Boy-racers

[wkid_one]

HARMLESS FUN.......get real man A friend of mine lost his little girl cos of a 'boy racer' doing a donut in diesel on a public rd, lost control, shot of at an angle accross a grass verge and into there car.

I never said I condoned the illegal behaviour - just the concept of kids doing up cars - it would make more sense if a suitable outlet was provided for them.

There are always going to be bad apples in any bunch. I think you will find - many of the boy racers just like cars. As with bikes - you will always have the ones that take it too far. We all have horror stories about certain illegal activities. I know someone who was killed by a friend being an idiot on a bike....just an accident, I've been run over by a mum late for an appointment when I was walking home from school in standard 2.

PS - people have been doing donuts for years. One of my most vivid memories was my next door neighbour doing a 400m slow speed burnout the length of our road when I was 6.

[MacD]

At least the boy racers prize there cars and don't want to ding them

Really? The boy racer who drove through the Stop sign opposite my house at high speed, mounted the curb hard enough to dislodge basalt curbstones and smash his nice shiny mags, just miss the very large and solid tree on the corner of my section and a power-pole, and then skid another 20-30 m down the road really cared about not damaging his car!

The problem is this tosspot probably thought he was a "good driver" but in reality didn't have a clue, and probably still doesn't appreciate how close he came to being dead.

I really don't care if these people want to wipe themselves out in an industrial area, but keep the fuck out of suburban streets.

And yes, I did stupid things when i was young too, but it was in underpowered Minis and Escorts, not turbo Skylines!

[wkid_one]

But I bet he didn't 'want' to ding his car

[MacD]

You are assuming that he was thinking at all...

Actually thinking about your comment further, I have to disagree with you. This guy drove through a Stop sign at high speed from the side street of a T-intersection (actually its an offset X-intersection) where the only thing dead ahead is a large hedge, tree and powerpole. So he must have been wanting to "ding" his car as there is no other explanation for his actions...

...either that or he was just another idiot with no appreciation of his or the vehicles actual capabilities....

[dangerous]

I never said I condoned the illegal behaviour - just the concept of kids doing up cars - it would make more sense if a suitable outlet was provided for them.

There are always going to be bad apples in any bunch. I think you will find - many of the boy racers just like cars. As with bikes - you will always have the ones that take it too far. We all have horror stories about certain illegal activities. I know someone who was killed by a friend being an idiot on a bike....just an accident, I've been run over by a mum late for an appointment when I was walking home from school in standard 2.

PS - people have been doing donuts for years. One of my most vivid memories was my next door neighbour doing a 400m slow speed burnout the length of our road when I was 6.

'suitable outlet was provided for them' Yep but you answered your own question below.

'bad apples in any bunch' Yep and these idiots wouldent be able to aford the suitable outletand will still be in the public miss behaving.

'have been doing donuts for years' Wee hee Trimph Herald.... man thay could make some noise with there tiny cross ply tyres, and a bit later on a 3.3 Victor pure grunt bucket that but what a POS.

And now Wkid......dont go calling me a F that and F this just cos I fessed up about being bit of a lad in them there old days

[wkid_one]

I only have issue with stupidity.....like 120 in a 50 zone

[MacD]

I only have issue with stupidity.....like 120 in a 50 zone

What about 300 in a 100 zone?

[dangerous]

What about 300 in a 100 zone?

my best is 270 in the Ozzie out back.....as for 300....yeh I wana crack that, but only on a organised airfield were the ambo will be waiting to take me away to the funny farm :confused2

[speedpro]

PS - people have been doing donuts for years. One of my most vivid memories was my next door neighbour doing a 400m slow speed burnout the length of our road when I was 6.

My boy is going to have similar memories. The neighbour got a pair of wheels for his Skyline on his birthday. About 9pm they were fitted and we all lined the deck while he smoked it up in the street. My 5yr old was super impressed and after the tyres blew and the car was tucked away for the night him and the rest of the kids were collecting old rubber from up the drive and off the car. Mum wasn't so impressed the next morning when she spotted the rubber still stuck to the bottom of his feet when he got out of bed.

The diesel those sad dicks put on the road is because of the piss-weak limited slip diffs most of the cars have. The viscous clutch at the heart of it typically isn't strong ehough to cause both wheels to spin so a little help is needed to get both of them going.

[spudchucka]

Check your road code - variable speed limits around schools ARE in force in NZ - 20kph around a school bus in NZ is the rule.

I agree that insurance should be mandatory if you drive on the road...HOWEVER - this won't prevent those who don't have it from driving - how many unwarranted and/or unregistered cars are on the road - and how many unlicensed drivers are driving?....

I honestly think however that there is very little wrong with Boy Racers. Fuck at the end of the day, my father can revel me for hours about the cars he has done up......what has changed? Nothing other than the cars are flasher, quicker and finance makes them more accessible.

