streetbike

English

Alternative forms

• street bike

Etymology

From street +‎ bike.

Noun

streetbike (plural streetbikes)

1. A motorbike designed to be ridden on streets rather than off-road environments.

   Coordinate term: dirtbike

   • 1989, Alain Chirinian, Motorcycles, page 60:

     Imagine riding your favorite streetbike on a canyon road.

   • 2002 January, Michael Cook, “Hotshots”, in Cycle World Magazine, volume 41, page 22:

     While I'd like to see Honda incorporate some of the RC51's serious hardware (brakes, suspension, cam gear drive) into the VFR instead of the GollyGeeWiz technomarketing nonsense it currently uses, I firmly believe in the VFR concept—that concept to be the world's best streetbike.

   • 2002, Mike Seate, Streetbike Extreme, page 19:

     Street extreme riders would be amazed to know the Domokos' self-promotion skills and streetbike talents actually helped him land a paid sponsorship from Kawasaki Motors in the early 1980s, an endorsement virtually unheard of in today's conservative corporate climate.