Riding to work was short lived

[98tls]

Returned home today to find an unsigned letter in the mailbox requesting i dont,even pointed out that we own 2 cars so there was no reason for me to take the bike to work at all:laugh:(thats considerate eh).We have a number of old folks self owned units across the road and have always got on well with all the owners so went door knocking and no it wasnt them one old bloke said it was a "delight to listen to":laugh:.6am isnt exactly early to my way of thinking,thing that irks me the most is that they didnt put a name on the note so i cant even go and discuss it unless i just door knock down the street until i find the writer,anyone else had this?In fairness will add that my old TL is a shit of a thing when cold and does require some warming up but its not like its sitting there for any great length of time.

[The Little Gixxer]

I live in an old neighbourhood as well and leave for work usually around 2am so far no problems even though my bike can make a fair amount of noise. i do check in with them every now and then to see if it is still all good. Failing that if I had to I would push my bike round to the hill and coast away then start at the bottom away from home.

Sorry to hear you had the hassle probably just caged jealousy is all.

[caseye]

No, you keep riding to work, fuck the gutless wonders who can't be arsed telling you to your face that your motorcycle is a tad noisy at 6am.
Problem is too many of your neighbours don't work, lazy fuckers!

[Yamahardman]

At least they didn't go straight to the rozzers or noise control, and left the note there.
Old people are old, and they probably think a young'in on a motorbike is still the same as the rowdy rockers of the 60's, with their rock n roll, ton up clubs and fights with the mods on Brighton beach, lol.

Probably didn't want a confrontation, that's all. Haha.

[98tls]

No, you keep riding to work, fuck the gutless wonders who can't be arsed telling you to your face that your motorcycle is a tad noisy at 6am.
Problem is too many of your neighbours don't work, lazy fuckers!

Thing is mate most of them within earshot do work,if it was annoying any of the old folk across the road then outta respect i wouldnt bother taking the bike to work,no skin off my nose but such is my relationship with them ive no doubts they would simply tell me if it was.As you say the annoying bit is the lack of name on the note...

[98tls]

At least they didn't go straight to the rozzers or noise control, and left the note there.
Old people are old, and they probably think a young'in on a motorbike is still the same as the rowdy rockers of the 60's, with their rock n roll, ton up clubs and fights with the mods on Brighton beach, lol.

Probably didn't want a confrontation, that's all. Haha.

:shit:Oi,i am fucking near old myself mate:laugh:The bikes not overly loud,a V-twin with Carbon cans but legal.Tis not the old folk,i give em fresh caught Trout,mow the odd lawn at times etc they would honestly just tell me if it was pissing them off.

[Akzle]

had one whore moaning that i was fanging a dump piped 2 smoke up and down the street too much of a saturday morning.

Needless to say i wheelied her in the face and skipped town.

[bogan]

Windsheild bomb everyone in the street with the following

"Hey, there was a gutless wonder asking me to take the car to work instead of the bike, I notice you also own a car, so if you are said gutless wonder, please use it to fuck right off before I leave."

[Akzle]

Windsheild bomb everyone in the street with the following

"Hey, there was a gutless wonder asking me to take the car to work instead of the bike, I notice you also own a car, so if you are said gutless wonder, please use it to fuck right off before I leave."

bogan. Theyre old.
The correct phrase is "ruddy well beggar off"
probably give the codgerr an annuerism with language like yours.

[Yamahardman]

:shit:Oi,i am fucking near old myself mate:laugh:The bikes not overly loud,a V-twin with Carbon cans but legal.Tis not the old folk,i give em fresh caught Trout,mow the odd lawn at times etc they would honestly just tell me if it was pissing them off.

It mustn't be that loud then. haha.

On a slightly unrelated topic (it's about old people and motorbikes) My grandad me a funny story about his older brother, who would ride on gravel roads (early 50's) from Lichfeild to Rotorua to the "dance hall" on a AJS and get back just in time for milking, haha.
He also told me once, he went through the Swiss alps on a jawa with his cousin (also in the early 50's)

It made me realize that not all really old folk hate motorcycles, and that they were probably more common back then then they are now.
They tend to get a little nostalgic when they see them, haha.

