How to be a successful Boy Racer

[pamplemoose]

Originally posted by DB5
So this isn't mentioning it.

But the difference is he doesn't walk aruond with it strapped to his back, glowering at people and showing off how loud his fans are....

 

[Pigeon]

We had a car meet in a supermarket carpark a couple of weeks ago and the coppers turned up. As soon as the words "car club" were mentioned they were happy and trundled off to leave us to socialise. Probably the only good experience I have had with the police.

ditto for us, there is just not enough people/money/time to make it worth renting somewhere properly to go. We do have proper meets though - we had a room at gaydon last Month which was good, and they did not mind a bit of tearing around by us as the place was virtually deserted! (NB someone had there engine remapped and was being tested at low revs as it would ot idle, it created more distubence when it was sitting still!)
We got spoken to a few times, largely because of a flock of Metros on a Sunday night taking over a carpark in the middle of the town (largely because some guy in a nova was doing burnouts (not with us) or there were other boyracers going round and round. We were all parked up, watching a dvd in someones metro would you believe and chatting. The only other incident was that a highstreet maccy d's only has parking for 8, and when a lot of metros turn up we took a few parking liberties (read double parked one on pavement one on double yellows!). Luckily the cops saw the amusing wide and gav us a few seconds to move on back to the pub (afer we had got food )

Never had any problem with the proper modified bunch with dangerous driving / racing but more often the people trying to race in front are mr BMW/Mondeo/Vectra or Mrs Merc, needless to say they rarely get let in unless they really cane it ahead!

 

[Garp]

Originally posted by eidolon
(I know that LED washers and italic number plates are annoying but in the grand scheme of things, they're not really that important.)

Until you are involved in a car accident, or witness one occuring, and can't read the licence plate of the guilty parties car.. sure.
And remember, Boy racers are 99% of the time doing faster than the speed limit and thus more likely to both hit someone, and kill them, than those actually doing no more than the limit.

 

[Lopéz]

Originally posted by Garp
Until you are involved in a car accident, or witness one occuring, and can't read the licence plate of the guilty parties car.. sure.
And remember, Boy racers are 99% of the time doing faster than the speed limit and thus more likely to both hit someone, and kill them, than those actually doing no more than the limit.

Interesting statistics.

Your source?

 

[daz]

Originally posted by Lopéz
Interesting statistics.

Your source?

Yeah i'd like a source too...

Maybe it was your bottom?

 

[ironman]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How to be a successful Boy Racer

Originally posted by Lostkat
In fact he says he's never actually taken a driving test in his life He was driving lorries at 15. His driving still blows though.

LOL this is so scary, thats exactly like my grandad He says he didnt take a driving test but he used to be an ambulance driver in the army. But he is not allowed to drive anymore (direct order from my dad) since he reversed the Omega into a lamppost

Boy racers dont really annoy me, you only ever usually see them on the way and back from school. What ticks me off more is crap drivers.

 

[Stiff_Cookie]

Originally posted by frost-t
I love to see the boyracers who have those 'HUGE' whale tail spoilers on, they dont even know what there for and if they do then the'll know that they create downforce to help cornering and to grip the road better, but dont these ***** know that you have to do 100+ if not even faster than that to create downforce and i'm sure your average nova does that.

Yea, but who cares if they know what it is there for or anything like that. Just because they have it doesnt mean they have it because they know what it is. Often enough, and believe it or not, people like to make their car look good, in their opinion.

 

[nutcase]

Originally posted by silverpaw
BooM BADDA BooM BOOM BOOM!

Prats mostly, fly up our highstreet at 50-60mph on friday nights when there are people all over. Even during the day, why they think I should want to hear their racket I don't know, funny thing is, a boy racer sees someone 16-25 and suddenly turns his crap music up to full volume. It's like saying "look at me, I'm a ****"

Couldn't have put it any better.

I don't **** off people who mod their computer cases. It's not something I do, and I don't really understand why people do it. However, them doing it doesn't spoil my quality of life in any way.

However, "boy racers" regularly cut me up, sit on my arse, pull out in front of me, turn in front of me, don't indicate on roundabouts, annoy me with their extremely distorted stereos, crash at the end of my road etc.

It's true to say most modded cars are perfectly acceptable - lowered a little, a stainless exhaust etc. All fine IMO. It's the ones with the hillarious body kits etc. The "Individual" cars that all look the same that wind me up. God's gift to driving... and spotty 14 year old girls. Apparently.

Still, gives me something to chuckle at.

 

[tom]

Originally posted by daz
Yeah i'd like a source too...

Maybe it was your bottom?

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Quality.

99%, I'll believe it when I see it.

I don't see why people have such a problem with modified cars, if they are breaking the law and deliberately causing distractions to the general public, then fair enough, but just slating people's cars and stereo-typing the drivers of these cars is pointless to say the least.

