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Discussion in 'Hangout Lounge' started by woot, Jul 28, 2006.

  1. woot

    woot Active Member

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    Recently I sold my maxim. For many years I had planned on cleaning it up and storing it when the time came. The time came and I didn't, I just didn't have that luxury...

    I'd logged many thousand kilometers on the maxim and really I can't explain why it was time to move on. This bike was a wonder doing everything well. How could I replace it with a bike 20 years it junior?

    I brought the bike to put miles on. I got it for a good price. At the time I was looking for a ninja 500 and instead found a much older but timeless cycle in the maxim. I was absolutely thrilled to ride it every day. In the office my co-worker was looking for a bike. I had been covetting other bikes for awhile and it seems the stars aligned. It was time for the Maxim to have a new home - someone new to riding who would take care of her. I hope he has as much fun with her as I did. I hope she can pass along the same road joys as we had.

    So I moved from do-it-all standard to a high revving screamer that isn't supposed to do it all. I find it to be a capable tourer and a more than capable scratcher... but this post isn't really about the future.

    I brought the bike in as near a stock form as possible. Sure a few tweaks like progressive fork springs and a freshly reuppolstered seat. The tank still had the red flec paint job it was supposed to have, the chrome was clean and it had a certain air about it.

    I remember walking into the shed - thinking about a ninja 500 - and seeing her sitting there. It was his second bike, as he had moved to a larger touring bike. We test fired her and she purred. I was caught. I had expected an older looking feabile bike, but Yamaha had done their homework. Here was a relatively high horsepower inline 4 put into a standard frame with good comforts. It wasn't about show. It wasn't about go. It was about riding and having all of the important things together to work for many miles. It was at the cross roads of a tourer, sportbike and a cruiser. Blending all of the parts into one nearly perfect creation. This was the bike we should all ride... it didn't fit the form or function of our desires but once you gave it a true chance to prove itself it did.

    My first instict was to ride it like a sportbike. She complied revving freely and handling better than most ~500lb bikes. For her time she had good brakes and good suspension. How many current cruisers (descendants) match her in suspension, power and brakes?

    I rode the first set of tires off and replaced them with a stickier tire. She held the lines well. She wasn't as forgiving as the sportbikes I have/had owned and would reward smooth inputs with clean lines. Pushing the maxim through a hard twisty road ( melting GT501s ) was a real feeling of pride... it meant today I was in the right frame of mind. It was an equal relationship - I had to do my part and she'd do hers.

    After a year of ridding I switched the stock buckhorn bars for the flatter seca bars. This gave me and edge over the front end - allowing better control and way more feedback.

    I then got into touring. I brought a rubbermaid tail box, bungees and clear bags to waterproof dufflebags. A week after wadding my 600r pretty hard I left for NY on a 3500km trip. At this point I could hardly bend my knees from the swelling. I'd pop her in first gear and take off - picking one leg up at a time gingerly. Through rain and darkness we rode... 4am to 4am. 24 hours in the saddle... an undocumented saddlesore. I got there a bit road worn, took off my packs and settled in for a night. The next two days were spent in the various mountains in the area - logging less than 500km of the most twisty and sweepy roads I've ridden. Two very hard saddle days - even if the miles were low. She plowed along - eating up the twisties. She guided me safely home again and again.

    Mechanically the bike was always sound. The only break down on the road I ever had was when a battery bolt sheared off in Northern Maine. I limped into a small town, bump starting when nessisary, and found the main drag. NAPA and a gas bar. For <.25$ I was on the road again with spares. Topped the tank off for good measure - ready for another 1.5 hour stretch of highway.

    Sitting on the highway, stretched out and purring along. Wind on the chest, sun on your back... it was hard to find a fault with the maxim. She was built right.

