Boy racerdom

[arsnik]

Reading and posting in the Compulsory insurance thread, there is a lot of dislike, even hatred for the alleged \"boy racers\", I would like to know what is your opinion as a motorcyclist what a \"boy racer\" is

Lets have a collective definition of a \"boy racer\" that we as bikers, all hate with a vengence.

Ill start with a carried on mis quote from scum dog.

Johnny trolley boy at paknsave, sick of driving his mums corrolla, goes down to Shackels no deposit easy finance yard on his learners licence with $1 dollar and drives out in a gimick rally car turbo 4wd. A week later heads off to mag and turbo, for the big chrome wheels and lowering kit and 6 inch tip, goes next door to DUV DUV SOUNDS and gets a stereo louder than those at the night clubs he loves to drive past repeatedly, \"doing laps\" on friday and saturday nights.

All of this bought on finance at rip off rates, $20,000 car with extras for the next 6 years costing him $40000, if he\'s lucky and the car doesn\'t blow up after 10,000km of him launching and winding the boost up he might get to sell it back off for $10k, and keep the debt.

He drives down your 50kmh street at 80, he takes your sons and daughters out cruising, corrupts them no doubt, as you brought them up better than \"him\", takes part in minor crime, does skids and races peopel at every set of traffic lights, is a menace to society, is going no where career wise. Congregates with other boy racers and they race around the streets at stupid speeds, find new subdivisons and destroy them. What else scum dog?

I find it to be a goebbelistic exercise of scapegoating set up by some not so smart, but smarter than the average kiwi, political types, they are an undefined species yet blamed for so much. They have made law a \"boy racer act\" yet no definition of boy racerism exists, they have fooled the average new zealander into being scared of these boy racer types. So scared that laws a swiftly passed through out of sheer terror the boy racers might get you next. I find more to fear in the average kiwi motorist, on bike, or driving trucks or cars myself.

Whats your take on boy racers? Do you have a definition? Experiences of the so called boy racers endangering lives?

[skelstar]

I think that the boy racer tag is more of a media derived label than anything else. Sure as shit it wasn't anyone in parliment that dubbed it the 'boy racer' act.

[spookytooth]

So called boy racers are no different than me and my mates 30 years ago.The only thing thats changed is the cars and there's more young folk about.

[Disco Dan]

Search and ye shall find...


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[Deviant Esq]

A lot of so called "boy racers" are in the same situation as what has been described above... but what's worse is there's most often at least one of alcohol, drugs, or party pills being consumed, at least by the passengers but sometimes the driver as well. They cause all sorts of havoc, throwing bottles out of the window at other cars or pedestrians, all distracting the already-too-young with too little experience driver, who doesn't care enough to concentrate on what he's doing anyway, goes too fast, doesn't drive to the conditions at any rate, and generally endangers everyone's lives of those they are near.

[Finn]

Here's an example for you.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10465775

[marty]

interesting wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_racer

and all you ever needed to know: http://www.boyracerguide.co.uk/

[Disco Dan]

http://www.hoodackey.co.nz/main.shtml

[skelstar]

An example of what bugs me about the boy-racer thing and the media:

A while ago (a year maybe?), a pedestrian was hit on Courtney Place (Wgtn) by a couple of cars that were going too fast. Nobody (Police) can verify that the cars were racing, but the paper/media states that they were boy racers. Don't think they could even say what the make of the car was. Fark. How can they come to that conclusion?

Fuggin hate the media sometimes.

[cowboyz]

Want a definition?
Boiracer (n) Anyone who operates a vehicle in a fashion that is to draw attention to themselves in an urban area.

Note the correct spelling of /boiracer/ as youths these days *have* to spell everything wrong on purpose to show how stupid they really are. If they took it to the back country roads then that would be fine by me. Or could try showing up for a trackday every now and then. Problem with trackdays is it shows how slow one is. It is easy to *look* fast on the street. The track shows a different story.

[imdying]

http://www.hoodackey.co.nz/main.shtml

Ahhh, those guys are the biggest bunch of retards this country has bred in a long time

[ManDownUnder]

Lets have a collective definition of a \"boy racer\" that we as bikers, all hate with a vengence.

A definition? I can think of the parts to be added to make the whole
Vehicle (car or bike or whatever)
A wreckless disregard for the safety or property of others

... I think that's it

[007XX]

Yep, what MDU said...

I have nothing against people havign fun, be it in a car, a bike, an airplane or anything...

But as long as it is within a safe for all environment...the speed that some kids in flashy cars drive on the open road or in little residencial streets like mine is truly unsafe and I really can't say I approve.

Sure they don't give a hoot about what i think, but if my kid was to get hurt by one of them little morons, I wouldn't freakin care what he calls himself...boy racer or not, his/ her arse would be mine!

[SPman]

A definition? I can think of the parts to be added to make the whole
Vehicle (car or bike or whatever)
A wreckless disregard for the safety or property of others

... I think that's it

Surely, a "wreckfull" disregard for the safety or property of others.....

[ZeroIndex]

Any young wanker who thinks his car is faster than a 600cc+ sportsbike... and has the sound system to prove it