Help settle an arguement. What do you call it when someone is riding on the back of a motorcycle?

[Brenda]

Luis and I are disagreeing over how common a term is, so I am looking to yaaps for my scientific poll. LOL

Do you use a specific phrase to describe it when someone is riding on the backseat of a motorcycle?

[Peggyann]

is it "bitch seat"??

~PA~

[anastasia]

Luis and I are disagreeing over how common a term is, so I am looking to yaaps for my scientific poll. LOL

Do you use a specific phrase to describe it when someone is riding on the backseat of a motorcycle?

umm... I say he's riding on the back of the motorcycle. :dunno::hi:

[tumblewieds]

We say "riding bitch". Not very PC of us, but that's what we say :)

[kathy caribe]

passenger, rider, i don't really have a specific term.

Down here you get entire families riding on motos, plus a dog.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/134276134_9fa6c306af.jpg

(see the doggie?)

[Sarah]

Riding pilon.

[Amanda_Reyasmom]

We say "riding bitch". Not very PC of us, but that's what we say :)

LOL us too.

[MamaAnnie]

I probably should go st for this, in case my mother ever reads it, but I've heard it called a p*ssy pad. Yuck.

[Peggyann]

now I must go ask all my biker friends about this.

:jester:

~PA~

I probably should go st for this, in case my mother ever reads it, but I've heard it called a p*ssy pad. Yuck.

[Jill]

We say "riding bitch". Not very PC of us, but that's what we say :)

LOL..I saw a T shirt once, it said "If you can read this shirt the Bitch fell off"
and I laughed my ass off, though i am sure I shouldn't have.
:shockfunny:

[Peggyann]

LOL, we have A LOT of bikers around here. I see that one a lot.

~PA~


LOL..I saw a T shirt once, it said "If you can read this shirt the Bitch fell off"
and I laughed my ass off, though i am sure I shouldn't have.
:shockfunny:

[Jill]

it's riding "two up"
?

[Peggyann]

ok, I posted about this on my other board.

Now I just need my bikers to weigh in on it

~PA~

[Jill]

passenger, rider, i don't really have a specific term.

Down here you get entire families riding on motos, plus a dog.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/134276134_9fa6c306af.jpg

(see the doggie?)

is that legal there? Wow, I'd never put my kids on a bike like that! (aside from the too many on the bike aspect, no shoes or helmets even? Bad, bad idea!)

[Peggyann]

ok,,,no answer yet on "bitch seat" or "p*ssy pad"

but apparently, if it's 2 guys on a motorcycle it's called "pickle pedaling"

~PA~

[Tracy]

Ya us too. I've never heard of being called anything specific.(nt)

[anastasia]

Luis and I are disagreeing over how common a term is, so I am looking to yaaps for my scientific poll. LOL

Do you use a specific phrase to describe it when someone is riding on the backseat of a motorcycle?

OK, I just asked DH and he said "something about bitch or sittin' bitch?" He hastened to add that it's a crude term and he'd never use it, "of course." :razzberry:

He's from Georgia. I've never heard this before; I'm a lifelong west-coaster.

[bannanabette]

Riding pilon.

Riding pillion (me too, but um... spelled right :p)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillion

[Sarah]

Riding pillion (me too, but um... spelled right :p)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillion

LOL! I googled and got a lot of hits from pilon -- maybe it's two words, since I pronounce it PieLon

[Brenda]

Luis and I are disagreeing over how common a term is, so I am looking to yaaps for my scientific poll. LOL

Do you use a specific phrase to describe it when someone is riding on the backseat of a motorcycle?

Thanks for all the replies. I guess "riding bitch" is more common than I thought and less common than he thought. He is the only one I have ever heard use that term, but he claims that that is the only term people use, probably because of all the years he spent working construction. Construction workers are not the most pc people, as a general rule. LOL

[aleutsi]

Luis and I are disagreeing over how common a term is, so I am looking to yaaps for my scientific poll. LOL

Do you use a specific phrase to describe it when someone is riding on the backseat of a motorcycle?

What they all said, but I refuse to say it. :p

Back in the day when I'd hitch rides on my friends bicycles (or vice versa), we called it Pump... as it "Hey, can you give me a pump down to Stacey's?)

[kokoro]

Sorry but have to say my first boyfriend and also a very close high school friend both died in motorcycle accidents so I get a very bad feeling whenever the topic comes up and I hope any of you who ride are really careful.

[Jill]

Sorry but have to say my first boyfriend and also a very close high school friend both died in motorcycle accidents so I get a very bad feeling whenever the topic comes up and I hope any of you who ride are really careful.

{{{{Lisa}}}} I understand, and I share your concern. I have always thought that motorcycles seemed like they'd be super, duper FUN - but they just seem so risky to me, though I admit I sort of wish that I didn't see them that way. I have always felt this way, even though the only people I personally know who ride are extremely safety conscious (my uncle and my step dad and my friend's old bf)

[kokoro]

Thanks. I rode a moped once and it *was* super fun. I rode with my former boyfriend--the one who died later in a motorcycle accident. My parents lectured me seriously for *two hours* when I got home and told them about the mopeds. They were very worried and insistent I never ride again. I thought they were overreacting extremely. I don't anymore! I hope D will never ride one. He will be free to choose but I sure hope he won't choose one.

i'm sure they can be super fun and also convenient, etc. But it just is common sense that if you are speeding down the road and get in an accident you can easily die or be very seriously injured. We worry about children falling from slides, etc, never mind a person going 65 mph.