    I thought wouldn't it be nice if they just built a new maxim 650? I realize now the problem. What is practical is never sexy. As much as we all like sexy, we've all individually arrived at the maxim due to it's practicality. Cheap to ride, fun to ride, solid, dependable... but not sexy. Sitting next to the r6 in the showroom nary a glance would fall its way. Sad. Very sad. One of the best bikes ever built...

    Over the years I came to find fault in some of the bikes properties. I never really did anything about them as it didn't seem like it was that big a deal, or worth the effort to fix. The faults? Well 25 years ago when this bike was new they didn't have the same components available.

    Could you imagine a maxim with some meaty dual front brakes. She'd stop like she goes. I never had a problem with the front brake but it was weak... and it only becomes noticably weak when you are in a situation where you have to stop short.

    The rear suspension was always an issue. It's plush - absolutely fine for touring and cruising... when pushed into it's third mind in a sporting way we've all found the pogo stick action is less than desirable. I didn't do anything about it. I thought about it. Maybe if I had the money wasting away I'd have gone with the progressives. The funny thing is, although I call it a fault it was really part of the maxim's character. It made highway miles a joy and made sporting rides rewarding. If you treated her right the rear suspension was not bad... and it would pogo if you got too rough... a note to you that she's an older woman and should be treated with more respect than you're currently giving her.

    The front forks really weren't bad. What I did notice was that the large 19" front wheel matched with the smaller rear tire did give it a bit of a chopper like flop in turns - most notable at slow speeds. A cool mod to really bring out her sporting side ( it's there in spades ) would have been to find a good donor front end with a 16" wheel. Or perhaps a seca 17" rear and a donor 17" front. Again - this 19" wheel was part of her character.

    Stand back from your maxim - you can see the cafe racer in her. Look again and she's a virago. Through some gear on her and suddenly she looked like a bmw (minus the pistons ;))

    Look at the history of the maxim. The early Virago's side by side with the maxim looked nearly identical. The motor with little modification became the genesis line - MaximX, Fazzer and now further modified in the yzf600r. Looking backwards we can see how the combination of the frame and motor made something extra ordinary. The heart of a sportbike. The softness of a cruiser and the ability to tour for days on end.

    So what we had was a bike that was easy to do maintance on - no plastics or guards in the way. It didn't need much maintance ( oil changes, tires, batteries, brake pads and brake fluid). It had what the cruisers of the time didn't have - real power. It had a certain charm - something that wasn't visible from the outside. A really forgiving temperment... that when respected and handled by a capable hand was incredibly versitile.

    I loved the bike. It is sad to see her leaving. On the other hand, she's going to a person who will take care of her... I can look back on the past years and remember this bike - she'll always be there in what she'd taught me and the places and things we had done together.

    So why did I move on? I don't really know if I can put it in words. I certainly wouldn't say that I'd outgrown her, as she had been doing what I needed plus some. People might say I was looking for something sexier or faster... although true about the bike it's not the reason. I was just rebalancing what I rode with what I do on the road. A new set of compromises. I traded some of the endearing qualities for fuel range and touring capability. In terms of the numbers it was a good move.

    We'll see if I can find the heart of the new bike like I had with the Maxim. Will the new bike have the same soul is still to be evaluated.

    Cheers,
    woot.

    (more to follow I suppose... I'll cut it off here and cut it off there)
     
  2. hessenr00ts

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    Amazing post!

    The next time anyone asks me why I went with a Maxim and not a more modern sport bike, I'm making them read this.
     
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    Just remember the compromises... I intentionally didn't go to the new sport bikes as they compromised too far towards sport against comfort.

    I've kept comfort - that was the BIG thing I wouldn't trade away. I got sport ( 0-60 in <4 ) and I got some fuel range (just under 200miles). If I traded some more sport for range I'd be into the real tourers (which is where I thought I was going).

    I also now have a track bike... something I've wanted since I sold the ninja.

    Happy with the new bike... but well aware of what I've traded for it.
     
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    I always enjoy your ramblings Woot. You have a knack for putting into words what the rest of us are thinking.