//Tom

 

[MindYerBeak]

Are you a Boy Racer, someone who poses and seeks attention from passers by, or are you a car enthusiast? If an enthusiast then why take exception to a complaint? 'Tis not my fault boy racers have given themselves a bad name, especially in my area and I have a right to complain when a boy racer whizzes through a supermarket car park at 30mph simply attention seeking, don't you think? It may have been 6am but there were 40-50 cars parked there by early morning shoppers and someone could have been killed. Not injured, killed. Would you all be protecting your boy racer image if someone had been killed, I wonder? Or if I had had my leg decapitated by a poser?

Don't shout at me and accuse me of destroying your precious image, blame the posers that give you a bad name. It's human nature to tar everyone with the same brush, even if just a minority act like attention seeking, frustrated teenagers. I understand taking exception to being branded the same as the looneys, but that's the price you pay when others give you a bad name. Blame them, not me.

Blaring music emanating from a car on the highway is nothing more than attention seeking and is a nuisance to pedestrians and road users. So, too, is a needless loud exhaust. Why have a loud exhaust when there isn't a need? To seek attention. That's not modding, that's annoyance. I've seen many a young child and mother frightened and walk away from the kerb when a loud exhaust comes screaming past, and I've even seen some kids crying in fear as a result. I wouldn't be surprised if the noise level is also illegal. The discos they have in their cars - with the windows wound down to attract passers by - is certainly illegal and causes noise pollution.

Car thieves don't go around touting a banner saying "This car is stolen". The police have no way of knowing a car is stolen or not, they have a difficult job to do in catching them. Those who use built up areas as a racing track, as is the case in Swansea, need to be stopped, before someone is killed. Boy racers have given themselves a very bad name here, are a nuisance and danger to the public. Blame them for giving you a bad name, not me. Even the local newspaper is condemning them.

 

[Kitchster_uk]

When does a car enthusiast become a boy racer (serious question) I'm sure most people here have broken the speed limit from time to time, or screeched their tyres, or taken on the Traffic Light Grand Prix.

Also, does a boy racer have to drive a modified car (again, a serious question) and do the necessarily have to be a bad driver. Some people are better at judging the limits of their motors and some actually know through testing on private land etc.

Having said all that, I do dislike burbury cap wearing trolls with Kappa up each leg and 3 stipes down their arms, accompanied by shoes no one in their right mind would EVER wear, driving a small, badly modified POS with a 1.0l engine.

 

[Lopéz]

Originally posted by MindYerBeak
Are you a Boy Racer, someone who poses and seeks attention from passers by, or are you a car enthusiast?[/b]

Enthusiast - though many of my friends are "boy racers"

If an enthusiast then why take exception to a complaint?

Because there is a worrying trend to lump anyone who likes cars into one category.

'Tis not my fault boy racers have given themselves a bad name, especially in my area and I have a right to complain when a boy racer whizzes through a supermarket car park at 30mph simply attention seeking, don't you think?

Yes you have a right to complain, although wouldn't complaining to the police be more effective than ranting ona forum?

It may have been 6am but there were 40-50 cars parked there by early morning shoppers and someone could have been killed. Not injured, killed. Would you all be protecting your boy racer image if someone had been killed, I wonder? Or if I had had my leg decapitated by a poser?

I'm sorry I don't understand why someone would have been killed and not injured? Is anybody struck by a car in a car park instantly guaranteed to die? What a shocking revelation.
Nobody is protecting, we are having a debate rather than stating blanket "facts" like some people do

Don't shout at me and accuse me of destroying your precious image, blame the posers that give you a bad name. It's human nature to tar everyone with the same brush, even if just a minority act like attention seeking, frustrated teenagers.

As a sensible human being capable of independant sentient thoughts and actions I manage to avoid tarring people with the same brush.

I understand taking exception to being branded the same as the looneys, but that's the price you pay when others give you a bad name. Blame them, not me.

Blame them? Because you are not informed or interested enough to form a reasoned opinion? No thanks, I'll stick to blaming you.

Blaring music emanating from a car on the highway is nothing more than attention seeking and is a nuisance to pedestrians and road users.

Tripe. If I want to listen to music loud then I will (says he with no car stereo atm)
Why does everything have to be about posing to you? Ever thought people might just like loud music? Perish the thought! You constantly harp on about bragging rights, yet when there is a possibility of somebody else showing something off it becomes unacceptable?

So, too, is a needless loud exhaust. Why have a loud exhaust when there isn't a need? To seek attention. That's not modding, that's annoyance.

Huge ignorance on your part I'm afraid. Performance exhausts by their very definition aid gas flow and engine performance. In order to do this they must be of a larger bore and are less silenced. Therefore they will be louder.
The fact that it sounds nice is a wonderful bonus. Listen to a 996 on Termignoni exhausts and tell me it doesn't sound fantastic.

I've seen many a young child and mother frightened and walk away from the kerb when a loud exhaust comes screaming past, and I've even seen some kids crying in fear as a result.

