GLOSSARY

OUR REGULAR, NOT TOO SERIOUS, LOOK AT SOME OF THE MORE POPULAR TERMS USED IN THE MAGAZINE. THIS ISSUE, THE SECOND PART OF THE LETTER 'M'...

MMA- (Manual Metal Arc) or 'stick welding' uses coated electrodes where the coating protects the weld in the same way as the gas in MIG and TIG welding. Once the weld's completed, the slag residue over it's chipped off. Also two blokes kicking the living shit out of each other using a variety of techniques...

MOCO - abbreviated term for the Harley-Davidson Motor Company

MONKEY WRENCH - the feeling you're left with after your beloved non-hominoid simian's departed. Also a gert big, more solid version of an adjustable spanner MONOCOQUE - only one penis... also a motorcycle frame that incorporates the fuel tank and seat unit

MONOSHOCK - what you get when you lick a battery... also motorcycle rear suspension using a single, as opposed to twin, shock absorber, usually in the form of either cantilever (Vincents, LC250/350 Yams, Harris Magnums, etc.) or rising rate (almost everything else)

MOONEYES -the company started by Dean Moon (Moon Speed Equipment) in the Fifties that begat the annual Mooneyes Custom Show in Yokohama, and is synonymous with the double staring eyeball logo seen on drag racers, custom cars, and helmets for decades

MOTO GUZZI - Italian motorcycle manufacturer famous for their transverse (across the frame) vee-twin engine configuration

MOTO MARTIN - French engineering company who, like Harris Performance in the UK, made aftermarket frame kits for late '70s/early '80s Japanese four-cylinder engines, the most famous of which was the sixcylinder CBX1000 Honda

MOTO MORINI - Italian motorcycle manufacturer who started in 1937 and briefly went under in 2010, but relaunched in 2012. Their most famous bike, the 3 ½ (1974-83), is reckoned to be one of the best bikes ever made in Italy MUDGUARD - the correct term for what it is that covers the wheels, and stops mud (and other shite) spraying all over you and the bike. Mudguard, got that? Not fcuking 'fender'...

MUFFLER - US word for exhaust that's used seriously over there, but over here just makes people snigger MUSTANG - nothing to do with American muscle cars, or ladies called Sally, but a type of curvaceous aftermarket petrol tank with a single or two caps

MV AUGUSTA- high-end Italian motorcycle manufacturer who started in 1945, and continue to make absolutely gorgeous, but pricey, streetfighter-style and fullyfaired bikes MZ - German motorcycle manufacturer who actually started life in 1906, but were only named

MZ in 1956 and, although they have an infamous racing history, are chiefly remembered these days for their (very) utilitarian twostrokes