About Bike Boy (his dad) and their 'dirt bike'....there's a diagram too.

[maddiemookins16mum]

I'm going to keep this factual.
We live in a very quiet cul de sac. Our house in on the corner, two drives (yay) so this isn't a parking aibu.
Please refer to attached (very poor, sorry) diagram for your welcome responses on my aibu.
Our lounge/sitting room etc is at the back of our house.
For the last two years (on occasion, to quantify - that means weekly) bike boy gets on his 'dirt bike' so not a proper bike but one I think is used for 'playing on' and revvs and wheelies this bike on the 'grassy area' behind our house. This is NOT our land. The council (when they can) cut it. It's a large area, the little kids in the close play there on their bikes, chase, etc. Not a problem.

He begins his 'performance' by revving loudly from his house and races down the road (distance of about 10/15 metres and mounts the kerb just to the right of our second drive which has no fence (we are not allowed one).

He then proceeds to wheelie, rev and generally arse around on the ''grassy area'. The noise is horrendous, I hear it in my dreams.

On Sunday this started at 4.30pm. It went on until 7.45pm. Yep, it was dark and he has no lights but he wears a helmet.

He is about 14.

The grassy area to the side of our drive is a mass of churned up grass and tyre marks, as is the road/pavement by the kerb/driveway.

I went out on Sunday night as he was revving and wheeling at 19.13. As I approached Bike Boys House, another neighbour (the people house) was complaing about the noise to Bike Boys dad. I nodded to them and added 'it's actually worse for us as he revvs to get up the kerb onto the grass outside our sitting room window and he's been at it for nearly three hours'.

Was met with foul language from the dad and 'no he's not' etc etc. I went back to my house but I did state it was very anti social and I'd be contacting the local council (I did, via email). The behaviour continued for another half an hour.

Bike Boy's dad leaves for work at 7am, BB goes to school.

I work from home Mon, Wed and Friday. Yesterday at 16.24 it started again. It went on until 9pm. BB and Dad seemed to take it in turns to be even worse with the revving (right by the back of my car which is parked on the rear driveway). I suspect it was on purpose.

Haven't heard anything back from the council, but last night was a bit scary, I'm worried now I've started some big argument.

The revving is going on as I speak outside and I'm awaiting the wheelies to begin.

WIBU to have even mentioned it, the 'grassy area' I assume is public land.

(The cat in the garden is for comedy value).

That's what DP said, he could hit my car etc.
It's still going on (to be fair it's never normally a Monday but I think this is on purpose). I can hear the bike engine idling (is that a word) outside our gate and then revving. It's pretty much dark here. He's literally waiting there.

Phone the police. Scumbags.

Sounds horrendous. Sympathies.

Film / record it.
Keep a log, and film / record whenever you can.
Get the other neighbour to back you up.

I'm a biker. Sounds like either a Motocross or Enduro bike. Dependent on where you live there are tracks for this sort of riding. They are not supposed to be on public land unless they are road legal, taxed and insured as per every other stand up citizen.

Personally I'd tell them to wind it in, but I'm not really one to pull any punches.

Dad sounds a charmer! Worth speaking to the Mum?

There was a 'Mum', she left. He's been taken away by the police many a time. I kept that out earlier, he kinda scares me.

Regardless of all the other laws he's breaking and problems he's causing, every time he rides it down the road he's riding an unlicensed, uninsured and untaxed vehicle on the road without a license... of ring the police and get a video to show them. They'll at the very least give them a warning and tell you who to call should it happen again

These people are proper douchebags. Call 101!

It's ten past eight. They've gone in now (literally just now, saying "boys rule you cunts" or something.. The grass is a mass of mud.

Illegal to use a petrol engined bike that is not roadworthy other than on private land.

At 14 he cannot have any kind of motorbike licence.

Ring police - no question in my mind.

YANBU you poor thing. Phone 101 and the council.

We had a BB who did this, not next to us as we are two streets over, but could still hear it.
Someone close to him called the police, the community officer came out and had a chat a couple of times, and we've not heard it since. I do sometimes see him loading the bike into the back of a truck so he must have been told where he can go and ride it.

Is the bike ridden on roads? I was under impression it would need to be tax'd & MOT'd, if ridden on roads. Police always take an interest.

This sounds horrendous. I would waste no time calling both the council and the police...repeatedly....

Ring the police just as it starts and inform them that its daily at this time.

They will almost certainly have a couple of officers who specifically deal wiht this (west mids do, I had to call them for kids using similar bikes up and down the footpath behind my house and a similar patch of grass at the end of the cul de sac).

Police will lie in wait and have a quiet word and if that doesnt do the trick, offending bikes will be confiscated and crushed!

Good diagram!

A* diagram.

Bunch o' bastards. Yanbu. Call 101 & let them know the facts & also that you feel they were increasing the time to be hostile after your complaint

Good luck-that's a shitty situation to be in

Ring the council. I was (embarrassingly) once on the other side of a similar (but not as bad) problem in that my adult son once revved his car excessively loudly late at night - to show something to his friend. It was really loud and I came downstairs and told him off and he stopped.

The next day a neighbour complained to son who apologised and said it wouldn't happen again - but the day after that I got a letter from the council saying that several neighbours had complained about a noise nuisance and had been given some sort of journal to fill in. So if they would do this after a one-off, they would be bound to do something in your circumstances. (BTW I know it was a one-off because he had only got the car that day and after that was too worried to do it again).

Agree with pp about logging all incidents, recording noises - photos of churned up grass, even videoing if you can do this with being seen and antagonising bike dad.

have you filmed his anti-social behaviour on your phone?
I would and then send the proof to the council

Also, give 101 a call and ask for their advice. If you have PCSO's allocated to your area then they could pay this nuisance people a visit.

Sounds awful. I agree you're going to have to call the police. If others have complained he won't know it's you.

Is the cat a real one? He looks proud!

I'm sure this is illegal. There's an ongoing spell of riders in my Mom's town of idiots on twist and go scoots and dirt bikes racing round the streets, surrounding cars, riding into supermarkets on them and generally being a nuisance. police are arresting them and seizing the bikes, could be worth calling the police, especially as it's on public land.

So did you actually call the police or just post on here?

I think this is illegal too. Im sure he isn't allowed to ride it on council grass and also can have an asbo for a repeated loud noise over a certain amount of decibels ? I could be wrong but worth finding out

Get covertly filming him and ring the police every time.

Well lots of people have said they're pretty sure it's illegal so I hope you've called the police. As someone else also said, another neighbour complained so they won't know it's you.

Don't let them get away with it; they haven't got a leg to stand on.

Yep, Police. They will seize it as well.
Nothing more annoying than the background noise of a bloody dirt bike.