RESEARCH QUESTION (1)

Who are "Rempit"?

"Rempit" or usually call "Mat Rempit" are made up mostly teenagers.Nowadays even the girls are also merempit.The age group usually are between the ages of 16 to 30 years old.A "Mat Rempit is term for an individual who participates in illegal street racing, usually involving underbone motocycles or scooters.Not all "Mat Rempit" are involved in street racing,some of them perform crazy stuns for fun, such as the wheelie, superman (lying flat on the seat), wikang, and scorpion (standing on the seat with one leg during a wheelie)
There are a few properties of recognizing "Rempit" group :
1. Move in group
Rempit usually move in group and at night especiaaly during the weekends, sometimes, they will purposly create noise to attract the attention of crowds especially the yaung girls

2. Skillfull in handling motorbike
"Rempit" are expects in handling motobikes, They enjoy speeding and zig-zagging between the vehicles, especially on the highways and peak hours

3. Interest in showing their stunts
"mat Rempit" like ti show stuns on the road. Sometimes, they do stunts for fun in certain places that they know will get full attention of the public. The audience will be beside the highway looking at the "Mat Rempit" doing their action and cheering them on.

4. A lot of traffic offence.
Most of "Mat Rempit" face a lot of traffic offence, like not having driving license, owning stolen motocycle component, disturbing the traffic and so on.

Written by :
Che Wan Ahmad Zamri G75329