[Kerry]

is it "bitch seat"??

~PA~

Heh, that's what we call it - "riding bitch". Not very PC, I know.

[Kerry]

We say "riding bitch". Not very PC of us, but that's what we say :)

Hah, I should have just kept reading!

[ADDled]

OK, I just asked DH and he said "something about bitch or sittin' bitch?" He hastened to add that it's a crude term and he'd never use it, "of course." :razzberry:

He's from Georgia. I've never heard this before; I'm a lifelong west-coaster.
Funny, we're opposite. I asked Mike, and he seriously has never heard that before. I grew up in the redneck, uh, southern part of our fair state, and that's all I ever heard!

Tangentially, do y'all use the term "shotgun" for sitting in the front passenger seat? As in yelling, "I call shotgun!" as you try to beat your siblings to the car?

[Peggyann]

Heck yeah!!! and "touchsies" don't count, you actually have to say "SHOTGUN!"

~PA~


Funny, we're opposite. I asked Mike, and he seriously has never heard that before. I grew up in the redneck, uh, southern part of our fair state, and that's all I ever heard!

Tangentially, do y'all use the term "shotgun" for sitting in the front passenger seat? As in yelling, "I call shotgun!" as you try to beat your siblings to the car?

[candeo]

umm... I say he's riding on the back of the motorcycle. :dunno::hi:

...

[kathy caribe]

is that legal there? Wow, I'd never put my kids on a bike like that! (aside from the too many on the bike aspect, no shoes or helmets even? Bad, bad idea!)

Yeah, it's a different world down here. There have been no educational campaigns about this safety and you couldn't even BUY a carseat until last year. So, Mexico is playing catch-up in the safety awareness. Of course, when you earn $250 a month and the cost to simply REGISTER a car is $700+ a year, I think you can understand why many don't have cars.

[aleutsi]

Funny, we're opposite. I asked Mike, and he seriously has never heard that before. I grew up in the redneck, uh, southern part of our fair state, and that's all I ever heard!

Tangentially, do y'all use the term "shotgun" for sitting in the front passenger seat? As in yelling, "I call shotgun!" as you try to beat your siblings to the car?


Yes, and I still call it if I'm riding with others.

[Kathy]

OK, I just asked DH and he said "something about bitch or sittin' bitch?" He hastened to add that it's a crude term and he'd never use it, "of course." :razzberry:

He's from Georgia. I've never heard this before; I'm a lifelong west-coaster.

I've never heard of that term, either. When I asked Dan (also a lifelong west-coaster), he hadn't heard of that term, either.

[webbeccjo]

Tangentially, do y'all use the term "shotgun" for sitting in the front passenger seat? As in yelling, "I call shotgun!" as you try to beat your siblings to the car?


oh yes! and you can't call shotgun until you are outside!

[~PQ]

Thanks. I rode a moped once and it *was* super fun. I rode with my former boyfriend--the one who died later in a motorcycle accident. My parents lectured me seriously for *two hours* when I got home and told them about the mopeds. They were very worried and insistent I never ride again. I thought they were overreacting extremely. I don't anymore! I hope D will never ride one. He will be free to choose but I sure hope he won't choose one.

i'm sure they can be super fun and also convenient, etc. But it just is common sense that if you are speeding down the road and get in an accident you can easily die or be very seriously injured. We worry about children falling from slides, etc, never mind a person going 65 mph.That's really sad and tragic about your BF Lisa :( Cars are dangerous too though, for many of the same reasons- and this is what I remind myself when I feel nervous about bikes. For some reason in the military bikes are very popular as a second vehicle, I guess it is a good alternative for fuel reasons... I am personally scared of them. I have ridden before, but always with my stomach in my throat. Thankfully DH doesn't ride. We have SO many friends though who ride, and my brother has a Harley, it can scare me but I focus on the fact most riders don't die from it the same way most car drivers don't die in accidents. My brother is actually a county EMS Director so he has a lot of first hand experience with highway accidents and I decided awhile ago he wouldn't still ride after having this career, if it wasn't generally safe with proper precautions and training.

[bumblebee]

Not to spoil anyone's fun (so ignore this post if you love bikes!), but I feel very much the same way about motorcycles. I have never ridden one, but I know two people who died in motorcycle accidents through no fault of their own (one was my mom's co-worker who died when a truck collided with his bike at night; the driver didn't even see the bike's back light).

I get a very uneasy feeling when I see people on bikes, and I have seen a few close calls between bikes and cars/trucks--not just on the highway, but in stop-and-go town traffic.

I am all for agency and choice, but I personally will never ride a bike, and luckily my DH feels the same way.

[Stacey]

Luis and I are disagreeing over how common a term is, so I am looking to yaaps for my scientific poll. LOL

Do you use a specific phrase to describe it when someone is riding on the backseat of a motorcycle?

Without looking at the rest of the thread - in NZ and the UK that would be called riding 'pillion' (rhymes with million).

[Gargoyle]

umm... I say he's riding on the back of the motorcycle. :dunno::hi:

Thank you. This was what I was going to say.