Collective nouns

**James Deuce** · 13th February 2015, 10:41

Well after watching a flotilla of BMW 1200s of various flavours ride along the Quay this morning, all seemingly ridden by flip-front helmets and fluoro vests, I'd have to promote the portmanteau of "Rustleclunk" as the collective noun for the last of the air-cooled boxers.

All you can hear is tappets rustling and gear dogs being smashed home with a massive bang every time the lever is actuated. It's difficult to walk and wince repeatedly. How do you BMW people put up with it?

**Devil** · 13th February 2015, 10:47

I used the clutch.

**James Deuce** · 13th February 2015, 10:48

Given the proclivities of the usual BMW rider, you may have been doing it wrong.

**Oscar** · 13th February 2015, 11:53

Originally Posted by James Deuce

Well after watching a flotilla of BMW 1200s of various flavours ride along the Quay this morning, all seemingly ridden by flip-front helmets and fluoro vests, I'd have to promote the portmanteau of "Rustleclunk" as the collective noun for the last of the air-cooled boxers.

All you can hear is tappets rustling and gear dogs being smashed home with a massive bang every time the lever is actuated. It's difficult to walk and wince repeatedly. How do you BMW people put up with it?

As a rider of an air cooled boxer myself, I prefer grumpyolecahnts as a collective noun.
Alternatively, wobblyoldfools could be used, but this may not be specific to the marque...

**James Deuce** · 13th February 2015, 12:05

Problem is Oscar, they were all grinning like idiots. Which is fair enough, they are riding after all, but put the helmet front down. People who are old enough to own and ride BMWs look like a mobile gurning competition in motion, with the front up.

**Old Steve** · 13th February 2015, 12:13

I'd have thought the collective noun for a group of big BMWs was "a Farht of BMWs", as in ridden by old farhts!

The collective noun for a group of Harleys would be "an indifference of Harleys"

Anyone got any more?

**Banditbandit** · 13th February 2015, 12:20

Originally Posted by Devil

I used the clutch.

Me too ...

A clutch of BMWs?

Originally Posted by Old Steve

I'd have thought the collective noun for a group of big BMWs was "a Farht of BMWs", as in ridden by old farhts!

Hey - I resemble that remark ..

**Swoop** · 13th February 2015, 14:29

Originally Posted by Old Steve

The collective noun for a group of Harleys would be "an indifference of Harleys"

It would certainly NOT be referred to as "a wave of Harleys"...

**5ive** · 13th February 2015, 14:59

Do fluoroed, flip-visored BMW riders wave?

**Hitcher** · 13th February 2015, 15:19

An udder of BMWs, in honour of the "cow" engine that powers them?

**James Deuce** · 13th February 2015, 15:41

Originally Posted by Swoop

It would certainly NOT be referred to as "a wave of Harleys"...

So a "flat-calm" then?

**Motu** · 13th February 2015, 16:53

Originally Posted by James Deuce

It's difficult to walk and wince repeatedly. How do you BMW people put up with it?

When I had my first BMW in 1981 I would watch the pedestrians to see if they were hearing what I was hearing...it was really embarrassing to ride. My current Airhead shifts much better, and it's possibly still clunky. It has a Supertrapp and makes a shit load of noise (I'm firmly in the loud bikes save lives camp), so can't really hear the shifts anymore....or the tappets.