Totally agree with you on this,and as long as you're not taking the piss I cannot see why she doesn't understand.....Oh well you can't educate pork good luck and keep riding to work on it....weather's for bikes at the moment!!
I agree with this. But if you've got to go to work at 5am and you have a standard road-legal bike, there is nothing for a neighbour to complain about, no matter how annoying it is for them. I used to live in a flat and had carbon pipes on both my Ducatis. If I was leaving early-ish, I'd freewheel down the hill before starting it up, on the premise that I'd sooner piss-off people I didn't know rather than my immediate neighbours... But you may not have a handy hill...
It's a dilemma. I start my bike in my garage with the door closed, put on helmet and gloves, back the bike out, close the garage door and ride off straight away, gentle revs until the bike is warmed up. This is around 7am, give or take. No one complains but then, i generally use my quiet 750 rather than my noisy 999S for the daily commute. In the OP's shoes, I would minimise the time spent with the engine running out in the open and just say to the neighbours that I'm doing my best and that I won't be here forever. We all have to compromise. Compromise does not mean the OP gives up his bike or his job but it does mean he takes every possible precaution to reduce the noise. In tiny, tiny England, we all live in each other's back pockets - courtesy and tolerance are required on all sides (at least until we can reduce the population back down to a reasonable 10 million).
i live for the day my neighbors complain. if they do and your ever driving through argyll you will notice the increased amount of missing dog pictures posted on the community boards.
I am not a lawyer (where are they when you need one) but I do not believe this is the case, it is still possible to cause a noise nuisance with a perfectly legal device. The issues are where, when, how often, intensity and duration. This comes under the remit of local Environmental Health officers. Starting a noisy, even if road legal, motorbike every morning at 5am is certainly grounds for complaint and investigation by Environmental Health officers.
Makes you wonder why they want to live in a country where they can't communicate with the majority of their fellow citizens - but hey-ho, that's the modern world I suppose.
If you were the one with the noisy dog, I suspect the neighbours would have little difficulty in communicating their displeasure.
Would the neighbour still be complaining if you had a builders van or similar with a screeching fan belt and leaving warm up? or she got something against bikes? I leave for work about the same time, my neighbours haven't said a thing, but everyone has a dodgy neighbour, theres a few in our street who right notes and leave under wipers telling you not to park in front of they're house!!!!!! cheeky f@£%ers
He's starting it up and riding off straight away not playing thrash metal at full volume till two in the morning. It's regular but not persistent. I've never had a complaint from my neighbours when I start my carby 900ss with race cans on at 05:30 in the morning.
So what do you do if the bike is your only mode of transport and you go to work at 5am? Surely the jobsworths would have to take into consideration that you weren't just trying to piss people off and that your journey was necessary. Public transport isn't really an option at 5am in most places. Neither is pushing a heavy bike into an unpopulated area before starting it up.
As always in cases where both sides' arguments have merit, officials will decide against whomever they consider capable of creating the least amount of trouble. The decision will be based upon the least amount of fallout for said official's career.
So as a responsible neighbour maybe I should go on benefits and stay in bed all day! I am a responsible neighbour As I said, start it up and go, Push it down the street and start in front of someone else? If they want to party all night I don't give a monkeys If we owned this house ( we do own others that we rent out!) they wouldn't have said a word The neighbours are not joined they're about 20mtrs away I just go past them! How responsible should I be, as I said feel free to complain if there is a solution!
Go and have a chat with her Looks like she is the busy body of the houses Take no notice of her what can she do?
Starting up a bike and riding away creates a noise nuisance which is very brief, lasting only a few seconds. Playing loud music or allowing dogs to bark creates a noise nuisance which can be persistent and prolonged. It is not reasonable to complain about occasional brief nuisances, but it is reasonable to complain about prolonged persistent ones.