[neels]

Never had a problem with my neighbors starting my cortina at 6am to head off to work (it was a tad noisy), equally never had a problem with my neighbor heading out to work at 4am in her rather loud toyota levin, after a while just slept through it.

Miserable pricks will be miserable pricks and complain, like the ones who called noise control on us at 11pm on a friday night, despite us door knocking when we moved in and giving all of our neighbors our phone number to call if they had any problems.

To summarise, just keep riding the bike, it obviously pissed them off which in this case they deserve it and can only be a a good thing.

[Kickaha]

Take the mufflers off before you head off to work in the morning

You going to be home Saturday?

[Yamahardman]

Never had a problem with my neighbors starting my cortina at 6am to head off to work (it was a tad noisy), equally never had a problem with my neighbor heading out to work at 4am in her rather loud toyota levin, after a while just slept through it.

Miserable pricks will be miserable pricks and complain, like the ones who called noise control on us at 11pm on a friday night, despite us door knocking when we moved in and giving all of our neighbors our phone number to call if they had any problems.

To summarise, just keep riding the bike, it obviously pissed them off which in this case they deserve it and can only be a a good thing.

If there's twin sidedrafts on that cortina, I'd happily wake up to the sweet sound of intake, haha!

[neels]

If there's twin sidedrafts on that cortina, I'd happily wake up to the sweet sound of intake, haha!
Sadly not quite, just a twin barrel with a ramflo, factory gt extractors and a single resonator in the exhaust tube (and a few other technical details engine wise).

Was sad when that car got stolen :( They must have pushed it away, the neighbors would have heard it and recognised it otherwise.

[AllanB]

To be fair it is a concern that the evil motorcyclist is awakening people in the street to head off to a legitimate place of employment.

One should consider throwing in afore mentioned employment and enrolling on the state funded dole, arising at a more gentlemanly time of say 11am, checking ones crops to ensure quality control is being adhered to. Servicing ones women folk. Enjoying a respectable lunchtime brew. Servicing ones women folk. Tending crops again as required. Servicing ones women folk.
By now it is approximately 3.00pm. What the fuck - stroll down to the local high school to check out the up coming talent - shit take a few pix on the new S4 you acquired from last weeks smash and grab. Upload said questionable pictures to your restricted 'paid members only' website. Money in the bank. Shit if you are in luck one of those girls will become PM in a couple of decades and you will be able to blackmail her ....

Jesus is it 4.00pm already, consider servicing your women folk, nah - settle for a drug induced BJ and phone the TAB - 'she will be right' is looking good 10-1 and you have a tip from the jockey you threatened to arse fuck last week if he did not throw the race. Hell you are flying by now on the lines and smoke you have done this arvo that you may arse fuck him anyway. You quickly download some hard core girl-on girl porn to reassure yourself that you are not gay. Ahhh that's better.

Jesus is that the old fart from next door yelling over the fence about the volume of the music. Fuck me does he not enjoy Iron Maiden - classic band, old fuck must be gay - wind up the volume, maybe it will get his old wife wet......briefly consider servicing her but draw a line at over 70's. After all you are not a sick bastard......

Fuck you are really flying now - 5.00pm. WTF maybe I'll fire up the TL. Jesus I'm naked and hard, WTF I'm ready to ride. Push the starter, first jab of starter and the TL lights, Jap bikes forever - Jesus it is loud, bells of hell loud, give her a rev. Mother the neighbours must be pissed. Fuck em wait till they see me pop a naked wheelie.

Roll the TL out onto the street, excellent I have a full audience, fuck me the parents of the girls I took those up-skirts images of last week in the mall have turned up to watch me. Excellent. Jesus if the old lady had not taken the kids to her mum this arvo after the last rear end servicing you gave her, she'd be most proud.

The TL is humming 160kms on the back wheel, followed by the po-po, lights screaming. I'm living the dream in suburbia NZ. Fuck yeah.

[Yamahardman]

Sadly not quite, just a twin barrel with a ramflo, factory gt extractors and a single resonator in the exhaust tube (and a few other technical details engine wise).

