Boy racers

[chap]

Just watching a bit on TV about these young guys,chick doing an interview with one asks "what about the dangers to other road users" pimple faced one replys "naaa the diesal we pour all over the roads not going to affect anyone" or similar.Retard.

Retard is right. Down syndrome lookin dribbly fat fuck springs to mind also. How bout all you chch KBers keep a big nut fucker down ya jacket and beat the cunt on sight before the diesel slicks get ya.

[MarkH]

Thus is interesting. These BR's keep within a tolerable speed overage, ie no more than 60ish in a 50 kph limit but know the weak/strong points on a bike compared to a car. They won't challenge straight line acceleration but will the right angled corners. It's as if they have developed a strategy for dealing with us.

Experiences anyone?

Reminds me of when I went down to the SI last November. I was wanting to avoid the 'riding/driving too fast tax' and keeping to within 10kph of the limit. Sometimes I car would overtake on a straight - I cruised along and waited till they got stuck behind a truck and used my narrow vehicle advantage to cruise on by while they waited for a good overtaking opportunity.

Bikes are narrow and have good acceleration - perfect for lane splitting and for overtaking easily. If some boy racer can go around a corner a bit quicker it is no biggie, there is a greater advantage to being able to get past the slow cars more quickly (they CAN hold you up much more than taking a second longer to go through a corner).

I don't think boy racers need to be discussing how to beat bikes for one semi-skilled boy racer to realise that his car can corner really hard and out perform almost every other vehicle on the road with him (including bikes). For real high performance car modding you would aim for fantastic acceleration and braking and even more importantly the ability to pull 1G while cornering. Most boy racers don't do that, they add LEDs and a powerful stereo instead.

I recently lane split at a set of lights, then took off ahead of the cars. A Nissan Skyline (I think) BR car behind me changed lanes and pulled up beside me at the next lights (80kph zone up ahead). When the lights went green I could hear their car beside me - it sounded like they were trying hard and working it through the gears, then the sound beside me became a sound behind me - they couldn't keep up! Talk about shitty performance - I am riding a scooter FFS!!!! I would think that if their BR car actually had high performance they could have pulled past me pretty easily - all show & no go obviously.

[Bend-it]

Like this??

http://gprime.net/video.php/goped

[greenman]

The best way to wind them up is to just take off slow and then lane split up to them at the next set of lights.
Works every time.
Especially when they stall it off the line.