Noisy revving speeding motorcyclists !
- 29 May 2008 05:572488My beauty sleep was awoken at 5.01 am by four hot and fast motorcyclists revving up like mad outside the Premier Travel Inn ( Millers). I mean...do you have to rev up like that at 5 am, it will have woken up all the families sleeping peacefully in the the Hotel and will have given a few crochety oul geezers in The Gateway a heart murmur or two. It woke me up n all, although I didnt get the heart murmur, but then Im young and sprightly! WE are here and we are letting everyone know! was the message from the bikers.
These guys, not interested in riding anywhere below 100 MPH, came blasting down the seafront at fearsome pace last night. These bikes do 190mph nowadays. A bobby happened to be walking down same seafront and he came after them his little legs going like the clappers!. Oh it is a funny sight seeing a bobby chasing after fast motorcyclists on foot.
As they were staying and therefore parking in the Hotel he caught up with them there and gave them a telling off. The motorcyclists werent youngsters.
Anyway they did the same thing this morning so the lecture from the law didnt change the habits of a lifetime...and are now resting aboard a ferry before blasting through France at breakneck speed.
It has an element of excitement to it I must admit. But then I would say that wouldnt I..as Ive been known to throw me leg over now and again...(ermmm thats enough of that PaulB! we dont want to know your murky habits!
)email: dover7@msn.com - 31 May 2008 08:472574Paul,you missed you beauty sleep in Boland Towers try living on Buckland Avenue!You of course being the handsome chappy that you are don't need it too much,but working shifts it can be dreadful no so much racing motocycles but those high pitched squeely things that sound as if they are driven by an elastic bandIf you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
- 31 May 2008 09:122575PaulB - We have noticed a lot of screeching tyres and revving around town lately. Not as bad as your 5am wake up perhaps but still a pain in the proverbial! Where are the police when you want them....
- 31 May 2008 10:312579Sitting in a lay-by waiting to catch people speeding at up to 32 mph in a 30 mph zone................
- 4 June 2008 08:562658We do get problems from motorcyclists here also.
I live by quite a sharp couple of bends. Very sadly, yesterday there was yet another accident involving a motorcyclist almost directly outside my house. It's one heck of a sick horrid feeling, hearing the crash and then seeing a motorbike on its side and someone lying in the road. (I'm happy to say that, although the motorcyclist went off in an ambulance, things were not as bad as they could have been.)
We have problems with revving cars too. Heh! If I had my way, I would have all internal combustion engines replaced with elastic band power, to be wound up every morning. Maybe they'd think twice, then, about making it unwind it too quickly!
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