Your best "Dissing boy racers" story.

[Swoop]

Not boy racer vs motorcycle but funny, all the same.
oh, the shame of being beaten off the lights by a tiny little grey haired old lady!!

Didn't the Beach Boys write a song about her?
Was she born in Pasadena?

[MaxCannon]

I haven't shown up an boy racers on the GN (probably because it's not possible) but I have sorted one out properly face to face.
My old house was in Auckland's colourful suburb of Mangere.
One Saturday I was taking the dog for a run and along the road comes a black nissan with stupid exhaust - bonnet scoop - tints etc
In a 50kph zone full of houses and a lot of young kids this tosser was doing at least 90.
Having had kids run out in front of me on the same Rd it certainly got my attention.
I'd seen the car before and knew where it lived so on the way back I checked if it was there.
As luck would have it both car and driver were in the driveway.
I asked the guy why was he going so quick.
He told me to fuck off.
Being in a bit of bad mood I pulled the cheeky bastard out of his car and punched him in the nose.
This didn't sit well with him so naturally he tried to hit me back.
I hit him again in the stomach and when he doubled over put a nice upper cut into his chin.
By this time his parents had come out to see what the fuss was about.
When I told them he'd been driving like a prat his Dad went off at him and dragged him into the house.
His mum came over and apologised. She said the Police had paid a visit the day before after complaints from the neighbours.
Later in the week the car was gone. Word on the street was his parents sold it and forced him to move out.

[Badger8]

Nice one Max, stick it to them!
And it is possible to show them up on a GN, just a little harder to do it with a straight up drag race

[revlikeshit]

Met an early 2000's subaru impreza(metalic blue...like the rally cars) at the lights the other day on my little rgv150,must have been a shock for him when after 50-60kmh (hit 3rd gear)i pulled a car length on him and held it to 120kmh as we came up towards the waikato stadium,where we both started becking off as the next light was changing orange to red.
The guy in the subaru bugged off round the corner and i was going strait through,but the fun was not over,an early 90's ford falcon had been trying to keep up with both myself and the subaru for a while,and pulled up next to me a couple of sets of lights later,i glance over, the driver winds down his window and says "so.....are we boosting?",i give the rgv a few revs,the guy revs back and rolls foward a little,light goes green,i take off slightly faster than normal(not a launch though),he keeps up though my first gear,i hit second,3rd and so on,i look in my mirror,hes trying his hardest to keep up but ive got a good lead and am still pulling away,i back off and start to brake around 120-130kmh,he decides to go right and hide his shame from other motorists.....so a 2.0L turbo car,and a 4.0L NA car,getting beat by a 150cc learner bike wearing a bright yellow 'L' plate, boyracers make me laugh what a joke haha.

[dave_a]

... my all time favourite (personal) story of boy racer stupidity...

I'm stopped at the lights (first set off the NW, heading past Westgate)... sitting on the trusty RF when young Mr Racer rocks on up beside me, guns his engine and obviously wants to have a go. Obviously proud of his car, he'd also obviously poured some considerable money into it but..

... IT'S A FUCKEN 323 STAIONWAGON!!!!!

I plead no contest and managed stop laughing about 25 mins later.

I own a 323 station wagon with over 200 kw atw and I know of one that has over 250 kw both so I wouldnt count them off that quick

[ManDownUnder]

I own a 323 station wagon with over 200 kw atw and I know of one that has over 250 kw both so I wouldnt count them off that quick

Point taken, but the sewing machine noise eminating from him gunning the engine was far from threatening. That and a couple of mates in the car futher skewing the power to weight ratio against him... he'd have been lucky to do a hill start

[Jantar]

I own a 323 station wagon with over 200 kw atw and I know of one that has over 250 kw both so I wouldnt count them off that quick

Ho hum,

This comes up so often its getting boring. Look, go and do the maths. 200 kW at the wheel in a car weighing 1300kg (with a driver and fuel) gives a PtW of less than 0.16; a bike and rider combination weighing less than 170kg only needs 27 HP to beat your 323 right through its speed range. This happens to be exactly what the RGV produces standard. With the lower overall gearing and close ratio gear box available, the RGV should win the drag at lower speeds but lose out at top speed.

