Noisy cyclists bragging about bedroom antics drive residents to petition for 'keep quiet' signs

Noisy cyclists who shout about their sex lives have sparked calls for 'keep quiet' signs to be installed along a popular Brisbane, Australia, cycling route. Tennyson Ward councillor Nicole Johnston has started a petition calling on Brisbane City Council to install signs in parts of Fairfield, Yeronga, Tennyson, Chelmer and Sherwood, after residents complained about loud pelotons of cyclists.

''It's a big issue, I get contacted on a weekly basis about the noise,'' she said. A Yeronga woman - who didn't want to be named for fear of reprisals - said she had two young children and didn't need to hear some of the language cyclists used in her neighbourhood at 5.30am.



''Some of it's what they got up to the previous night and how drunk they were and who they shagged,'' she said. The woman feared being identified after she heard a cyclist regularly yell abuse as he rode through her neighbourhood. ''Maybe a resident said something to him but every day at 6am you could hear him yelling out `wanker!'''

Bicycle Queensland general manager Ben Wilson said his organisation had asked members to be considerate of residents, and supported the 'keep quiet' signage. ''There's no doubt there are some great big boofhead blokes in some of these groups who would be the sort of people who are loud in the pub and they're loud out there, so we want other riders to say 'hey, pull your head in mate','' he said.