What is BRAAP?

[ThumperX]

It's official, I am turning into a curmudgeon! I keep getting all chaffed when I see youngsters more and more misusing the word "braap!"

BRAAP comes from the noise the two stroke engine produces.
That's it, its a 2T thing B-R-A-A-P!!!
Four strokes go "Vroom!"
Going braaping means you are going to go rip some single track or mix some oil....shred some snow...



and get the f**k off my lawn!

I concede, 4T singles go braap too.






discuss

 

[cheez]

Oh baby don't wheelie, don't wheelie, no more...

 

[budman]

I never associated it with a stroke.. just a sudden open throttle.



There is a lot of BRAAAP in Supercross... maybe a bit more BRAAAAWWP..!

 

[pepesm]

Braaaaaaaaa...aarrrf!!

 

[onto1wheel]

wingdingdingding

 

[augustiron]

Sorry, to me braap is the sound a four stroke single makes when it has a pipe. The guttural deep fart noise.

A 2t is a ring a ding sound.

Let the battle continue.

 

[mototireguy]

wingdingdingding

Ring a ding ding - the sound of a properly tuned 2T with crisp exhaust note.

Braaap - the sound of a properly tuned 4T single with crisp exhaust note.

 

[ThumperX]

Sorry, to me braap is the sound a four stroke single makes when it has a pipe. The guttural deep fart noise.

A 2t is a ring a ding sound.

Let the battle continue.

I actually kind of agree with that but can we limmit braap to singles?
I mean c'mon a parallel twin doesn't go braap and it comes from a kinda long stroke over square geometry. No I4 should ever go "BRAAP!" They go "whhhhhhhhheeeeeeezee-pop pop pop weeeeeeeeeze-popopop"

 

[thedub]

I never associated it with a stroke.. just a sudden open throttle.



There is a lot of BRAAAP in Supercross... maybe a bit more BRAAAAWWP..!

This.

 

[tuxumino]

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[budman]

According to this Braaap got started by dirt bikers in the 2 stroke era...

 

[aminalmutha]

It's official, I am turning into a curmudgeon! I keep getting all chaffed when I see youngsters more and more misusing the word "braap!"

BRAAP comes from the noise the two stroke engine produces.
That's it, its a 2T thing B-R-A-A-P!!!
Four strokes go "Vroom!"
Going braaping means you are going to go rip some single track or mix some oil....shred some snow...



and get the f**k off my lawn!






discuss

Wrong. Four stroke singles go BRAAAP!!!. Two stroke singles go RING-DING!!! I have never in my life heard a two stroke go brappp.

 

[aminalmutha]

I actually kind of agree with that but can we limmit braap to singles?
I mean c'mon a parallel twin doesn't go braap and it comes from a kinda long stroke over square geometry. No I4 should ever go "BRAAP!" They go "whhhhhhhhheeeeeeezee-pop pop pop weeeeeeeeeze-popopop"

BRAAAPP!!! Does not apply to any multi-cylinder bike.

Go listen to MX, that's where the brapping happens.

 

[R3DS!X]

2 stroke singles go BweeeEEEEEEE!!

4 stroke singles go BRAAAP!!!!!!

 

[ThumperX]

BRAAAPP!!! Does not apply to any multi-cylinder bike.

Go listen to MX, that's where the brapping happens.

This is what I'm getting at!!!!

I think I have it wrong about the 2T thing but for sure "braap" is a singles thing

 

[Escape pod]

Braap on the face of a jump/. \ or the back side, MX originated.

Now Woops. • Woop ~ whoop ~ Whoop ~ woop ... (2stroke)

 

[budman]

OG's know that very old 2 strokes went braaap. My '72 CZ 250 did.. those throaty low pipes sounded different that modern 2 smokes.

Maico's braaapped too.

 

[ThumperX]

I guess Ring-a-ding-ding is definately a 2T chainsaw leaf blower sound but those old Huskies of yesteryear went BraaP!!

I do think a big bore 4T single braaps but there is now way you're going to tell me my TTR125 or CRF230 go braap. They make vroom vroom sounds.

 

[Marcoose]

I could've sworn it was the sound Drogon wings make when gliding over King's Landing.

 

[augustiron]

I guess Ring-a-ding-ding is definately a 2T chainsaw leaf blower sound but those old Huskies of yesteryear went BraaP!!

I do think a big bore 4T single braaps but there is now way you're going to tell me my TTR125 or CRF230 go braap. They make vroom vroom sounds.

A loud pipe makes small thumpers sound brappy(er) Seriously, and annoyingly.

Stock pipes on anything kills the brapp.