Cowfold woman plagued by noisy biker’s early wake up call

An ‘antisocial’ biker with a noisy exhaust has been inflicting early wake up calls on a Cowfold woman for weeks.
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Jane Harle, 51, said she has been plagued by the biker, who she thinks may ride a modified Harley Davidson, for around five weeks.

She added: “I heard it again this morning. I’m going to hazard a guess that it’s a Harley Davidson probably with the baffles removed.

“It will set car alarms off – it’s that loud.”

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Jane, who works for a medical diagnostics firm and rides motorbikes herself, said the rider’s behaviour is ‘totally antisocial’.

She added: “I have been tempted to lean out the window at six in the morning with a decibel meter.

“Whilst I know that bikers like very loud exhausts because they sound nice there’s a limit and this goes beyond that. It’s antisocial – disrespectful. I have had enough.”

Jane, who teaches road safety, said she’s not sure if the biker disturbs any other residents in the village.

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She said her house backs onto the A281 and if she sits in the garden in summer the noise is ‘so disruptive’.

Jane added: “You shouldn’t have to live like this. Cowfold is quite a sleepy village or it should be. You don’t expect that