Topic: Share your biker/rider slang (non-US especially)

[Kaze]

Howdy.
I lived in Osaka for over a decade, and oddly enough my best friends were Scots, Brits, and Ozzies. That threw a spanner in my slang, so I often say dodgy instead of sketchy, and too many of my sentences end with "enit?" Hanging around Japanese bikers during those years did me in a treat as well. They use both British and American biker terms quite often, and as a result I say "winkers" where a lot of other Americans say "blinkers".

For some reason, Japanese guys call a 750cc bike a "Nana-han" which means 7 1/2. lol  A 883 Sportster is a "Papa-san" (because 8-8-3 can be read PA-PA-SAN). Triumphs are generally "Tora" which means "Tiger". Motorcycle and bicycle seats are always a "saddle".

I enjoy hearing slang from other countries, but here I'd like to discuss slang that pertains to motorcycles. It doesn't matter to me if you're a Brit, from Oz, or South African. If you have some English-based biker slang, please lay it on us.

I'll start with what I've seen or heard, and please tell me if it's wrong (or old)

These are British bike terms I think we Americans have heard...
"Bitsa" Bit of this, bit of that? We'd say Frankenbike. Is this still used?
"Goes like the Clappers" Fast bike. Really? Old? What's current?
"Widowmaker" really fast bike. I think we might use this here too...
"The Ton" 100mph. Everybody knows this here, but now some bikes do 200mph or more. ...2 tons? lol
"Bodger" someone who buys cheap parts to fix #$%* quick. Old? Current?
"Panniers" saddlebags... or a French bakery.
"Clock" speedometer?
"Rocker" "Ton-up boy" "Cafe racer" "leather boys" are any of these current, or all out of date?

Ozzies apparently say carbo "Carbies" for carbs, which I quite like.

Where you're from, what do you call your riding leathers? Saddlebags? Car drivers, helmets, guys who wear flip-flops and shorts on a crotch-rocket...

[budman]

My ex is British.  She referred to fenders as "mud-guards" and blinkers as "indicators".  Also, for guys that wear biker stuff but don't ride, she called them "sidewalk commandos".

[spotty]

some more aussie...

we actually say carbies

chookchaser - dirtbike ( chook is australian for chicken )

stinkwheels - two stroke

dunger - any generally fcuked or unloved bike

[Kaze]

Sidewalk Commando reminds me of The Clash lyric, "I got my motorcycle jacket, but I'm walkin all the time". (Song: This is England)

Stinkwheels... that was my bike till I fixed the carbs. (I'll fix that mistake up there too)

[dave500]

an engine is a donk!

[spotty]

man with stick up arse - BMW rider

[HondaMan]

[Old...] Benchracer - the guy who talks down some other fast rider's mistake in a race, usually causing a crash. Real racers know they're just one goofup away from that, themselves.

Sticky tire - a Benchracer who 'knows' more about cornering a bike he's never ridden at high speed.

Slick brake - a Benchracer who has never locked up a front wheel in a decel turn.

Twisted wrench - one who knows all about the inner workings of the engines he's never worked on.

Tortured soul - the guy who bought the Blue Streak to beat the CB750s in Saturday Night's streetlight races, but can't leave the light without stalling it (circa 1970).

[Gurp]

Biker payment     CC debit and loan on all that new leather and new bike

Cagers   anyone that doesn't ride on the road

easy to start but slow to crank      they are a bit R******d

[70CB750]

Czechs have a term I translate as "Jawing". Comes from Jawa motorcycles - there is always something to fix.   As in:

"I spent two hours on the side of the road, jawing my effing Ural."

[spotty]

all over the place like a mad womans sh1t - motorcycle with terrible handling

[Kaze]

At the risk of receiving a red card, my dad said something like that about poor drivers in general.
...drives like old people (firetruck). Slow and all over the place.

There are a lot of "old dadisms" in my vocabulary. Most of it filth, but at least he was creative with it.
If I didn't hand him the right tools he'd say I was "useless as t*ts on a boar hog". It's funny NOW. But I learned what the hell a 9/16 wrench was pretty quick.

If something smelled bad, he's say "That'd knock a buzzard off a sh*t wagon". I've heard "gut wagon" too.

Sorry this is the slang thread, not the dad thread... let's see... For fast drivers in general does everybody say "Drives like a bat out of hell"? Or is that just us in the States?

[Kaze]

...and why is an engine a donk? For that matter, why is a redneck a bogan?

[spotty]

flatter than a sh1t carters hat - deflated tyre

[Steve F]

an engine is a donk!

Naaah.... THIS is a DONK! 

[70CB750]

At the risk of receiving a red card, my dad said something like that about poor drivers in general.
...drives like old people (firetruck). Slow and all over the place.

There are a lot of "old dadisms" in my vocabulary. Most of it filth, but at least he was creative with it.
If I didn't hand him the right tools he'd say I was "useless as t*ts on a boar hog". It's funny NOW. But I learned what the hell a 9/16 wrench was pretty quick.

If something smelled bad, he's say "That'd knock a buzzard off a sh*t wagon". I've heard "gut wagon" too.

Sorry this is the slang thread, not the dad thread... let's see... For fast drivers in general does everybody say "Drives like a bat out of hell"? Or is that just us in the States?

Do you have RCH in your dadism vocabulary?   

How about: "Runs like raped ape?"  I remember somebody somewhere catching heavy flak for that expression.  Maybe it was here 

[Kaze]

Not that one, no. But there are some of Dad's that even I don't repeat, and my swear jar is so big it's a bank now.

[BenelliSEI]

To the Brits, the boot is their trunk. The hood is a roof on a convertible and a bonnet is a hood!

[Kelly E]

To the Brits, the boot is their trunk. The hood is a roof on a convertible and a bonnet is a hood!

It's ok, they're just confused. Too much time indoors and all that weird food will do that to you.

[Kaze]

Goldwings have panniers on the sides, but there's a huge top box... What's that aboot? ...a...boot?

(Key sound of crickets chirping)

[Don R]

 Any bike from Japan was a ricer or rice burner. Of course, any Kawasaki was a Kaw.

[spotty]

In Oz any Kawasaki is a kwaka

[Kaze]

Kaw/Kwaka are both great. My older brother says "Kawi" but I say "Quack" or "Quacker"

Chook-chaser is a new level of awesome. I don't have anything that good to share.

Here "donk" is a gentle smack. Like when you donk someone on the head for being a smart ass. Sounds a bit like doink too, which is arguably better than a donk.

[Kelly E]

Any bike from Japan was a ricer or rice burner. Of course, any Kawasaki was a Kaw.

I have no idea how many times I heard "fcukin rice burner" in the 80's and 90's. I just told them at least I don't have to follow the oil trail home and hope I make it.

[spotty]

chuck out the picks - apply the brakes

[Kaze]

We have a rice cooker here at home. Even if I threw it with all my might, it'd never get it past 80.

I was in Seattle a few years back, and stopped my K4 at a corner. A homeless fella shouts at me, "Rice trash!" and so I said, "Beats walking" (VVRRROOOM!) It's not a great story, but I don't go in for that sort of bike prejudice. Cagers crash into us equally, whether we're on a Brit bike, "UJM" or a Harley. Flat chrome is flat chrome.