I stopped at the store the other while riding my chopper (Kutty's old Honda). While in the store, a grizzly old guy asked me if it was a "Teabagger". Confused and somewhat disgusted, I asked, "a what?" "Teabagger." I said, "Uh, no. it's an old Honda." To which he said, "Well it certainly looks a lot like an old Triumph. Looks cool." So have any of you heard the term "Teabagger" applied to Triumphs before? I know the slang meaning of teabagger, and was initially offended.
Back when I was working a lot of concerts, we would call the British acts with a lot of limey staff "teabag tours". There would always be a bunch of Irish roadies with these gawd-awful*****ed up accents that the stage hands had no idea what they were talking about; so they'd just talk louder, which still didn't help any.
First time I heard TeaBagger it was describing British Sporty Cars. Of which I lusted after when I was younger . . . my very favorite being the Jaguar XK-120. (If I had the bucks, having an XK-120 parts car built into a Super Gasser would make for a novel and good looking car. Specially if you got the driver and roll cage down out of the wind. Never heard a Triumph two-wheeler called a TeaBagger though. They were always called Trumpets or their secondary names. Bonnevilles (or Bonny's), Tigers and Cubs. For a while there I thought the Bonneville's name was, "I gotta get me one of those" cuz I heard it so much....
A few more Limey Triumph lingo; Mudguards = fenders spanners = wrenches Bonnet = hood Petro tank = gas tank Sparking plugs = spark plugs HT leads = plug wires Pannards = saddle bags Screens = windshields Prince of Darkness = Lucas Triumphs to 70` Meridians 71 to 80s Combine newer Henckley I know there alot more,but these are a few off the top of my head. Triumphs where special and you can`t blame the Britts for being proud of them. JR....
Triumph's are sometimes refered to as Trumpets over here, ever thought about BSA Bastard Stopped Again Bloody Sore***** Best***** Available or Birmingham Small Arms in case anyone didn't know!
JR -- Saddlebags are panniers, usually pronounced "pan-e-yays." 32LIMEY -- "Beeza" is, or was, common slang for a BSA. The names Brit gave their hybrids are interesting and descriptive, beginning with a "Bitsa" which is a motorcycle put together from "bitsa (bits of)this and bitsa that." A TRIBSA is a Triumph/BSA hybrid, most commonly a reliable Triumph twin a good handling BSA chassis, usually an A10. A TRITON is Triumph/Norton hybrid, taking advanatage of the good handling of the Featherbed chassis. A GRUMPH is a Triumph in a Greeves chassis, resulting in a 100-plus pound weight reduction to produce a very competent scrambles/MX machine. And then there was the MOGVIN -- a Morgan three-wheeler with a monster Vincent V-twin that was used in sidecar racing. Then you have hybrid hybrids, like this TRIBSA that's also a BITSA because it has some Matchless and AJS pieces in addition to the 40-inch Trumpet motor and Beeza A10 frame.
some more pants=trousers underwear=pants cigarettes=fags trunk=boot aircleaner=airfilter gear shift=gearstick transmission=gearbox fender=wing wanker=well*****er really
Fek the fekkin fek! you forgot Norvin....you know what that was. also Fanny Barnet....Francis Barnet. & a Royal Enfield is where the queen keeps her chickens.
matchy=matchless ayjay=ajs royal oilfield=enfield rice burner=jap vinnie=vincent i dunno so much******* slang about,i'm thinking about joining that plain English speaking society..........Marq
Mike,I stand corrected on panniers.(IS THERE ANYTHING YOU DON`T KNOW? ) That little #79 is killer,love to take a little spin on it! Two more =ring spanner=box end wrench Tommy bar = bar in tool kit to turn socket and pry JR....
BR -- There's tons of stuff I don't know! BTW, had a set of Craven panniers on my Norton Commando years ago . . . cool scoot, Dunstall exhaust, rearsets, Megura flat clubman bars, fast and fun and great for one-up touring.
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