Sports bike haters

[vifferman]

In my view there is only one God, call Him what you may.

Her.
And you'd better call Her by Her right name, or She will get all pissy.

[Badjelly]

Its this group that lives several streets down that, apparently, is pissed at all the noise my bike makes as I drive by thier houses. LOL.

Yeah, really funny.

Perhaps you should make less noise with your bike? Nah, that would be considerate and therefore boring.

[McJim]

Move to Invercargill - home of the World's Fastest Indian. All my neighbours love the sound of my Ducati - I shit you not.

[Livvy]

Move to Invercargill - home of the World's Fastest Indian. All my neighbours love the sound of my Ducati - I shit you not.

You got lucky then!

[FkNAmerican]

Hey R6....the Fiat race rep kit from Yamaha costs over $2,500. I think what Im gonna do is get it done custom rather then buy the kit from them......no point when I could get something similar (and better looking) for about half the price.

[Cr1MiNaL]

Hey R6....the Fiat race rep kit from Yamaha costs over $2,500. I think what Im gonna do is get it done custom rather then buy the kit from them......no point when I could get something similar (and better looking) for about half the price.

How cool would that look in blek !! Roll on the 46 numbers from e-bay !

[motorbyclist]

teens who get mummy and daddy to buy hugely expensive road-legal race cars that they drive around in like they don't care if they're being safe or not; said as an observation of the people MY age in NZ... As a rule of thumb, I'd rather get on the back of a bike I don't know before in a car I don't know purely because bikers seem to be safer and smarter than cagers.

[McJim]

Just had a thought while I was out this afternoon. You live in America, home of the law suit. If this pissy neighbour said "You exceeded the speed limit" then the burdon of proof is on this neighbour to prove that or face a case for defamation of character or libel or slander (depending on whether he puts this claim in writing or not) which means you could bankrupt him and make a decent profit.

[motorbyclist]

atleast go for harrassment!

[Sellout]

I was cleaning my exhausts today (enough deposits in those babies to run a coal range for weeks!!!!) and thought it might be fun to run the engine without the exhausts attached, less than 2 minutes after firing it up, I had 2 neighbours up the driveway... both wanting to check out what was making the noise 'cos they thought I must have a new ride.

I have a real problem with boy racers doin donuts on the corner outside my place, and about 12 houses around me (mine included) record licence plates and try to get the cops to do something about it, yet they all still love my bike! And they come around for a chat whenever I'm working on it in the driveway, no other bikers in my immediate vicinity but apparently half my neighbours used to ride, and since I have an old-school 2T, they all come and reminisce(sp)... It's hilarious!

FTR- I never speed or do anything silly... at least nowhere near home... Too worried about the potential damage to others (if I'm hurt = my stupid fault) But those bloody boy racers have knocked over the street sign on my corner and almost taken out my front fence, my kids play out there for chrissake, and these plonkers are ripping it up at 5 in the evening!

Sorry for the thread hijack!

[scumdog]

Yeah but most likely you don't go aroundandaround-and-around the same block at 3am with the same frikkin droning zorst noise.

[rocketman1]

This is a bit strange, I have had compliments from the neighbours over how good my sportsbike sounds, Mind you its 1000 Vtwin no baffles.
Must be something about the throb, compared to the scream, basic human sexuality or something

[alanzs]

I had a neighbor back in the States that used to compliment me on my Hayabusa and how it was really quiet. My wife used to tell me she could hear me coming from a few miles away. After four years of being neighbors, I found out he was stone fucking deaf. We used to have the greatest conversations!

[DarkLord]

My neighbour just told off my mate for parking his car outside my house (slightly out of the common the driveway) easy enough for a truck to go past. He wasnt v polite and just said dont park ur car here rudely and drove off. Guess he knows what 2 R6's, a bandit 1200 and 2 gixxer thous sound like 'warming' up their engines at 10k rpm.

I wonder what he's going to think once I get my carbs rejetted and grab myself a Screaming Demon exhaust like on Gubb's bike

[Roki_nz]

yeah so a funny update:

I think he's been up to no good lately with my other neighbors. They must be forming alliances against me b/c today I was followed around by ANOTHER one of my neighbors but this time I had a little fun with it......

So I went for a short (hour long) ride today and on my way down the street a different neighbor (old lady this time) is pulling out of her side street and instead of taking a right to leave the neighborhood she turns left as I pass and gives me a dirty look as I go by.

Instead of going home I take a bunch of random turns through the neighborhood and, sure enough, she stays with me. Keep in mind Im not exactly trying to lose her as I'm keeping it carefully at 25mph or less the whole time.

So this goes on maybe 10-15 minutes before I decide to step things up a bit and go for a litle roundabout near the bottom of the 'hood. I just keep going round and round and she keeps following me. At this point Im almost falling off the bike laughing at the situation: 90 year old granny in a hot persuit of an R-6 going 25mph (or less).

So finally after about 10 loops I just pull over. Of course she is too scared to actually stop and say anything to me so she drives by veerrryyyy sllloooowwwllly. I waite for her to go around the corner and continue on my way. Sure enough, she has turned around and is coming back the other way again.

As soon as I pass her she turns back around and follows me again so I decide Im going to take a tour of the ENTIRE neighborhood. I start making every single left and right that comes up and just slowly cruise down every cul-de-sac in the entire place. Keep in mind there are almost 2,000 homes so this is time consuming.

After about the fifth turn she gets the message and gives up.

This is getting unreal. Luckily my immediate neighbors are all cool. Its this group that lives several streets down that, apparently, is pissed at all the noise my bike makes as I drive by thier houses. LOL.

The sad thing is that the entire neighborhood is built like a track. Perfectly maintained roads, one amazing corner after another (nice flowing turns), elevation changes.......but its destroyed by a 25mph speed limit and houses. I fantasize about being able to close the whole place down and race around all the loops with my friends. Such a pity.

You should have called Mr.Plod on their arse