Biker say what?

[imne1]

hey all, maybe you can help me out.
(especially if you're not originally from NZ or have spent time overseas)

I'm doing Linguistic research on NZ English, focusing on transport/automotive industry as one topic area. Can you think of any bike/Biker lingo that would be unique or distinctive to NZ ?

This would also include slang , diminutives (like 'brekkie' breakfast), idioms etc. and ideally terms that are used somewhat frequently (preferably on here, since all forum posts are timestamped).
I can try to explain more if people are interested.

[blackdog]

a couple i can think of relating to auto industry are:

base model cars are known as billy basics or poverty packs

a customer on a car yard who has the means/intent to purchase is called a plum or a wood duck

[crazyhorse]

a couple i can think of relating to auto industry are:

base model cars are known as billy basics or poverty packs

a customer on a car yard who has the means/intent to purchase is called a plum or a wood duck
:rofl: never heard any of those :laugh:

[Owl]

:rofl: never heard any of those :laugh:

Likewise and I work in the auto trade:laugh:

[JimO]

not bike related but electric car windows were known as "fast glass" back in the day when they wernt that common

[NighthawkNZ]

Honda's a ghey apparently

[onearmedbandit]

a couple i can think of relating to auto industry are:

base model cars are known as billy basics or poverty packs

a customer on a car yard who has the means/intent to purchase is called a plum or a wood duck

A 'plum' or a 'wood duck' when I was selling cars (12yrs in total) was someone who couldn't say no or negotiate. Example, they will say things like, 'can I buy this car now', or something similar in the very early stages of the sale process. They don't play their cards close to their chest, instead telling you everything that will make the deal easy for you. They, as I said, won't negotiate on price, if they do it will be a token ask of maybe $500 off which you easily say no to, and they accept the first price offered for their trade-in, if they have one. Someone who is on the yard with the means/intent to purchase is just a 'punter'. They may turn out to be a plum (ripe for the taking) or a wood duck (an easy target) or they might be the most difficult customer you'll ever deal with.

[Big Dave]

Fizzing at the bung for a squirt.

[Big Dave]

Honda's a ghey apparently

Nah - this is a lame KB only joke.


Other Automotive Acronyms are:
LOMBARD.
Lots Of Money But A Real Dickhead.

WOFTAM
Waste Of Ferkin' Time And Money.

[Headbanger]

jive ass motherfucker

[Bounce001]

Speed Safely...

[imne1]

Lol, those are awesome, keep it up. The problem for me being an untravelled kiwi is that it's bloody difficult to pick differences between what ppl say here versus other varieties of English and even harder to determine their origin (unless it's from Maori).

[bogan]

tis hard to know whats NZ or not, and some applicable to more than motoring:

yeh, nah
give someone the learn
she'll be right
rev the tits off it

And used in a proper sentence.
So you wanna give him the learn eh? hmm, yeh, nah, just fucking rev the tits off it and she'll be right

[CookMySock]

Hoon off/blast off down to the dairy/garage/shops
give it death/rings/assholes
squeal its tyres


Steve

[Hiflyer]

go for a blat

[jim.cox]

"Italian TuneUp"
"Fanging It"
"Gobs of Grunt"
"Riceburner"
"BEARS"

[Bikemad]

ride it like ya stole it

[Cr1MiNaL]

"do a skid bru"

[Katman]

"Wasn't my fault".

[yachtie10]

"Wasn't my fault".

had to laugh

[Headbanger]

jive ass motherfucker


and even harder to determine their origin (unless it's from Maori).

Jive ass motherfucker comes from the classic Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact and I have never heard it used in connection to motorcycles, In fact I have never heard it used apart from in that movie.

But feel free to use it:shit:

[ukusa]

"done a runner"
"locked it (or her) up"
"fuckin' pea gravel"

and my favourite "fuck these parts are expensive, are they made of gold?"

[IdunBrokdItAgin]

"Tiki tour" is only used in NZ to my understanding.

My favourite UK acronym (non bike related) used to describe a woman: B.O.B.F.O.C = Body Off Baywatch Face Off Crimewatch

[Squiggles]

pootle 10chars

[Headbanger]

Taking it International.

[Ixion]

An NZ phrase which causes foreigners much consfusion and sometimes some alarm is 'metal road' - meaning a graveled road.

[Hiflyer]

"Tiki tour" is only used in NZ to my understanding.

My favourite UK acronym (non bike related) used to describe a woman: B.O.B.F.O.C = Body Off Baywatch Face Off Crimewatch


Na man it's BayCrim.

[mattian]

Vifferman has quite a few cryptic terms which I find quite entertaining...... "Sprots-bike" is one. I'm sure it probably started off as a typo and, I've never heard anyone actually say it, only type it. But I reckon thats one that might stick after a while.

[SMOKEU]

An NZ phrase which causes foreigners much consfusion and sometimes some alarm is 'metal road' - meaning a graveled road.

I don't know why people call gravel roads metal roads.

[michael]

Dont know how this one managed to slip through the cracks: Cager
Although it might be unique to KB

[Ocean1]

I don't know why people call gravel roads metal roads.

Me neither, but it's a southern thing, any NI native won't know what you're talking about.

PS: where the fuck is that KB vernacular page in the WIKI? I can't find it.

[ukusa]

"Tiki tour" is only used in NZ to my understanding.

