Oft-heard cycling phrases that get on your nerves

[mjr]

Car Up your bum
Car Down your throat

FTFY

 

[ColinJ]

SMIDSY.

*Cough* - TMN to me!

 

[Brandane]

"MTFU".

No, away and GTF.. If, after 52 years I have managed to work out that the misery of getting wet on a bike outweighs any pleasure riding it might bring, then I am not going to change my mind now .

 

[S.Giles]

It irritates me immensly when people use the expression 'undertaking' to mean 'overtaking on the inside'. It demonstrates a misunderstanding of the word's etymology.

Steve

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Drafting instad of slipstreaming/sitting in
Cycler instead of cyclist
Fixie instead of fixed
Use of the term 'race' to describe a sportive

 

[format]

'I'm in training' or 'I'm off on a training ride'.
Unless you're competing, what are you training for? Can't you just go on a ride or does it have to 'mean' something?

A sportive?

'Winter miles'
Much the same as above really, what's the difference to summer miles? Do seasons even make a difference?


Tony.

For me, I do 'winter miles' which are shorter rides and not particularly at pace. The idea being that the weather is so foul that doing huge 160km rides isn't particularly appealing, and that the lesser frequency of these rides means that my fitness isn't quite what it might be at a time in the year when I'm out regularly (like summer)

For example, average winter ride is 50-60km, usually at a pace of 23-25km/h. A normal summer ride is 80-140km at closer to 30km/h+

Does that make sense?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Use of km and kph instead of miles and mph when talking about rides in the UK

 

[nickyboy]

It irritates me immensly when people use the expression 'undertaking' to mean 'overtaking on the inside'. It demonstrates a misunderstanding of the word's etymology.

Steve

Despite etymological niceties, I say "undertake"

"Overtaking on the inside" sounds like I'm from Belgium trying to explain it in English, that or I've had about eight pints of strong beer

 

[The Jogger]

4) "I was out on my roadie" - A roadie is a person in a Hawkwind t-shirt with six inches of bum crack on display.

But maybe that is exactly what they mean.

 

[the_mikey]

Use of km and kph instead of miles and mph when talking about rides in the UK

I HATE miles, they don't fit in with the modern metric way, scientists and engineers work with metric units, mathematical formulae used in schools and computers all normalise on metric, why would anyone want to arbitrarily use units that have no relationship with any other unit?

 

[youngoldbloke]

Car Up
Car Down

- but what do you call to inform the group?

 

[swansonj]

Granny gear

Simultaneously perpetuates at least two different undesirable attitudes.

 

[Alan Frame]

Strava

 

[Fab Foodie]

I say ''pootle'' but I think I bimble more.

I confess to being a fan of a good bimble.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Granny gear

Simultaneously perpetuates at least two different undesirable attitudes.

I use a great-granny gear ...