‘10 Electra Glide. Well we bikers can be good neighbors or not. I worked in Navy engine rooms for 20 years - ear plugs and all and noise of any sort bothers me. My hearing is very good considering. So on my street is a house where a woman lives who has parties mid-week all hours of the night. These parties generally include a bunch of bikers on Harley, Victory, and other v-twin bikes - many of them have removed the mufflers for straight pipes.
I have a job and can’t party on Tuesday till 2 AM so it pretty much pisses me off when these folks leave the party and have no consideration for me or anyone else on the street. The cops are never around at 2 AM by the way.
At off hours I roll my bike to the street before I start it and almost idle out of the neighborhood. I am considerate of others.
Most bikers are, but there is that small minority (I don’t give a damn if you like the noise or not attitude) who have created this problem. The solution to the problem will affect everyone, not just the inconsiderate.
This has nothing to do with manliness, or macho, or being a biker - it has to do with being a neighbor and consideration.
I expect all states will eventually have such laws which will be enforced and if just enforced on Harley’s then it is because a few inconsiderate asses brought it upon ourselves.
I try to be a good neighbor, too. But then, I'm an old greybeard 1%er (Still with the Club). My bike is now a bagger, and just slightly louder than stock ("Rush" mufflers) but I take great pains to idle in and out of the neighborhood even during the middle of the day. I remind my Brothers when they come over to keep the noise down.
About a year and a half ago, a young guy on the next street bought an early model Evo Sportster and outfitted it with shotgun pipes. For several days he ripped up and down the street just being an a$$hole, usually while I was not at home.
Finally the eighty-something year old lady at the end of the street (the one who calls me when she hears things go "bump" in the night) asked me if I would "have a word with that young man".
On his next pass, I flagged him down, and asked him why he was being such an a$$hole. I reminded him that folks on the street had kids and grandkids who were usually either playing outside or sleeping. He was pretty cool about it, so I invited him into the garage for a beer.
As it turns out, he is a good guy. He had just gotten his first bike and thought that was how he was supposed to act. He even told me later on that he was doing to try to "impress" me; he wanted to hang around with the Club.
He still rides by now and then. He putt putts through the neighborhood till he gets to the highway, then I can hear him light it up. It's OK though, I do the same thing.
Have you had a word with your neighbor about the partying? Could be he is just trying to impress you to start partying with him.