Well, there goes the neighborhood

I live in a middle-class neighborhood in a small town, it's a nice, quiet, friendly neighborhood. Well it was. A neighbor moved in recently. He has a Harley. So, now we're all treated to that terrible racket at all hours of the day. I cruise through a neighborhood at a relaxed 15-20 mph. He may not be going much faster, (but I suspect he's doing 35) but it's always at full throttle, followed by 57 blips of the throttle while he sits at the end of the street waiting for a clearing in traffic.
I think I'd rather have a neighbor with a bro-dozer than a HD rider.

Send a message, leave a baffle on his doorstep.

My hatred of harleys, civics, fox body mustangs and 3rd gen camaros stems entirely from growing up at the peak of a steep hill.

DrBoost wrote: I think I'd rather have a neighbor with a bro-dozer than a HD rider.

Trust me, as someone who has several brodozer neighbors of the Carolina Squat variety, who have the loudest berkeleying exhausts this side of the Mississip, you do not.

A can of Great Stuff expanding construction foam injected into said pipes would fix that problem.

I share your hatred of Harley's with straight pipes. And that goes double for riders who incessantly blip the throttle. My condolences for your new neighbor.

Harleys have the added benefit in the city of setting off car alarms. So there's that to be thankful for.

To be fair, I'd be just as pissed living next to a squid with an R6 rocking a D&D pipe.

shiny happy people come in many flavors. All taste like E36 M3.

can't stand Harley riders. Some are decent, but most are not. Place I once rented, every day in the summer, at 6am, a Harley rider would take the shortcut down my road to avoid the light. He would do a full throttle run down my block.

I wont name people, but I would consider a Harley owner a blessing after hearing 50 Hondas revving the nuts off the limiter. Every. Goddamn. Day.

You could be a friendly neighbor and offer to help him tune up his bike so that it will stay running and he won't have to keep revving at the stop sign so it won't stall.

I hate loud, open piped Harleys, and I'm a Harley owner!

I have one on my street. But I can't complain as he's lived here longer than I have. A few years ago he traded his custom chopper for a more relaxed cruiser, but it's still fairly loud. But he usually only rides it on weekends, so it's not that bad.

I'm guessing my neighbors were happy when my 12V Cummins was sold. With a 4" exhaust and only a token muffler, that sonofbitch was loud and I doubt I made new friends when I would occasionally leave at 5AM for work.

On my road, long straight at the top of a hill: Japanese bikes with high revving engines sans silencers and boy-racer riders who are always in the wrong gear so they can make highest revs/maximum decibels. Hate it, especially at 3:00 am. I assume at some point they'll go deaf because I doubt they have the sense to wear ear protection. Cops don't do anything because it's easier to stop a law abiding citizen with a taillight out.

Dr.Linda's Sportster sets off car alarms. When she rides by a parking garage, the whole thing goes off. It's great. Love it. HA HA HA HA HA. LOOZERS!!

You may think loud pipes save lives, but actually they make everybody else want to kill you.

I like the great stuff foam suggestion. But maybe a suggestion of a baffle first to see if he'll quiet down voluntarily.

Loud pipes create laws.

Don't be a dick.

Vote for Bobzilla.

THe solution is to poke out your eardrums. Peace and quiet at all times.

After my mustang in the winter im sure my neighbors all hated me. Trying to get out in the snow usually involved lots of throttle. So im pretty immune to it but the new guy down the alley has a brodozer with a speaker wall in it. Id rather hear a harley( i hate harleys) then feel my house vibrate from base notes.

Dont fool yourself. The neighborhood went downhill the second the type of dude that would keep a garage full of broken Porsche moved in.

DrBoost, do you live in East Prospect PA, I just moved in? (not into throttle bilp's)

Paul B

DrBoost wrote: I live in a middle-class neighborhood in a small town, it's a nice, quiet, friendly neighborhood. Well it was. A neighbor moved in recently. He has a Harley. So, now we're all treated to that terrible racket at all hours of the day. I cruise through a neighborhood at a relaxed 15-20 mph. He may not be going much faster, (but I suspect he's doing 35) but it's always at full throttle, followed by 57 blips of the throttle while he sits at the end of the street waiting for a clearing in traffic. I think I'd rather have a neighbor with a bro-dozer than a HD rider.

The guy next door has a Harley. Straight pipes. He likes to go out and rev it for 15 min multiple times in the day. He does so in his separate, metal sided garage, which basically makes an echo chamber. This starts as early as 6 AM, and goes as late as 10 PM. Precisely the hours where it is not disturbing the peace. The manner in which he revs seems very adversarial to me, possibly directed at the female who lives there. He does occasionally ride away, but that's 1 time in 10.

Being angry about this makes me feel old and hypocritical. I liked dumb, loud stuff in my youth. Thing is I'd never just sit and rev. I'd RIDE. I have been fighting the urge to speak with this child (who is obviously older than my 46 years), because the revving is obviously a chip on his shoulder. I admit to wanting to knock it off.

Harleys are great, you should all run out and buy one right now!

Disclaimer: I work for a tier 1 supplier to HD and my paycheck is completely dependent on such wannabe pirates

It's not just Harley riders.

Every Sunday morning my neighbours get to share my love of a Ducati twin with Conti mufflers or a 'Guzzi twin with LaFranconis.

I GTFO of the area as quick as I can though. No sitting there and blipping the throttle. Bike are for going places.