Ok every morning ever since it started getting cold, my entire family is woken up between 6 and 6:30 am by one of our neighbors. She wakes up and starts her Harley so it can idle for roughly 15 minutes. This bike has the loudest pipes I've ever heard, and she comes out every once in a while to gun the throttle because the idle is rough and it will occasionally conk out - restarting it is even louder. When she guns it, my teeth rattle.
Most of our neighbors are military, so they are already up when this ritual begins, but we don't have to be out of bed till 7:30 AM, so we are being woken up an hour before we need to be and needless to say, a 2 year old, a 3 year old, and a 5 year old don't go back to sleep after being rattled for 15 minutes.
Now we are moving next month, so the ordeal will end soon, but I'm at a loss as to what I would have done had we not been moving. It seems unreasonable to ask the woman to stop riding her bike to work in the morning, but does it really need to idle for 10-15 mins when its cold? Also, I know "Loud Pipes Save Lives" but this thing makes a Stuka Siren seem mild by comparison. Isn't there a maximum legal noise limit for bikes somewhere below "Nuclear Exchange?"
- SEAGOON
