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BURNOUT can mean alotta things to many. so if your feeling it in one way shape or form and the lack of MISCENE racing, and the crack down on the meth labs hasnt helped. take heed theres support from your fellow sceners. and dont worry if your a true scener this too shall pass. because the best is yet to come.

The origins of burnouts
can be traced to drag racing, where they have a practical purpose: drag racing tires perform better at higher temperatures, and a burnout is the quickest way to raise tire temperature immediately prior to a race.[citation needed] Drag race tracks sometimes use a specially-reserved wet-surface area known as the "burnout box" for this purpose.
Burnouts eventually became a serious form of competition and entertainment in their own right. Considerable prize money or goods are sometimes involved, and cars may even be sponsored or purpose-built specifically as "burnout cars".[citation needed] Burnout contests are judged on crowd response, with style and attitude therefore being important factors. Such contests are particularly popular in Australia[citation needed] but often occur in North America as well.
Burnouts are also common in informal street racing, usually for show value. As with all street racing activities, burnouts on public property are illegal in most countries but the severity of punishments vary. In New South Wales, for example, police have the power to confiscate the offending vehicle for three months for a first offense.[1]
Burnouts are also occasionally performed by winning drivers at the end of NASCAR races to celebrate their victory


Burnout
is a psychological term for the experience of long-term exhaustion and diminished interest (depersonalization or cynicism), usually in the work context. It is also used as an English slang term to mean exhaustion. Burnout is often construed as the result of a period of expending too much effort at work while having too little recovery, but it is sometimes argued that workers with particular personality traits (especially neuroticism) are more prone to experiencing burnout. Further, it appears that researchers disagree about the nature of burnout. While many researchers argue that burnout refers exclusively to a work-related syndrome of exhaustion and depersonalization/cynicism, others feel that burnout is a special case of the more general clinical depression or just a form of extreme fatigue/exhaustion (thus omitting the cynicism component

Burnout
is a 1970s and 1980s slang term often used to refer to (typically) juvenile delinquents interested in heavy metal music (see also Metalhead, hesher), typically dressed in 70s/80s populist hard rock fashion: denim, work boots, flannel shirts, wallet chains, concert shirts, leather studded wrist bands, and medium to long hair (or a mullet hairdo).
The stereotypical burnout indulges in rowdy anti-authoritarian behavior, including drugs and alcohol, vagrancy, vandalism, truancy, smoking, petty theft, violence and wild "pit parties" typically held in abandoned construction pits in wooded areas outside of suburban neighborhoods.
John Bender from The Breakfast Club was referred to as a burnout.
Favorite music of burnouts includes New Wave of British Heavy Metal groups such as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Ozzy Osbourne, as well as hard rock / heavy metal and other wild or radical bands such as AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Who, The Doors, Van Halen (with David Lee Roth), Guns N' Roses, and later in the 80s, death metal, thrash metal, and speed metal groups including Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth, and Venom and hardcore/punk music such as Stormtroopers of Death, Sex Pistols and Suicidal Tendencies.
In the early 1990s, bands such as the Melvins, Nirvana, Mr. Bungle, Supersuckers and Butthole Surfers would champion the "burnout" aesthetic, although the stereotype quickly faded into obscurity as alternative music and grunge music changed the cultural landscape and previously "burnout" characteristics were assimilated into mainstream youth culture (typified in the film Kids).
In popular culture, the Ramones, Lemmy of the band Motörhead, the character John Bender in film The Breakfast Club, the bully on the album cover of A.C.'s Everyone Should Be Killed, Beavis and Butthead, Crispin Hellion Glover's character in the film River's Edge, the teenage Earl J. Hickey portrayed in the television show My Name Is Earl, the 1980s lineup of Guns N' Roses, the 1970s rock band The Runaways, the album cover of The Who's Who's Next, various characters in the films Dazed and Confused, Over the Edge and Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, and the character Buddy Revell in the film Three O'Clock High typify the "burnout" image. The rock band Redd Kross wrote the song "Burn-out" for their 1982 album Born Innocent. The stereotype can be traced back to leather jacketed 1950s juvenile delinquents and bikers portrayed in films such as Rebel Without a Cause and The Wild One.
The term "burnout" originated in the late 1960s hippie era, referring to youths/dropouts who had "burnt out" from excessive drug use, and dressed in the unkempt hippie fashion, opposed any authority and preferred a raucous lifestyle and louder psychedelic and emerging heavy metal styles of music. In 1960s rock, early "burnout anthems" included Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" and The Troggs' "Wild Thing". Early "burnout" icons include James Dean, Jim Morrison, William Burroughs, The Stooges, the bandit in the film Rashomon, and Charles Manson.