Take on a ginny if you want to drag off a bike.

Edit: Ooops, It is kW. I did the calculation on HP. The equivilent PtW would be a 150 kW car of this weight.

[revlikeshit]

Got to agree there, i know this sort of thing comes up alot, but i just couldnt help telling one of my experiences proving the fact again.
Still time and time again,its just as amusing to see the look on the face of mr boyracer as his late model $20,000 turbo charged tin top gets beat by a purple 150cc leaner bike.
And most of these boyracer cars have knowwhere near 200kw atw, -ill admit, the odd one does,but most dont,and even then their nothing special.

Good to see someone actually knows what their talking about in terms of power to weight etc.cant agree more, my rgv standard has 26.5hp, weighs 103kg(dry),has a close ratio gearbox(pretty sure its based on a dirtbike bottem end-would explain why it has such a small sprocket on the back- as to gear it up), add to the fact i weigh just under 65kg, and compared to your average car its a recipe for alot better acceleration.

[Monsterbishi]

And most of these boyracer cars have knowwhere near 200kw atw, -ill admit, the odd one does,but most dont,and even then their nothing special.

Good to see someone actually knows what their talking about in terms of power to weight etc.

You'll need to revise what you think is fast, and what isin't, our old car turned 240kw at the treads, and ran a 12.3@115mph, even when we had around 200kw, it was running high 13's@97mph with a bung turbo.

What's the fastest rgv150 timeslip you've ever seen?

torque's a bitch, lucky rgv150's don't have any.

It's less a story, and more a statement, but it's a pain in the arse when you're sitting at the lights, and get some piss tiny bike splits up the middle and then it's slower than the two cars at the front of the queue.

[Jantar]

...our old car turned 240kw at the treads, and ran a 12.3@115mph, even when we had around 200kw, it was running high 13's@97mph with a bung turbo....

240 kW is over 320 HP, so yes, that should beat a 150 cc learners bike.

As for standing 1/4 times; For small bikes like this they used to run standing 1/8 mile runs as the wee bikes would reach their effective top speed well before the end of the 1/4.

[Monsterbishi]

My point is even 200kw is more than enough to dispatch a 150cc 2 stroke bike, 1/8" mile or otherwise, if 1/8 mile is what they want to compare, we averaged 7.9sec with 240kw, and 8.1 sec on our 200kw setup.

There's no polite way to put it really, a bike that size will be beaten by anything remotely sporty.

[Jantar]

My point is even 200kw is more than enough to dispatch a 150cc 2 stroke bike,.....

And no-one has disputed that, Go back and look at the maths again. The comparison was between a 1300 kg car putting out 200 HP at a PtW of 0.16 Vs a bike with the same PtW of 0.16. The claim is that the bike should have the initial advantage, while the car will have the better top speed.

It was not a 200 kW car, that is one hell of a big difference. Even a 240 HP (180 kW) car should have thrashed the bike.

[Monsterbishi]

And no-one has disputed that, Go back and look at the maths again. The comparison was between a 1300 kg car putting out 200 HP at a PtW of 0.16 Vs a bike with the same PtW of 0.16. The claim is that the bike should have the initial advantage, while the car will have the better top speed.

It was not a 200 kW car, that is one hell of a big difference. Even a 240 HP (180 kW) car should have thrashed the bike.

all the posts above me say nothing about 200hp, it's all in Kw.

[Jantar]

all the posts above me say nothing about 200hp, it's all in Kw.

Sorry, you are right. I apologise. I made my calculation on HP. A 200 kW car will drag off the wee RGV 150.

[warewolf]

A 200 kW car will drag off the wee RGV 150

Remind me again, how much does a 200kW atw car cost? Would you describe it as a P.O.S.? How would it go against 99% of the bikes that aren't small Thai-made learner scoots?