A ricers paradise.
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A ricers paradise.
I found this on A thing For Cars and thought it was super funny and I'd share.
The world of automotive enthusiasts has many realms. There’s the muscle car fanboys, the gearhead mechanics and most notable, the ricers.
It’s Friday night, the start of the weekend. For many young people this signifies the start of a fun weekend out with friends, but to car enthusiasts this means the first night of cruising. During the day you may see the occasional obnoxiously raised truck, or a brightly colored car driving at the same speed as you but making five times more noise. You probably only think about said vehicles for a few seconds and then carry on with your commute. Well, I’m here to explain the entire world of these vehicles that blossoms at nightfall.
To start, a ricer is typically referred to as a person who modifies a completely stock car in obnoxious ways. A loud exhaust system with large tips commonly known as “fart cans” for their obscenely loud noise, very illegal window tinting, extremely bright paint jobs, decals or “stickers” applied everywhere, and cut suspension springs to have their car half an inch from the ground. For an easy view on a ricer for the average person, just think about the Fast and the Furious movie series. 96% of the cars featured have been completely riced. The rest are muscle cars.
Those two or three riced vehicles you may have seen during the day will likely be found in a local parking lot along with 30 other pieces of rice. If you had wanted a parking spot at that gas station you can forget about it. These ricers tend to all stand outside around their cars and talk to each other with their hoods open for hours at a time. It isn’t worth trying to wait out. This large crowd tends to all leave at the same time, switching into first gear and revving obnoxiously as they leave. You may even hear the lingering screetch of a few failed burnouts as the parking lot empties.
You finally obtained that fountain pop and beef jerky stick you wanted, and are heading out again. Cruising down the street at the average 30mph, you may fall victim to the ever classic “ricer fly-by”. Blue headlights glare sharply in the rear-view mirror and hover at a steady pace, then suddenly loud exhaust brapping fills the air as the same pair of blue headlights whiz passed you at an absurd 60mph. Out of no where there may be up to eight more cars that fly passed you in this same way, catching up to the first pair of blue headlights.They are likely all very far ahead of you, but you will meet them all again along with their epic bass systems. The chances are 80% or higher that you will get stuck behind a pair of ricers going 20mph because they are talking to each other about their rides through their windows. The only thing you can do here is ride their bumper something fierce, or wait out the inconvenience.
It is now around 11pm and it seems as though the only cars on the road are rice. The amount of “normal” cars has been reduced to almost nothing, and you should definitely feel as though you don’t belong on the streets at this time. This is the ricers’ realm now, and they will rice until dawn. Modified cars, raised trucks and packs upon packs of motorcyclists will dominate the road for the remainder of the weekend nights. This plague of rice is becoming more and more coming in small cities and big cities alike. There is no stopping it, and all you can do is deal with the plague
The rice scene in the small city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota seems to grow every weekend. I admit to being part of the disease known as rice. I am able to share all of this with you because I am a ricer myself. I started for the humor, but shamefully fell in love with modifying my 1996 Chevrolet Z24 Cavalier and have been in the ricing realm ever since. This is a world that everyone should come to know, for it is an ever growing part of life, slowly consuming every parking lot you know.
The world of automotive enthusiasts has many realms. There’s the muscle car fanboys, the gearhead mechanics and most notable, the ricers.
It’s Friday night, the start of the weekend. For many young people this signifies the start of a fun weekend out with friends, but to car enthusiasts this means the first night of cruising. During the day you may see the occasional obnoxiously raised truck, or a brightly colored car driving at the same speed as you but making five times more noise. You probably only think about said vehicles for a few seconds and then carry on with your commute. Well, I’m here to explain the entire world of these vehicles that blossoms at nightfall.
To start, a ricer is typically referred to as a person who modifies a completely stock car in obnoxious ways. A loud exhaust system with large tips commonly known as “fart cans” for their obscenely loud noise, very illegal window tinting, extremely bright paint jobs, decals or “stickers” applied everywhere, and cut suspension springs to have their car half an inch from the ground. For an easy view on a ricer for the average person, just think about the Fast and the Furious movie series. 96% of the cars featured have been completely riced. The rest are muscle cars.
Those two or three riced vehicles you may have seen during the day will likely be found in a local parking lot along with 30 other pieces of rice. If you had wanted a parking spot at that gas station you can forget about it. These ricers tend to all stand outside around their cars and talk to each other with their hoods open for hours at a time. It isn’t worth trying to wait out. This large crowd tends to all leave at the same time, switching into first gear and revving obnoxiously as they leave. You may even hear the lingering screetch of a few failed burnouts as the parking lot empties.
You finally obtained that fountain pop and beef jerky stick you wanted, and are heading out again. Cruising down the street at the average 30mph, you may fall victim to the ever classic “ricer fly-by”. Blue headlights glare sharply in the rear-view mirror and hover at a steady pace, then suddenly loud exhaust brapping fills the air as the same pair of blue headlights whiz passed you at an absurd 60mph. Out of no where there may be up to eight more cars that fly passed you in this same way, catching up to the first pair of blue headlights.They are likely all very far ahead of you, but you will meet them all again along with their epic bass systems. The chances are 80% or higher that you will get stuck behind a pair of ricers going 20mph because they are talking to each other about their rides through their windows. The only thing you can do here is ride their bumper something fierce, or wait out the inconvenience.
It is now around 11pm and it seems as though the only cars on the road are rice. The amount of “normal” cars has been reduced to almost nothing, and you should definitely feel as though you don’t belong on the streets at this time. This is the ricers’ realm now, and they will rice until dawn. Modified cars, raised trucks and packs upon packs of motorcyclists will dominate the road for the remainder of the weekend nights. This plague of rice is becoming more and more coming in small cities and big cities alike. There is no stopping it, and all you can do is deal with the plague
The rice scene in the small city of Sioux Falls, South Dakota seems to grow every weekend. I admit to being part of the disease known as rice. I am able to share all of this with you because I am a ricer myself. I started for the humor, but shamefully fell in love with modifying my 1996 Chevrolet Z24 Cavalier and have been in the ricing realm ever since. This is a world that everyone should come to know, for it is an ever growing part of life, slowly consuming every parking lot you know.
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^This is so true every weekend ricer nation comes and are attracted to walmart parking lots like bugs to bumpers lol nd i was the same way with my first car.smh (96 jetta) lol ive grown out if the major rice but no one can ever get rid of that disease.
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