Tom
Don't think that my wife would like me picking up strange women, however.
Lend her the bike, let her pick me up.
LOL - it's all about the bike here.
In order to check the noise level at night in Wallisellen I propose a bike tour on every possible street starting around 0100. Stop every 200m, bikes off, check for noise, bikes on, another 200m.
I've only a quite BMW at the minute, the V-twin is available early Feb.
Wouldn ́t help you though at that time with the noise level of planes or trains
I have 6 V-Twins (though one is in Italy, but it's too quiet anyway).
At the moment only using the RS125 2-smoke (which is both noisy and smelly ), but the kick-starter is nice in winter.
Tom
She only has a license for the 125, which is a single-seater (at the moment).
Tom
To me trains are no brainers: If there is a train rail, I'm not moving there.
As to airplane noise: You're a photographer, maybe there are enough "sujets" in Wallisellen to spent an entire day on?
Funnily enough train noise is much less disturbing to me than cars. Somehow I can filter trains out, cars less (and yes, I live directly at the train tracks in Wallisellen )
That's a very nice way to put it...
I believe that is because trains follow a schedule = you can get used to it/build it into "unimportant background noise". While cars make very unreliable noise