It may be that I'm just getting to be a grumpy old ****, but I had the nerve to comment on a post in a particular thread recently, then got a PM from one of the contributors asking me to remove my comment

My take on things is "why should I?"

If people want to go ahead and post on an open forum, why should I then change my post just because they don't like it?

I'll quote the relevant comments, being generous and keeping their anonimity, and let you make your mind up

Orignial post (strangely amended yesterday):-

"I'm looking forward to more pics. I've heard about this and I raced you on the M40 once too a while back. We were making serious progress...

You won! "

Response by OP:-

"Haha cheers, can't remember the race :("

Message via OP from original poster:-

"It seems you have taken issue with a post I made which was a bit 'waffley' and had a reference to driving quickly. I agree It wasn't great. The post you made is nothing more than a needless dig at myself (some 4 months later too!) It's also needlessly clogging up another users thread. So please delete it"

Well I'm sorry, but the answer's no!

If you're daft enough to race on public highways and then post it in an open forum, expect to get slated.

Heaven forbid any threads on here get filled up with inane waffle eh brim?

Brimma in Grumpy Old Man Shocker!!

I'm with Lee on this one. Post about racing on the public highway in an open forum, suffer the potential consequences.

Heaven forbid any threads on here get filled up with inane waffle eh brim?

Exactly!

I don't always agree with you Brimma...but in this case I see no reason for you to delete the post.

Admitting on a forum that you raced on public roads is not the cleverest thing to do. Forums are open for comments and views as long as they are within the rules.

Report, ignore, we'll sort!

Job done!

As Jason said, I'd expect a mod to edit/remove if they saw it.

So maybe it's easier to hit the report button than respond.

As Jason said, I'd expect a mod to edit/remove if they saw it.

So maybe it's easier to hit the report button than respond.

Less fun though

Aright then, the basic core fact is that everybody races on the roads, it's a bit like fight club, the first rule is you don't talk about it.. Every other thread on here is " ooh look at my big exhaust" or "wow my car is chipped" so it's only to be expected that these people race their cars on the road, isn't that the whole point of tuning your car up after all? To make it faster? So in that respect I think it's hypocritical for folks to say how racing is frowned on on the roads...

Me personally. I don't race on the roads, I have my own personal race track that just happens to look like a road.

I always let the mods deal with stupidity. Simple!

Or just block the really persistent trolls/heros out there.

Aright then, the basic core fact is that everybody races on the roads, it's a bit like fight club, the first rule is you don't talk about it.. Every other thread on here is " ooh look at my big exhaust" or "wow my car is chipped" so it's only to be expected that these people race their cars on the road, isn't that the whole point of tuning your car up after all? To make it faster? So in that respect I think it's hypocritical for folks to say how racing is frowned on on the roads...

Me personally. I don't race on the roads, I have my own personal race track that just happens to look like a road.

I think you're forgetting the subtle difference between driving fast on a road and racing on the road

Driving fast, should you choose to do so, is a personal thing

Racing implies a degree of mutual knowledge of the parties of what each is doing, and going head to head with each other in close proximity

The latter obviously being infinitely more dangerous to other road users than the former

I suspect when people do claim to be racing it's often just two cars near each other putting their foot down to compare acceleration.

I'm not sure that's really racing anyway. Although that's what people write.

Racing is when you get one or two numpties who have to beat you at all costs, including taking daft risks and putting other road users in danger.

The latter of these I back off and let go, or let them get in front and turn off.

Life is too short to have innocents killed or injured just because you had to prove to your passenger your car is faster than an XXX.

Less fun though

However your fun is what perhaps can be perceived as "trolling" - report, ignore, move on. Better things to I am sure.

The latter of these I back off and let go, or let them get in front and turn off.

Life is too short to have innocents killed or injured just because you had to prove to your passenger your car is faster than an XXX.

Seems a little rich from someone who's recently posted the following status update:

is clearing the outside lane of BMW and Audi drivers.

Sorry Bossfox, not trying to start a forum spat with you, but does seem perhaps a little hypocritical

Brimma - if you want to deflate ego's - go for it

Seems a little rich from someone who's recently posted the following status update:

Sorry Bossfox, not trying to start a forum spat with you, but does seem perhaps a little hypocritical

I can't help it if the sight of a bright yellow GT-R with bright DRLs on makes them instinctively get into the correct lane.

We are talking about racing and posting about it.

I know the one you mean Brian. The kids did get a little offended by it. But as Tom says, the first rule of fight club is....

I know the one you mean Brian. The kids did get a little offended by it. But as Tom says, the first rule of fight club is....

As I said in my PM response to the request......think before you post

He might well have been offended, but to me there was nothing 'waffly' about his initial comment

Strange that it often seems to be the 'youf' in Fabia 1 who like to shout their mouths off

One way to think about it, is what would you have said if you’d heard the two chaps talking about it in a pub, rather than a semi-anonymous message board?

Chances are, despite thinking these guys are a pair of idiots, you wouldn't have went over and wagged your finger and had a grumble at them.

On the flip-side, if you were the sort of person that thought what they were doing sounded like fun, you'd have been more likely to wander over and join in with their conversation.

My view, if you can't find a way to join the conversation in a postive or useful manner with the OP, then not to bother at all.

Different if they were asking people's general opinion of racing on the road, then fire-away, give it to them, but if your opinion isn't asked for, it won't be well received. Even if your trying to help the poor sod, by offering advice on the legal intricacies of racing on public roads, you know it's not going to go down well, or change their behaviour, so why bother? If they're daft enough to post about it on here, let them find their own consequences. If you struggle to turn a blind eye, the report button is a mere click away, anonymous, doesn't stir-up trouble, doesn't give you the reputation as a 'troller' and is much quicker than replying.

As Richard said. No one really races on the roads, merely tests acceleration with another close by. I drove briskly the other day with my brother following. We weren't racing, merely driving a bit quick on a B road. We all do this, hence the name of this site being Briskoda.

Edited 29 March, 201313 yr by MartynVRS

Different if they were asking people's general opinion of racing on the road

That would be an interesting thread....

"Hey, had a race with a Fabia/Saxo/Abarth etc etc the other day, what do you think?"

I'm not sure where the comparison of 'trolling' and pointing out illegalities comes to be honest......must be me that's the villain then?

I remember a certain European brisky jaunt which involved some 20 plus cars doing insane speeds!!!!! Guess that is ok cos its in Europe tho....

One way to think about it, is what would you have said if you’d heard the two chaps talking about it in a pub, rather than a semi-anonymous message board?

That's not really a fair comparison, as it's between two people who know each other and though they are speaking in a public place, it's a private conversation. Now if one of those blokes stood up in a pub and shouted out that he had had a road race with a BMW M3 in his mark 1 Fabia VRS, then it would be exactly like starting a racing topic on here.

Recently in a town on angelsey two numpties where racing so close that when they hit the lad crossing the road, both cars went under him before he hit the ground and yes he died :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-20467985

So no friggin racing on the public highways, if you have a numpties trying to gaud you into a race, turn the other cheek IMO it would only end in tears

I remember a certain European brisky jaunt which involved some 20 plus cars doing insane speeds!!!!! Guess that is ok cos its in Europe tho....

Assuming it was on stretches of road where you could do insane speeds