Do your neighbours hate you?

[e_sloan]

Since I have had my carb problems and now trying to get the damn bike to idle my friendly neighbours have turned into cursing animals, they have even erected a temporary fence so they don't have to stare at me in my driveway working on my bike.

Boy do I feel alone in my area ...

[macnut xj]

That's why I'm really glad I live out in the country. My closest neighbor is my aunt who lives about a quarter mile away from me. It's nothing for me to be working in my shop until 2 in the morning on something. As long as I don't wake up my wife, I'm golden!

[Pat Kelly]

I check with them and ask if my bike is too loud and apologise for starting it so early everyday (I leave home at 5 am). None have complained yet.

[jayklink]

I get more complaints about my dumb barking dogs than my bike noise. My dogs do seem to bark more when I pull up on the bike. Hope my neighbors don't put the two together.

[dbyers]

So far no complaints. My neighbor is a Harley rider. The best part is when I take out the bike to test it. A lot of the kids around here have dirt bikes and scooters. One lap around the neighborhood on my bike and all the dirt bikes and scooters come out of hiding. My neighborhood turns into a parade of two wheelers.

[chevy45412001]

trailer

i live in a mobil home park,and i talk Very nice to my neighbors,seems to go a long way,as i've had no complaints YET. That may change though,poppa just installed the kerker no baffle yesturday!Man i love that barking sound . By the way thanx Unkle spot ,and Dee

[Czekus21]

Talk about a co-incidents, The other night a buddy came over with a case of beer, All the dogs were outside, We got the XS650 fired up, Sraight unbaffled potato pipes at 1:00 am got the dogs barkin, tunes blastin, motor runnin. Boy I got the nasty looks from both neibors, I figured it would only piss off one neibor being as the other one does the race car thing and unloads his car at 1:00-2:00 am. Guess I was wrong. O-Well Nothin like hearin a motor thats been dead for many years roar to life in the wee hours of the mornin.

[strom]

Been runnin up and down the street with all sorts of bikes.... MZ, Guzzi, Kawasaki and Yamaha.
One of them politely complained, three moved away, the rest ignore me. Except one... my granny....

LP

[sixtysix]

Firing up the Aprilia with dual 'race only' shotgun exhaust at 5:15am every morning probably has them mad at me ...., but I haven't heard any complains yet.

[Upright]

So far, so good. But then again, I still have the factory exhaust on mine!

[uk1.1s]

Deafening silence

Dunno about my neighbours. Just moved into a "nice" area and the local rebel WAS my nextdoor neighbour who has an Audi A4 and a plastic bike with matching Power Rangers suit. (Some rebel eh?)

Our moving van turned up followed by the XS11 / T3 Guzzi / a dead Kwak KZ1000 out the back of the van with my wifes Yam 600 (she was pregnant at the time so couldn't ride over).

Curtains twitched and no one has really spoken to us since.

Guess I'm now the rebel.................hmmm still not too rebellious....best get some open pipes

[beechfront]

well until i get my new 4-1 system all put together, i am running with no muffler. so right now i would have to say they and everyone within 3 blocks hates me.

[graybird78]

neighbors

my neighbors are pretty cool. wife is captain of neighborhood watch. neighbors across the street have 3 hotrods they are constantly tinkering with. 2nd oldest son has mustang with headers. been here 4 yrs and no complaints. wife doesn't like it when i'm in garage tinkering around after 10:00pm. i'm sure if someone was offended we would here about it at watch meetings

[John]

My neighbors are cool.The guy to my west side is never home, and the house across from him is empty. The guy across the street from me is just getting home from work when I leave (5:30 am) and the folks to my east side have said they don't hear me. Their bedroom is in the back of the house. The bike starts and runs so good when it's cold, that I don't even need to use the choke. It will bust right off as soon as I touch the starter button, in 1/2 a revolution of the engine, and my pipes are fairly quiet. I only need to warm it up a few seconds, and I'm off. I accelerate slowly away, and nobody hears me.

[ratbyk]

Neighbors

On one side the neighbor owns a dirt bike. On the other side the guy has seen how much fun I have been having has just completed the M/C training course so he will soon have a bike to.
Great local. Biker neighbors AND out in the country with no bylaws etc. Love it. My wife says; "teach a guy to ride a M/C he is happy for the day, buy him a M/C and you can get rid of the old coot every weekend,
Ken/Sooke
78E Ratbyk
82 FT500 "luilRat"