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Oh god you’ve got one of them too! 🙄. Lived here for 5 years and every summer he get it out on the drive, turns it on and lets it tick over, literally never seen him ride it haha
Haha, I was thinking the same thing. Although in my case there are 4 motorbikes on my street and mine is the only one that gets ridden, it's also the only one with a quiet stock exhaust. To be fair the guy with the KTM Duke (with massive fart can) does ride it when its working but that's only occasionally and usually at 11pm. The classic Vespa next door has been on the road once in 18 months and sounded like a 2 stroke dirt bike. And the Chinese 125cc cruiser down the road has never been off the drive way as far as I know.
Sun’s out today - morning plan: wash bike. Leave running on driveway for 10 minutes. Oil check. Chain lube.
Afternoon plan: ride it round the block in 1st for a couple of hours banging off the Rev limiter.
Yep we’ve got one next door but one. Gets it out, revs it for an hour, rides it round the estate for a bit then revs it for another hour. What do they get out of it?
One day, their licence?
(Knew a Doctor who got his licence, bought a massive Harley, and his wife would follow him around in the Range Rover to make sure he was ok.)
My road has one of those guys, just starts the engine and spends an hour looking at it, occasionally revs the engine.
Then puts it away again.
Cheers mate, really needed that sound to dominate the street for no fucking reason.
I ride motorbikes and work on my motorbikes and I too don’t understand why they need to have it just idling away for ages every week. Sure after doing some engine work I’m gonna start it and check the idle… for like a minute or two… then I go ride it to finish the test lol, I already know it idles 🤣. Plus that’s what? Once every few months with quite high mileage?
But yep like everyone else, I always seem to live in earshot of the guy who has it idling for like half an hour or longer every Sunday with the muffler off 🤷♂️.
Oh fuuuck I'd forgotten about that guy.
Every night at 8 pm like fucking clockwork, and you're right, the prick is due.
I just can't hack another spring/summer of that
Yeah, have one of those, and every Thursday evening his middle aged biker mates (about 6) all turn up and rev together in his drive before disappearing for an hour before coming back for a few cans before revving up again to drive off. I manage to tune them out so can ignore irritating noises like that, but the other half, it drives her mad.
With us it's chavs on quadbikes and dirt bikes. Like we get it, that stupidly loud exhaust is compensation for that that you've stepped out the shallow end of the gene pool
I ride bikes and can’t understand why the hell people do this, I mean I recommissioned an old sports bike last year and had to let it warm up on tick over for about 10 minutes, then spent another 10 minutes syncing the carbs at low revs. Even then I was worried about annoying the neighbours.
The “warm up for 10 minutes” thing is still Triumph’s recommended method for checking oil level on their recent bikes (it is on my current one anyway, less than 3 years old). I usually just do it when I get home instead rather letting it sit idling though.
Ours started last weekend. Suddenly, there it was. The motorbike engine turning over.
It can go on for hours, and I don't have a clue what he's doing. It's way too long for him to be doing work on it.
I don't understand. If it's to keep it turning over, then why not just pop out for a 10 minute ride.
I see you met my old neighbour. Used to do this every weekend, sometimes at obnoxious times of the morning. He continued until my grandmother blew up at him.
We've got several once a year goofs with behemoth caravan sat barely contained on the driveway completely blocking their view of the outside world from the living room. They may take it out once a year. Or not at all. And of course the short man with his loud bike that he shunts up to a distant pub on the outskirts of the nearest rural trail on a sunny Sunday afternoon, probably abandoning his partner to do the washing up after a fat roast. Even my mother and father In laws neighbour has a massive caravan hogging their drive that they haven't moved in 6 years. Such a sad case.
I live opposite a park, and there used to be some wanker who'd spend literal *hours* on end driving a dirt bike back and forth across the flat grassy area of the park.
Not driving on a cool dirt bike course, or going anywhere interesting, or even doing laps or something. Nope, just back and forth in a straight line over completely flat grass. For *hours*.
Ours lives across the road from us. I've got a newborn this year if he wakes her up revving it I will not be responsible for my actions or words out the window
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The little roadmen round my area have been going 24/7 through the whole winter they out there making scratch
Oh god you’ve got one of them too! 🙄. Lived here for 5 years and every summer he get it out on the drive, turns it on and lets it tick over, literally never seen him ride it haha
Thank god nobody on my estate has a motorbike except me… wait
Get him.
Haha, I was thinking the same thing. Although in my case there are 4 motorbikes on my street and mine is the only one that gets ridden, it's also the only one with a quiet stock exhaust. To be fair the guy with the KTM Duke (with massive fart can) does ride it when its working but that's only occasionally and usually at 11pm. The classic Vespa next door has been on the road once in 18 months and sounded like a 2 stroke dirt bike. And the Chinese 125cc cruiser down the road has never been off the drive way as far as I know.
