Oft-heard cycling phrases that get on your nerves

[deptfordmarmoset]

We're a right grumpy old lot, aren't we? No wonder Chain Reactionary Cyclists does such good business.

 

[Moodyman]

"So, you 're a biker?"

Nope, I'm a cyclist.

 

[S.Giles]

THE Goodies were a trio of comedians in the 70s who made surreal TV sketches, rode a Tridem (does the word exist?) and made ar5e clenchingly awful records.

You're not dissing 'Funky Gibbon', I hope!

Bill Oddie - living proof that it's better to be a good-tempered baddie than a bad-tempered Goodie!

On with the thread, though. The term 'kit', when it's used to mean 'equipment' always gets me, for reasons even I don't understand.

Steve

 

[youngoldbloke]

........ On with the thread, though. The term 'kit', when it's used to mean 'equipment' always gets me, for reasons even I don't understand.
Steve

I'm not sure, it's a handy word - as in 'finishing kit'. 'Finishing equipment' is a bit of a mouthful - though I'm not sure about 'finishing kit' either - what had we used to call all those bits?

 

[S.Giles]

I'm not sure, it's a handy word - as in 'finishing kit'. 'Finishing equipment' is a bit of a mouthful - though I'm not sure about 'finishing kit' either - what had we used to call all those bits?

Excuse my ignorance, I don't even know what 'finishing kit' (or 'finishing equipment') is.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Handlebars,stem, seatpost etc - as in 'Ritchey finishing kit'

 

[S.Giles]

Handlebars,stem, seatpost etc - as in 'Ritchey finishing kit'

Hmm... I've negotiated the first fifty-four years of my life without ever having needed that expression. I think I'll just keep winging-it and hope for the best.

 

[Oldbloke]

Hmm... I've negotiated the first fifty-four years of my life without ever having needed that expression. I think I'll just keep winging-it and hope for the best.

Try reading the bike reviews in Cycling Plus or similar comics for an overdose of this term and a good few others quoted in this thread!

 

[Psycolist]

"At the end of the day" my own "bits of kit" have been "taken for a run" after "fitting my finishing equipment" to make sure "everything was running sweetly". After "bimbling around" to "make sure everything was bedded in" I thought it was time "start pushing the envelope" and "see how she felt". After " doing a few clicks" I thought I could make this "a training run". Every thing "felt good" and "I was pushing it" so was starting "to breath out of my a%$*e " when "all of a sudden" I am staring at the sky, and this blokes going "SMIDSY"

I hope I covered most of the annoying comments on here, I deliberately left out the " car up / car down" bit because I have no idea what that means or refers to. P.S. " at the end of the day " is my own personal hated saying, it just has nowt to do with cycling. But taken at their true meaning, neither do any of the others.

 

[tommaguzzi]

People who pass me on climbs with a cheery. "Morning !" Then effortlessly disappear up the road.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

People need to ask me about what cakes I eat when cycling.

What cakes do you eat when cycling?

 

[Jon George]

"It's a blue-bin day."
No, wait ... that's to do with recycling, not re: cycling ....

 

[SamR]

The first thing I thought of when I saw this thread

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Very aero. Look at that solid chainring!

I hate the idea that everybody, even if they're intending to race or not, has to use technical jargon and some even "train to power."
We're all on this forum to enjoy cycling, and if you make it clinical, you won't enjoy it as much.

 

[ColinJ]

People who pass me on climbs with a cheery. "Morning !" Then effortlessly disappear up the road.

I got that yesterday on Waddington Fell - at 2 pm!

 

[Alan Frame]

People who pass me on climbs with a cheery. "Morning !" Then effortlessly disappear up the road.

I usually get "Mourning?" as they presume I have died....