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GS (Motorcycle
designation suffix) - Dual Sport//Enduro (eg.
BMW F650GS)
GAG IT
- a full roll-on in high gear from about 50-60mph (emphasizes low rpm
torque).
Garbage Wagon - 1. A stock motorcycle with standard parts intact,
very heavily loaded with saddle bags, chrome and accessories. 2. A scornful
term used by some outlaw bikers to describe touring bikes.
Gas Surprise
- Running out of gas and moving to switch to reserve and finding to your
horror that you forgot to switch back to
fuel last time you filled up and just blew your reserve.
Gas cap -
The cover for the fuel inlet on a tank.
Gasodometer
- Resetting your trip odometer when you fill up to act as a gas gauge
replacement.
Gauges -
Displays information to the rider on speed [Speedometer],
RPM (revolutions per minute) [Tachometer], Total Distance
Traveled [Odometer], Fuel, Trip Distance and more.
GBIS - Gorgeous But it's Slow ( A
Kawasaki 1500 Classic )
GBNF - Gone But Not Forgotten
Gear - The set of toothed parts, such as wheels,
disks and chains, that mesh with the teeth in similar, but
different-sized parts in order to transmit force and motion
between rotating shafts. Gears control the number of
revolutions per minute and hence the force.
Gearbox - Transmission housing.
Gearset - T set of gears within a
bike's transmission.
GearHead (Gearhead) - 1. A person with a strong
interest to all things mechanical. 2. A Motorcyclist. 3. Any
true mechanic, not just the weekend mechanics.
Gear ratio - A gearbox contains several toothed
wheels that are connected and disconnected to each other in
order to switch into the intended gear. The gear ratio is
the ratio between the number of teeth of the two wheels that
are connected at a given time. If one wheel has 25 teeth and
the attached one has 50, there is a 2:1 ratio.
Gear whine - The noise made by gears that aren't
spaced correctly or are worn.
Get
Off - Crash, "Eat Asphalt"
Giblets - Chrome Accessories
Giggle Gas - Nitrous oxide
Ginmill - Bar
Gixer - GSXR Series Bikes
GFxD - God Forgives, (Club Name) Don't (ie. GFPD =
God Forgives, Pagan's Don't)
Goatsbelly - The ugly silencing chamber in the
exhaust system of later model Vulcan's
Goose - Slang for a Moto Guzzi motorcycle
Goosing it - Canadian. Expression for riding a
motorcycle hard and/or fast.
Goggle The Horizon - Is an old biker term that means
several things. Keep an eye out or be careful is a common
translation. Believe it or not it did not originate with
bikers but with free fall jump school during Navy Seal
Training. Another meaning, in the same vane is 'Keep your
head up, don't let anything get you down. As in 'See ya
later, Goggle the horizon.' Meaning, be careful, keep your
chin up. You see in free fall you MUST arch your back and
keep your head up.
Gore-Tex - 1. Thin, lightweight membrane mounted
between the face fabric and the lining. It is Waterproof,
Windproof and Breathable. This membrane has nine billion
microscopic pores per square inch. These pores are much
smaller than a droplet of liquid water, but much larger than
a molecule of water vapor. Water in a liquid form cannot
penetrate the membrane, but both moisture vapor from
perspiration and heat can easily escape. The membrane works
when the outside temperature is colder than your body
temperature. The membrane actually sucks the heat out of the
apparel as long as the outside temperature is lower than
98F. 2. A membrane made of Teflon
(PTFE / Polytetrafluorethylene). Innumerable microscopic pores
prevent the penetration of large water droplets while
allowing the much smaller water vapor molecules to pass
through. The branch-like structure of the membrane means
that it is also completely wind proof.
GPS
- Global Positioning System - A satellite oriented
system, including computers and receivers, which allows the
determination of a very precise location (latitude,
longitude and height) of an object. The GPS unit allows the
calculation of speed and direction of travel by
communicating with satellites to track movement. An
increased number of touring
motorcycles (such as the Honda Goldwing) are being
manufactured with a GPS navigation system built-in, and
add-on GPS units are available for any other motorcycle. The
units provide color graphic screen presentations of street
maps as well as both planned and actual travel itineraries.
Some will announce turns that are to be made in order to
follow a planned itinerary.
Grabbing a Handful - Applying Brakes or twisting the
throttle in excess.
Greenpeace - The cage in front of you covered with
environmentalist stickers and spewing black smoke into your
face.
Green track - A new track with little or no rubber
laid down which can be slippery.
Gremlin - A gremlin is blamed when one can't find the
defect or cause of some malady.
Gremlins got it - Unexplained entanglement of
wires/rope/bungee cords.
Grid - A pattern marking the starting points on the
track.
Ground - The earth pole of a battery, usually
negative on most motorcycles.
Ground clearance - The distance between the ground
and the lowest part of the motorcycle apart from the wheels.
Gumball - What's left of your rear
tire after a prolonged burn out, or can refer to the
bits of rubber piled up behind that same tire.
Gypsy Tour- A
motorcycle road event, usually several days in duration, in
which the participants travel through the countryside and
stop at a different destination each night. The implication
is that you are traveling without time or distance
constraints.
Gyroscopic Inertia
- Gyroscopic inertia, also known as centrifugal inertia. The
spinning top is stable when it spins fast, and becomes less
stable (starts to wobble) as it slows down, as the
centrifugal or gyroscopic inertia becomes less. The same
physics applies to motorcycles, increasing stability at
higher speeds at their wheels spin.
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