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There is nowhere to escape Checkers Sixty60 noise.
Their delivery motorbikes use our quiet residential street as a shortcut. All day, every day.
Replaying Sunday, 11 October 2026, to 20:00. Solid: seen on camera (273). Dashed: estimated (89).
Think of the sound you hate most.
Now hear it 27 times. That's how many Checkers Sixty60 bikes our camera saw between 14:00 and 15:00 on Sunday 4 October, with the hour sped up into one minute. Start with the real thing, then try your own.
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Sounds: kids screaming (little girl screaming by freesound_community via Pixabay; the_riel_thing, CC BY-SA 3.0, and stephan, public domain), tongue clicks (Denelson83, CC BY-SA 3.0, arranged into bursts), barking dog (Amada44, CC BY-SA 3.0, trimmed), leaf blower (Work With Sounds / Werstas, CC BY 4.0, trimmed), all via Wikimedia Commons. The real thing is 26 of those 27 passes as recorded by our street camera's microphone (it records in low, phone-call quality), placed at the exact second each bike passed.
Our four raw recordings from 1 November 2025
I've looked at selling my home just to get away from it.
A Sunday in our home.
A bike roughly every 2.0 minutes, from breakfast to bedtime. Every mark is one bike.
- 08:00Morning coffee≈17 bikes
- 13:00Sunday lunch≈37 bikes
- 14:00 to 16:00An afternoon in the garden≈63 bikes
- 18:00Dinner≈43 bikes
- 19:00Winding down for the night≈10 bikes
273 seen on camera before 19:00, the proven minimum. ≈89 more estimated, ≈362 in total. How we estimate
Three changes would fix it.
- Keep bikes on main roads.Not narrow residential shortcuts, especially in busy evening hours.
- Retire the loud BigBoy bikes.The Velocity and the new Pacer. Quieter delivery bikes cost little more.
- Give residents a real complaints channel.With a clear escalation path and response times.
Where things stand.
Updated 27 October 2026. Tap a row for detail.
Checkers Sixty60 Promised on 3 July 2026 to stop the shortcut. Weekends now pass ≈300 bikes a day, up more than a third. Promise failed
Route alternatives were sent again on 19 August; the route question has gone unanswered since. One appears to offer the same distance and travel time while sparing roughly two-thirds of affected homes; a full main-road option shows the same estimated time and only about 100 to 200 metres more distance.
City Environmental Health Says traffic noise on public roads is outside its regulations. No remedy
This followed a site visit, objective evidence and repeated follow-ups. Residents have not been shown the exact provision establishing that blanket exclusion. The branch was asked to improve rider awareness; no measurable reduction followed.
City traffic and transport The bikes are road legal and the road is open to all. No one owns the impact. No remedy
Traffic Services says the motorcycles are road legal. Transport Management says the road is available to all traffic. Neither answer addresses the cumulative commercial routing impact or identifies an accountable City authority.
Ward 103 councillor Has never personally replied. No reply
DA Ward 103 councillor Gerhard Fourie's secretary initially forwarded the complaint to Environmental Health. No direct answer, meeting or further intervention was communicated, and later accountability emails are being ignored.
Sixty60 social accounts Residents report being blocked or shadowbanned after asking for action. Blocked
Residents report that repeated requests for action on the noise issue led to accounts being blocked or shadowbanned instead of receiving a practical response.
Estate HOAs Estates are coordinating formal pushback on bike routing. Active
Every promise gave me hope. Every time, nothing changed.
Make it public.
Private complaints were ignored for months. Public reviews are much harder to ignore.