Motorbikes

AUDIO: Herder Josh Chin for The Wall Street Journal While some herders spent the money on items such as motorbikes and solar panels for their tents, others used it for basics like clothing and school supplies for their children. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"We are finding a lot of tunnels, weapons, anti-aircraft missiles, grenades, explosive devices, and weapons prepared for future attacks, such as motorbikes intended for kidnapping," he said ❋ Unknown (2009)

Curious to see "what a big tree - which is four or five meters long - with a speed of more than one hundred km per hour looks like," Chinese artist Shi Jinsong has created what he calls the tree motorbikes, meaning that his work starts at the point where dead nature hugs a motorcycle/scooter chassis for art's sake. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Protesters in Lagos took gasoline from motorbikes to set tires ablaze, the Associated Press reported, and waved placards bearing an effigy of President Goodluck Jonathan with devil horns and fanged teeth. ❋ Drew Hinshaw (2012)

On October 8, a day after the first American bombing raids in Afghanistan, Karzai and three comrades, wrapped under heavy turbans to disguise themselves, rode on motorbikes over the border into Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, a sparsely populated region of deserts punctuated by rocky hills. ❋ Peter L. Bergen (2011)

Frustrated with the lack of cheap and efficient GPS systems for motorbikes, passionate biker Stephen Dettman was driven to conceptualize the MotoMap GPS Device for Bikes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Take Ahmedabad, encased in tear-inducing smog, jammed with wailing motorbikes and auto rickshaws, its broken sidewalks punctuated by stray cows and beggars. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jakarta is a city of stark contrasts -- searing poverty and grand skyscrapers, Honda minivans fighting for space on the crowded streets with countless motorbikes, Mosques broadcasting the call to prayer five times a day and well-attended Sunday church services. ❋ Tamar Abrams (2010)

One is engulfed by motorbikes seconds away from Ho Chi Minh City airport HCMC is the city's official name, and though busts and portraits of Uncle Ho abound in public buildings, I never heard anyone in Saigon call it Ho Chi Minh City. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Vietnam's millions, rolling endlessly forward on their agile motorbikes, seem to know where they want to go. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Daniel Henninger explains that the Vietnamese are riding into the economic big league, atop millions of motorbikes. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Saigon has been described as a city of nine million people and 30 million motorbikes. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

NYPD officers on motorbikes repeatedly attempted to cut off the protesters. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Nano Tata was designed to be a low cost replacement for motorbikes and give families in India a safer way to travel. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I hadn't come to Vietnam to see the motorbikes though one could. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

The Vietnamese are riding into the economic big league, atop millions of motorbikes. ❋ Daniel Henninger (2011)

Dude, that chick will [go down on] anyone, she is so [hardcore] she is in to [motorbiking]! ❋ Silverlynx (2012)

Stan: How'd it go last night with the new girl? Kyle: It was awesome! She's a lightweight like a [150CC], so I pulled a Ricky [Carmichael] and [motorbike'd] it! (makes engine sounds and pretends to rev the throttle) I think I may have twisted her ankle! ❋ Nick The Shark (2010)

That motorbike is [fast]. ❋ Tthedawg (2007)

People who work as messengers in motorbikes are called "motorizados". Common expresions: I've just sent my [motorbiker], please wait for him. or the [Motorbiker] will be there in few minutes or Send me your motorbiker. Nowadays, it is very common to see streets and [avenues] everywhere in Venezuela and Colombia crowded of motorbikers, either they are [messanger] or not. ❋ Pol234 (2010)

Claydo used [cava's] anus and vagina like they were a [moto gp] race bike upon start up. [The motorbike] ❋ Mrvnss (2014)

[JD] took that girl home, [bent] her over, and ended up [motorbiking] her!! ❋ Big Gib (2009)

[saw] a car in [half] and you get two motorbike ['s] ❋ Afi_al (2006)

This is a narrow lane so I’m glad that’s a [motorbike] coming the other way. [Oh Jesus], breath in kids it’s a [Romford motorbike]. ❋ TrashmanUK (2019)

Pitchfork music writer: On his new 12-inch limited release with the alternate cover, indie legend Jay Reatard mixes whiffs of post-punk lyrical garbling with retrograde lo-fi rhythm guitar, bombastic Stooges-era drums, malleable dance rhythms, and [hippy-dippy] basslines. Intelligent music writer: You like [AnCo]? You should totally check out Das Motorbike. Back in the 80s, DM seamlessly blended the post-ska rhythms of Colonial [Jo'burg] with the astroturf-infused anti-folk of late-era [Plath] Sisters, all of it tied together with a proto-punk ribbon and a shit-grunge cherry on top ❋ Riggsbert (2009)

"Dude, my trip to [Kuala Lumpur] ended with a Malaysian Motorbike from [the tour] [guide] I hired!" ❋ Chingychang (2013)