to think a harley motorbike has no place in a residential street?

[bluerunningshoes]

especially not if the rider needs to make a billion point turn to park in the front garden.

and surely it's not legal to ride on the pavement?

noisy and inconsiderate bastard.

OP, I think this thread would have gone better for you if you'd described your neighbour's behaviour rather than the clearly unreasonable thread title. He does sound like a dick, but the noise of a Harley is glorious.

the noise of the harley sounds like it's broken.

I quite like bikes, but the endless idling/revving/tuning my twattish neighbour does has prompted me to google ‘How to give a Belarusian Bow Tie’.

Triumphs shit all over Harleys, anyway.

So the issue isn't the bike but the twat of an owner. Would the council/police care of you reported him for riding on the pavement? Maybe take a video next time and take it down to the station?

have you seen a procession of harleys, glorious

Also want to point out that you should be grateful. If you were living in Australia and your neighbour had a Harley you would have to move to avoid getting caught up in a bikie war. Could be much worse OP.

the few times I had the misfortune to walk in his way he got pretty arsey.

Not surprised, they are heavy bikes, he was probably worried that you would get in the way and he would drop it on you.

I’m not a fan of Harley’s, or the attitude that comes with the local Harley MC club. He is entitled to be on your road, though he could possibly turn his engine off while doing the 3 point turn. It’s not a car, he could pedal it it to his drive. I have a big bike and can only get my top toes on the floor, I don’t need my engine on to get it out of my garage.

@bluerunningshoes I can't work out if you're being serious or not?

If your neighbours can afford a Harley and wants one, then they can. You just sound a little jealous.

As long as he's taxed and insured he can have his bike in any street. Why not get yourself a wee bungalow in the middle of nowhere op? Avoid all these other people living and breathing

DH considers himself a motorbike aficionado and says Harleys are NOT for serious riders, just for show off twats (he says!)

Lol, I've never liked them. They're not quick, they don't handle and the noise, while not especially loud with a standard silencer, always sounds to me like someone shaking a brick in a bucket of spanners.

Definitely not as noisy as a lot of sports bikes imo, some of them really scream. Someone who lives near us has a Ducati Panigale and that is LOUD!

i like them but the site of a procession makes me laugh, all those grey haired men livin the dream

How? the pavement is not wide enough for a pedestrian plus a supersized motorbike.

So how many times has this really been a problem for you OP?

At 10pm, outside his house.

I'm waiting on the "My weird neighbour keeps hanging around outside my house waiting for me to come home" thread.....

I do wish they'd put a decibel limit on engines

There are noise limits for motorbikes. We got an advisory on the MOT for one of ours to say it is "only just within legal limits". A week or so later, one of the clips that holds the exhaust in place broke, so we reckon the pipe was moving around a bit and making more noise than it should.

NottheDuchess I agree with you about pedalling it. DP can turn his Pan-European round in our drive, which is on a slope, without the engine on and that weighs 300kg dry.

My Harley is pretty loud, lol.

if neighbour would just ride up, park turn engine off I wouldn't be as pissed off.
it's the riding in pavement, and doing the billion point turn to park with the bloody engine on

just why?

You just sound a little jealous.

I've got to say I had not even considered that the old jealousy line would rear its head on this thread

the noise of the harley sounds like it's broken.

Yes! That's what they sound like. Fun, isn't it?

Do your neighbour is a dick but of course YABU about the Harley. My neighbour owns a Subaru. You can hear it coming from streets away and I think it identifies him as a bit of a twat but obviously I would be ridiculous to expect it to be banned from the street

I'd rather hear a Harley then one of those home supped up cars with an awful sounding exhaust, like it's wheezing towards its last breath but just won't fucking die.

I hear those all day and night on the weekends and some during the week as well.

Harleys are OK bikes. Not the best in their class, certainly not more reliable faster safer or more comfortable than rival manufactures. Their (failing)marketing strategy is based upon image and not performance. Their price point means they are costly. Hence they are often owned and ridden by show offy twats.
They can be loud but not objectionally so and if all he is doing is comutting then you care being unreasonable.

just why?

I normally leave my engine running when turning my bike round.

You're pushing a couple of hundred kilos around on tippy toe, it's nice to be able to use the engine for the forward shunts.....

Someone down my road has a super up low sling beast of a car (I think it started life as something fairly mundane though). It has that loud roar that makes you think the exhaust is knackered and he doesn’t seem to understand there’s a 20MPH limit on the road.

I quietly fantasise about building speed bumps in middle of the night so he can’t get the noisy fucker out and his friends can’t get their similar cars in.

I take it you know nothing about riding and controlling a bike op

• doing the billion point turn to park with the bloody engine on

just why?*

Why? Because bikes are bloody heavy. My DP rides a Harley, I ride a triumph. My bike weighs over 250KG, his, even more.
It would be like asking you to turn your car engine off and push it onto the drive.

Would you want to risk dropping your Pride and joy, causing lots of damage costing god knows how much to repair?

Or even worse, he might drop it on the pavement and then you might have to walk on the road to get around him. I'm assuming you wouldn't bother to stop to offer him any kind of assistance.

Get a grip 🙄

Why have other bikers said they dont have to have the engine on? It can’t be that ridiculous a suggestion.