People that thought Touring, Dresser, and Geezer Glide sounded negative decided to call them Baggers to make them sound more cool.

I'll leave ya'll to debate if Switchbacks and Heritage Classics are Baggers.

 

I always think of one of these, but that's just me ;

 

Great post...........very entertaining! Can't wait until I find out WTH I actually ride.

 

I think that is a good description.

 

So what exactly is this?

 

We used to call em Deckers... I suppose it's a regional or even a Canadian thing.

 

To me, I consider a bagger to be any bike with dedicated bags that are permanently on the bike....in other words to me only the touring line.
A Heritage or Switchback or any other Softtail, Dyna or Sporty with bags are not baggers to me because you can strip them down.
Bagger = touring chassis

OR, as someone already mentioned a woman that you need to put a bag over her head.
bagger = butterface

 

Is a bagger the same as a dresser? That's what we used to call them years ago. Bagger is a new term to me.

 

Official def of a BAGGER..

Bagger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bagger, is an unofficial title given to a courtesy clerk at a supermarket. The primary duties of a bagger revolve around putting groceries into a shopping bag and then into a shopping cart. Upon requests, baggers may take the groceries out to a customer's motor vehicle or supply other forms of service. Some baggers in stores will do this unless the customer refuses and wishes to bring his own groceries out.
Depending on the store, other duties may include cleaning the store, cleaning the bathrooms, collecting carts, sweeping the store, fixing and maintaining the bottle recycling machines, giving customer assistance, putting items customers initially intended to purchase but changed their mind about at the register back on the shelf (usually called "back shop", "returns", "go backs", "orphans", "perishable returns", "reshop" or even "call backs"), and reorganizing products on aisles to make a neater appearance (commonly called "breaking down", "blocking", "facing", or "conditioning"). Some courtesy clerks can perform maintenance in the stores, such as minor plumbing, electrical, landscaping, child care, elderly assistance, and many more jobs. The duties vary vastly depending on the store and union regulations, and some of previous duties, in fact,[citation needed] are actually prohibited from being done at some stores by a courtesy clerk due to union contracts. The title of bagger is the result of an extensive evolution of the position of "courtesy clerk". The title "bag boy" was adopted for some time, until it was finally shortened to "bagger".



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Your confusion is understandable. There are at least two magazines using "Bagger" in the title. If you look inside, all you see are impractical, overchromed Big Wheels with unfunctional extended bags, and hideous paint jobs, that actually look more like a two-wheeled circus wagon.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

If someone asks you to pack any of their stuff...you're probably riding a bagger.