New words for cycling

[craigwend]

peck·ing,

v. cycling.

The action a cyclist makes when bobbing up and down as they pedal (as questioned by 'craigwend junior#1', "why is mummy pecking when riding her bike?")


v. tr.

To strike with the beak or a pointed instrument.
To make (a hole, for example) by striking repeatedly with the beak or a pointed instrument.
To grasp and pick up with the beak: The bird pecked insects from the log.
Informal To kiss briefly and casually.

v. intr.

To make strokes with the beak or a pointed instrument.
To eat in small sparing bits; nibble: He pecked at his dinner.
To criticize repeatedly; carp.

n.

A stroke or light blow with the beak or a pointed instrument.
A mark or hole made by such a stroke.
Informal A light quick kiss.

 

[Aperitif]

Does Mrs Craigwend go to bed early, or do you keep your pecker up?

 

[gbb]

Binge biking...coined by a friend to describe my habit at the time of doing no mileage during the week....then going hell for leather at the weekend.

 

[Elmer Fudd]

Passive cycling.
Having a bike but just looking at it whilst on here as can't get out.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Vicarious Cycling - the action of jealously viewing another person cycling, but not actually doing it yourself.

 

[Yorkshireman]

Pootling does it for me. I'm not likely to break any records (speed or distance) at my 'time of life', I just enjoy being out and about (most weather conditions too) on the bike(s) .

 

[chris42]

riding

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Cycledelic: flouro day-glo wear.

A Toads tool: A motorist who squeezes past leaving you not mush room.

Beaverbrooks: A women's saddle.

Lord Beaverbrooks: Top-of-the-range women's saddle.

Minature Pootle: A quick ride round the block.

Toy Pootle: A £49.99 full-susser.

French Pootle: A jaunt round France. Chapeau!

Standard Pootle: Your average ride.

 

[Aperitif]

Cycledelic: flouro day-glo wear.

A Toads tool: A motorist who squeezes past leaving you not mush room.

Beaverbrooks: A women's saddle.

Lord Beaverbrooks: Top-of-the-range women's saddle.

Minature Pootle: A quick ride round the block.

Toy Pootle: A £49.99 full-susser.

French Pootle: A jaunt round France. Chapeau!

Standard Pootle: Your average ride.

Pootle Your Eggs in One Basket: Ride a Pashley or similar...

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Pootle Your Eggs in One Basket: Ride a Pashley or similar...

Boom! Boom!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

yoko: (orig. oh no) that feeling you get as the fat bloke in jeans on the mtb passes you on your roadie in full lycra

choako: that feeling you get as the guy on a carrera whizzes past your colnago

nelson: (orig. ha-ha) opposite of a yoko, that feeling you get overtaking the lycra-clad roadie on your mtb in jeans

half-nelson: like a nelson only you're both roadies/mtbers in appropriate clothing but the bike you've just gone past is considerably more expensive.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

ha ha, I was yoko'd yesterday a few times.

Shoulder slugs: failing to clear your upper body with projectile jet of snotters whilst in transit, producing the effect of slug trails

Desperate Dan: when, through exhaustion, it feels like your bike is a steam-roller

Ron Jeremy: a fellow cyclist who rides with his or her knees out to the side, possibly due to larger than average genitalia.

Pebble-dashed: Your appearance after going through a puddle of mud.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Royale with Cheese: A decent frame spoiled by cheap wanky components.

 

[Jacomus-rides-Gen]

Brown moment: Something happens thats scary enough that it would be reasonable to sh*t yourself. ie. when screaming down a 40mph descent and Mr Numpty Caravan-man stalls blocking the whole road...

Whiteout: When you narrowly avoid disaster, possibly encountering a brown moment, and all the colour drains from your face.

Barfspeed: As in "I took that section at barfspeed" meaning you pushed so hard you would have been sick... if you hadn't been pushing too hard to physically do it.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Brown moment: Something happens thats scary enough that it would be reasonable to sh*t yourself. ie. when screaming down a 40mph descent and Mr Numpty Caravan-man stalls blocking the whole road...

Whiteout: When you narrowly avoid disaster, possibly encountering a brown moment, and all the colour drains from your face.

Barfspeed: As in "I took that section at barfspeed" meaning you pushed so hard you would have been sick... if you hadn't been pushing too hard to physically do it.

Is a Brown Moment not known as a "Lemond"?