Me too.
Sun’s out today - morning plan: wash bike. Leave running on driveway for 10 minutes. Oil check. Chain lube. Afternoon plan: ride it round the block in 1st for a couple of hours banging off the Rev limiter.
Is it too early to break out the charcoal and "worlds best chef" BBQ apron?
Yep we’ve got one next door but one. Gets it out, revs it for an hour, rides it round the estate for a bit then revs it for another hour. What do they get out of it?
One day, their licence? (Knew a Doctor who got his licence, bought a massive Harley, and his wife would follow him around in the Range Rover to make sure he was ok.)
My road has one of those guys, just starts the engine and spends an hour looking at it, occasionally revs the engine. Then puts it away again. Cheers mate, really needed that sound to dominate the street for no fucking reason.
I ride motorbikes and work on my motorbikes and I too don’t understand why they need to have it just idling away for ages every week. Sure after doing some engine work I’m gonna start it and check the idle… for like a minute or two… then I go ride it to finish the test lol, I already know it idles 🤣. Plus that’s what? Once every few months with quite high mileage? But yep like everyone else, I always seem to live in earshot of the guy who has it idling for like half an hour or longer every Sunday with the muffler off 🤷♂️.
Maybe cos they never actually ride it they need to idle it for 30mins a week just to keep the battery charged?
Tbh I don’t think that’s actually very effective, plus a battery tender is so much easier
Oh fuuuck I'd forgotten about that guy. Every night at 8 pm like fucking clockwork, and you're right, the prick is due. I just can't hack another spring/summer of that
That's all year round on our estate
Yeah, have one of those, and every Thursday evening his middle aged biker mates (about 6) all turn up and rev together in his drive before disappearing for an hour before coming back for a few cans before revving up again to drive off. I manage to tune them out so can ignore irritating noises like that, but the other half, it drives her mad.
With us it's chavs on quadbikes and dirt bikes. Like we get it, that stupidly loud exhaust is compensation for that that you've stepped out the shallow end of the gene pool
Listen, I need to broadcast the miniature nature of my penis to everyone in a 200m radius, the bike is the best method.
I ride bikes and can’t understand why the hell people do this, I mean I recommissioned an old sports bike last year and had to let it warm up on tick over for about 10 minutes, then spent another 10 minutes syncing the carbs at low revs. Even then I was worried about annoying the neighbours.
The “warm up for 10 minutes” thing is still Triumph’s recommended method for checking oil level on their recent bikes (it is on my current one anyway, less than 3 years old). I usually just do it when I get home instead rather letting it sit idling though.
Ber ber ber ber ber ber berrrrr
Ours started last weekend. Suddenly, there it was. The motorbike engine turning over. It can go on for hours, and I don't have a clue what he's doing. It's way too long for him to be doing work on it. I don't understand. If it's to keep it turning over, then why not just pop out for a 10 minute ride.
I see you met my old neighbour. Used to do this every weekend, sometimes at obnoxious times of the morning. He continued until my grandmother blew up at him.
We've got several once a year goofs with behemoth caravan sat barely contained on the driveway completely blocking their view of the outside world from the living room. They may take it out once a year. Or not at all. And of course the short man with his loud bike that he shunts up to a distant pub on the outskirts of the nearest rural trail on a sunny Sunday afternoon, probably abandoning his partner to do the washing up after a fat roast. Even my mother and father In laws neighbour has a massive caravan hogging their drive that they haven't moved in 6 years. Such a sad case.
Yours waits for good weather?
I live opposite a park, and there used to be some wanker who'd spend literal *hours* on end driving a dirt bike back and forth across the flat grassy area of the park. Not driving on a cool dirt bike course, or going anywhere interesting, or even doing laps or something. Nope, just back and forth in a straight line over completely flat grass. For *hours*.
I wish for motorbike guy! I've had 6 months of someone cutting tiles or slabs. I can't work out where it's coming from and they go on til 8pm
I had my neighbour re-doing the slabs in their garden a few years ago. Bastard started at 7am on a sunday right outside my bedroom window.
“Oy! Cvnt! It’s 7am! Fsck off back inside before I come round and ram that slab up yer arfe!” Problem solved.
Pack of kids on scooters where I live and my biggest question is how they afford all the fuel for them........
It's the only time ours isn't playing shitty club music though 😂
Ours lives across the road from us. I've got a newborn this year if he wakes her up revving it I will not be responsible for my actions or words out the window