Was sad when that car got stolen :( They must have pushed it away, the neighbors would have heard it and recognised it otherwise.

Thats a shit that it got pinched. I'm planning to chuck a couple of sidedrafts on my gemini as well as a hot cam and doubled valve springs, haha

[The Reibz]

Cunts need to harden the fuck up

[BigAl]

To be fair it is a concern that the evil motorcyclist is awakening people in the .....
followed by the po-po, lights screaming. I'm living the dream in suburbia NZ. Fuck yeah.

Lol that could be an episode on the GC, might get folks watching it.

[Tazz]

Spray. Sell one you your cars. Buy an old V8. Remove mufflers. Enjoy. Wait for note asking you to ride bike to work again. Walk away. =D

Either that or just ignore it. Might have a kid or something it is upsetting or they could just be soft, but who knows if they don't speak up. Personally I'd keep riding it. Some people just like to complain.

[nzspokes]

Dont you work 1k from home?

Walk to work....

[Robbo]

So what do they do on a stormy night when there is loud thunder. Do they put an anonymous letter in gods letterbox?
Moaning old cunts.. Just ignore them and carry on as usual..:mad:

[Kickaha]

Dont you work 1k from home?

Walk to work....

That's what I told the lazy cunt to do

[Voltaire]

Turn down the volume on the hearing aids.
My neighbour came over to tell me about the smoke from his UmU......haven't you got a BBQ? I asked.....

[EJK]

What did you expect? Your bike's got what, full M4 exhaust system or something.

[ZeroIndex]

screw them... the best part of lying in bed in the morning is waking up before the alarm and getting to go back to sleep.

[Stevee2]

If they don't have the guts to see you in person then who cares what they think. It's good of you to be considerate but how dare they tell you how you can and cannot get to work :mad:

[jellywrestler]

Returned home today to find an unsigned letter in the mailbox requesting i dont,even pointed out that we own 2 cars so there was no reason for me to take the bike to work at all:laugh:(thats considerate eh).We have a number of old folks self owned units across the road and have always got on well with all the owners so went door knocking and no it wasnt them one old bloke said it was a "delight to listen to":laugh:.6am isnt exactly early to my way of thinking,thing that irks me the most is that they didnt put a name on the note so i cant even go and discuss it unless i just door knock down the street until i find the writer,anyone else had this?In fairness will add that my old TL is a shit of a thing when cold and does require some warming up but its not like its sitting there for any great length of time.

send them all earplugs

[SVboy]

To be fair it is a concern that the evil motorcyclist is awakening people in the street to head off to a legitimate place of employment.

One should consider throwing in afore mentioned employment and enrolling on the state funded dole, arising at a more gentlemanly time of say 11am, checking ones crops to ensure quality control is being adhered to. Servicing ones women folk. Enjoying a respectable lunchtime brew. Servicing ones women folk. Tending crops again as required. Servicing ones women folk.
By now it is approximately 3.00pm. What the fuck - stroll down to the local high school to check out the up coming talent - shit take a few pix on the new S4 you acquired from last weeks smash and grab. Upload said questionable pictures to your restricted 'paid members only' website. Money in the bank. Shit if you are in luck one of those girls will become PM in a couple of decades and you will be able to blackmail her ....

Jesus is it 4.00pm already, consider servicing your women folk, nah - settle for a drug induced BJ and phone the TAB - 'she will be right' is looking good 10-1 and you have a tip from the jockey you threatened to arse fuck last week if he did not throw the race. Hell you are flying by now on the lines and smoke you have done this arvo that you may arse fuck him anyway. You quickly download some hard core girl-on girl porn to reassure yourself that you are not gay. Ahhh that's better.

Jesus is that the old fart from next door yelling over the fence about the volume of the music. Fuck me does he not enjoy Iron Maiden - classic band, old fuck must be gay - wind up the volume, maybe it will get his old wife wet......briefly consider servicing her but draw a line at over 70's. After all you are not a sick bastard......