    I wound up in the XJ world pretty much by accident. I was looking for a decent starter bike. Something that would be cheap, reliable and fun. Not a particularly easy combo to find. I came across my RJ on ebay for $950 delivered. It was a native Canadian biek so the speedo is in Ks instead of Ms, but it had less than 3500 Ks on the ticker so I just couldn't resist.

    When I got it, I didn't really know how to evaluate it. I didn't have much of a frame of reference, but knew I liked it. I wound up with a few other bikes along the way, most notably an '82 Goldiwng and the Seca kind of fell by the way side. I put 4000 miles on the Wing in about 5 months. Then summer hit. I never realized that a bike like the Wing could be so uncomfortable. I had come to think of it as the most cofortable thing on two wheels but never considered the heat. The fairing does such a good job of keeping air off the rider that you just melt.

    So, out comes the Seca. I now had a lot of miles under my belt and had riden lots of different bikes. I could actually make some reasonable observations and I was just stunned. Now that I've added 3,000 more Ks to it, I'm just in love with this bike. It's far more comfortable than I ever gave it credit for and just screams like a banshee. In fact one of my favorite passtimes now is going out with my Harley friends and blowing their 800lb 1450s into the weeds.

    I have had the opportunity to ride a number of bikes from the XJ era and I can honestly say that though I like them all, none live up to the Seca. Perhaps I've just grown into this bike. I've read lots of ads for Seca's and they inevitabley read 'Love the bike but want to move up to something bigger.' I cant' really understand that. I guess one likes what one likes. I may sell the Seca someday but never because it lacks performance. I get all I need out of these 650 ccs. I require no more acceleration or top speed from any bike. While the handling may have some issues, it's enough for me. I particularly like the fact that I can keep the revs low and in doing so completely tame the beast for casual purposes and the pop it up to 5,000 and do my best to try to hold on.

    Now I guess I'm rambling. My point is that I love this bike. I'm addicted to it. Every day that I ride to work, I wish people could see the smile that's under my helmet. I actually look forward to poing anywhere I can. I've had some cars that I really liked, but I don't think I ever spent time trying to think of reasons to go somewhere.

    I love the fact that I can do almost any mechanical thing to these bikes myself. I have an '83 Turbo ripped to shreds at the moment and it's not yet out of hand. Within a few months I hope to have almost completley restored this beast for less money than I could by a carcass of a good car. It will be my pride and joy, even if I end up hating riding it. It won't matter to me that I will have 'far' too much money invested in it, much less time. This will be my masterpiece. The only real thing I've ever done with my hands.

    There are few things in life that can give the kind of satisfaction that motorcycling does. Not long ago, the AMA mag had an article listing 100 or sogreat things about riding. They identified many of the things that I wouldn't have. Things like the
    # Those kids on the back seat of the school bus never wave to you when you’re in your car.
    # Your worst day on a motorcycle is better than your best day in a car.
    # It’s kind of fun to be anonymous in your helmet.
    # Your neighbors think you’re a little crazy.
    # Riding through a rain shower in waterproof gear gives you that bring-it-on feeling of smugness.
    # Most of the time when you get on your bike, you’re heading out to do something fun.
    # Nobody wishes they were you when you drive by in your car.
    # Freedom.

    Though I have experienced all of those things, it rarely occurs to me just how cool it is.

    Woot, your posts here have been invaluable to many of us and I'm pleased that you're still hanging around even after the sale of your XJ. I know many of us hope you will continue to be a regular.

    Greg
     
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    I actually tend to ride in the rain without a suit., just my leather and a bandana across my face.

    People always make some kind of comment about my being all wet, or "doesn't that hurt?"

    Yeah, I say, comes with the territory....smug and cool all the way 8)
     
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    I have long touted the docile handling characteristics and gentle nature of the Maxims. I'm glad to hear my appraisal re-enforced. Thanks for your observations Woot and Greg, I'm going to keep my babies, despite an offer from my wife to buy any new bike of my choice in exchange for getting rid of my "junk" bikes.
     
