Me and my bike need a new home! (North Shore)

[Little Miss Trouble]

I need a new flat!
Since I got my bike two weeks ago my landlord who lives in the house behind has been getting more and more difficult. This morning he tells me his little wifey can't stand the sound of my bike warming up and can I do take it up the top of the driveway to "rev it" Explained to him patiently that a bike needs to warm up in the morning otherwise its likely to drop its revs and stall the first time I have to stop for traffic. I know that shes not gonna care about that though so not much I can do really but find somewhere else to live.
Does anybody here know any bike tollerant people looking for a flatmate on the North Shore? Would prefer if the bedroom was bigger than a shoebox!

[Paul in NZ]

His house. I'd be pissed if a bike was idling out side my place in the am.

Sounds like it has a fault, all my bikes I can just start up and ride away? Idiling on the choke on the stand can't be good for em..

[Little Miss Trouble]

I agree. Thats why first thing I did when I got to work is start lookin for a new place (I should have mentioned I don't really like the place anyway and this is probably the push I needed)
I was under the impression it was good practice to allow my bike to warm up before riding? if thats not the case then I guess its not quite so urgent to find somewhere else.

[ManDownUnder]

Good practice yes... but is the solution as simple as slowly riding to the curb, or just out onto the street and sitting there for 2 mins before heading off?

[Little Miss Trouble]

I can afford around $140 as long as the power bills etc aren't way over the top.
(oh I'm reasonably tidy, my bikes the noisiest thing about me and I make a pretty mean chocolate cake!)

[Little Miss Trouble]

Good practice yes... but is the solution as simple as slowly riding to the curb, or just out onto the street and sitting there for 2 mins before heading off?

Thanks, I will start doing that, was just concerned about doing harm to my new baby before I'd even run her in. oh and looking like a moron if I stalled at the lights of course!

[ManDownUnder]

Thanks, I will start doing that, was just concerned about doing harm to my new baby before I'd even run her in. oh and looking like a moron if I stalled at the lights of course!

All good... if you're still running it in, or the engines not all warmed up, the trick is to not load the engine up... so if you put it into gear and gently ride it to a warm up spot you should be fine.

[vifferman]

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I was under the impression it was good practice to allow my bike to warm up before riding?
Yes and no.
It's not good to flange the living piss out of your engine before it's warmed up, BUT warming it up by idling it is not good for it. The best thing you can do is start it up, and put your helmet and gloves on while it's idling, then ride off. It's far better for the engine to warm up while the oil is getting properly circulated by the moving engine/gearbox parts AND for it to have the revs going up and down rather than being fairly constant.
Also, for bikes without a centrestand, idling on the sidestand is not particularly good anyway, and causes problems with some models (though probably not yours). F'rinstance, it's been cited as a possible catalyst of camchain tensioner failure on VTR1000s.

[Winter]

If you want to get away from the shore, I'm a looking for a flatmate for my place in St Johns, I'm fairly bike friendly - and I love chocolate cake.

[Macktheknife]

2 weeks earlier and I had the perfect place for you, but have now found someone. Sorry.

[The Pastor]

To warm up a bike just take the ride into work/where ever slowly i.e 1/4 throtle its the best and easiest method.

[cheese]

I can understand annoying warming up of engines, my anushead neighbour starts up his car with a sewer pipe for an exhaust at 6:30 and runs it for 10 mins.

your bike it a little 250 though. Man what a diddle.

Good luck for your flat hunt.

[Little Miss Trouble]

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll warm her up at the top of the driveway and piss off the neighbour on the left with the baby and on the neighbour on right with the white fluffy rat-dog instead :dodge:

[sunhuntin]

try having a harley right outside your bedroom window for about 20mins every morning from 6.30 am? on full choke as well. :angry:
but a lil 250 dont make much noise.
i start mine up [no choke as its broken] let it warm, and then give it a gentle throttle twist to see how smooth it revs. sometimes, ill hold the throttle half on [self choking] till its good. usually, its started, then gear put in the top box, gloves on, in gear and away.

another alternative for you would perhaps be pushing her to the street and then starting.

[Little Miss Trouble]

another alternative for you would perhaps be pushing her to the street and then starting.