Fuck you are really flying now - 5.00pm. WTF maybe I'll fire up the TL. Jesus I'm naked and hard, WTF I'm ready to ride. Push the starter, first jab of starter and the TL lights, Jap bikes forever - Jesus it is loud, bells of hell loud, give her a rev. Mother the neighbours must be pissed. Fuck em wait till they see me pop a naked wheelie.

Roll the TL out onto the street, excellent I have a full audience, fuck me the parents of the girls I took those up-skirts images of last week in the mall have turned up to watch me. Excellent. Jesus if the old lady had not taken the kids to her mum this arvo after the last rear end servicing you gave her, she'd be most proud.

The TL is humming 160kms on the back wheel, followed by the po-po, lights screaming. I'm living the dream in suburbia NZ. Fuck yeah.

I briefly though this literary masterpiece was about axle, but then I realized that tosser does not even have a bike with which to disturb the neighbors.

[Tigadee]

:shit:Oi,i am fucking near old myself mate:laugh:The bikes not overly loud,a V-twin with Carbon cans but legal.

A banana down each pipe will soon sort you out, you hooligan on two wheels! :laugh:

Or you could bake/buy a half dozen muffins for each house on the street and with a note saying sorry for bothering the anonymous (i.e. cowardly) person... and just continue riding to work.

You've done your bit for good neighbour relations and injected a bit of guilt (if they can feel any) for being wankers.

[MisterD]

bogan. Theyre old.

So it won't be them complaining, they've been up since 4am when their Teasmade woke them with a lovely cuppa.

[BuzzardNZ]

I got a few dirty looks from my old neighbours when firing up the SV.

It has two bros cans and is fairly loud.

To be fair, I could see their kitchen window vibrating in its frame and the noise also set off their car alarm, so if the shoe was on the other foot, I'd be a bit pissed off too.

[TheDemonLord]

Just leave on the back wheel

to minimise tyre noise :shifty:

[Geeen]

I got a few dirty looks from my old neighbours when firing up the SV.

It has two bros cans and is fairly loud.

To be fair, I could see their kitchen window vibrating in its frame and the noise also set off their car alarm, so if the shoe was on the other foot, I'd be a bit pissed off too.

Sounds like its a reasonable volume to me.... My Trumpy does the same thing

[pritch]

It takes a special kind of arsehole to write anonymous notes and as such they merit no consideration at all. In sum? Fuckem!
Keep riding.

[unstuck]

Move fucker. Have some respect, rude cunt. Not everyone likes motorcycles, they are dangerous after all. STUPID HUMANS. :bleh:

[GrayWolf]

I had the same concern when I had the MT's muffles done recently, I, like another poster sometimes leave for work at 2am. Maybe I am lucky due to construction/materials, or just lucky by chance. the MT's is quite deep in sound and actually fairly quiet till 3k rpm.
I've had no complaints yet, but I do ride on minimal/'tick over' throttle and trickle the bike out past the other units.

[roogazza]

My neighbour called police when I threatened to break his nose !
Had me trespassed !! WTF !
No further problems, now they hide from me !!! :lol:

[willytheekid]

...you could always show them what kind of noise a TL can ACTUALLY make at 6am :shifty:
That way they will know the amount of effort you go to at 6am to keep the noise down.:killingme

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GdJPz46A--g/TnJIsZ8dXHI/AAAAAAAAAfU/XhgNvtmE32w/s1600/Loud.jpg

:D

[Kendoll]

If they don't have the guts to sign the letter and talk to you about it then I'd say just ignore it. Maybe put it back in the letterbox with a response saying you're happy to discuss the matter if they want to come over and talk about it, just in case they come back with another one :P

Regardless of whether you own cars or not, its your prerogative to choose your preferred transport mode (as long as it's not a jumbo jet lading on the lawn haha). You don't have to explain yourself to anyone and it sounds like you're being pretty darn considerate talking to the guys across the street anyway.

[Flip]

There is a really old bunch of buggers in Oamaru with nothing better than to bitch and moan.

I got the same recently in Oamaru because I was riding my noisy motorcycle around town.

294287

I just asked them if they remember what side valve motorcycles sounded like in the 1930's?

