Favorite bike slang
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I think there were a couple different posters responsible for some of those weird, misspelled phrases. r600DuraAce and ryanf. Gosh, that's been a long time -- my first spell on BF. (I had to make up a new profile when I got back on a while back, since I had forgotten my old one and no longer even had the same email address.)
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From winter cycling: car snot/brown sugar = that nasty slushy brown stuff that piles up and nearly impossible to ride through.
Anything from the rules is always fair game.
From winter cycling: car snot/brown sugar = that nasty slushy brown stuff that piles up and nearly impossible to ride through.
Anything from the rules is always fair game.
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He also uses "helment."
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"big cookie power"
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Merckxin' it....riding hard.
Dag Otto(Lauritzen) it....take a short steep hill in the big ring.
Dag Otto(Lauritzen) it....take a short steep hill in the big ring.
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Australian slang includes:
Pushie: a (push) bike
Treadly: bicycle
The Dog: the big ring
A stack: a crash (n) also "to stack" (v)
Stack hat: helmet
A bingle: a crash
Goo guts: nausea from lack of solid food and excess gel
Claret: blood
Pushie: a (push) bike
Treadly: bicycle
The Dog: the big ring
A stack: a crash (n) also "to stack" (v)
Stack hat: helmet
A bingle: a crash
Goo guts: nausea from lack of solid food and excess gel
Claret: blood
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This took awhile to absorb form my employees at the shop -
Seat guts......... aka :saddle clamp.
Seat guts......... aka :saddle clamp.
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I just call that "overlapping wheels." Dangerous, yes. "Halfwheeling" to me is when riding alongside someone and you put your front axle even with the front of their front wheel. There's no draft benefit; all it does is encourages them to subconsciously speed up to get even with you. Someone doing that can screw up a whole group.
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Murdered Out! - every single component on the steed is black