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I know I'm getting OLD.

Kid

I love just about all things related to a motorcycle as long as it isn't obnoxious or unnecessarily loud (same thing), but I swear the neighbors kid and his ATV 4-wheeler is driving me crazy. Their house is probably 200 yards adjacent to ours and across the road with a fairly large yard (about a little less than 3 acres). The ATV doesn't run properly & goes dead every time he cuts the throttle. Round and around and around and around their house, across their yard non stop, except when it goes dead, then here he goes again. Also, it isn't super loud, but not quite either. This kid has literally ridden non stop since 3:00 pm this evening, and is still at it now even though it is dark. I am starting to really wish he would hit a tree or something just so it would STOP! :gerg They aren't bad neighbors & the kids are really good kids, especially for these days. He is just at that age where they do that, but I don't know how much louder I can stand turning up my TV :banghead Does anyone else find that excessive noise bothers you, or am I just too sensitive? Heck, I ride a motorcycle, love motorcycle racing, and ride a 4 wheeler myself.:dunno

Offer to help the kid get it tuned and running correctly.

You make a friend. You become a mentor and years from now he'll remember that cool old guy across the street who shared his same passion.
 
Offer to help the kid get it tuned and running correctly.

You make a friend. You become a mentor and years from now he'll remember that cool old guy across the street who shared his same passion.

Correction, that would be young gal. :wave
 
Here we go with the problems of "Cant put up with their SH.T"!!! The kid down the road with the 4 wheeler. It's a toy and will get old. lol....unless he takes up racing??? The tweeker going by purposely will get busted sooner or later and be gone for good. The yappers will never go away until they are perhaps 15 or so, then they are dead...…….lol.....we put up with their stuff because otherwise WE GO TO JAIL FOR A VERY LONG TIME. :banghead :dunno

Tried getting a county ordinance against yappers....that worked so now any dog that is outside and carries on for more than 15 minutes gets cited by animal control. :dance So sometimes you can win.

Currently have my state rep with a bill to tax bicyclers on a state road. They like us MUST have a tag. Of course they pay for that tag......Why them? HWY 136 here in front of my place in Ga, becomes crowded with the YUPS that come up out of Atlanta because the road is pretty sparse of traffic and basically a LONG stretch, 8 or 9 miles of downhill straight. They come in packs 3 or 4 or more wide and won't get over or seperate despite law:dunno….lol....often they even get law enforcement to escort them in huge packs :dunno:scratch………..How do I get to town without Killing them?? Little chance of this passing but I try.....

One thing I have found totally effective is to let my Anatolian pasture guard dogs out on Saturday and Sunday mornings that they have events. I did this one time because I value these dogs to much to let them run loose because of getting hurt; but...….These dogs stand waist high to me at the shoulder and hate bicycles because they chase them down the 1/4 mile fence line for years and never get to get them. HIGHLY FRUSTATED...……..lol.....I stood with 2 of them at the beginning of my driveway at the property line on the road. HERE they came and golly, I just couldn't hold the puppies back...….Needless to say the resulting tangled bicycles with the dogs claiming victory over moving parts brought years of frustration to an end.:dance:dance............YES I JUST DREAM ABOUT DOING THIS:dunno:dunno......Do I care about the 2 wheelers???....NO....But my puppies, yes.....No telling what infectious URBAN DISEASE they might get.....:wave

lol....Thanks for a Sunday morning thought process going to work instead of Fox News...........God bless....Dennis

I remember a story, it might have been Peter Egan in Cycle Magazine or it could have been a first hand telling on this forum. The short version is that a K bike rider was riding down his street and a neighbor was coming the opposite direction. The rider made eye contact with the driver and the driver turned left in front of the rider and wrecked the bike. The rider asked his neighbor why he had done that after it was apparent that he saw the rider, and the reply was that he didn't like motorcyclists. Setting the dogs loose with the intent to cause harm, then delighting in the harm caused is uncool and I suspect criminal. Both motorcyclists and bicyclists are vulnerable road users whose safety is in no small part dependent on the good will, sanity and law abiding nature of fellow citizens. Your story puts you more in league with the car driver who wrecked the motorcycle, than the motorcyclist
 
Been there, did that, still have a few t-shirts - I feel your pain.

I love just about all things related to a motorcycle as long as it isn't obnoxious or unnecessarily loud (same thing), but I swear the neighbors kid and his ATV 4-wheeler is driving me crazy. Their house is probably 200 yards adjacent to ours and across the road with a fairly large yard (about a little less than 3 acres). The ATV doesn't run properly & goes dead every time he cuts the throttle. Round and around and around and around their house, across their yard non stop, except when it goes dead, then here he goes again. Also, it isn't super loud, but not quite either. This kid has literally ridden non stop since 3:00 pm this evening, and is still at it now even though it is dark. I am starting to really wish he would hit a tree or something just so it would STOP! :gerg They aren't bad neighbors & the kids are really good kids, especially for these days. He is just at that age where they do that, but I don't know how much louder I can stand turning up my TV :banghead Does anyone else find that excessive noise bothers you, or am I just too sensitive? Heck, I ride a motorcycle, love motorcycle racing, and ride a 4 wheeler myself.:dunno

