Life by the sea is noisy.
This is the road where everyone and their monkey comes to show off their
loud motorbike, loud car, loud music. They
cruise – loudly. In weekends and
evenings they cruise nose to tail at crawl speed and often stationary, blatting
throttles and blasting out loud music; a running combination of mobile night
clubs and motorclub race meet days.
No curfew applies to them, or at least they respect no curfew
either official or socially responsible.
We can be jolted awake by a blast of loud music or a series of loud
blats from a throaty sports bike as it accelerates round the inlet, at 2 or 3am.
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| In my youthful motorbike phase. F came out to unload her bike having just arrived home from London, to discover I was trying it out for size.... this pic framed beside one of Mr B at Cadwell Park. |
Deaf though I have become with advancing age, the base notes
of those big sports bikes still filter through the fog and make me sit up and
swivel my head. The small delivery
bikes with their exhausts removed echo their staccato rattle off our concrete walls
and balcony and annoy F no end, but I can largely overlook those ones.
Cars on the other hand are a whole different kind of noise. It seems the smaller the car the louder the
speaker system – the closer the thing gets to a roller skate in size the closer
it becomes to a mobile rock concert speaker set to max volume.
Small dog syndrome???
They just don't or won't realise that other people or animals don't want to hear their darn music. The downside of l
ReplyDeleteSuspect it will drop off once the bars and clubs reopen. The party people have nothing to do at present except CRUISE.
DeleteSome people are just darn annoying. Our old house was on a hill and motorbikes with broken mufflers would grind up the hill at 4am coming home from the bars in the summer. I wanted to put out tacks or shoot them with a pellet gun. Lucky I didn't I suppose
ReplyDeleteRight there with you on that, and sound really pings around in all the concrete high-rise. We have to expect city sound and city timetables where we live but island life shouldn't be like that. Interestingly the truck came and emptied the bottle bank right outside our place at 0250 on Thursday morning and it takes lots of shaking to get all the bottles out. Go figure.
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