Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Quad terminology

On entering the wonderful world of ATV's one is often perplexed by some of the mumbo-jumbo terminology encounted, some of us even find ourselves using these terms without fully understanding them. So for all you "bar hopping", "mud packing", "lappers" please consider this your ATV demystification lesson.

Knobbies
The type of tires usually found on Quads. These tires have large knobs of rubber tread that are designed for best grab in the dirt.

Head Skate
Act of falling forward and scrapping your helmet(hopefully) along the ground.

Gumbo
Really thick mud.

Air
Height or distance of a jump.

Bicycling
Riding on two outside wheels.

Canyon double
The area between two jumps.

Dry sump
A four-stroke motor that carries oil in a tank rather than beneath the engine in an oil pan.

Goosen it
the act of applying gobs of throttle in short burst to jump the quad forward.

So...now that you guys are armed with some really cool ATV terminology, feel free to go out to the track and impress your buddies with all this fancy lingo.

PS: Pray they don't ask you to demonstrate some of these....

2 comments:

Golden Age said...

You might want to credit your source for this material....

Golden Age said...

don't forget to mention whoops and superwhoops !