Starting a 1200cc V twin at 05:30am every work morning is a noise nuisance in a quiet residential area. I wouldn't like it across the road from me and I don't suppose many reasonable people would either.
So what's the answer I have to go to work I have a legal bike to get there I start it up and go that's it I assume you have several different modes of transport depending on the time of day you have to travel Feel free to offer a solution As I'm easy going, apart from pushing a Diavel 1/2 a mile up the road.
Get a cheap car and use the diavel at proper times of the day Go ask her what time your allowed to start up and turn off
I think the OP is being reasonable, started the bike then rides away immediately. Leaving it running and/or giving it a good revving beforehand would be the mark of an inconsiderable arsehole who wouldn't be welcomed or liked in a tight knit community. Some other commenters may well fall into the arsehole category.
Agree with you on this one. On standard pipes I wouldn't even think twice about starting and riding off. My old R1 had a full system with no baffles, but I was aware this was a bit anti-social so would do the push up the road and go. There are many a car as loud as our bikes on standard pipes and I bet they get no complaints. It wasn't until my missus started riding pillion, that she then commented on how people stare at you as you go past, giving you a look like you want to rape their children. That's on a bog standard multi. Not exactly a race rep, full system bike.
Has it been established it is this women who has complained? She's the subject of quite a lot of negative comments and might be innocent? Sure it's not the landlord trying to stop any complaints before he does get any? As long as Gingerdog is being reasonable I'd leave it alone and just get on being a nice person and good neighbour.
Believe it or not I do sympathise with you as well as the "stuck-up Tart". I would approach her, apologise, show some sympathy for her disturbance, explain there are no other options (I assume that there are no other vehicles available to you), that you will do everything you can to minimise the disturbance you cause and explain how long it will be going on for. Maintain your cool and be nice even if she behaves like a "stuck-up Tart", then at least you can occupy the moral high ground. So just how long are you going to be disturbing her for then ?
6 months 4 on 4 off plus two weeks holiday So not that many days I am so laid back I'm horizontal Usually,,
Sometimes you can be wrong even if you are doing what you think is neighbourly.A few years back I needed to tune the carbs on my old bike,I thought 3pm on a monday afternoon would be ok.I had a lady come striding up the road in a right old paddy saying I had woken her baby!I tried to pacify her by apologising.She was still ranting away,so I asked her what time would be convenient for me to do tihs 5 min task I needed to do to my bike. The look on her face was priceless,she had realised what a fool she made of herself and she just walked off. A few years later her child made the most awful racket on an almost continual basis,which I thought was a bit much.However I didn't bother to become as ill mannered as she had been.
Having a rented property next to your life's investment does make people sensitive. Some f#cker has built an Airport next to mine (+300 year old house) and has just announced a 3rd runway will probably go ahead. Some of my neighbours don't have a public school education, many have grand parents that are not from Surrey or are way too "limp of wrist"....you just can't get the staff you know. Perhaps we shouldn't have sold the Orchard and stables to developers who've turned the area into bedsit land. I've added this edit as some people didn't get I was being funny!
I just bought my neighbour a 10 pack of Fosters today as a thank you for letting me take up his decking, dig up his garden and the constant hammering while I fix my garage. The other neighbour I mow her lawns as her husband died a couple of years back and she is getting on a bit. So either buy booze or do their gardens is my system.
London Heathrow Airport has been operating since 1946, long before you were born, so you cannot claim to have been surprised by it!
