulting Apollo 13-sized noise footprint. After having a chat with him I'd ascribe that to a severe lack of imagination or indeed most other cognitive functions.
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