Biker say what?

[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..