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    Junk...pshaw!

    I've cought my share of harassment from people at work. The crotch rocket kids think it's amusing that I'm riding a bike nearly as old as I am (i'm only 1 year it's senior) and the older guys on their crusers and big body hogs like to call it the "triumph wanna-be".

    We're planning a ride sometime around the end of August, I'll prove the worth of the XJ to them :D
     
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    Possible that they are referring to the obvious heritage of the XS line (BSA will never live that one down). We're just a different branch off of the great tree, let them laugh.
     
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    Oh, I do let them laugh!

    I have yet to find one of those kids on their tupperware bikes that can beat my XJ off the line anyway :D

    One kid went so far as to say my 750 "looked like crap"...I asked when his "Suzie" was going to transform into a robot and start shooting lazer beams.

    Hasn't said a thing since :)
     
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    Woot
    I know just what you feel about your maxim I found mine by accidenmt and love the thing.
     
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    Nice post - sincerely.

    I remember my second bike that way - 83 Honda CX650 Custom. Love at first sight. Had to sell it when I had problems with college (like paying them) and always regretted it.

    Over ten years later I stumbled across Betsy - my shaft drive XJ750J and it was love all over again. Someday I'll sell her after I finish my projects. I'll sell her for a song to some kid who is old enough to respect her but young enough to stay up all night polishing.
     
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    The "Ride Reports" of the popular motorcycling press raved about the Max. There were some who wrote that the Max was a sportbike disguised as a cruiser. The consensus on the 750's inline four was that Yamaha took it's Racing Heritage and refined it to power the "Gentleman's Motorbike."
    They sure did!
    The Max is a bike that develops a relationship you in a hurry. You're smitten by the looks; and fall for the ride and handling. How does that happen? The bike is designed to allow you to find your most comfortable riding position and adjust everything to make climbing onboard and going someplace pure joy.
    Once you find the footpeg and pedal height that fits you like a tailor-made suit; all you need to do is set those handlebar's to where you feel like you just plopped-down in your favorite chair.
    My 900 is billed as a sport-tourer. Truth be told; it more sport than tourer. When I fire-up the 900 and leave my driveway; it like being launched off the deck of an aircraft carrier. The engine wants to be wound-up and likes highway rolling beneath it at 75 - 80 miles per hour!
    The Max likes to stroll!
    The Max is can be very happy just idling down the boulevard. She makes the gawkers dream about how good you must feel with all that sun shining on you and the excitement that being astride that beautiful motorcycle, purring-away, must bring.
    You know; they don't!
    You know they're going to gun-it and show you how quick they can get to the next light, too. So you let 'em go. Then, you break their hearts when you're waiting for them at the light; and all they can remember is the blur and that muted Formula sounding note still ringing in their ears.
    They drive miles.
    You ride smiles.
    I can't wipe the Cheshire Cat grin off my face when I'm out on the highway and some guy in a screaming-yellow HumVee has the urge to pass and leave me wishing I was on the phone, and enjoying the air conditioning as he starts to show me the rear door handles.
    He's got the Hummer all cranked-up with his foot on the floorboard sucking down fuel like a downpour's run-off swirling around a storm drain.
    I'm doing 80 mph moving the Max up to his right quarter panel so he can see he got muscle but no heart. The Max is galloping, not sprinting; sipping fuel like a starlet nursing a double martini ... with enough room left in the black, on the tach, to park an eighteen-wheeler.
    I have no earthly idea why a guy from across town handed me the Title to a 1983 XJ750 Max for the price of simply hauling it off and away from his property. Your guess is as good as mine.
    It fired-up and ran for a little bit, on a borrowed battery, on the first try, the very day I unloaded it from the pickup and wheeled her into my garage.
    I knew, right there and then, that we were made for each-other. The love affair began. Love at first sight, sound and touch. Little by little; I began to find the exceptional engineering, exquisite lines, and the soul of the machine that needed a mate. So ... I gave my heart to MY Max!
    After 2-long years of being cared for with everything from an Impact Tool - to - Q-Tips ... she's ready to go to the Bike Show!
    The glass slipper fit!
    "RickCoMatic ... do you take this totally and completely restored Maxim; restored to way-beyond showroom, to be your loving bike, for riding and cruising 'til you both run-out of gas?"
    "I do!"
    (You bet yer butt ... I do!)
     
