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Riding pillion (a.k.a. riding bitch; riding two-up) The act of riding as a passenger on a motorcycle sitting on the pillion (a.k.a. "bitch") seat immediately behind the driver of the motorcycle. [6] [7] [8] Road rash An injury caused by scraping your skin on the road surface. This is likely because the rider wasn't wearing the right protective ...
"Riding bitch" is a vulgar American expression to denote sitting between two other people in a car or truck, where the transmission housing often forms a hump in the front or back analogous to a pillion. "Bitch seat" and "bitch pad" are North American slang for the pillion on a motorcycle; "riding bitch" is North American slang for "riding ...
The term appears in the famous "See See Rider Blues" song recorded by Ma Rainey in 1925. The song and others like it used the loneliness of a rider of the rails or wanderer as a theme in their music. The 1969 movie Easy Rider was in 1967 initially conceived as The Loners with Hopper directing, Fonda producing, and both starring and writing.
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s, [1] when it was an important part of the culture of the trucking industry. The slang itself is not only cyclical, but also geographical.
The term "Dykes on Bikes" was coined at the first gathering of the 1976 San Francisco Pride parade. [11] The connection between lesbians and motorcycles, however, existed before this official naming. Motorcycles have regularly appeared in lesbian fiction, [3] and the term is sometimes used derogatorily against any woman rider who isn't with a ...
Easy rider (slang), an American slang expression; EasyRider, a smartcard used for transportation in England; Easyriders, a motorcycle magazine "Easy Rider" , a television episode; Easy Rider: The Ride Back, 2012 purported sequel film.
The use of specific gestures may be culturally or regionally dependent. Some observers have commented that waving is common amongst riders in North America but uncommon in some European countries, like Germany. [10] [notes 1] French riders will stick their foot out when overtaking another motorcycle, and while lane splitting when a car ...
The long lap penalty was introduced to motorcycle racing in 2019 and involves a rider taking a detour on a pre-designated route, usually an extended corner. This is intended to increase a rider's lap time as a penalty for an infringement during a race, and is intended as a lighter penalty than a ride-through penalty (see drive-through penalty ...