To send an anonymous letter

[unvillage]

I live in a small block of flats. 2 storeys, 9 flats. Opposite is exactly the same. We don't have a neighbourhood whatsapp, we don't communicate, the turnover is pretty high. We share a car park. The opposite flats have living rooms and kitchens overlooking the car park. My block's bedrooms overlook the car park.

I know of the guy in the flat opposing mine because we get his deliveries occasionally and he gets ours, but it's a "leave on doorstep" situation, no interaction.

He has a motorbike. Probably the loudest motorbike known to man. My bedroom overlooks the car park. Every morning around 6 his engine starts up. And he sits there with his engine idling for 10-15 minutes before he finally drives away. It. Is. Loud. I can't tell you how loud this machine is. I wake up instantly upon it starting and I'm not a shallow sleeper. If he would just drive away I wouldn't mind. But it's waiting for him to go. Every. Fucking. Morning.

I don't want to wake up at 6am!! My partner is often working late at night and only gets to bed at 5! He doesn't want to wake up at 6am! There must be others in the block who are similarly fucking fuming every morning. But we don't know this guy, and we never see him. I don't want to buzz his flat to tell him to shut up in the morning because he has a perfectly nice wife and child who presumably don't have a part in his ridiculous penis extension Harley Davidson.

Would I be unreasonable to send the guy a letter, or a Moonpig card, to tell him to shut the fuck up? There's no way he doesn't know how loud his fucking motorbike is. I don't mind paying for a stamp if he would just think. Arsehole

I think it would be fine to write a note or card and deliver or leave on his bike.... Only thing is, put your name to it; it doesn't need to be anonymous - and unless you ARE planning to say something sexist or "aggressive", then you should just own the issue and your problem with it, which absolutely fair enough in my opinion (sounds like that will be made worse if surrounded by buildings in a courtyard for example).

A note should be acceptable rather than (even if "brave" enough, or feeling confrontational) knocking on the door, as there may be limited chance to talk face to face in between working hours and being in and out etc. I think it's not at all necessarily a bad thing to write a note, depending on what the contents of it are - but again, it should be signed.

This. It is unbelievably selfish to use a vehicle that wakes up an entire neighbourhood at 6am.

We live in a relatively quiet village but we do have some through traffic. There times when I've been reduced to tears after being woken at 5am for the twentieth morning in a row by a fucking bike coming through the village. At times it has massively impacted my quality of life.

Cars and quieter bikes never wake me up. If you've got a noisy bike and use it at antisocial hours don't kid yourself that you're not a selfish fucker.

Your post started off ok and then descended into cringeworthy histrionics about his bike being a penis extension!

Why are you incapable of knocking on his door and saying that the bike making such a noise at 6.00am is anti social and is disturbing you?

OP shouldn't have to bloody point out its noisy - it can't come as news to him!

She's the rude one? I don't think so...

. I don't want to buzz his flat to tell him to shut up in the morning because he has a perfectly nice wife and child who presumably don't have a part in his ridiculous penis extension Harley Davidson.
Honestly just knock on the door, if they're a perfectly nice family, just have a normal conversation about it. people are far more likely to try and do something to resolve a situation when there's a face to it, a anon letter will just get binned.

Just ask him. Like a normal human. Try and come to some sort of compromise, where you will both be happy and out the arrangement. He lives there too, and whilst it may be irritating for you, it is not his fault that 1.) he has to start his day earlier than you and 2.) that is his mode of transport.
If you are an adult, please act like one.
Moonpig card... get a grip !

Download a decibel meter on your phone and record what level the noise in next time. Start a noise diary- date, time started, time stopped, type of noise, decibels and complain to the council.

I know nothing about bikes, but was also going to suggest he wheels it away from the flats to a road to do the idling. Also, I'd query whether he had the correct muffler on it.

I actually see nothing wrong with a polite, anonymous letter. If things change, great, if not- he has no idea who made the complain to the councils environmental health dept- so no comeback on yourself. Its a shame you don't know any other neighbour so you could each complain.

Is this what you were going to send?

@Valerie23 hehehehe, that is brilliant!!! 😂

Hogs need to be idled before use unfortunately. However it doesn’t need to be 15 minutes, only 3-6 if it has a carburettor, 3 or less if it is fuel injected. If he wheeled it out to the road and started it there, he’d spend that time putting his helmet and gloves on.

“Yes l was a female biker and a motorcycle instructor”

Literally no one asked

it is not his fault that 1.) he has to start his day earlier than you and 2.) that is his mode of transport.

Of course it's his bloody fault! He chose to have a bike that that requires 15 minutes of making a godawful antisocial noise in a residential area before it can even be driven off. Other modes of transport are available.

If this was someone choosing to, I don't know, use a pneumatic drill in their front garden for 15 minutes of every single bloody morning, no one would think that was reasonable behaviour. I don't see why this is any different.

And how does pushing it down the street help? It will just wake up some other poor bastards.

Moving my bike to the main road would have just shifted the noise to someone else. Plus, it was gravel outside of my flat. My bike was not small. Try pushing a 200kg bike over stones.

Yet OP felt fit to say that the Harley Davidson bike was a "penis extension".

What would OP have described their biker neighbour as, had they been a woman? Plenty of women ride Harleys.