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Metalhead
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andrew the right stuff weir
….it was beautiful Tuesday night in late June, and I come home brimming with the glory of summer, thinking that it is so nice out that wouldn’t it be great to kick back in the backyard with the dogs and not worry about having to rush out on my bike. I’ve been hitting it pretty hard all season, so I can take this day off and enjoy the summer sitting. I think to myself “….awesome”. So I go to the fridge and grab a ice cold Calabaza Blanca and plunk my ass in a lawn chair. Just as the sweaty condensation from the bottle starts to roll over my fingers, the whole world jumps, I must have started to doze off….the sun is so warm. As I sit there, I can’t shake the fading mental image of fluorescent, disarticulated appendages, and a slight feeling of apprehension. Thinking how weird that was, I push it out of my mind. I take another sip of cold beer, and the world starts to fade away again, going completely black this time. The next thing I know I am stark awake, screaming “ORANGE GLOVES………ORANGE GLOVES.” Then I remember, it all comes rushing back, the knowledge that the orange gloves are out there feeding, pushing, planning the dealing of pain in the autumn morning air. So, I pour out the rest of my beer, pull on the three layers of sweatsuits and hockey helmet, and pull down the 2002 Royce Union XTREME that I save for just such occasions. I let out all of the air in the tires and fill them with water, bend some spokes, and tighten down the brakes. Once the bike is set-up to my satisfaction, I head and do 47 grassy hill repeats, full bore, while slapping myself in the schrotum, and screaming “orange gloves………orange gloves……….ORANGE GLOVES.”……..

…..I tend not to ever really get burned out from riding, but I do get very burned out on organized training. When this happens I usually just try to flip the routine around a little, and ride some bikes, or place, that I have not ridden in awhile. I’ll take the mountain bike out to Poto and do a couple of laps. Or I will hit dirt roads with my cross bike. There is really nothing better than hitting the dirt roads on a cross bike in the middle of summer with the Ipod loaded with Daft Punk…………….ORANGE GLOVES……………wait, what?……Oh, yeah…….with the Ipod loaded with Minor Threat to really reconnect you with the reasons why you love riding bikes in the first place……..

jay still one of us moncel
yes. stop racing. rest.
too many people forget about the obvious. just simply rest.

sprint king Terry Palmer
just say no to drugs. I will never be a burn out. Wait maybe I didn't follow you there can you please rephrase the question

jason BEER BUDDY Lummis
Burn out, Fuck NO, thats why we make the MI Scene so strong. Long and hard biatches keep the shit real fun.JL

Tom ROCKSTAR of TMS Finkel
Historically I am always stoked in March and ready to have the best season of my life. However, by July I seem to just be going through the motions. Superweek always serves as a battery recharge and gets me focused again. However, I have to say that this season is the first year that my focus has exponentially sharpened since March. Burnout for me at this point is quite the contrary. This is completely due to my decision to commit to a 24hr solo event. I’ve never had a “target” event before. It started as something I just wanted to accomplish, to wanting to take a podium spot. Most recently, I have become obsessed with the notion of a possible win. I have more miles and structured training in this year than all of last season. My family and girlfriend, while supportive, can attest that something has changed in me this season. Everything I do is relative to the 24hr race. Even my teammates have complained that I am not as fun as the past, mostly because my beer consumption has diminished greatly. However, with such an epic goal in sight, it seems my road racing has improved this season. I’m not sure if this anti-burn-out program is the most realistic for every season, but it seems that while “the summer of the Finkelstein” unfolds, having a target event serves as an extremely effective catalyst to combat getting sick of what we all love to do most: ride and race our bikes.

Tim NO LONGER THE UNDERDOG Saari
if i've ever been burned out, it's probably only been like a first degree burn. i don't think i do enough miles to reach the burnout point ever so i'm more concerned about mental burnout than physical burnout. i usually mark a week off every few months to ignore the bike. "distance makes the heart grow fonder."

SIMONSTER
When I feel the burn out comming on, I like getting together and riding with young up and comming riders. Take them out on the same roads and trails that carved me into a halfway decent cyclist. Watch them push the pace on me and sprint to the top of every hill, then watch them bonk hard at the end of the ride. It reminds me how driven and motivated I need to be. It reminds me that I still need to be just as driven and confident to keep my progression going as a cyclist at higher levels of the sport.