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[rodomo]

When I was growing up and started driving, a skid was when a brake locked up on the car/pushie while braking.

Now a lot refer to a skid as breaking traction while accelerating.
We used to call this a wheel spin, wheelie, peel out or burn out.

I know a wheelie is also when the front wheels come off the ground but when I was younger that was the yank term, here, a wheelie was a wheel spin.

Is this something that the young whipper snippers have turned around?
Have there always been different terms used in different states?
Or did I have it wrong all this time?

Edited by rodomo, 21 December 2008 - 02:47 PM.

[Collo]

Yeah i always thought a skid was a lock up.

It always sounds weird when i hear it used to describe a burnout.

Maybe the mark both leave on the road has led to this use of it.

[76lxhatch]

I guess if it skips/slides then it's skidding... but I do recall it being applied to motor cars mostly in the slowing down (and/or running off the road!) sense. Skids are skis designed to work on any surface aren't they?

[TerrA LX]

Skid is when the wheel locks up, like as in a skid steer vehicle right?

[MRLXSS]

A skid on a bike is locking up the rear wheels.

A skid in a car it doing a little burnout.

I also find wheelie funny? Is a wheelie lifting the front wheel off the ground on a bike? Or is a wheelie a burnout?

[lcgtr1970]

growing up, a skid to me was was always the locking up of a wheel. and spinning the wheels was always a burnout.
but yeah over the last year or so, the term skid is also being referred to as a burnout. im guilty of catching onto saying this too.
funny that everyone elses parents referred to them as "wheelies" too as i thought it was piss funny when my parents call them that. ahhh old people...arent they a crack up....

[rodomo]

growing up, a skid to me was was always the locking up of a wheel. and spinning the wheels was always a burnout.
but yeah over the last year or so, the term skid is also being referred to as a burnout. im guilty of catching onto saying this too.

So, a possible explanation might be that the youngies (who didn't know the difference) started calling them skids and the older lot (who did know the difference) let them, and actually joined in to sound cool?

[FastEHHolden]

And then theres the rollback

[muzzta]

I'm with you Rodomo,
I'm old, (not callin you old) but if there was rubber on the road, two ways it got there.
One was a skid, locked up brakes sometimes, or most times with the rubber marks ending up in the gutter or a tree or off the road.
Second was a burnout, usually starting with a lot of rubber down then squiglng (is that a word?) all over ther road and fading as the driver
realises he still needs tread to drive or not. Kids got it wrong now, but they think it's right so were wrong, lol.
Cheers
Muz

[Heath]

Fair question Rob.

A skid is no doubt a lock-up, not a burnout. Calling burnouts 'skids' is just modern young whippersnapper slang. I thought it sounded stupid when Sarsha first said "doing skids" but it has caught on a lot over the last two years or so

Do I actually say it? Rob? Matt? Anyone else who hangs around with me? I'm not sure if I use that term or not