Farking boy racers

**Winter** · 21st May 2007, 13:01

I live on a nice quiet street, yet these fuckers seem to think tis cool to come and tear up the tarmarc outside my house. Practise their burnouts and handbrake skids in some heap of shit car.

Nearly every time I see a car I jump on my bike follow it untill I've got its make model color and rego firmly implanted in my head, then do the *555 thing.

I've lost count.

Why cant they just crash into that lampost and die?

**MisterD** · 21st May 2007, 13:06

Stinger....or make your own, doesn't look like it'd be to difficult

**Winter** · 21st May 2007, 13:10

Yeah I've dreamed of doing that. At my old place even went as far as scoping out the best place to do it with quick routes out to safety. The thing is you need to make sure nothings left there, as the old lady living next to me doesn't need her tyres spiked.

**GurlRacer** · 21st May 2007, 13:20

I've been trying to fight this battle for ages, considering I'm more involved with the performance car scene (Car enthusiasts) than the bike scene. Unfortunately, these young blokes, have no where else to go. With the Illegal Drag and Street Racing Amendment Bill, the cops snap them everytime. So what happens? They bite back. By doing this, it is a game to them, trying to run from the cops and laughing at the old people coming out and waving their fingers at them.

Unfortunately, car enthusiasts are often placed into the same bracket as Boy Racers, and we're often tarred with the same brush, regardless of circumstance. All these young boys are asking for (boy racers), is somewhere that they can go to do burnouts, have a race, in a safe and controlled enviroment. Perhaps get some tips about their car, eg: why cutting springs are so dangerous. Both, you and I know why.. well, I hope you do, it's just pure stupidity, but for these young boys, they do not know. They are asking for help.

The more you fight against them, the more they fight against you. Try and work together with them, and you may see a change. I have. Because I don't believe in racing on the streets, or doing burnouts in residential areas, and instead of going off my nut @ them, I gave them an alternative. I have noticed a big change in attitude. At school, I am still the "Gurl Racer" but I'm apprently, so much "cooler" - go figure. They still give me sh!t about my lil Mivec, but their VTEC isn't much better

They no longer wish to race, coz they know they'll have me after them like a bunch of savage dogs :P

**MSTRS:Me** · 21st May 2007, 13:29

Originally Posted by GurlRacer

.....they'll have me after them like a bunch of savage dogs :P

You scary.
Me - wonder why you not at school...or are you pinching their bandwidth on your laptop?

**Hitcher** · 21st May 2007, 13:34

We were all young once. I wish it to be known that the current generation of "boy racers" does not hold the patent on mind-numbing stupidity. But they do have significantly more available horsepower and better in-car stereos that folks like me who grew up in the Flintstone era.

**MSTRS:Me** · 21st May 2007, 13:37

Originally Posted by Hitcher

We were all young once. I wish it to be known that the current generation of "boy racers" does not hold the patent on mind-numbing stupidity. But they do have significantly more available horsepower and better in-car stereos that folks like me who grew up in the Flintstone era.

Yup. Can you say "Humber 80' ....
Oh how we dreamed of an Anglia 105E with a 1600 Cortina crossflow engine....

**GurlRacer** · 21st May 2007, 13:38

Originally Posted by MSTRS

You scary.
Me - wonder why you not at school...or are you pinching their bandwidth on your laptop?

Me = sick with flu *mumbles.. stupid flu jab*

Hitcher - Couldn't agree more. The problem lies in that the cars are smarter than the boys...

Cars are a part of Kiwi culture. However, you get idiots on bikes too. Like I did the other day, and chased him to he stopped, oops, he looked a bit scared.. his pillion had already gotten off the bike and ran up the driveway before I got out of my car

**yod** · 21st May 2007, 13:43

Originally Posted by Hitcher

We were all young once. I wish it to be known that the current generation of "boy racers" does not hold the patent on mind-numbing stupidity. But they do have significantly more available horsepower and better in-car stereos that folks like me who grew up in the Flintstone era.

ditto the sentiment - but i wasn't quite flintstone era, we had Crapis, Puscorts, Cortinas, ScAvengers, Angleboxes, RX2s, 3s, etc - there weren't many old, cheap jappas around in the mid 80's -the best bit for us (and the most dangerous for the rest of the country) was that we could have our full licence at 15 years old....maniacal!!

**James Deuce** · 21st May 2007, 13:45

I have no sympathy. They went from being stupid lads and ladettes to murderous scum the day they started pouring diesel on downhill off camber corners on Dowse Dr so they can "drift" their knackered CRXs at 2am and 7200rpm.

You're a car person GurlRacer so maybe you wouldn't understand that diesel in an off camber corner at 6:30am when it is dark is a 100% guaranteed accident for a motorcycle.

They went from being "cutesy" little teenagers with 300HP cars to unbelievably stupid dickheads when they started using the blind crest at the top of Dowse Dr as a launching ramp. One idiot took out a transformer by landing on top of it.

I don't care what they want. I want them locked up and castrated.

**MSTRS:Me** · 21st May 2007, 13:49

Originally Posted by Jim2

I have no sympathy. They went from being stupid lads and ladettes to murderous scum the day they started pouring diesel on downhill off camber corners on Dowse Dr so they can "drift" their knackered CRXs at 2am and 7200rpm.

You're a car person GurlRacer so maybe you wouldn't understand that diesel in an off camber corner at 6:30am when it is dark is a 100% guaranteed accident for a motorcycle.

They went from being "cutesy" little teenagers with 300HP cars to unbelievably stupid dickheads when they started using the blind crest at the top of Dowse Dr as a launching ramp. One idiot took out a transformer by landing on top of it.

I don't care what they want. I want them locked up and castrated.

Agreed Jim. BUT....Gurlracer does understand the problems they can cause. It's a good thing she is working on them from the inside - better luck to her than to all the laws against them eh??

**Winter** · 21st May 2007, 13:49

Originally Posted by Jim2

I don't care what they want. I want them locked up and castrated.

We'd get along just fine.

You should be my neighbor.

**Trudes** · 21st May 2007, 13:49

I was discussing this kind of thing last night with my other half after seeing on the news about that young fella who was killed at "illegal drag race".
I remember years ago when I lived in Hamilton, the trouble with 'car enthusiasts/boy racers' hooning the main street in Hamilton and just about killing pissed pedestrians. I remember at the time discussions on closing off part of the airport once a week (like a Friday night or something) for an hour or so and let them drive their cars around there, i.e controlled environment, fire brigade present etc. I think something like this would benefit everyone, then there can be no excuses of 'but there's nowhere we can legally hoon about and shit'.
I can't remember leaving a track day on my bike feeling like I needed to then ride home like a cock at excessive speeds, I'd got it out of my system on the track.

**Kwaka14** · 21st May 2007, 13:55

I've often wondered whether Z nails would be a cheap deterrent to the boy racers down my road, but I don't want to cause an accident further down the track.....