I think I'd keel over before I even got part way up the driveway, good idea for anyone on flat or gentle hilled driveway though

[vifferman]

I can understand annoying warming up of engines, my anushead neighbour starts up his car with a sewer pipe for an exhaust at 6:30 and runs it for 10 mins.
There's a Mitsubishi Legume (auto!) just up the road from our house. It used to sound OK, but now it has an even louder, raspier, zorst fitted. The day he got it, he went up and down the road from his house to the corner (100m away?) and back, 5 or 6 times in a row.
It's a prime candidate for the DoseOfExpandingFoamUpTheZorst treatment. :yes:

I don't mind sporty zorsts, as long as they sound good, but if they're loudly droney ones on autos, or just obnoxiously loud, then they get right up my nose. Um... - ear.
Even the Satantune on the VifFerraRi gets on my wick after a while if I take the spud out.

[Paul in NZ]

OK Mr Grumpy, its not a TLR with yoshi pipes or anything, it is a GPX250. I am sure it is only for a few minutes at best.
The lady dosent want lectures in this thread about having her bike running outside her landlords house, but rather looking for a more bike friendly environment in which to reside, thus solving the problem.
So back to topic.. whats your budget Miss?

Who stuck a thorn up yours? That was hardly a lecture?

A bike friendly place will quickly become a bike UN friendly place if you leave any bike sitting there idling when it does not need to be. It does not do the bike any good so why solve a problem that does not need to BE a problem?

Yeah - old people and landlords can be grumpy but it's their property and a bit of respect goes a long way...

Paul N - Look, I tell ya what, I'll leave you guys to it - this place is getting wierd

[lb99]

tell your landlord to fk off, maybe try to be quieter, but you live there too, the landlord owns the house, but as you are leasing it, that gives you the (almost) the same rights as if you own it, so the landlord cant do dick except complain to noise control, he cant kick you out/raise the rent/be unreasonable without the risk of a tenancy hearing for persicution, in this instance he's not your landlord, he's just the gumpy old prick next door. so give him the fingers and say "bite me" and stay, just to wind him up. It'll take 45 days minimum for him to legally evict you, more if you take him to court to let you stay "cause he just doesn't like my bike your honour" thats heaps of time to drive him nuts.
My CBX must drive the neighbours spastic (remember the old cycleworks slash cut exhaust?) I always come home after midnight, and quite often am gone again before six am, I try to be quiet as I can but its still noisy, no complaints yet though.....

[mstriumph]

no point in standing on her rights and being antagonistic just for the sake of doing it when she's not happy there anyway and can move somewhere more congenial so EVERYONE wins?

[FROSTY]

can't help on the flat front Im sorry. BUT
A lil suggestion re the lil GPX - Start her up on the choke then just ride off.
1/2 km down the road she will be warmed up enough to not stall.

[Scouse]

I need a new flat!
Since I got my bike two weeks ago my landlord who lives in the house behind has been getting more and more difficult. This morning he tells me his little wifey can't stand the sound of my bike warming up and can I do take it up the top of the driveway to "rev it" Explained to him patiently that a bike needs to warm up in the morning otherwise its likely to drop its revs and stall the first time I have to stop for traffic. I know that shes not gonna care about that though so not much I can do really but find somewhere else to live.
Does anybody here know any bike tollerant people looking for a flatmate on the North Shore? Would prefer if the bedroom was bigger than a shoebox!Tell your landlord that he is a twat and his missus is nothing more that a moaning bitch and they should fuckup and get a life.

[imdying]

no point in standing on her rights and being antagonistic just for the sake of doing it when she's not happy there anyway and can move somewhere more congenial so EVERYONE wins?Screw everyone winning, I just want to see the KBer win! Wind the bastard right up, you know you want too...

Tell you what, I'll let you borrow the SV for a week... it's basically an open race pipe, that'll scare the crap out of him, and injection holds the revs around 3000rpm for a short period of time from cold start :love:

[lb99]

Screw everyone winning, I just want to see the KBer win! Wind the bastard right up, you know you want too...

:love:


amen to that

who the fuck do the neighbours think they are

I once had to move my dog kennel so the neighbour could sleep (nightshift worker),fair enough, then I had to move the trampoline and swing set, I drew the line when he saked my missus to park on the street as the garage door disturbed him.

