we are Motorbikers...

[jellywrestler]

A term I've not heard much of, how cool is it that we can tell our mates what we are?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360924978/dramatic-video-shows-motorbiker-wedged-between-cars-auckland-highway-crash

[SaferRides]

Is it even a word? It's not in the dictionary I normally use and even Word doesn't recognize it.



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[R650R]

Will you be happy if we get Oxford to include in next definition. ;p

I thought it was common as in kiwi colloquialisms, and at least it distances us a bit from “cyclists”

You’ll be pleased to know the trucking community gets as aggrieved over accident articles when some journo says a truck and trailer has crashed but it’s actually a b-train combination or a semi instead.

Could be handy in a court case though if a witness keeps referring to a speeding motorbiker… ;)

[F5 Dave]

A term I've not heard much of, how cool is it that we can tell our mates what we are?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360924978/dramatic-video-shows-motorbiker-wedged-between-cars-auckland-highway-crash

Tell our Whats?

Do you mean the people we work with?

Our Internet contacts?

The people at the checkout?

What are these mates you talk of?
Do we have to Mate with them?
Asking for a friend.

If i had one. :baby:

[SaferRides]

Will you be happy if we get Oxford to include in next definition. ;p

I thought it was common as in kiwi colloquialisms, and at least it distances us a bit from “cyclists”


I'd never heard it before reading the Stuff article?

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[R650R]

I'd never heard it before reading the Stuff article?

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With decline in education system over last 20 years there’s a lot of people who can’t speak proper English 100% let alone write it. Stuffs catering for its target audience and the abilities of its own staff, proper grammatical editing is just not in their budget for a low cost product that no one’s buying.

[diesel pig]

Tell our Whats?

Do you mean the people we work with?

Our Internet contacts?

The people at the checkout?

What are these mates you talk of?
Do we have to Mate with them?
Asking for a friend.

If i had one. :baby:

I am sure jellywrestler is speaking about these "mates" like some wish-en-washy people talk about unicorns or dragons, purely theoretical. I certainly don't have any of these "mates" they speak of.

[HenryDorsetCase]

I am sure jellywrestler is speaking about these "mates" like some wish-en-washy people talk about unicorns or dragons, purely theoretical. I certainly don't have any of these "mates" they speak of.

If I eat enough of the special (but not special in the Erin Patterson way) mushrooms I can see dragons AND unicorns.

[diesel pig]

If I eat enough of the special (but not special in the Erin Patterson way) mushrooms I can see dragons AND unicorns.

See wish-en-washy people everwhere, probably has some of these "mates" they are going on about as well.

[Berries]

Better than 'bikies'


Make mine a Tim Tam.

[BMWST?]

I thought Bikers was an equivalent name

[F5 Dave]

Where's Fred Gassit when you need him?


(There was a cartoon: Bikers or Bikies?)

[SaferRides]

I thought Bikers was an equivalent nameBikie is Aussie slang, so has made its way here over the years. Biker I think originated in the US?

Bikkies are what you find in a cookie jar. [emoji3]

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[F5 Dave]

Yeah but it was slang for gang members.

[F5 Dave]

A mate sent me a photo last week of when the Hells Angels came down to New Plymouth and displayed their flag which i won't repost here as I don't think they were Hindus and some unpleasantness is associated with the flag since a Shouty Austrian used it for his political party in tge late 30s/40s

Anyway it was 1966 outside the cop shop where his dad worked.

It is ironically hilarious. There's all of 4 of them and none look like the sharpest tools in the shed.

Grrr Grrr.

[SaferRides]

Yeah but it was slang for gang members.Yes, as in bikie gang. Biker is a more generic word for "motorcyclist", despite being American.

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[SaferRides]

A mate sent me a photo last week of when the Hells Angels came down to New Plymouth and displayed their flag which i won't repost here as I don't think they were Hindus and some unpleasantness is associated with the flag since a Shouty Austrian used it for his political party in tge late 30s/40s

Anyway it was 1966 outside the cop shop where his dad worked.

It is ironically hilarious. There's all of 4 of them and none look like the sharpest tools in the shed.

Grrr Grrr.Hells Angels prefer to keep a low profile these days.

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[F5 Dave]

Surely they've all Aged Out by now.