Oft-heard cycling phrases that get on your nerves

[Pale Rider]

Snot rocket.

 

[jay clock]

Reviews where they rate wheels on their ability to "spin up to speed" or something like that

 

[GrumpyGregry]

"Pain is only weakness leaving the body." Used by nobbers on two wheels and on two legs.

Unless it is accompanied by quantities of blood and the odd bone fragment leaving the body in which case pain is something else entirely I presume?

 

[theclaud]

'Performance' as an adjective. As in 'performance saddles'. Also 'concept' used similarly. As in 'Specialized/Giant Concept Store'.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Reviews where they rate wheels on their ability to "spin up to speed" or something like that

Don't get me going on that one. Also "fast-rolling" and "very aero" and "responsive" .

Snot rocket.

My weapon of choice. I never utter the actual words though, so that gets me off, right?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I concluded a long time ago that most magazine bike reviews are utter nonsense, mostly written by cub reporters barely old enough to know one end of a bike from the other.

 

[nickyboy]

'Performance' as an adjective. As in 'performance saddles'. Also 'concept' used similarly. As in 'Specialized/Giant Concept Store'.

We're going within a mile or so of one of these in Chester on the way to Llandudno. Should we take a detour to let you throw a brick through the window? It may be quite cathartic

 

[theclaud]

We're going within a mile or so of one of these in Chester on the way to Llandudno. Should we take a detour to let you throw a brick through the window? It may be quite cathartic

Ha! Actually I will probably be seated upon a performance saddle from a Specialized Concept Store at the time. But that doesn't make it any less annoying.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Don't get me going on that one. Also "fast-rolling" and "very aero" and "responsive" .


My weapon of choice. I never utter the actual words though, so that gets me off, right?

Bogey bazooka?

 

[raleighnut]

Bogey bazooka?

Don't you people carry a bit of kitchen roll in yer jersey pocket.

 

[swansonj]

Ha! Actually I will probably be seated upon a performance saddle from a Specialized Concept Store at the time. But that doesn't make it any less annoying.

Would I notice any difference between a performance saddle from a concept store and a concept saddle from a performance store?

 

[theclaud]

Would I notice any difference between a performance saddle from a concept store and a concept saddle from a performance store?

I reckon they'd both come in somewhere north of £90...

 

[Alan Frame]

Don't you people carry a bit of kitchen roll in yer jersey pocket.

I carry the kitchen sink in my rucksack, does that count?

 

[raleighnut]

I reckon they'd both come in somewhere north of £90...

And wouldn't even be Brooks

 

[Pale Rider]

Halfrauds.