Given the money they spend on their cars - I would rather come up against one of these than an unregistered driver who couldn't give a fuck about his car. At least the boy racers prize there cars and don't want to ding them

The difference is that there are boy racers who are actually "car enthusiasts" like the ones you describe. Then there are outright road criminals that hoon around in shit heaps thinking they are Michael Schumacher. The car enthusiasts have something to lose if they screw up where as the other type dosen't give a toss about consequences.

[spudchucka]

EXACERY....

Who cares about boy racers really......shit it is harmless fun that guys have been doing for years.

Yep, its all good fun until it goes pear shaped, but then I don't give a shit cos it wasn't my kid, my wife or me that got killed or maimed by some fuck wit that was just having fun in his car, right wkid??

[Jackrat]

Like Wikid said,Kids have been doing it for years,and as far as I'm concerned very few on this site have any right to be puting them down for it.
Same old shit different day,It will be some other shit tomorrow,what ever jerks the public string.Bikers slagging off others for going to fast.What a joke.
Most of my own nephews own done up cars and would be called boy racers by all you fuddy duddys,Thing is they are just young guys doing what we have always done.Seems to me a lot of you old folks just like to paint every one with the same brush.How the hell did most of you lot become bikers anyway.Oh thats right your different yeah??You only brake the law in a safe manner yeah??Bunch of OLD hipocrites whinging about the youth of today,Your no better than those that put bikers down,Seems like every kid with a car gets this boy racer label if he fucks up an parks it,Whats your next trendy word going to be.I know let's label all these sports bike riders with a trendy name,They must be a danger to civilisation as we know it,yeah I say ban the fuckers for their own good.I won't miss em' and the roads will be a safer place.
Ya' make me want to come an do a burn out on ya' front lawn.

[spudchucka]

Like Wikid said,Kids have been doing it for years,and as far as I'm concerned very few on this site have any right to be puting them down for it.
Same old shit different day,It will be some other shit tomorrow,what ever jerks the public string.Bikers slagging off others for going to fast.What a joke.
Most of my own nephews own done up cars and would be called boy racers by all you fuddy duddys,Thing is they are just young guys doing what we have always done.Seems to me a lot of you old folks just like to paint every one with the same brush.How the hell did most of you lot become bikers anyway.Oh thats right your different yeah??You only brake the law in a safe manner yeah??Bunch of OLD hipocrites whinging about the youth of today,Your no better than those that put bikers down,Seems like every kid with a car gets this boy racer label if he fucks up an parks it,Whats your next trendy word going to be.I know let's label all these sports bike riders with a trendy name,They must be a danger to civilisation as we know it,yeah I say ban the fuckers for their own good.I won't miss em' and the roads will be a safer place.
Ya' make me want to come an do a burn out on ya' front lawn.

It isn't the owning of the cars that people complain about, its the behaviour of the people driving them. Maybe many of us did the same thing in our Anglias, Escorts, Vauxhaulls etc but look at what the kids are driving now, more or less racing cars. The roads are pretty much the same as they were 20 years ago, theres a hell of a lot more traffic on the roads and residential areas are jam packed with houses full of people. The main difference is the ready availability of performence cars to young and inexperienced drivers with bad attitudes along with more heavily populated residential areas.

And the natural progression in attitudes will have todays "boy racers" whinging about the same shit when they are 30 something and have a young family because they won't want to see their kids as a hood ornament either.

By the way I started riding bikes at 15 because I couldn't afford a car.

[SPman]

It isn't the owning of the cars that people complain about, its the behaviour of the people driving them.

Exactly the same as in my day, with the same proportion of dickheads and loose wheels as now!....two of my brothers mates killed, rolling a V8 Coupe into a power pole in Takapuna,...two more killed when they chopped their Mk 1 Zephyr into 3 bits on a power pole outside Murrays Bay Intermediate....they sure werent going 30 mph!
Exactly the same as 10 - 20 -30 -yrs ago. Hell I ve even read a report about citizens in Rome being outraged by the antics of young guys racing their chariots around the streets and scaring the citizens!
Its a young male thing and you cant stop it - only, perhaps, control it a little and that would only affect the responsible ones, not the wild cards!
We dont have wild animals roaming around now, so nature had to replace the lack of predators with something in this increasingly sanitized world we live in!.

And the natural progression in attitudes will have todays "boy racers" whinging about the same shit when they are 30 something and have a young family because they won't want to see their kids as a hood ornament either.

Yep!

[Motu]

It's been going on a long time alright,I'm sure the vikings had some unruly kids too.We were so damn bad in the 70s that they started to make rules to control us - that's when the graduated learner system came in as we were killing ourselves hand over fist on fast bikes.Then they tried to stop us riding together in groups - can't let these guys get together,bad things could happen.Then in the 90s they brought in regs to stop us modifying vehicles because some of them were just downright dangerous.

Perhaps what's happening now is akin to what was happening in the early 70s on bikes - too much power with no ability to control it,you young guys now can't go out at 15 and buy an R1 or Hayabusa,but back then we could - and it showed in the carnage.A young guy can now go out and buy himself a Mitsi GTO - and show us what he can do...