Re: Cager

Aug 04, 2005 7 Replies


>> T> >>


> >>> What's a cager? Is that a BMW enthusiasts' term also?
> >>
> >>
> >> It's a motorcyclists' pejorative for everyone who drives a car, probably
> >> motivated by envy because we have the common sense to protect ourselves
> >> adequately from road mishaps and they don't.
> >
> > They have a point though. If everyone would get a bad case of road rash
> > every time they did something stupid, perhaps our roads would be a little
> > less frustrating.
>
> Or a lot more blood soaked :-)
>
>
> --
> Beav
>
> Reply to "beavis dot original at ntlworld dot com" (with the obvious > changes)

I don't know where you are posting from, but I sure don't care to start an email war about something as boring as what to call a car or a motorcycle.


Boring snobs who need to have the last word.

By any chance, are you posting from Hawaii?

It's not a pejorative at all -- just a means of expressing the feeling of freedom to be found on a bike.

Needless to say, most bikers also have cages. My wife's is a Bimmer.

Why does *everything* on USEnet have to be contentious?

-- Larry

Because no-one on Usenet can smack us through the monitor:-))

Not that I haven't tried to nail a few twerps in my time.

Doing so did move me away from CRT's to flat screen monitors. No, I don't smack them. They cost too much.

Ed Cregger

Maybe if you had posted it only to rec.motorcycles, it would not be a pejorative. But it is and has been for years.

But they're MUCH easier to launch across the room in a fit of pique:-)

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