I would just keep the revs and powerdown until you get up the road a little, and not worry about the concerned resendence society.

[imdying]

Goodness, unsigned... I guess the TL will lose the last 5 gears then :innocent:

[SPman]

Why are most of you getting stuck into the old buggers? They have been pretty well exonerated. I find the worst sorts of offenders like this younger or middle aged people who think they're slightly "better" than their neighbours, and don't want to be seen to be a fuckhead, so, resort to sneaky anonymous tactics.........

[SMOKEU]

Sounds like the same cunt who got really fucked off at me for riding a 2 stroke at night with no exhaust.

[Akzle]

Why are most of you getting stuck into the old buggers? They have been pretty well exonerated. I find the worst sorts of offenders like this younger or middle aged people who think they're slightly "better" than their neighbours, and don't want to be seen to be a fuckhead, so, resort to sneaky anonymous tactics.........

yuppies! .

[buggerit]

checked the note against the wifes handwriting?:calm::whistle:

[98tls]

Take the mufflers off before you head off to work in the morning

You going to be home Saturday?

Working in the morning mate,should be done by midday,should be about.

[Kickaha]

Working in the morning mate,should be done by midday,should be about.

Might be passing through if the weather isn't so shit

[Grumph]

Might be passing through if the weather isn't so shit

Well if you're on the MHR, that should flush out the annoyed neighbour......

[98tls]

Might be passing through if the weather isn't so shit

5.37 stars everywhere,a tad chilly but looks like a great day coming.

[Kickaha]

5.37 stars everywhere,a tad chilly but looks like a great day coming.

Just getting my gear ready and giving the bike a check over

[Voltaire]

Bevel Heavens staff are on stand by.

[Moi]

You could ride side-by-side for that stereophonic affect... :laugh:

Been told that stereophonic is better than mono... :rolleyes:

[unstuck]

You could ride side-by-side for that stereophonic affect... :laugh:

Been told that stereophonic is better than mono... :rolleyes:

And they say Honda riders are gay. :msn-wink:

[JimO]

ok i will come clean that was me...............fucken cagers i mean motorbycilists

[yevjenko]

It mustn't be loud enough then. haha.

There, fixed it for you

[98tls]

Bevel Heavens staff are on stand by.

:laugh::laugh:Well i can vouch he made it this far,lovely lovely bike.

[Ikarus]

I live on the North Shore, down a reasonably long driveway.

Last week, I was heading to work on my Multistrada 1200S, and there was a Chinese couple walking along the footpath. They stopped for me, which was nice. As I rode out, the guy said "Ducati! Woohoo!" Nice.

[Kickaha]

Bevel Heavens staff are on stand by.

Fuckya very much, 1099km over the two days and the only catastrophic failure was losing a cap screw out of the right hand sidecover

[Voltaire]

Fuckya very much, 1099km over the two days and the only catastrophic failure was losing a cap screw out of the right hand sidecover

Cool,so that's over 1100 kms in a year then?:bleh:

( I can' talk my bevel lives under a blanket):rolleyes:

[R650R]

We had a similar one by some local vigilante concerned about disorder drunks and fast cars etc... started reading the waffle then binned it when saw no name attached to it.
You should get up 30mins earlier and do a few laps and see whose curtains twitch first... :)

[pzkpfw]

We had a similar one by some local vigilante concerned about disorder drunks and fast cars etc... started reading the waffle then binned it when saw no name attached to it.
You should get up 30mins earlier and do a few laps and see whose curtains twitch first... :)

No point annoying the 99% who apparently don't mind. (It's not like it was a petition from all the neighbours.)

Just ignore; let the mouse make the next move.

[ricardohardo]

Returned home today to find an unsigned letter in the mailbox requesting i dont,even pointed out that we own 2 cars so there was no reason for me to take the bike to work at all:laugh:(thats considerate eh).We have a number of old folks self owned units across the road and have always got on well with all the owners so went door knocking and no it wasnt them one old bloke said it was a "delight to listen to":laugh:.6am isnt exactly early to my way of thinking,thing that irks me the most is that they didnt put a name on the note so i cant even go and discuss it unless i just door knock down the street until i find the writer,anyone else had this?In fairness will add that my old TL is a shit of a thing when cold and does require some warming up but its not like its sitting there for any great length of time.

