so what is up with the anti drifters on NICO?

[Dookie]

Drifting does have its posers. The "scene" really is gay. But I love drifting, as well as most motorsports. I dont think the people who dont like drifting havent had the chance to ride with someone good/insanely reckless. Drifting isnt all about the aspect of "ice skating" either, many of the drivers, at least down in louisiana try to drift in a race line just like grip driving. The first drift event in southern louisiana was probably the worst event ever. It was a grip/drift session. The drifters got half the time the grippers did even though the turnout was about equal for each group. I kept overhearing some smug british guy in a bmw m roadster just bash the crap out of drifting when he has probably never done it in his life. Luckily, I haven't seen him ever since. I'm glad too even though I want to show him what it feels like to do 70+ mph entry speed onto 1.5 lane sharp decreasing radius turn. I dont even think his bimmer has the balls to do that.

[Sil40_Mayhem]

Wow, old thread ressurection style.

Anyhow, everything that becomes popular will have it's share of retarded followers. It happened to drag racing (waaaay back when), then import drag racing, and don't get me started on skateboarding (not that I was ever a skater, but you get my point). I believe it was during that time when the term poseur/poser was coined.

Whatever the case may be, what appears to be prevalent to me is the growing trend/bandwagon of anti-trend/bandwagon. Anytime something becomes popular, immediately an elitist, separatist group forms and begins bashing the trend. What is now looked down upon as rice (in this case, I'm referring to aestetic mods that aren't overtly tacky, but offer nothing in the way of performance), at one point, was cool. Not any more. Later, non-gaudy JDM style was the in thing. When that blew up, people began hating on it. The same can be said for drifting, FN01RC's, and lately, 240s. There are some who only seem satisfied when they are a part of a small and/or underground demographic (in otherwords, elite). These are probably the same folks who will forsake their own mothers should they become too popular, as well.

[spec-u-later]

I don't understand why those of you who do not like drifting even look or post in this section of the forum. I don't have an Infiniti so I don't waste my time with that part of the site. It seems like some of you come here on purpose so you can make long-winded granstand speaches and try to sound smart even though odds are you don't speak like that in real life.

[nismofly]

fyi this post was in gen chat and got moved here, thats why theres a lot of non-drifters earlier in the thread

[Joe]

fyi this post was in gen chat and got moved here, thats why theres a lot of non-drifters earlier in the thread

i kinda want to move it back to gen because there was a decent discussion going on till they moved it here.

[spec-u-later]

fyi this post was in gen chat and got moved here, thats why theres a lot of non-drifters earlier in the thread

Oh, well that explains it then. I stand slightly corrected.