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    I found "Sheila" in the parts-for-sale section of a San Diego paper. "$120 parts only, doesn't run". I was eager to see what promise this lead held. Fella had dropped it recently (fairly low speed, slight rash on the tail pipe) and had replaced the handle bars that were bent. Pinched the kill switch wire in the cluster and rather than chase the problem, he had gone out and bought a Radian. I looked it over, everything was there and it looked pretty good. I couldn't be picky, I was on an 81 GS550T (worst seat ever made by anyone) and at 6 foot plus, it was just to small. I packed her up in the van I had at the time and noticed the pinched wire as I was loosening up the handle bars to fold them down so it would fit in the side door. I fixed the issue and fired her right up there on the spot. PO was pleased as punch to hear it. Still insisted I keep it since he had his new shiny toy. He wrecked it not two weeks later in spectacular style. I got her back home, cleaned her up (not to much needed) and I was off! What a magical time with her, she was just smooth. Fell in love with her and haven't had the heart to sell her for any price. Reliable, comfortable, sips gas, and is just plain fun to ride.
     
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    As many of the others here, my Maxim was my first bike. Went looking for a cheap bike that I could refine my skills on. Buddy of mine was selling it, at a great price. Picked it up, had a local shop give it a good once over, and have been riding it ever since.

    Absolutely love her. Just seems to have the perfect balance between power, control and comfort. Never planning on parting with her. Not too shabby for a bike that's almost as old as I am.

    Yamaha definitely did something right with these bikes. There's just something missing from the new bikes on the showroom floor now. I like the fact that it takes a little work to keep her on the road, and that I can do the work myself. Gives a lot more value to the ride.

    To all... Take it easy... enjoy the ride.
     
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    Nice write up Woot. A damn good nostalgic read.

    Or am I confusing it with a yearning for another XJ? :wink:

    Ya can take the man off the XJ but ya can't take XJ out of the man.

    It's in the blood and I'll put some money on woot still keeping an eye out for a cheap XJ fixxer upper in the future. :wink:

    Interesting looking at the posts on this site, it shows most of you seem to have Maxims while over here in Oz the Seca is far more common. I have ridden both and personally I like the Seca a lot better. More "modern"(for want of a better word) riding position and a bit sportier feel to them. Seems to have been different models for different markets. Cruiser style for the US and sports (for the day) style for Oz and NZ.

    Keep up with the good posts Woot and don't be a stranger. 8)
     
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    Don't count us all as Maxim riders. :)
    I traded a microwave, a radar detector, and two-hundred dollars for my first Seca (microwaves were expensive back then). After blowing that one up, I found one sitting in someone's yard. He thought he was taking advantage of me when I bought it for $75 bucks.
    I love the Secas. I wouldn't mind owning another sometime in the future. (one with two wheels instead of four of course).

    And I agree with you, Woot will have another one when he "happens to find a deal" ;)
     
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    I do not have a Maxim, I have a Seca and two Virago's. I LOVE my Seca. It is a 550 and I have always kept up with the big dawgs. I too have heard things like....."Froggy, we really need to get you a real bike." But let me tell you. I have friends that ride 30 - 40,000.00 bikes and you know what? The group has had to pull over at least four times that I can remember. Two of those times, they had to get a wrecker. I rode my Seca for 4 years, paid $900.00 for it and it stalled once in that time, but started after an adjustment. I have NEVER been stranded on any of my bikes. The 750 was free and I paid $300.00 for my 1100. I have had it now for almost two years. I know there is always the chance that I will be stranded, but it's okay, I didn;t pay 40,000.00 for my bike, it's to be expected. I could by a bike for 1000.00 each year for the next 40 years and come out the winner. That works for me.