I feel your pain. I live on a private driveway system (Northern Michigan) of properties where one neighbor likes to exit by our house with his snowmobile so other snowmobiles don't follow tracks to his house. Its good for me to have the sledders but not for him. Go figure. He has brought over ten friends by the house on sleds. The other neighbor has a snowmobile and mini-cycle for his son to ride around and around the house. Thank God the kid does not want a helicopter. I was young once also and walked right past those H1s for an H2. When my buddy's Dad gave him the pipes go or you go talk - I got me a set of low cost Wirges pipes - but I did not use them to ride around and around the house. Most evil handling bike I have ever ridden. I have been the old crazy guy with both neighbors. I use the phrase "I did not buy property to be on the side of a trail head". i can use that line with confidence because I take care of a 12 mile ORV trail each summer that has a trail head. I suggest to them on a regular basis that they go take their riding to the appropriate trail. I also suggested one of the newer electric minis are a good neighbor option. At first I had a sense of remorse over speaking up - but in retrospect I am good with it. If you plan on having a conversation with the neighbor you have the advantage of thinking thru it in advance and the potential outcomes (I know you sound shy over the forum:). It sounds (sic) that a possible approach would be to invite them over to your house to see how loud the quad is when you are trying to listen to TV.

Wayne Koppa
Grayling, MI
Life 71,449
 
Noise

Reminds me of an old friend from Ft. Worth. He lived next door to a church that used loud speakers when they sang hymns. He liked to sleep in on Sunday mornings. He also owned an air boat with a 500 ci. engine with straight pipes. After a considerable amount of "diplomacy" he decided to do a tune-up every Sunday morning. Ended up with much quieter mornings. Go figure.
 
Can we, should we talk about the music the younger generations listen to? They have no appreciation for the true classics by Elvis, Patsy and Conway.
 
Oh yea, it must be an old person thing! For 35+ years I've lived in a neighborhood where it’s been fairly quiet or at least tolerable. In the last 5 years or so, as the neighbors get older and many succumb to age, their houses are sold to a generation of people younger than my age group. For instance, the neighbor across the street isn’t very young but likes his music to vibrate the windows. Majority of times it's only when he's coming home or leaving. Then there’s the neighbor on the next street over that thinks everyone should enjoy Rap music along with them when washing the car! Fortunately it's very sporadic. Oh, and don't forget the ones at the end of the street that think there is a set of Christmas tree lights from a drag strip at the beginning of my 25 MPH posted road! I’m so tempted to accidently roll a metal trash can out in the middle of the road timed perfectly with the finish line! But it would be my luck they’d hit me trying to avoid the trash can! As others have mentioned, I was young once, loved to speed, loud music, cars and motorcycles, been there, done that! Hopefully in a couple more years, I’ll be headed down south and out of NJ to a more open, cheaper and non-socialist state with friendly people of high values, if there’s any left by then! ;)
 
Correction

Correction, that would be young gal. :wave

Unless I missed it, the OP was referring to the kid as a he.
RPGR90s

I love just about all things related to a motorcycle as long as it isn't obnoxious or unnecessarily loud (same thing), but I swear the neighbors kid and his ATV 4-wheeler is driving me crazy. Their house is probably 200 yards adjacent to ours and across the road with a fairly large yard (about a little less than 3 acres). The ATV doesn't run properly & goes dead every time he cuts the throttle. Round and around and around and around their house, across their yard non stop, except when it goes dead, then here he goes again. Also, it isn't super loud, but not quite either. This kid has literally ridden non stop since 3:00 pm this evening, and is still at it now even though it is dark. I am starting to really wish he would hit a tree or something just so it would STOP! They aren't bad neighbors & the kids are really good kids, especially for these days. He is just at that age where they do that, but I don't know how much louder I can stand turning up my TV Does anyone else find that excessive noise bothers you, or am I just too sensitive? Heck, I ride a motorcycle, love motorcycle racing, and ride a 4 wheeler myself
 
Unless I missed it, the OP was referring to the kid as a he.
RPGR90s

I love just about all things related to a motorcycle as long as it isn't obnoxious or unnecessarily loud (same thing), but I swear the neighbors kid and his ATV 4-wheeler is driving me crazy. Their house is probably 200 yards adjacent to ours and across the road with a fairly large yard (about a little less than 3 acres). The ATV doesn't run properly & goes dead every time he cuts the throttle. Round and around and around and around their house, across their yard non stop, except when it goes dead, then here he goes again. Also, it isn't super loud, but not quite either. This kid has literally ridden non stop since 3:00 pm this evening, and is still at it now even though it is dark. I am starting to really wish he would hit a tree or something just so it would STOP! They aren't bad neighbors & the kids are really good kids, especially for these days. He is just at that age where they do that, but I don't know how much louder I can stand turning up my TV Does anyone else find that excessive noise bothers you, or am I just too sensitive? Heck, I ride a motorcycle, love motorcycle racing, and ride a 4 wheeler myself

Yep! You missed the point. I responded to the immediate preceding post calling the OP a "cool old guy" when in fact Gail is a young gal.
 
