Oft-heard cycling phrases that get on your nerves

[Fab Foodie]

This thread is petty, nit-picking and not entirely to be taken seriously, but feel free to join in.

1. "Gents bike" - Only ever used to describe BSOs, and makes you think of toilets
2. "I'm going for a cycle" - No, you're going for a ride.
3. "I've ordered my new n+1" - No, you haven't. n+1 is a term used to describe the correct number of bikes to own. It isn't a single bicycle.

I've got a Gents bike ... I only use it if I'm going for a poo-tle ....

 

[Profpointy]

5) "Rule 5!" - Stop talking like some sort of American extreme sports enthusiast and show some fu*&in' decorum.

FTFY

 

[mrbikerboy73]

My bike needs a new wheel, meaning it has a puncture.
Oh and brifter!

 

[MisterStan]

My bike needs a new wheel, meaning it has a puncture.
Oh and brifter!

People confusing tyres & tubes in the same manner

 

[TissoT]

Breathing out of your Ar#se ..
Not my favourite phrase

 

[Oldbloke]

Cockpit layout. Arghhhhhhhhhh

 

[Slioch]

"Oi mate, your back wheels going round" - shouted by small boys 20+ years ago to try to get you to look down.

The modern equivalent invariably contains additional words either starting with "W", "F", or "C". Such is progress.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

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.

Well you never know, what people get up to in the privacy of their own home with hairy, equipment humpers.....

Taking your good point a step further, Any reference to the velominati (sp?) rules is sad and tedious.

 

[PaulSecteur]

"That thing hasn't got enough crossbars"

Usually said by my Dad, who worked at comrade cycles that made "things" like this...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8728562@N06/5378317308/

You lot might not have heard it often, but I have. Dear Lord nearly every time he see my bike...

 

[ColinJ]

I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the most obvious one ...

SMIDSY!




(For those of you new to all of this - Sorry Mate I Didn't See You!)

 

[ianrauk]

The cyclist didn't wave or say hello

 

[Deleted member 35268]

The cyclist didn't wave or say hello

I am guilty as charged https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/dont-wave-at-me-then-twice.173004/

 

[ianrauk]

I am guilty as charged https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/dont-wave-at-me-then-twice.173004/

I know... your post reminded me.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

I don't really give a ***t! but it just makes me larf

 

[Deleted member 35268]

"Strava"
"Are you on Strava"