Neighbours daily motorbike ritual

[lolaflores]

Every morning. At 10.30, give or take, our neighbour 4 doors down, starts the engine of his quite loud motorbike (I dont know the make), then leaves it to run for about 5 minutes before roaring off down the road.
He (it is a He I have checked), roars back later in the afternoon, about 4. He then does the same turning on, leaving to idle outside the house for 5 mins, then roars off.
He does this every, bloody day. The engine on the bike is loud and vibrating and it creates a heady thrum in the house. The delibrate polluting is getting on my nerves too.
Other neighbours have commented but as yet I haven't gone and said anything as I think I might be being a cranky old cow.Are there grounds for me to approach and ask politely for them to stop doing this" It has been going on for about 4 months now. Bored of it.
Added to which, there is the risk of the thing being knicked as it is left running unattended outside the house.
It is obviously his pride and joy but the shine has defintely gone off it for me.

OP I am loving the bants keep it up

Hanna Just curious, but what does your DH ride?

MrTrebus I'm guessing you are a BMW 1200GS Adventure rider, Correct??

'bants'? Sounds like something out of The Inbetweeners.

Mr trebus banter would diminish your input sir. It is worth so much more. I appreciate you taking the time on this thread.

My neighbours son used to do this at very unsociable times, 0400 in the morning. It went on for a number of years. One day I was chatting to his mum, and the motorbike came up in passing. I asked if he really had to rev it so much as it was waking us all up. She obviously had a word with him because it stopped.

What he'd actually been doing was wheeling his bike away from his parents house and starting it outside ours !

Any way I feel your pain, there is no harm in politely asking him if he can be quieter?

I'm not sure user not really my thing!!

I know ones a super expensive Ducati and he's got an old vintage bike and a Triple R Speed something and another one that's orange and more dirt bike type.

Can't be more helpful than that! I'd ask but he's now gone out for the evening.

Hannasolo. I do think there is always one way to do something and another way which might be not as flashy. The owner is a new rider as still has an L plate on and I suppose wants to get all the flash bang out of it that can be achieved.
It is a wee bike that seems to be put out a he'll of a lot of noise.

HannaSolo Oh Hanna. Orange and dirt type. This has to be a KTM. Tripple R? Has to be a Triumph. Respect to your DH.

If you say so user - as I said not really my thing!

He did try and get me into it when we first met but I really didn't see the appeal

No I don't have a motorbike but my DH owns a motorbike shop so I'm partial so a fruity exhaust

Mr trebus Do you, or do you not, admit to being a BMW 1200 GS Adventure rider?

User I think your instincts are right on this one. Something tells me he feels I am being anti-biker.

As someone mentioned e has to let it warm up and cool down before riding.

So whether you say anything he'll still have to do it either way.

@Sparklingbrook lovely thing to say.

If it's 5;30am then yes I'd speak to him but 10:30 isn't early.

GUEST he has been doing this in the early hours as well as at 10am which leads me to believe the warm up could switch back again.

Mega bants

Guest - no he really, really doesn't need to let his bike warm up/cool down.

He chooses to do so, perhaps under the same ill founded assumptions that other posters on this thread have said that it's "necessary". It really isn't.

I'm not an expert (far from it) but DH is and there is no way on earth he wouldn't warm/cool his bikes if it was detrimental to them in any way.

He has owned many bikes over 30 years of riding and has never needed to do this (apart from when doing track days - which is a totally different thing).

I believe this to be MrTrebus's vehicle of choice.

Nice to see you smile Mr Trebus. 😚😚😚. You bring out the best baby's in me

10:30 in the morning and you are complaining !!!

Concorde used to fly twice a day, would you have complained about that too ?

Lots of people work shifts, you are very lucky that your neighbour is not working early/late shifts

If I received a note, I would rev it for twice as long !

People have other things that make noise; children, pets, DIY, gardening, cars its a fact of life

Aga calm down. Not your bike I am complaining about. Nor Concorde. What can I do to soothe you? You seem tense.

Mmmm. We now have Concorde, a plane that no longer flies thrown into the equation, that's quite a strange analogy.

lola how do you feel about dead aeroplanes?