Word origin

[Maha]

What is the origin of the word Cager?
I understand that it refers to a person driving a car that they are surrounded by metal making them feel like they in a cage.
Most of us who own/ride bikes also own and drive a car.
Are those of us that own both a bike and a car classed as a 'Cager'?
I for one feel quite safe when driving the car or indeed my daily work vehicle the trusty Hi Ace van.

[James Deuce]

The etymology of the word is obvious. Its widespread use as an epithet by the motorcycling "community" is simply a symptom of the closed minds and overt bigotry rife within that community.

"Motoryclists just want to be treated as people". Well start treating other road users as people. Two way street and all that.

[Berries]

Yeah.

Fucking bikers.

[Maha]

So basically, in a segregated way, it only refers to those who do not own/ride motorbikes?

[James Deuce]

I think that it is opportunistically applied, depending on circumstance.

[willytheekid]

I for one feel quite safe when driving the car or indeed my daily work vehicle the trusty Hi Ace van.

Show off! :laugh:

I for one feel nervous as hell when driving, keep forgetting about the left side of the vehicle (Kerb grind king here!), and generally feel like Im in a sardine tin with glass!...hence I drive slow like a nanna but use all my "Bike observation" skills to stay outta trouble.(Don't think Ive ever crashed a car personally)
I think the "fear" comes from growing up with maniac friends who tried VERY! hard to kill me in there hotted up tin cans over the years.....I have even had the pleasure of flying off a cliff (while a mate was chasing a possum!) and landing IN a tree!:facepalm:

Cagers!....there just out ta get ya! :laugh:

[imdying]

Are those of us that own both a bike and a car classed as a 'Cager'?Only when driving said cage.

[ducatilover]

What's a cage and how many bodies can I fit in one?

[Big Dave]

Only when driving said cage.

Only said by Nerds.

[slofox]

I'd probably classify it as a derogatory term - to be applied only to car drivers who drive without due care for other road users - kinda like the woman who stopped at a compulsory stop yesterday, looked at me coming along on the bike and then pulled out anyway. THAT is a cager.

As opposed to the dude this morning who saw me coming up behind him on an uphill section of SH23 and pulled left to leave me a channel to go by. He's not a cager in my opinion.

Driver #1 got the glare and raised finger. Driver #2 got the raised thumb + friendly wave.

[wysper]

I don't like the term. I try not to use it.

[Scuba_Steve]

I'd probably classify it as a derogatory term - to be applied only to car drivers who drive without due care for other road users

Really? See I use it just for someone in a 4-wheeled vehicle i.e. at the mo while the tank is in the shop I am caging it.
I thought it was just to refer to the steel "cage" around the person & the lack of "freedom" that there cage gives them.
People like the one you described I just simply call "fucking wanker" as they can be found on many vehicles, tho more prevalent in people movers, Holdens, lesser SUV's, & lycra.

[BAY CITY MOTORCYCLES]

I don't like the term. I try not to use it.

Completely agree...a term used by teenaged riders IMO.

[Katman]

The word is used by people who fail to recognise that their shit, in fact, stinks too.

[bogan]

I for one feel quite safe when driving the car or indeed my daily work vehicle the trusty Hi Ace van.

I feel safer on the bike, but then, my van is a mitsi.

Cager is just the car version of biker imo. I don't think it is derogatory at all, unless used in a derogatory manner obviously.

[Big Dave]

I feel safer on the bike, but then, my van is a mitsi.

Cager is just the car version of biker imo. I don't think it is derogatory at all, unless used in a derogatory manner obviously.

It's the Plastic Pocket pen protector of motorcycling. Say cager = interwibble nerdie boy.

[oneofsix]

Really? See I use it just for someone in a 4-wheeled vehicle i.e. at the mo while the tank is in the shop I am caging it.
I thought it was just to refer to the steel "cage" around the person & the lack of "freedom" that there cage gives them.
People like the one you described I just simply call "fucking wanker" as they can be found on many vehicles, tho more prevalent in people movers, Holdens, lesser SUV's, & lycra.

yes, a cager is just an inclusive word for cars, trucks, SUVs stc where the pilot is encaged in steel.


I feel safer on the bike, but then, my van is a mitsi.

Cager is just the car version of biker imo. I don't think it is derogatory at all, unless used in a derogatory manner obviously.

Wont go as far as a cager being a car version of a bike but agree it is not derogatory at all. Like all words it is the manner of use. A great example is the word 'gay', was a great joyous word, then adopted be the queers as a non-derogatory inclusive word for homos and lesies but now these very people are complaining 'gay' is now a derogatory word for them. It all depends on usage.

Today I will be a cager as I have to drive the family places. Tomorrow I will be a biker. no, not the big hairy leather and chain clad gang type most non motorcyclist think of when you say biker.

[bogan]

It's the Plastic Pocket pen protector of motorcycling. Say cager = interwibble nerdie boy.

C'mon old fella, nerds have Android smart phones these days, pocket protectors are a bit antiquated. Cager is a term very much still in use.

[Big Dave]

Cager is a term very much still in use.

Refer previous post. :-)

PS - I don't make these rules - I just enforce them.

[Big Dave]

There's a few new word/s on http://www.wordspy.com/

I like 'Filter Bubble'.
So far all I've almost avoided Timberlake and Beiber in mine.
Apart from people deriding them on You Tube comments.

[gijoe1313]

I think we should be cagey about using cagers as a general pejorative reference. Conversely it behooves us to not eliminate the term, for those who wish to use it as a positive reference for their own state of transportation medium!

So being cagey about cagers is a case that can be connected to complex considerations of the issues!

And I like pocket protectors, particulary the ones with penguins on them! Slide rulers were a bit big to put in them though! :innocent:

[bogan]

I think we should be cagey about using cagers as a general pejorative reference. Conversely it behooves us to not eliminate the term, for those who wish to use it as a positive reference for their own state of transportation medium!

So being cagey about cagers is a case that can be connected to complex considerations of the issues!

Most indeededly:sherlock:


Slide rulers were a bit big to put in them though! :innocent:

Not to mention <s>abacusses</s> <s>abacii</s> <s>abacus'</s> beaded sticks!

[fuknKIWI]

What is the origin of the word Cager?
I understand that it refers to a person driving a car that they are surrounded by metal making them feel like they in a cage.
Most of us who own/ride bikes also own and drive a car.
Are those of us that own both a bike and a car classed as a 'Cager'?
I for one feel quite safe when driving the car or indeed my daily work vehicle the trusty Hi Ace van.
It's Seppo talk ya South Sea Pom

[Maha]

Seems it should be accepted that there are fuckwits in both camps, its just that the ratio differs.

[The Lone Rider]

Cager I believe is a term of American origin.

So is RUB, which is short for Rich Urban Biker.

And Squid.