THE showoff was flirting with death, performing stunts at highspeed while others filmed him on their handphones.
As his small capacity, two-stroke bike sped down the road, he stood up, balanced one foot on the fuel tank with the other on the seat.

He then began to 'surf' his bike by placing his feet on the bike's seat.

Without holding the handlebars, the bike tipped precariously from side to side, narrowly missing a friend's motorbike.

Despite the danger, the rider continued to 'surf' for his cheering buddies, who filmed him while riding alongside.

They could have been copying stunts from action movies like Torque and Biker Boyz.

Their stunt also raises the possibility that Malaysia's 'Mat Rempit', or hellrider phenomenon, has caught on in Singapore.

The Mat Rempit is a series of illegal races and stunts on Malaysian roads, attracting up to 100,000 people to its video clips on the Internet.

In July last year, Malaysian police nabbed as many as 500 motorists and spectators in Gelang Patah, Johor, for suspected involvement in illegal motorcycle and car racing.

Scores of Singaporeans and their cars were also detained in the raid.

Like Mat Rempit, the Singapore stunts are also uploaded on the Internet.

The bikers in the clip claim to demonstrate their stunts on quiet stretches of roads here late at night.

A check by The New Paper on Sunday showed that there are at least 25 video clips of motorists performing dangerous stunts on Singapore roads.

Familiar landmarks in the clips, such as Seletar Dam's unmistakeable two-lane road and Tanah Merah Ferry Road's fishermen's bridge, stand out.

The people who uploaded the video clips sometimes leave hints, with captions like 'WRX vs EVO 3 at 40 lamp post (local slang for Lim Chu Kang drag strip)' and 'illegal footage of street racing in Tuas'.

CTE SPEED DEMON

A six-minute-long video clip, entitled 'Getaway in CTE Singapore Style', features a cockpit view of a car speeding along the Central Expressway.

The CTE tunnel entrance near Outram Road and the high-rise apartments near Moulmein Road are easily recognisable in the video footage as the car accelerates past them.The caption on the clip boasts the driver "whacking through CTE topping 100 miles per hour (160kmh)".

In the CTE tunnel heading towards Ang Mo Kio, the car picks up pace, zig-zagging past slower cars.

The video claims to have been shot from inside a Mitsubishi Evolution 5.

It is not clear when the footage was taken, but 3,200 people have viewed the clip.

Another video clip features a two-minute drag race between a Lotus Exige and a Mitsubishi Evo 7.

About 9,400 people have so far seen the clip, titled 'Singapore Street Racing', posted late last year.

The footage, shot from inside one of the cars, shows them dashing from a traffic stop.

Another camera positioned at the side of the road captures the cars roaring past, before tyre-screeching to a halt.

Reflecting the arrogance of such posts are comments posted on the site.

One of them wrote: "I can smoke these guys any time with my Gallardo (Lamborghini Gallardo, an Italian sportscar).

One of the latest clips, which was uploaded in March, is a nine-second footage showing two cars racing.

About 15 spectators stood on the left side of the three-laned road as the two cars zoomed past.

While most of the car scenes are speed-related, the motorcycle clips feature speeding and stunts.

A February 2007 clip shows a motorcyclist 'testing' his bike along Tanah Merah Ferry Road.

The rider of the high-revving motorcycle was riding without his headlights on, near an area popular with anglers.

Just as daring is footage of high-speed cornering duels at the International Business Park in Changi.

But the video clip of a biker 'surfing' on his motorbike is perhaps the most reckless.

The 30-second clip, posted in August last year, shows the rider standing on his bike like a surfer.

He later sits on his motorcycle box while travelling in what seems like an HDB estate.

Other scenes show riders pulling wheelies (which involves riding on a motorcycle's rear wheel) and stoppies (breaking hard so that a motorcycle's rear wheel is in the air).

Burnouts (spinning the rear wheel at high revs while stationary) and Doughnuts (the motorcycle spins in a perfect circle) are also favourites done by some of the riders in carparks.

Most of the clips were taken using handphone cameras, which explains the fuzzy images.