A Motorcycle or an Engine Cycle?

It was one of those interesting discussions on a motorcycle newsgroup…

The first poster said:
“Sorry, but a “motor" is an electrical devise that produces rotary motion using a series of electromagnets to repel each other, and rotate the shaft. It’s an ELECTRIC MOTOR. You do not “rebuild" a motor
You do not “pull the motor"
You do not “start" a motor
You do not “modify" a motor
and you do not “seize" a motor!!!

Instead, you rebuild the ENGINE
You pull the ENGINE
You start the ENGINE
You modify the ENGINE
and you seize the ENGINE!!!

The correct term is “Enginecycle"
Only ELECTRIC “motorcycles", may be called MOTORCYCLES!!!"

Joe

…..to which came the reply:
“Well, mot is latin for move. So you can go around saying enginecycle, I’ll stick to bike or motorcycle. Who knows maybe it will catch on… nah."

crom

…and:
“A few early attempts at two-wheeled locomotion – Gottlieb Daimler is thought to have invented the real motorcycle in 1885.

Us Germans have been calling it Motorrad for a while now. We don’t seem to differentiate between engines and motors. We have an Ottomotor, Wankelmotor and Elektromotor. However a steam engine would be called a Dampfmaschine.

So that was another answer to a question that nobody had asked. :-P

Cheers,"

Alex

…Of course someone had to ask:
“I hate to get all “Beavis and Butthead" but…

…he did say “Wankelmotor"!? ;-)"

Clint

…to be told:
“Not to worry, I am used to it, there are a couple in just about every classroom:-)

Let’s call it a rotary engine/motor then."

Alex

:Well that’s a relief! I though it was just my kids. They even snickered during a discussion of medieval technology. “Clockwork" being the word, I think, that got them going."

Clint

… logic came into it:
“They’re called “motorcycles" because they go:

motormotormotormotormotormotormotormotormotormotor

I thought everyone knew that."

Tom Faller
mutter, mutter, mutter…

… as did commercial interests:
“I’ll call Harley and tell them they need to change their name from ‘The Motor Company’ to ‘The Engine Company’.

Thanks for your help."

…luker

…until finally someone put it quite succinctly:
“Please consider searching Ebay for a life. There are usually several available
at most reasonable prices."

Valued Customer