One further point - In the PDF they claim that the bikes used are their own 50 cc scooters, maintained so as to minimise noise.(Engine size is irrelevant. Any teenager so minded could tweak the silencer of a 50cc sufficient to deafen anyone standing within 100 yards) They also "admit" that they train 4 pupils at a time. Whether this is to be believed necessarily, when they may have a waiting list and they could as easily train say 6 or more isn't for me to say.I'm no expert but I remember having seen films of them riding around in a circle with the instructor in the middle.So the noise being complained of, is the combined sound of a minumm of four (and maybe more if they're lying) 50cc motorcycles all going at the same time.I'm no expert but I'd imagine theres a big difference - which can be shown by Db readingsin the nuisance value of four or more bikes going at the same time. As against one.And this as they themselves admit is for two hours at a time three times a day.Including Saturdays. The nuisance potential of this - and the fact that they've attempted to misrepresent this nuisance by the implication that its "only one likkle 50cc bikey wilkey" - rather than 4 or maybe more all going at once simply cannot be stressed enough. In any representations made.In my opinion at leastGetBikes whole approach to this matter, judgingboth by your posts and by their own planning submission appears to be characterised by misreprentation and utmost bad faith. Some of the arguments so called which they are seeking to present to the Council - the reason for the use of mikes and earphones etc are so ill thought out and/or blatantly dishonest IMO as can be seen as being an insult to the intelligence of the committee. I've lived in Ealing more than long enough to remember when the sole tenants of that site were the Orion Works, an optical manufacturer.There used to be and maybe still is a similar lightengineering works in Julian Rd at the bottom ofNorthfields Ave. Both of these were and are far different in character and nuisance potential to this present operation.Presumably Getbikes chose this site because of its proximity to Northfields Station conveniently forgetting (for them) the fact that Stations normally attract house builders.There are probably far more suitable sites from a nuisance point of view available in the vicinity of the Great West Road. But then you can't expect customers to have to walk all the way from Osterley Station, when you can make people's lives a misery by setting up in aresidential area instead.What annoyed me about this was reading of your experiences with these people, and contrasting this with the "touchy feely" "here to help" baloney on their website. Speaking of which. One of the Managers of GetBikes has a very distinctive name which is a pushover for any subscribers to the 192 website.Of course what they might chose to do with this information would be entirely up to them. michael adams...
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