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Motorcycle Discussions => British Bikes => Topic started by: mini-me on August 24, 2019, 03:48:00 PM
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Bank holiday question for the housebound and/or bored.
My wife does copy editing, and for this job in hand needs to be accurate,and has come across a pedantic problem.
I always say one rides a motorcycle, as opposed to driving one.
But this point concerns a story with a sidecar outfit, does one ride a side car out fit? or drive one?
I would contend one rides IN the side car but the whole outfit is "driven" by the person at the controls.
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Drives. At least that was always how the blue and green 'uns described it.
What sort of proofreading job is she doing that introduces such arcane terms?
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Rides. Look at side car enthusiasts pages and they always refer to "riding techniques".
"Driving techniques" always infers cars rather combo's to me.
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Whether the bike has a chair or not it's still being ridden.
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What sort of proofreading job is she doing that introduces such arcane terms?
Don't ask me, 90% of what she does is well over my head ,I just let her get on with it apart from the occasional question like this.
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Hi All,
Whether correct or not I have often heard the term of "pilot" used for the person in control or otherwise of an outfit ::)
John
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That certainly rings a bell John.
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I think that term 'pilot' belongs to the days when the comics would refer to 'the model', 'the stable' or the 'winter hack'
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Not to mention "the plot", "the bogwheel", "the bolide" (mostly referring to Vincents)
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yep, had forgotten those.
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Or the one that still seems to be used by certain mags, "instrument" for a carb.
Then there's rather strange US terms of "gear bag" and "oil bag" for gearbox and oil tank.