Vocabulary

[G3CWI]

Cycling needs some more words to add to it's mystique.

In my view there should be a special words for:

The black oil mark on my right leg
The embarrassed feeling when lycra shorts get caught on the nose of the saddle
The clipless fall
The moment when my foot slips off the pedal
Gears that just wont change smoothly.

Can anyone help me out?

 

[ianrauk]

Well the first one is known as a Chainring Tattoo

 

[Arch]

Cycling needs some more words to add to it's mystique.

In my view there should be a special words for:

The black oil mark on my right leg
The embarrassed feeling when lycra shorts get caught on the nose of the saddle
The clipless fall
The moment when my foot slips off the pedal
Gears that just wont change smoothly.

Can anyone help me out?

Sounds a bit like the premise behind The Meaning of Liff

Just look through an atlas for some place names that sound right...

 

[snorri]

CIan anyone help me out?

Inexperience?

 

[Fnaar]

Cycling needs some more words to add to it's mystique.

In my view there should be a special words for:

1:The black oil mark on my right leg
2;The embarrassed feeling when lycra shorts get caught on the nose of the saddle
3:The clipless fall
4:The moment when my foot slips off the pedal
5: Gears that just wont change smoothly.

Can anyone help me out?

1: Chainring tattoo, as ianruk said above ^^^
2: saddlebuggery
3: the fool on the hill
4: lemony snicket
5: bastards

 

[PaulSecteur]

The moment when my foot slips off the pedal

Knacker smacker

 

[Scoosh]

5: obviously Shimano




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[TheDoctor]

Cycling needs some more words to add to it's mystique.

In my view there should be a special words for:

The black oil mark on my right leg
The embarrassed feeling when lycra shorts get caught on the nose of the saddle
The clipless fall
The moment when my foot slips off the pedal
Gears that just wont change smoothly.

Can anyone help me out?

That's "It's in there somewhere!!"