    I am a woman, so it's even better for me. I get all the woo hoos and Go momma. Guys think I'm cool and women think I'm brave. I am neither, but it feels good to put a smile on someone's face just because I ride a bike. My manicurists hates when I attempt to work on the bike and my sons worry about me, but when you sit on that seat with the wind in your face, and feel, breathe and sense all of life's wonder around you, there is no better feeling. I am less about the machine itself and more about the feeling of freedom I get by being on one.

    Thank you Jesus for allowing me pleasure of experiencing your beauty on the seat of my XJ.
     
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    Without "ThAT Machine" there would be nothing , and its made in japan!...
     
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    Oh my, I didn't mean to strike a nerve or to say that I do not care about my machine, I do. I used the word LESS. Made in Japan? Not sure of your point there, but no matter. I love my bikes, even if they were made in Australia.
     
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    AYE :) no nerves exposed to strike! I just like to expose....
     
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    Wood'ent a Harley be better? I am should know.
     
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    I AM does know, but I am not a Harley girl.
     
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    Especially around 2100-2200 prm on da sportster! see , i saw the post on what one does to a lollipop [or a chubba chubba? if no lollipops in texas].
     
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    Spammers .... post :)
     
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    Ok, I'm going to chime in. HooNz??????????? I'm still missing the boat here, possible I'm too dense to understand your cutting wit. Would you be kind enought to spell it out for me? Lollipop? Chubba chubba?
     
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    I missed it as well.

    I'm not hip to Aussie slang but "lollipop" (or the shortened "lolly"), used in cockney-rhyme slang can mean "trickster" or "to turn informant" (NARC in american slang).


    That confuses things even more....help us uncultured Americans out, HooNz!
     
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    Ya HooNz doesn't always make sense :p ;)

    Nice pic Hessenr00ts
     
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    heh, thanks :D

    one of my personal favorites.
     
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    I'm a Cockney and I have only ever used lolly as a term for money, never heard it used to describe anything else. Mind you our slang like our language is getting bastardised by the immigrants.

    Mick Faighaighi
     
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    Don't forget the efforts of the lowbrow crowd, the slaughter of our native languages is effected by more than one or two groups. Ah, in a perfect world, but alas, I accept that change is the one constant in the universe. So I'm attempting to learn what it all means while setting my example of a desire to maintain my language as it was meant to be spoken. I'm also trying to learn Portugues and German at the same time so it can be very confusing.
     
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    That'd be me ;)
    Matter o' fact, last time I was in St. Louis, I had the hardest time orderin' a Big Mac. Apparently the translation from "yankee" to "redneck" is a bit more complicated than I had previously expected.
    Lord help me if I ever do make that elusive trip "Down under".

    Maybe we can all soon communicate with L33t! :roll:
     
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    No need to fret, I'm sure it was meant to be humorous. I laughed without understanding. I must admit though, I did look online to see if theye were slang for something in Australian and came up empty.

    Geez! I am from Texas, we manage to screw up all sorts of words. For example:

    BARD: Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
    Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

    CYST: To render aid.
    Usage: "Can Ah cyst you with those packages, ma'am."

    SINNER: Exact middle of.
    Usage: "Have you been to the new shoppin' sinner."

    TARRED: Exhausted; fatigued.
    Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."
    "Ah'm too tarred to go bowlin' nonight."

    :)

    Carla
     
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    We could talk all day about accents and words only used in certain areas....I'm from Minnesotah dontcha' know?

