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Old 06-24-2009 | 01:10 PM
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i heard if your referring to a car its bimmer, and bmw bikes are beemers?
any truth to this? i feel like a douche when saying bim-mer in reference to my ride, but in print it looks right.
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Old 06-24-2009 | 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by skelevirus' post='922513' date='Jun 24 2009, 04:10 PM
i heard if your referring to a car its bimmer, and bmw bikes are beemers?
100% True in the US.
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Originally Posted by GENEaTALS' post='922515' date='Jun 24 2009, 02:12 PM
haha thanks i never search old threads cuz i don't recognize any of the peoples names lol
Old 06-24-2009 | 01:18 PM
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call it a BMW...as in bee, emm, double-u
just my opinion but its annoying when people call them anything else...just as when people call porsches, a porsh.
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"beamer" in the UK buddy
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Originally Posted by pipper' post='922531' date='Jun 24 2009, 02:18 PM
call it a BMW...as in bee, emm, double-u
just my opinion but its annoying when people call them anything else...just as when people call porsches, a porsh.
whats up w bimmer magazine then? they must be crackheads!
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Originally Posted by Rislar' post='922532' date='Jun 24 2009, 02:19 PM
"beamer" in the UK buddy
nice! and spelled correctly to boot!
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Yep, it's totally geographically dependent... One man's Beamer is another man's Bimmer...
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Originally Posted by swajames' post='922535' date='Jun 24 2009, 02:22 PM
Yep, it's totally geographically dependent... One man's Beamer is another man's Bimmer...
is it like an accent thing, like cuz german is so klingon sounding in nature the rougher bimmer pronunciation fits right in? and visa versa?
should be cool then in cali to call em a beamer cuz our dialect is so light and airy?


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