Bike Forum insider jokes and jargon
 

There are some things that get posted here now and then that people who just started posting in the BF C&V section probably have no clue what we're talking about. Here's a place for secret decoder ring lingo can be posted.

Grant Petersen references
 

Savings and Loan: Rivendell
George Bailey: Grant Petersen

Rivendell has asked it's customers at least twice to help bail them out when they've had a cash crunch, just as happened in It's a Wonderful Life

Local Portlandia stuff
 

The Neal Lerner Invitational route: Back in 2017 BF C&V regular @nlerner made a visit to Portland on some academia scam (not that there's anything wrong with that), so we put together a ride with many PNW members, some coming as far away as Seattle to meet up. @Andy_K and I have done this route so many times we just call it a "Lerner".

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...1b0a39e41d.jpg

More insider info: if you invite Neal to a ride, you're almost guaranteed it won't rain. In the picture above it had rained on and off for 57 days in the Portland, Oregon area. That day was the first full day of sunshine for the year.

The Bent fork picture...

Drew

Definitions, please! Links to original source if available.

"Witch!"

I've been away from C&V for a while (as I've becomevmore C&V myself) so the lingo may have evolved but I'll take a stab-- To 'drew' is to grind off unused frame features and braze-ons, e.g., shifter cable stops, derailleur hanger, etc... Used derogatorily and/or to infer diminished value of the frame for doing so. And the 'bent fork' refers to the unexplained visual phenomenon of perfectly aligned forks appearing bent rearward in photographs, as if having been in a crash, thus the critical comments of "bent fork" that inevitably ensue...

Did I nail it?

"Fork's bent": The fork is fine. We're just trolling.

"The fork looks bent": The fork looks bent.

Dial it up to 400 watts.

Massive guads.

https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycl...ike-lance.html


70-11
https://www.bikeforums.net/general-c...s-70t-pic.html

Perfectimundo!

I have a vague recollection of the term 'Drew' matching this definition and being hung with that title, because of a forum poster named Drew, who had posted some single speed mutilation atrocity he committed on a frame.

i ain't touchin this one.
1 man's insider, might not be another's funny.

Pass.

edit: or for the JARGON part
maybe things like?
The difference between:
refurbish,
refinish
restoration


High end
mid-range
low end
BSO


Classic
Vintage
Junk

Holy Grail
cheapo copies


fat & flat is the new fast
thin and hard makes you tired faster

Gugification? I think I spelled it wrong.

And I can't remember the term many use for screwing up something while repairing it...poop...age hurts.

My baby bolts were stollen.
SLAMDANCING!

That's a good one.

Or The Full Gugie?

There's also UJB - Ubiquitous Japanese Bike, referring to the general broad abundance of high quality but otherwise unremarkable Japanese bikes from the 70s-80s.

Also gas pipe - cheap thick-steel tubing.

Gugificazione! (Note the all important exclamation mark.)
Definition: from Italian. General term for bike modifications performed by Mark Guglielmana. Bike is typically older, but always steel framed. Custom racks are a common characteristic.

Example:
https://photos.smugmug.com/Bicycles/...IMG_4539-M.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/Bicycles/...IMG_4597-M.jpg

Full Gugie is a moving target. Every time I think I’ve seen him inflict everything he can on a bike, he comes up with some new, more cunning customization.

Gugificazione on both counts

This pretty well covers for "Drew." All I can add is that it can be a verb, as in "don't drew that frame by hacksawing off the derailleur hanger") or a noun (as in " He hacksawed that derailleur hanger off? What a Drew.").

DKO flipper (archaic)

$3.50: the automatic value of any bike that makes its way out of the valuation sub forum.

^ pronounced, "tree fiddy."

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"Party ride"

Ask @Wildwood. :lol:

Excellent distinction.

Good to see you posting here. Still need to meet up at the "next" FFD, whenever that will be.