Cycling words and phrases you really like

[fuzzy]

Shut up legs!
Pretty much anything spoken by The Jens really.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Putting the hammer down.

Like when Cavendish is at his best.

[Ian H]

Putting the hammer down.

Like when Cavendish is at his best.

I think of that as meaning a sustained increase in pace to wear others down, rather than a sprint.

[Basil]

"Free bike"

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Putting the hammer down.

Like when Cavendish is at his best.

I think of that as meaning a sustained increase in pace to wear others down, rather than a sprint.

To put the hammer down – To ride really fast and try and drop people. Make sure you don’t put the hammer down at the wrong time or to the wrong people or after 5 minutes of mashing your big gear, you will find yourself unceremoniously out the back.

[Wombat]

Anyone remember what a straight-through block is or was? Occasionally referred to as a corn-cob.

A block with very closely sized cogs.  I don't have one.

I used to have one, with one tooth difference at each step, and it was one of those new fangled SIX speed ones (a Maillard, I think), and no, of course I didn't have one of those nancy "double clanger" arrangements.  I was rather less unfit then, and used to go training with time trial riders, or "testers".  Yes, I am old.

[rogerzilla]

Lead-out man.  The last big bloke to peel off the front before Cipollini or Cavendish makes a dash for the line, having cruised along in someone else's slipstream for 150 miles.  Notably Eros Poli, who was even larger than most but stole the Mont Ventoux stage in 1994 because he was still miffed at being caught after a similarly mad lone breakaway on the previous day.

[Kim]

n+1

[Basil]

n+1

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Weight weeny : I love the idea that hollow is not enough, it also needs holes drilled in it. Where would we be without the weight weenies?  Riding steeds of solid iron?

[T42]

K-Way

[Andrij]

Weight weeny : I love the idea that hollow is not enough, it also needs holes drilled in it. Where would we be without the weight weenies?  Riding steeds of solid iron?

Drillium!

[Mr Larrington]

SD Millar:

Pelican

[Pedaldog.]

Brooks But-tock!

(Aching inna fork.)

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Hoops.

[Legs]

Crystal-cranking == soft-pedalling
Pedalling squares == afflicted by the man with the hammer

[The French Tandem]

Weight weeny : I love the idea that hollow is not enough, it also needs holes drilled in it. Where would we be without the weight weenies?  Riding steeds of solid iron?

You can enjoy drilling holes AND riding a real steel bike:

[Ian H]

Tube, lug, bracket, crown, stay, bridge, cluster, blade, stop, guide.

[Feanor]

Tube, lug, bracket, crown, stay, bridge, cluster, blade, stop, guide.

I can't help but hear that being read out in Rowan Atkinson's voice in the Schoolmaster sketch.

He'd then pause, look around and then slowly say:

Bottom.... Bracket?

[spesh]

Tube, lug, bracket, crown, stay, bridge, cluster, blade, stop, guide.

I can't help but hear that being read out in Rowan Atkinson's voice in the Schoolmaster sketch.

He'd then pause, look around and then slowly say:

Bottom.... Bracket?

DROP OUT!!!!! Leave Gusset alone!!!

[Mr Larrington]

"The Passion Considered as an Uphill Bicycle Race" is not a funny play.  If Jarry had meant it to be funny, he would have put TV's Super D Millar's hat in it.

[Paul]

Weight weeny : I love the idea that hollow is not enough, it also needs holes drilled in it. Where would we be without the weight weenies?  Riding steeds of solid iron?

You can enjoy drilling holes AND riding a real steel bike:

Beautiful, but that would be such a bugger to clean.

[closetleftie]

Wouldn't last long, that. Be interesting to have a chain ring come apart just as you're standing hard on the pedals to get off a roundabout.....

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[Paul]

Ride it? Of course not. This is a bike for picking up with one finger.

[spesh]

Wouldn't last long, that. Be interesting to have a chain ring come apart just as you're standing hard on the pedals to get off a roundabout.....

Heaven forfend that a "real steel" bike with a generous dressing of drillium parts gets used on a proper ride - to me, it screams "pootle a couple of blocks to a cafe and spend a sunny afternoon sipping coffee and posing in one's Rapha gear" bike. 

Ironic beards and quiffs optional.