What does "pinned" mean?

[kuksul08]

Seems like everyone has their own definition of this word, yet we all use it to describe "going real fast".

Is it redline in any gear? Wide open throttle? Maximum speed the bike can go?

What does it physically mean? Where is the "pin"?

 

[two wheel tramp]

WFO. Maybe hitting the rev limiter.

 

[FreeRyde]

Pinned?

 

[x7821]

Top gear at throttle lock...

 

[Donelop]

Pinned?

nope. pined.

To suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart.
"I'm pining to ride my poor bike again."
synonyms: languish, decline, weaken, waste away, wilt, wither, fade, sicken, droop;

 

[kuksul08]

Top gear at throttle lock...

That could be 3000 RPM in 6th doing 40mph. Not really what I think of when I think of being pinned.


There has got to be some kinda threshold.

 

[HeatXfer]

nope. pined.

past tense
suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart.
"she thinks I am pining away from love"
synonyms: languish, decline, weaken, waste away, wilt, wither, fade, sicken, droop;

lol - pῑned I see what you did there.

When the tach needle or speedo needle are all the way to the max number on the dial and it is against the 'pin' that prevents it from swinging off the dial, that's what 'pinned' means.

(I didn't Google that)

 

[kelsodeez]

pin it to win it

 

[ABC]

When I think pinned I think bouncing off rev limiter last gear

 

[Burning1]

I always took it to mean WFO, and hold it there. Any gear.

Being on the rev limiter isn't fast, and there's very few situations where you're going to be WFO in top gear for long periods of time.

 

[mean dad]

Pinned.
Floored.
Wide (Fuckin) Open.
To the stop.
Stretch the cable.
Foot to the floor.
Pedal to the Metal.
etc.

 

[jwb]

Precursor of "binned".

 

[moto-rama]

I am not going to say what it means to me.

 

[fubar929]

Precursor of "binned".

 

[ZCrow]

Precursor of "binned".

Brilliant. /End Thread.

 

[Blankpage]

The reason digital speedometers are a safety device, so people can no longer pin it.

 

[GPzPop]

back in the day, speedos and tachometers had a physical dial and and a pointing needle, and at the upper end of the range is a small pin, to limit the mechanism.

"Pinned" may refer to the speedo needle pushed to the stops, it cant go no higher

--S

 

[BayAreaRick]

^^^
+1

 

[ABC]

Pinned.
Floored.
Wide (Fuckin) Open.
To the stop.
Stretch the cable.
Foot to the floor.
Pedal to the Metal.
etc.

STRETCH THE CABLE LMFAO

 

[thedub]

+2 on Simon's answer above.