My favourite UK acronym (non bike related) used to describe a woman: B.O.B.F.O.C = Body Off Baywatch Face Off Crimewatch

ha ha, when I was a young 'un, a fave was N.R.N.R.H = no root, no ride home. Not very PC I spose, but those were the good ol' days.

[Ixion]

Me neither, but it's a southern thing, any NI native won't know what you're talking about.

PS: where the fuck is that KB vernacular page in the WIKI? I can't find it.

Eh?? They've always been metal roads up here in Dorkland. And 'loose metal' .

[Ocean1]

Eh?? They've always been metal roads up here in Dorkland. And 'loose metal' .

That so? Never noticed.

[Headbanger]

Me neither, but it's a southern thing, any NI native won't know what you're talking about.



Of course they will.

Hell, I once worked in a metal pit......

[Ixion]

I don't know why people call gravel roads metal roads.

Because that's the proper name for them !

Metal roads are, strictly speaking, NOT covered in gravel. Roading metal is a different thing to gravel. The latter is smaller and more uniform in size. The rock (metal) for covering roads is quite a specific quarry item. Gravel is sometimes used for domestic driveways, often that brownish coloured rock. And the loose stuff thrown on the molten bitumen that oozes out of the sorry roads with which we are cursed is usually gravel rather than metal. Metal is larger stones, and a multiplicity of sizes, so that it "beds in"

Metal , in this context, defives from Old French metalier, ore or quarry rock, from Greek metallon "mine, quarry, pit,". It was in common use in this sense in 18C English ("roading metals" occurs frequently in the literature of the time ). Our use is probably a lexical survival. A very interesting one.

[blackdog]

i have heard a black car with black leather described as 'venus on serena'

[Motu]

They have always been loose metal roads to me too.

Maori Overdrive.
Sucked a kumara.

[Smifffy]

Karked it

Plus 10

[Jonno.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_metal

They use the term metal in construction also as the base under concrete.

[Smifffy]

More toe than a roman sandal

Pulls like a schoolboy with a penthouse

[Smifffy]

A claytons [something]

[chasio]

Been here > 6 years as a fairly well travelled Brit. Lots of what has come up is pretty well used English as far as I can tell, but those mentioned above that were new on me in NZ include:

- Hoons & hooning generally
- Tiki tour
- Give it death / rings / aresholes
- Metal road
- Maori overdrive (a new one on me today, TBH)
- Sucked a kumara (likewise)

Cheers - Chasio

[Cr1MiNaL]

Also how about - "bro I binned it aw" or when your stuck somewhere (run out of gas etc) "bro I'm beached azz, can you come gizza lift au?"

[rustic101]

She goes off like a belt fed mortar,
She could sucks a golf ball through a garden hose..

[rustic101]

'Kick it in the guts mate'

[firefighter]

- Hoons & hooning generally

Used in Aussie too.

[rustic101]

Loose canon (mental)
Air Poo (fart)
Wheels spinning but the hamsters on holiday (mental)
Sandwich short of a picnic
Shag nasty

[rustic101]

Loose canon (mental)
Air Poo (fart)
Wheels spinning but the hamsters on holiday (mental)
Sandwich short of a picnic
Shag nasty

[rustic101]

"rooted", as in I'm rooted, its rooted she was rooted...

[sosman]

"Highway abuser"..Suzuki Hayabusa
"Super black ass turd"..Honda blackbird
"Fart blade"...Honda fire blade
"Puzuki"....Suzuki
"Sexual violator" any Suzuki SV650/1000

[hellokitty]

all over the road like a mad womans shit....

my boss used this pearl of wisdom the other day

[blackdog]

"Fart blood"...Honda fire blade


fixed it for ya

[jimbo_on_travels]

Putting the anchors on - to use the brakes
Grabbing a fistful of anchors - to bring the brakes on hard
Binning it - Crashing the bike
Stacking it - Crashing the bike
Communting - To do the commute riding
Tardme - using Tradme to look for bikes
Blat - going for a quick ride.
Sharting - combination of pooing and farting ones pants, (probably achieved barrelling into a corner too quick)

[rustic101]

Up and down like a whores draws
Skiddie
Burn out
Doughnut
Rark it up

[rustic101]

Dropping a patch
Smoking it up
Going rip shit and bust
Dropped (see binned)
Zip Car (Police car)

[onearmedbandit]

Dont know how this one managed to slip through the cracks: Cager
Although it might be unique to KB

Nah, not at all. I first saw it on American forums I belonged to, back before there was a KiwiBiker.

[raftn]

Taking it International.

Made me laugh...................

[ynot slow]

Maori Roast-Shark "n" Taties,or for our aussies fush n chups.

The best from Mark Ellis-sweating like a rapist,and after the look from Lana Coc-Kroft,"shut up or the rest of NZ will know your name backwards(anal).

[sinfull]

Doing some skids bro !

[Storm]

Going hell for leather -going recklessly fast
pukaroo - its f&%ed
temporary NZer -motorcyclist
Home and hosed - it'll be alright
rangi it- concoct a basic primitive repair

[imne1]

... hmm this isn't where I wanted to reply. where's the delete option disappeared to?

[imne1]

... bah IE6 is shit to view this site with ... stupid work computers (that I shouldn't be using for this anyway).

** Can we get this thread temporarily stickied plz? might also make for a good resourse to make a KB Wiktionary

[quickbuck]

Bump ;)
Hang on, that is an interweb thing...

On that we could just bump it, insteed of sticky's...
Kiwi bikisms:
Thrash it
Go for a thrash
Take 'er for a thrash