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Markcb750

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My Machine
« on: September 25, 2012, 02:05:05 AM »
In the 1960's the older riders we knew taught us to call our motorcycles "our Machines". 

We said things like "taking my Machine over to Dan's house'.  "We rode our Machines to DC & back this weekend."

Anyone else remember this or was it simply a local thing in rural NY during the 1960's & 1970's?


I think I am going back to this way of communicating,  (Bell bottom jeans cannot be far away.    ::) )


Today I am going to pick out a new set of handle bar grips for my Machine during my lunch hour.

Tomorrow I need to buy insurance for my restored Machine.
 
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 04:11:48 AM »
Me thinks it was a local thing.  8)
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 04:48:12 AM »
LOL! We used the same word!  But it was back in Czechoslovakia, Czechs still use it afaik :)
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2012, 05:23:27 AM »
Quote from: Markcb750 on September 25, 2012, 02:05:05 AM
I think I am going back to this way of communicating,  (Bell bottom jeans cannot be far away.    ::) )

Sounds like something out of a movie. 

Be careful your kickstart doesn't get caught in the leg of your bell bottom jeans.  Be kinda hard to get a foot down
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2012, 05:30:15 PM »
I too come from upstate N.Y. and we called our bikes a machine. It's like folks from New Hampshire, it doesn't matter what kind of cage they drive, it's still called" Vehicle". I still call them machines, because they are.
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2012, 06:27:31 PM »
Nice to hear another remembers this method of identifying their ride. 


I have become habituated calling them Bikes but I think Machine will be better. 


Maybe the Lance Armstrong disappointment got me thinking of this again.  >:( 
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2012, 07:56:35 AM »
If my Dad was speaking German it was always a light machine, heavy machine or fast machine...
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2012, 07:40:08 PM »
Bruce Springstein, New Jersey State Song, Born to run, how many times was motorcycles called machines? Can't be local slang, maybe northeastern, but not  just in upstate  N.Y.


Shinny machine, suicide machine....You know you are right, the word" machine" sounds like a way better word. And I think that I will curb my usage of the word "bike" And use machine and cycle more often and get back to a more manly way describing what it is that I ride.
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2012, 07:57:25 PM »
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2012, 01:06:06 AM »
Welcome to the machine.. 8)

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Re: My Machine
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2012, 08:22:07 AM »
i'm from ohio and my dad has always called motorcycles (and ATVs, jet skis, etc) "machines"  maybe i'll adopt the slang and bring back the trend.  ;)
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2012, 11:10:57 AM »
Machine is also a common slang term for penis.  Potential for many humorous misunderstandings exists. ;)
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2012, 12:34:39 PM »
motorcycle.... dick.... what's the difference?   ::)
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2012, 02:48:50 AM »
"Baby wanna ride my machine"   might get your face slapped in Idaho.  Be careful out there.

 
Pink Floyd  8) :)
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #14 on: October 09, 2012, 07:32:04 PM »
My grandson likes machines also. ;D
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2012, 06:57:49 PM »
She was a fast machine , she kept her motor clean, she was the best damn woman that I ever seen...........
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Re: My Machine
« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2012, 07:22:09 PM »
Knocking me out with those American thighs...
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