[Morcs]

I have a large room available at our flat in glen eden. $100 per week, we are both bikers. flick me a pm.

[iwilde]

Buy the place, then tell his wife to suck your nipples!

[Nasty]

tell your landlord to fk off, maybe try to be quieter, but you live there too, the landlord owns the house, but as you are leasing it, that gives you the (almost) the same rights as if you own it, so the landlord cant do dick except complain to noise control, he cant kick you out/raise the rent/be unreasonable without the risk of a tenancy hearing for persicution, in this instance he's not your landlord, he's just the gumpy old prick next door. so give him the fingers and say "bite me" and stay, just to wind him up. It'll take 45 days minimum for him to legally evict you, more if you take him to court to let you stay "cause he just doesn't like my bike your honour" thats heaps of time to drive him nuts.
My CBX must drive the neighbours spastic (remember the old cycleworks slash cut exhaust?) I always come home after midnight, and quite often am gone again before six am, I try to be quiet as I can but its still noisy, no complaints yet though.....


As a landlord I can ask a tenant to leave in accordance with the lease on the property, this should be written into every lease. Treating a landlord with distain in the days of rents going up astromincally in places like Auckland not the best idea ... not getting things like references is real smart.

Under a standard least 90 days notice in writing is normal. 42 days if various conditions fit, and 10 if I go to the tribunal with their list (which includes compliance to remedy a breach, assault etc).

The reality is they probably have someone lined up for the flat or want to increase the rent or something dumb like that ... for now just don't inflame the situation and find something better ...
:dodge:

[bugjuice]

2 weeks earlier and I had the perfect place for you, but have now found someone. Sorry.
ditto.. but i ended up with HDTboy.. might still be able to trade him, still got the receipt somewhere..

[lb99]

and 10 if I go to the tribunal with their list (which includes compliance to remedy a breach, assault etc).


:dodge:

you will never get the tennancy tribunal to evict cause your wife doesn't like the sound of the tennants bike, unless the noise is deemed unreasonable, which I doubt cause its an 07 gpx

[The Pastor]

There seems to be alot of us on the shore eh? im in glenfield atm.

[Mrs Busa Pete]

As a landlord I can ask a tenant to leave in accordance with the lease on the property, this should be written into every lease. Treating a landlord with distain in the days of rents going up astromincally in places like Auckland not the best idea ... not getting things like references is real smart.

Under a standard least 90 days notice in writing is normal. 42 days if various conditions fit, and 10 if I go to the tribunal with their list (which includes compliance to remedy a breach, assault etc).
The reality is they probably have someone lined up for the flat or want to increase the rent or something dumb like that ... for now just don't inflame the situation and find something better ...
:dodge:

Unless it's writen in her tennacy agreement that she is not to warm her bike in the mornings then she would not be in breach and the tribuanl can do jack shit.She in fact could sue them for breaching her write to enjoy her home.

[Little Miss Trouble]

Thanks for the support and advice guys and girls.
As much as it might be fun to get the wifey worked up it wouldn't be doing me any favours so I'm gonna play nice and get back into looking for somewhere else. lol I gave up looking a while ago after I rocked up to one place and found the 'students' that lived there stoned off their faces!

[Mully]

Can't help with accomodation, sorry, but:


then I had to move the trampoline and swing set

What's the world coming to when a man has to move his trampoline and swing set?? Hope you sorted the bastard out.

[lb99]

Can't help with accomodation, sorry, but:



What's the world coming to when a man has to move his trampoline and swing set?? Hope you sorted the bastard out.

he was one step away from asking my kids not to play dude!

[Mully]

he was one step away from asking my kids not to play dude!

Ahh, so the kids' stuff not yours. Explains a bit.

Opposite of what I would have done. Made sure the kids were on them the whole time with some loud toy and told them to ignore him/been there myself to glare at him if he tried it on.

But then, I'm an asshole.

[lb99]

Opposite of what I would have done. Made sure the kids were on them the whole time with some loud toy and told them to ignore him/been there myself to glare at him if he tried it on.

But then, I'm an asshole.

nah, I just ignored him, he moved eventually, I'm still here