‘It’s every bloody night’, one mum’s anguish at bikes racing around city
A mum says her daughter is being deprived of sleep by late night noise from motorcycles “racing” around Bath city centre. Alison Armshaw, 55, is becoming increasingly concerned with the noise around James Street West and Avon Street. She says she’s been disturbed by noise from mopeds for some time and in recent nights a loud motorcycle has also been heard on roads in the centre of the city. Ms Armshaw, who lives off Milk Street, has described the situation on Twitter - and tagged in police. She tweeted: “Every bloody night that noisy motorbike goes up and around town. Every bloody night. “[It] uses James Street West and town as a racing circuit, because there’s nobody around to stop them. “[It] wakes everybody up. I’m sure the hotels love it, I know we think it’s simply precious! Here it goes again. And again. “One day they’ll knock somebody over or crash.” She told Chronicle sister website Bath Live the noise has been keeping her and her 18-year-old daughter Laura, awake at night. She said: “It’s on and off. But happens most weekends. “I hear some mopeds racing around. I used to think that perhaps some of the sound came from the Avon Street car park and that they were using that to race around. “But then you’d hear them drive around through town and up out of Bath a bit. Then it would come back, doing a circuit. “The last three nights there’s been a bike that sounds much bigger, and much noisier. “Like a car with no muffler or whatever the term is. “It is revving up and going up and down James Street West. It then goes off and comes back again.” The current hot weather is only making the situation worse, as Ms Armshaw needs to keep some of her windows open. She said on Tuesday last week: “We heard it last night at around 10pm to 10.30pm and then later after 1am. “Obviously in summer we all have windows open. “I have a disabled, epileptic daughter who needs sleep. “A lack of sleep is not kind to epilepsy. She had a very disturbed night last night due to this. “First thing she said to me this morning was ‘what was that loud noise I couldn’t sleep?.’ “I don’t know what can be done about it. Bikes have been doing it for years, but not this bike, this one is a hell of a lot noisier.” She has a message for the motorcyclists. She said: “For those causing the noise, not that they care much or else they wouldn’t do it, I would remind them that the city centre, as well as further afield, is also a residential area. “It also has a number of hotels where people are trying to sleep.”