More English terms wanted

What do you call it if the engine starts surging or bucking when you
ride along at a constant, lowish engine speed? Like the four valve
flat twin beemers used to do for a few years? Is that surging?

regards
Radbert

 

Yes. Mine still does it, if the throttle bodies go out of balance

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Radbert Grimmig

Hunting.

 

Hunting.

--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Yes. And they still do it, to a greater or lesser extent.

 

Adjust the left hound lead until it stops.

 

Where have you been?

I've missed your appalling puns.
--
Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

I'm working solid at the moment so I only get time to lurk a bit and
when I get home family stuff calls more than UKRM.

 

Thanks everybody, but there is more.
I always wanted to know these, so while we're at it:

- Lastwechselreaktionen. This is what annoys you about the drive
train/final drive of some bikes when opening or closing the throttle.
Jerking, felt chain slack, but some people also used this for the
"lift" effect of crude shaft drives like oldish two-valve beemers had
up to around '86. I've always translated it to "load change reactions"
but hated it.

- "Drehfreude". Is there a noun to go with "free revving"?

- Can you say "undulating turns" when in fact you mean the bumpy road
surface?

- Oh yeah, derogatory terms for nationalities. We call the Americans
"Amis", which I always felt "Yanks" wasn't doing justice too. Too
Civil War, too North centered, not enough redneck bashing. Also, for a
nickname, the German expression is almost tender. We even have sugar
coated pastry called "Amerikaner". We like 'em here. Well, basically.
Well, almost.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Radbert Grimmig

Driveline backlash, I guess.

Free revving. :^)

Sounds... odd to me. Can't think of a better term at the moment.

Yanks is good. We use "Septics" around here, but I don't think that
would be generally understood (comes from the rhyme with "septic tank").
You'll have to accept that as just the opinion of an Inselaffe, of
course...

 

"The usual potholed mess"...?

"Undulating" implies good, interesting, not-lincolnshire-flat - a road
that rises and falls as it winds. I don't think that's what's being
meant...

 

"Washboard surface" - "lunar landscape"

You're spot on there.

 

Spot on.

"Spins the rev counter needle round like a spider on acid"

Rippled, or where the tarmac has been pushed into linear bumps by
heavy traffic, "bermed".

 

You can say "turns on an undulating road surface", although if the
pitch of the bumps is small it would become "corrugated".

 

Sweeping bends

Washboarding

HTH

Paul.

 

"WFO"

P.

 

Oh you're all so gorgeous... And another thing:

What is a "biker" to you?

Because over here, we usually take it not to mean "garden variety
motorcyclist" but either the Hells Angels, potbellied, Harley toting
variety OR the dentists, lawyers and architects who try to harness
that image for themselves.

 

WHAT?

I always took that to mean rather longish, roomy (what's the opposite
of tight again) turns?

 

Yep, you're correct. The term undulating infers gradual or non scary
inclines and declines (descents), so I applied the same to the bend
description.

English really isn't that exact sometimes. Other European languages
are more unambiguous.

(c/f German and Italian)

P.

 

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P.