And I've seen people coughing their lungs up from cigarrete smoke produced by selfish smokers, and people frightened by drunken tramps. Although for anyone to be afraid of an exhaust note is a rather odd concept to say the least.

I wouldn't be surprised if the noise level is also illegal.

I would - exhausts sold in the UK must conform to strict legislation, overly loud exhausts will be marked quite clearly "For Competition Use Only"

The discos they have in their cars - with the windows wound down to attract passers by - is certainly illegal and causes noise pollution.

Or the windows down because it's a nice day? Or because (like me) they just prefer to drive with the windows down?
How is it "certainly illegal" - legislation to back this up please.

Car thieves don't go around touting a banner saying "This car is stolen". The police have no way of knowing a car is stolen or not, they have a difficult job to do in catching them. Those who use built up areas as a racing track, as is the case in Swansea, need to be stopped, before someone is killed. Boy racers have given themselves a very bad name here, are a nuisance and danger to the public. Blame them for giving you a bad name, not me. Even the local newspaper is condemning them.

Local newspapers will condemn anything for the sake of a story. Most people should really have learnt this by now.

While I understand a number of your opinions, you aren't doing a very good job of stating your case s'ah

 

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[PsychoFunnyGun]

Originally posted by wohoo
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only read MYB's post hehehehe

 

[tom]

/\/\/\/\ hat's off to you Lopéz. Sorry to throw the thread slightly off topic, but I have to say, I enjoy reading your replies and threads Lopéz, it is evident that your posts are well thought out, and opinions backed up-

Moving back on topic-

If people want to have a car which looks nice, then let them, what harm is it? That is of course if they aren't driving like a complete ****. Why, just as you see one person driving a modified car in an unresposible manner, should all drivers of modded cars be tagged and stereo-typed a "boy racer". Have you ever thought that it may be a hobby to them, that it might be what they enjoy doing, or spending their money on? If they like to play their music loud, why not? It's not against the law unless it is in a residential area, causing an immense amount of stress after 11pm.

//Tom

 

[cyKey]

I drive a Corsa, and usually have loud music blaring and have been known to speed. If you saw me go past you might think I'm a boy racer, until you thnk "Was that the bond theme?" or "Why would anyone play Christina Aguilera *that* loud?". They're eyes would be saying "Boy Racer", their ears would be saying "Its Bond??". I can't imagine what they'd be thinking as they'd be trying to stereotype me but it just wouldn't fit.

I don't play my music loud for anyone else but me, and I play it loud because it sounds a hell of a lot better at that volume. Put Rage Against The Machine on quietly and its just like driving a Porsche in 1st, wtf is the point. RATM's album Renegades has more bass than a lot of dance tracks, when I whack "Maggies Farm" on its just soooo darn good to hear it in my car. I can't get that kind of experience at home due to parents, neighbours etc.

Which is worse, a quick 5 second blast when I drive thru your town, or living next to me having it that loud for around 18hrs a day?

 

[trancer_86]

Originally posted by cobra
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Quality.

99%, I'll believe it when I see it.

I don't see why people have such a problem with modified cars, if they are breaking the law and deliberately causing distractions to the general public, then fair enough, but just slating people's cars and stereo-typing the drivers of these cars is pointless to say the least.

//Tom

I agree, Theres **** all wrong with most boyracers. Most just modify there cars as a hobby, and all probably drive just as good if not, better than every1 else!

Like cobra says if people want a car that looks nice then whats the harm in it, if sum1's going to mod there car there probably goin to be much more carful n e way...

 

[Kitchster_uk]

Just thought, I play loud music in the car.

However, I'm not sure Radio 3 and Classic FM qualify me in the 'Boy Racer' category

 

[Jest3r]

mmm, nice responses lopez
i'd have to agree, sw-cc (south wales car club) is an enthusiasts site, and yes the cars are modded, yes their powerful.

I'd personally say the risk on the kingsway during the day is buses cutting up normal cars, and taxi's mis using the buslanes for stopping points, and then they complain in the evenings about "boy racers"? Pot + Kettle?

MYB, you ever been in Tesco's when the police park in the pickup bay? or taxis? if so, i've never seen a thread about it and I can state that they used to blue light from swansea police station to the curryhouse over near joe's ice cream parlour in st helen's just for their evening meal, reckless?

 

[wassap]

For loud music i have my own ettiquette system, if im driving through a busy town or stuck at lights my tunes are low, but if im going through somewhwre fairly quickly i have it on as i please, that way its of no annoyance to any others, if im moving quickly then someone only puts up with the tune for a nano second

As for supposed boy racer, its their money, if they want a car looking like a spaceship, thats their perogative, get down to proper car clubs and u will see a lot of tastefully modded cars and a lot of wild and wacky ones too, its what their into, just as lads here are into overclocking and case modding etc.

I think peeps need to give others a break and not jump to instant conclusion about folks they dont even know, apart from nova driving burberry cappers