Don't be so bloody noisy ya hoon...young people today! In my day ..... bla bla bla


.

[matrox02]

Returned home today to find an unsigned letter in the mailbox requesting i dont,even pointed out that we own 2 cars so there was no reason for me to take the bike to work at all:laugh:(thats considerate eh).We have a number of old folks self owned units across the road and have always got on well with all the owners so went door knocking and no it wasnt them one old bloke said it was a "delight to listen to":laugh:.6am isnt exactly early to my way of thinking,thing that irks me the most is that they didnt put a name on the note so i cant even go and discuss it unless i just door knock down the street until i find the writer,anyone else had this?In fairness will add that my old TL is a shit of a thing when cold and does require some warming up but its not like its sitting there for any great length of time.

I would have stuck the letter to the letter box with a reply letter saying " only if you pay for the extra gas" and stuff them you arnt going out of your way to be noisey, it just is :P

[98tls]

No point annoying the 99% who apparently don't mind. (It's not like it was a petition from all the neighbours.)

Just ignore; let the mouse make the next move.
Took the noisey thing to work this morning with no notes upon my arrivel home,taking it in the morning and to be honest i really feel as though i need to make more noise,tis about establishing boundaries.

[Ikarus]

Alternatively, you could just ride as normal, but try to make a bit less noise. Granted, they were rude and cowardly about what they did. But if they are disturbed by the noise, is there something you can do at no cost and little effort, which might address the problem for them?

Just saying ...

[BuzzardNZ]

Alternatively, you could just ride as normal, but try to make a bit less noise. Granted, they were rude and cowardly about what they did. But if they are disturbed by the noise, is there something you can do at no cost and little effort, which might address the problem for them?

Just saying ...

Sure this is... stick the stock pipes back on and make it sound like a sewing machine again.

[MarkH]

Returned home today to find an unsigned letter in the mailbox requesting i dont,even pointed out that we own 2 cars so there was no reason for me to take the bike to work at all:laugh:

Well, the solution is pretty damned obvious!
Sell the cars!

I go to work at 4am, no passive aggressive notes yet.
I did just change to a quieter bike though.

[pritch]

Alternatively, you could just ride as normal, but try to make a bit less noise.

What's to say he wasn't doing that already? Most of us would.

Some people are just natural born arseholes, and in this instance it's most likely to be the writer of anonymous notes.

Friend of mine was made redundant, he was out of work but couldn't claim the dole because his wife was a manager in a major NZ company. As many women do, when she got married she kept working under her maiden name. They received an anonymous letter pointing out that the writer knew she was using a false name to facilitate benefit fraud by her husband and that unless she saw the error of her ways the writer was going to report them to WINZ. (It wasn't worded quite like that, the writer was only semi-literate.)

This was all complete bollocks of course, but they were quite upset and wondering who would do such a thing. A few weeks later one of their friends was at a party where someone announced to the gathering how he had sorted some benefit fraudsters. Turned out he was the owner of a local gas station - and a born again Christian.
Dude obviously hadn't understood the teachings of his saviour.

Having seen the effect his letter had on my friends, I have nothing but contempt for people who write letters but are too pusillanimous to sign them.

[Ikarus]

Perhaps, but in my experience, telling someone they're a prick rarely stops them being one.

There is a difference between complaining about noise (and being frightened of retribution), and making false and intimidating accusations.

[_Shrek_]

you might find it's not some one in your street but on the corner in the motel units, who's had a bitch at the owners & who stays there a bit, any way if you get a letter/call from the :Police: just tell them, at the end of the day you're saving the planet :rolleyes: by using your bike saving on fuel & road maintenance bla bla bla, or to save time I have a :ride: & I want to ride it, it's legal.... read my lips :msn-wink:

[Thomo84]

I'd just keep riding, if it's causing them such an issue they'll be forced to confront you about it! Until they have the guts to do that I wouldn't change a thing!