    If you've seen the movie Fargo, you've got a pretty decent idea how I talk, just not as "hammed up" as it was in the movie.

    From the land of hot dish, pop, lutefisk, lefsa and (of course) Grain Belt beer comes words like:

    Yah, youbetcha, fershur, heydaer, ohjeez, fer'petesake, cripes...etc etc.

    I've been all over the country and every place I've stopped someones said "your from Minnesota, aren't ya?". Can't escape it :p
     
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    AAAAR come on , i am nieve too.

    Cant spell fer cockatoo's.

    You guys and gals crack me up , is not a chuppa chuppa [chubba chubba?] from the states? ya know a lolly on a stick [hard sugary thing] so anyways from the spammers post is "suck" a bad word 8O eh em....

    And then pleasure on da seat = Harleys vibrate :oops:

    A good rpm range is 2100-2200rpm.

    And talking on aussie language , like that on the tv , i have never heard that talk until i went the to the uk for a look , where all the ozzies [they could have been all doped up too] hang out [earls court london] and was i embarressed at what i heard , i bin here 40yrs and never heard what they were saying anywhere , straight off the tv talk they was doin.

    Anyone really talked like that for real here , they'd be classed as a froot loop.

    Always tell a kiwi here [from New Zealand=kiwi] , letters "s" "6" ect heard as or pronounced as SEX... 6 POSTS = SEX POSTS :D get a laugh?... over and out..squark.

    You gals and guys are gunna get me kicked off here! 8)
     
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    ah ha! i get the chuppa reference now. Yep, that is a brand of lollipop here in the states.

    I'm sure you won't get banned, you were just clearing things up a bit ;)

    They can overlook one little post...can't they?
     
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    Speaking of vibrating seats......

    The pic of me on the bike on my My Space page is of me sitting on my friend's new bike. They didn't tell me that when the blinker is left on the seat will vibrate. They took a pic of me just as I attempted to fly off the bike with fright when the seat went off.
     
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    Oooh, tingly! Pleasant surprises are best aren't they?
     
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    With fright? ok , black on geen is hard to see on da page , and with all those ads you can get a v-harley
     
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    green....
     
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    Accents!!!!

    Before I had even got of the plane in Tampa a bloke asked me what part of Australia I was from, I explained that Cockneys had had this accent long before Oz was discovered and that Dick Van Dykes cockney accent would get him lynched if he ever set foot in the east end. That was just the start, every where we went my mrs had to translate.

    Your right about the Aussies in Earls Crt laying it on a bit thick HooNz, done it myself a few time's.

    Mick Faighaigh.
     
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    Yeh , sure thing faighaigh , too loud in earls , if i was a brit listening to that no wonder ozys get a bad name , utter drivel , i am glad i had a brit passport all i had to do was fake a accent [using limited words] and say i don't know em :)!, reminds me when i hear some [excuse me the innocent] Yanks in the bars ect over here , i call em LOUD and PROUD as one can hear em 100ft away with the tone turned up and always splashing the dough around too , they just do not know most know they fake it , No wonder there's trouble in the arab place!

    Its a wonder no ones dropped that Bush [Center so no can turn cheek! little book reeders] :-( the way it talks too. "Bush could be anything or anyone for you lawyers reeding that" even kate!

    Reminds me of the old ww2 brit song , over here over here.....backhandedly saying should be over there over there [as get back to where ya came from]..

    I hope thats not another war talk? i no want any twouble , me sensetive and not talking but typing.....
     
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    In light of Snow's well thought out paolicies, I'm not jumping into the fray here, but Hoonz, if you could only hear what I'm thinking!

    Greg
     
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    LOL, you guys make me laugh. I've seen where HooNz was going with his post but didn't want to elaborate incase I was wrong...

    Hess, I lived in MN. Ya, oh ya, you betcha. "Fargo" was a great movie Margie.
     
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    :eek: Trillions think , i take no offense..until offendi on
     

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