OMG, just came across this thread. I have called myself , noise sensitive for years now..
My blood pressure jumps right up when cars come by the house with their s**t (music) is so loud every thing starts vibrating a block away !!
The other is V twins that are just stupid loud..
Thanks for listening, or reading that is.
 
OMG, just came across this thread. I have called myself , noise sensitive for years now..
My blood pressure jumps right up when cars come by the house with their s**t (music) is so loud every thing starts vibrating a block away !!
The other is V twins that are just stupid loud..
Thanks for listening, or reading that is.

I live on a two lane Texas highway 53 miles out of town and 30 miles north of a National Park. Since virtually all land in Texas is private except for a couple of National parks, little bits of Corps of Engineers beach front, and a few state parks, we do not have much of an ATV issue. But we do get noise from the highway. The road is a rough chip seal so pickups with 10 ply tires are noisy and even a Prius can be heard. But the 10 or 20 cruiser bikes headed to Big Bend National Park in a convoy with their sag wagons can be a real pain. The speed limit is 70. And I can often hear them for three minutes meaning more than three miles as they rumble southbound. No huge deal, but I do think I would like sound meters at the park entry points. That would never make them use real mufflers, but they would be less likely to stream to the park once it became known that they had sound meters at the gates. If the Iron Butt Rally can test muffler noise, so can the National Park Service if they want to.
 
Your story puts you more in league with the car driver who wrecked the motorcycle, than the motorcyclist

Amen to that! As a bicyclist, I encounter cagers who don't believe bikes belong on the road. Some will even intentionally come over to the shoulder to scare me. In Michigan, we just got a new law requiring 3 ft. clearance between bikes and motorists. We have as much right on the road as a motorist. I'm sure that poster gets pissed when a cager tries to run him off the road. Bob_M, you said it much more eloquently, but I say he's a hypocrite. I don't care how old or cranky he is. There, I said it.
 
OMG, just came across this thread. I have called myself , noise sensitive for years now..
My blood pressure jumps right up when cars come by the house with their s**t (music) is so loud every thing starts vibrating a block away !!
The other is V twins that are just stupid loud..
Thanks for listening, or reading that is.
Sometimes when I have the wood stove running and a vehicle with mega-bass thumping hard comes down the road ......it makes me think I have a chimney fire :eek
OM
 
Your story puts you more in league with the car driver who wrecked the motorcycle, than the motorcyclist

Learn to read....…….the story was what is wanted to happen with my puppies and I surely would not allow them to get hurt. Read how the bicycle people are not only a nuisance but a hazard by the way they "take over the road". Actually, I dont see how they have any "right" to be on a public road as they dont pay any taxes to be there...…..Now, learn to read and then run your thoughts into what isn't there...….I truly dont want my puppies hurt by what might happen...…..lol....Good luck.
 
but I say he's a hypocrite. I don't care how old or cranky he is. There, I said it.


And I say you dont know how to read and twist what is said to suit your needs...…..There I said it.....lol.....this is a great thread....old and cranky indeed!!!

Are you actually saying that when approached by a car, who honks perhaps 200 yards behind and then again at 50 yards, that the bicycle is in the right by moving to the center of the road so that the car cannot get by. Or that a group of 3 or more instead of going into single file spreads out even more to take over the entire lane or even the road??? These are tactics taken by a certain group of Atlanta bicycle rights folks who come up to "enforce" their rights. Yes, Mr. Bicycle, defend these people, while I daydream a bit as to what I could do; but would never dream of doing...…..Learn to read Sir.....Old and cranky indeed...……..
 
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..."One thing I have found totally effective is to let my Anatolian pasture guard dogs out on Saturday and Sunday mornings that they have events. I did this one time because..........God bless....Dennis"

Saying the you did this makes it easy to assume you did this

FWIW, there are inconsiderate A-holes with every transportation mode including bicycles and motorcycles. Here in Portland a street car rider killed two people a couple of years ago (for standing up to a hater who was yelling at a woman in a head scarf). Exacting revenge for being inconvenienced is sometimes called road rage and that is not what Jesus would do
 
One thing I have found totally effective is to let my Anatolian pasture guard dogs out on Saturday and Sunday mornings that they have events. I did this one time because I value these dogs to much to let them run loose because of getting hurt; but...….These dogs stand waist high to me at the shoulder and hate bicycles because they chase them down the 1/4 mile fence line for years and never get to get them. HIGHLY FRUSTATED...……..lol.....I stood with 2 of them at the beginning of my driveway at the property line on the road. HERE they came and golly, I just couldn't hold the puppies back...….Needless to say the resulting tangled bicycles with the dogs claiming victory over moving parts brought years of frustration to an end.:dance:dance............YES I JUST DREAM ABOUT DOING THIS:dunno:dunno......Do I care about the 2 wheelers???....NO....

Wow :jawdrop:mad
 
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