Skid lid, cage, and backyard are all slang terms from the world of motorcycle enthusiasts. A skid lid is a helmet, a cage is an automobile, and a backyard is a favorite place to ride. The phrase lay it down means to have a motorcyle accident. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Motorcycling Slang”
I was looking on a discussion board involving a particular hobby and I saw a number of slang terms.
And you probably can guess what they are. The slang terms were skid lid, cage and backyard. Those ring a bell? Is this more baseball? Nope, not baseball. Skid lid is probably the clue there. Skid lid? Yeah. Skid lid is a motorcycle helmet. Oh, skid lid. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And a cage is an automobile as opposed to… I’ve heard that one before. Form free on your motorcycle. And the backyard is the place that you like to bike. Just, you know, your favorite route or something like.
You know, I collected a few motorcycle terms a while back, and one of those that I really like just because it’s hard to know that it’s slang until you start to look at the lingo of the people who ride motorcycles.
It’s to lay it down.
Lay it down.
Yeah, when you lay down your motorcycle, it’s when you actually have an accident or you drive in such a way that it actually ends up on its side.
Oh.
So you don’t say crash.
You don’t say wreck necessarily, but you might just say, I laid it down and I had to get back up and do the thing.
Oh, no kidding.
It describes as a more gentle act than you might expect.
A lot more.
