Boy-racers

[Angry Puppy]

In a few of the recent postings, some of you guys have mentioned your feelings towards boy racers and bikers that give the majority of us a bad name.

I am personally of the opinion that the only way to clean up the streets is to make insurance legally mandatory. this will make street racing financially prohibitive to the little scrotes and get a lot of them off the roads.

How do we enforce it? in Ireland you have an insurance cert on your windscreen, if not, tow the bastards.

Like a lot of you, I hate insurance and insurance companies. especially the way the premiums manage to keep going up each year, even though you have yet more no claims bonus, but if it will help make the roads a little bit safer then go for it.

What do you guys think?

Fazer Bloke.

[Angry Puppy]

Oh yes, and some other methods I've seen around the world that I like;

- variable speed limits outside schools. At apropriate hours the speed limit i dropped from 50 to 20 (for arguments sake).

- Speeding convictions that are automatically doubled if you are caught speeding when there are workmen working on the road.

Fazer Bloke

[wkid_one]

Oh yes, and some other methods I've seen around the world that I like;

- variable speed limits outside schools. At apropriate hours the speed limit i dropped from 50 to 20 (for arguments sake).

- Speeding convictions that are automatically doubled if you are caught speeding when there are workmen working on the road.

Fazer Bloke

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

[Ms Piggy]

And at the end of the day the same dick wads that break the laws & direspect others now aren't gonna care anyway.

[Yamahamaman]

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

I wonder why then, that they must endanger their lives and others that follow by laying diesel on the road so that it is easier for them to make their vehicle go out of control.

[Two Smoker]

Shit yes i ride over that desiel everyday on my work bike along harris road, ill be fucking mega pissed off if i fall off because it i do keep well to the side of it, but it nearly covers the entire width of the road.....

[Angry Puppy]

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

Tell that to Christopher Murdoc's family after he managed to rip his Mitsubuhi GTO in three whilst being chased by the police in Auckland at the weekend.

Fazer Bloke

[Motu]

I dunnno wkd - boy racers spend money on their cars sure - but only the look good sound good stuff,most haven't got a fucking clue of the mechanicals....they want the big shiny 17s with 45 aspect ratio tyres,they want it low,they want to sit low,they want a fancy paint job.They haven't the skills to handle a Toyota Starlet - a Mitsi GTO?,well we just seen how good a driver that guy wuz.I've driven these things - duh,no wonder they cruise the motorways at 80kph.

[Jackrat]

In a few of the recent postings, some of you guys have mentioned your feelings towards boy racers and bikers that give the majority of us a bad name.

I am personally of the opinion that the only way to clean up the streets is to make insurance legally mandatory. this will make street racing financially prohibitive to the little scrotes and get a lot of them off the roads.

How do we enforce it? in Ireland you have an insurance cert on your windscreen, if not, tow the bastards.

Like a lot of you, I hate insurance and insurance companies. especially the way the premiums manage to keep going up each year, even though you have yet more no claims bonus, but if it will help make the roads a little bit safer then go for it.


do you guys think?

Fazer Bloke.

Damn your gonn'a be OLD when you get old.
Would'a been a boy racer myself but I chose bikes instead.
I think it had something to do with being young an having fun.
You old farts are always on about things like this.
Damn how do you live with yourself.
Run along now you might miss Cor'o St.

[Coldkiwi]

Tell that to Christopher Murdoc's family after he managed to rip his Mitsubuhi GTO in three whilst being chased by the police in Auckland at the weekend.

Fazer Bloke

so thats what that red ex-car was on the news. He must've hit that pole helluva hard to rip the car up like that.

Compulsory insurance is good for a number of reasons but i don't think it'd be that effective against nuisance drivers. Enforcement is the issue now rather than legislation (after all, the police can just ask them to rev the engine to half way, proclaim its 'too loud for my liking son' and *bingo* thats the car off the road). Not that I'm advocating more HP officers, just a more sensible schedule of enforcement.

[Lou Girardin]

There are no lower limits in school zones in NZ, only the 20 km/h limit for school buses. Which no-one obeys anyway, not even cops. Try slowing for one, a sure way to get a Liberace.
Compulsory insurance is fine in theory, or even practice, but do you want to be at the mercy of insurance co's setting premiums that are half or more the purchase price of your bike, just because they can?
Lou

[wkid_one]

Tell that to Christopher Murdoc's family after he managed to rip his Mitsubuhi GTO in three whilst being chased by the police in Auckland at the weekend.

Fazer Bloke

Wot a 36 yo boy racer.....

[wkid_one]

Damn your gonn'a be OLD when you get old.
Would'a been a boy racer myself but I chose bikes instead.
I think it had something to do with being young an having fun.
You old farts are always on about things like this.
Damn how do you live with yourself.
Run along now you might miss Cor'o St.

EXACERY....

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

[dangerous]

EXACERY....

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

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.

[pete376403]

Years ago the cars were flattie V8s, then Holdens, Anglias, Humber 80s, and so on. The cars teenagers used to hoon around in were for the most part noisy but slow.
Now any twat can buy a turbo rice rocket (anything more dangerous than a 323 turbo?), which are just as noisy as the old cars, but fast. And cheap. With the ever more stringent WOF regulations, keeping a car road legal becomes too expensive, so these cars are de-reged. But they're still f*ckin fast, even if they don't turn or stop. What to do? I dunno, maybe every unregistered car HAS to go to a wrecker unless the owner can give a good reason otherwise. Draconian, but some polly will have this idea and, i've noted they can get away with just about anything if it mentions "safety" somewhere in the title.