FURTHER to your article "Noise tests on Reebok bikers" (June 28).

We live next to an all-weather sports pitch which is allowed to have activities until 8pm every day, which means that we and our neighbours have sometimes to put up with loud shouting and swearing, but it ends at 8pm.

An application has been made to extend these hours until 10pm, from Monday to Saturday, and we await the outcome.

Should we not be tolerant of activities until 8pm? The majority of noise-related activities seem to cease by then.

We must find a way around "banning", otherwise even mowing our own lawns could be become a "noise nuisance" and we risk shooting ourselves in the foot, so to speak, by not being allowed to mow our lawns due to the noise.

Zero tolerance is not what we should aim for, as the letters about parking fines in Bolton show. Zero tolerance is not working for Bolton town centre shopping, as the number of empty shops shows. Zero tolerance is not working as the change in the use of drugs shows. Zero tolerance is not working in our own homes, as the divorce rate shows. Zero tolerance is not working in the environment -- we can't cut down trees in our own gardens, BUT everything we buy from supermarket and shops is taken home in plastic bags, which are zero tolerant to our world.

Let him who casts the first stone be without sin, and no, I don't go to church on Sunday, I go motorcycle sprinting with a noise limit of 105 Db, not like the Formula 1 which we all enjoy on the television which has a noise level of 120 Db, which I can assure you is VERY loud. We finish at 5pm at the latest.

The majority of motorcycles conform to permissible noise levels, and only faulty or altered systems allow higher noise levels. A cessation of use of the car parks at 8pm and policing of altered exhaust systems would allow the majority of bikers to enjoy their hobby, while giving consideration to the residents of Horwich.

P R Hazelwood

Oaks Lane

Bradshaw