Super Tenere and motorcycle terms for Dummies

[bethere62]

I am an ultimate newbie and have been compiling this list. Please add the silly obvious things I don't know.

1. S10=S is for super, 10 is short for tenere. Took me a few times to make this connection.
2. If you pull into the garage and have the bike in gear with the clutch engaged and put down your kickstand and the bike dies then don't worry. Your bike is fine, some safety idiot thought it would be funny to put a switch on the kickstand.
3. A pillion is the small passenger seat. Why not just say passenger seat.
4. A pannier is a saddle bag.

 

[Tyke]

You're learning ::012::

The sidestand safety feature may have saved my mates life had it been fitted to his 70s Kawasaki Triple, sadly it wasn't a feature back then

 

[bethere62]

So sorry for your mate. Safety is a good thing.

 

[AVGeek]

I prefer ST to S10...because of the GM connection.

I will sometimes say passenger, but usually default to pillion.

Pannier sounds fancier than saddlebag!

 

[Shovelhead]

I want a list of all these road/trail/ride names that everbody uses acronyms for.

BDMR or BMDR or BR549 whatever the hell it is. Believe I've been on that one in a Jeep out of Ourey, maybe .. ??

TAT

and there's a bunch more I've come across.

 

[navynuke]

I want a list of all these road/trail/ride names that everbody uses acronyms for.

BDMR or BMDR or BR549 whatever the hell it is. Believe I've been on that one in a Jeep out of Ourey, maybe .. ??

TAT

and there's a bunch more I've come across.

Good luck, I have forgotten hundreds of these over the years based on different places. In fact I've been on 3 different hill climbs all called "widow maker" etc. For this you would be better off regionally, and even then it'll get confusing with some trails having 3 different names followed by 3 trails all having the same name.

 

[OldRider]

BR549 is the phone number to a very famous used car lot...


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=br549&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=3409CDD6B6CCECE709673409CDD6B6CCECE70967

 

[OldRider]

Any one know what a Bronson Rock is?

 

[JRE]

I prefer ST to S10...because of the GM connection.

I will sometimes say passenger, but usually default to pillion.

Pannier sounds fancier than saddlebag!

True but ST makes people think of the ST1300 so you're damned if you do and...well, you know

 

[bethere62]

So a pillion is a passenger? That is so weird.

 

[2112]

If you think that's weird some people on here call a TYRE a TIRE - now that really is weird... ::013::

 

[Shovelhead]

BR549 is the phone number to a very famous used car lot...


http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=br549&FORM=VIRE5#view=detail&mid=3409CDD6B6CCECE709673409CDD6B6CCECE70967

winner winner chicken dinner

 

[jimmy z]

In my neck of the woods a pannier is an adv. rider term.A saddlebag is a harley riders term.Jim

 

[tomatocity]

True but ST makes people think of the ST1300 so you're damned if you do and...well, you know

And S10 is the model of the 1993 Chevrolet S10 Pickup in my driveway

 

[Harry Dresden PI]

Any one know what a Bronson Rock is?

I do. The term comes from the show "Then Came Bronson". When ever his HD Sportster crashed he would always fix the bike with a rock and a few hits to straighten out the dents and damage. His bike would also transform from a HD Sportster into a single cylinder motorcycle made in Italy but sold by HD.

Name the bike his Sportster changed into when he was off road in the red wood forests of California and had to use the rock and watch out for bears. (real bears not the other type of "bears")

 

[Vanderwho]

I do. The term comes from the show "Then Came Bronson". When ever his HD Sportster crashed he would always fix the bike with a rock and a few hits to straighten out the dents and damage. His bike would also transform from a HD Sportster into a single cylinder motorcycle made in Italy but sold by HD.

Name the bike his Sportster changed into when he was off road in the red wood forests of California and had to use the rock and watch out for bears. (real bears not the other type of "bears")

The Aermacchi Sprint 350?

 

[ejr10mm]

I must be really weird because I call paniers boxes...

 

[Will Rotten]

My wife had to teach me how to say tenere correctly. She also spells Tire, color, and many other words wrong. I've got her saying Garage but she still says herb weird.

 

[AVGeek]

And S10 is the model of the 1993 Chevrolet S10 Pickup in my driveway

I had a 94 base model S10, and it wasn't bad, but I traded it for a 97 GMC Sonoma that was loaded...and the single biggest piece crap I've ever owned!

 

[eemsreno]

If I ever called my wife a " Pillion" I'd get slapped a good one.
Pannier sounds like something a lady wears under here clothes.