Yet Another Cycling Forum
General Category => Freewheeling => Topic started by: finch on 01 November, 2023, 12:37:48 pm
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I know there’s a lot but probably collectively we know them all but perhaps not one person knows them all - what do we have and what do we think the best ones are ?
Personally the best one I just recently learned was sat on and shat on - which is exactly what my best mate does to me when it’s windy , sits in till I’m “in the bucket” then goes “up the road”
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Rubber side down is a good phrase and aspiration.
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Barse. (or Varse).
Well it's anatomy rather than cyclng but it crops up a lot in cycling.
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Bonked!
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Wheeeeee!
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"Front" and "Back"
There's too much regional variation to describing on road traffic direction when riding in groups.
No one has ever misunderstood either of the above. #heresy
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I’m quite fond of pedalling squares or going backwards
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Evens
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"Front" and "Back"
There's too much regional variation to describing on road traffic direction when riding in groups.
No one has ever misunderstood either of the above. #heresy
Nose! Tail!
That's wot we use here...
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Dulwich Paragon!
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Pedalling to a rhythm only Max Wall could dance to.*
<record scratch, freeze frame>
Yep that's me, out the saddle on a steep climb in a parody of riding à danseuse... :P
* I don't think i can claim prior art - I vaguely recall seeing this one or words to that effect in a Chipps Chippendale piece for a cycling magazine many, many years ago.
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Dulwich Paragon!
Yes, that is lovely and a complete contradiction, no doubt. Reminds me of the pretty good North-East amateur football team yclept Billingham Synthonia which sounds wonderfully Grecian until you realise it's a contraction of synthetic ammonia. It was once considered the ICI works team and boasted the young Brian Clough. It still exists and has provided several pros, mainly for Boro in the past.
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"Stopping!" - especially outside a cafe.
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From the P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nz™® Tour de France Bingo Card (pat. pending)
Super happy
Super hard
Super strong
Super good
Full gas
For sure
Incredible
Crazy
There is still a long way to go
We will see
Anything can happen
A dream
yeh
On the limit
Good legs
Great team
No easy days
Wind!
Iconic
Looking forward to Paris Nice
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Merckx
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Freewheeling
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"Pothole!" exclaimed the captain to the stoker.
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Barse. (or Varse).
Well it's anatomy rather than cyclng but it crops up a lot in cycling.
Also Taint.
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"Tuggo"
I have no idea where this word came from, but it was in common usage in Northamptonshire in the 1950s/60s.
It was a somewhat derogatory term for a cyclist who was not a "Clubman".
As in "Oh, it's just a tuggo"
What we would now term a utility cyclist, going to work, shopping, allotment etc.
Has anyone else heard/used the term, and can anyone shed light on it's origins?
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Having done all my club cycling in France, I can only add a few French words to the mix:
Fringale - hypoglycaemia, aka bonk in USAnian. Used to be the knock in English. My dad used to carry Fry's Chocolate Cream against it; he never cycled in hot climes.
Tout à Gauche - all to the left: chain on the small ring at the front and the biggest at the back.
En danseuse - standing on your pedals. Honking I reserve for other people's feet.
Ravito - short for ravitaillement, the various snacks supplied at contrôles.
Vieux clou - disreputable old bike
Raidillon - short, nastily steep hill, e.g. the one our bunch encountered in Austria where a dead flat cycle path did a sudden right-angle to kill our momentum and then climbed for 50 metres at 18%
Chute - involuntary interaction with the road.
A droite devant! - bellowed from the middle of the peloton, means I say, you fellows, there appears to be a car approaching from the rear, so would you mind terribly squeezing over to the right a bit? Or it might mean we need to squeeze over to the right because there's a car up ahead. In either case, best move a bit rightwards. And since the results are the same in both cases serrez à droite! - squeeze to the right - will do just as well. (I prefer to shout voiture devant or derrière as appropriate.) Serrez les fesses might well be heard when approaching general peril, or when the last pause hygiénique was three hours back.
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'On the rivet' and 'Chewing the stem/ bars'
Both phrases are synonymous with going 'eyeballs out' with the second particularly applying into a headwind.
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"Tuggo"
I have no idea where this word came from, but it was in common usage in Northamptonshire in the 1950s/60s.
It was a somewhat derogatory term for a cyclist who was not a "Clubman".
As in "Oh, it's just a tuggo"
What we would now term a utility cyclist, going to work, shopping, allotment etc.
Has anyone else heard/used the term, and can anyone shed light on it's origins?
This forum has a former member called Tuggo but I don't know if the above usage was where his name came from. It's a joke he would maybe use about himself.
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Raidillon - short, nastily steep hill, e.g. the one our bunch encountered in Austria where a dead flat cycle path did a sudden right-angle to kill our momentum and then climbed for 50 metres at 18%
Kopfstand in German or stojka in Czech - both of these translate as headstand. I don't know of an English equivalent for these, probably because of the ubiquity of such hills in this country (certainly in my part of it).
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Barse. (or Varse).
Well it's anatomy rather than cyclng but it crops up a lot in cycling.
I once said Aunty Charlotte had a barse. I will never make that mistake again...
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"Tertiary ablative braking system"
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Both phrases are synonymous with going 'eyeballs out' with the second particularly applying into a headwind.
See also: breathing through one's eyeballs
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Kwak (Vlaams)
That twitch in the pace line that gets more and more exaggerated as it is transmitted back through the group.
Result is often a massive valpartij
Ouch
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Souplesse (as opposed to soupless).
Sticky bottles!
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"Front" and "Back"
There's too much regional variation to describing on road traffic direction when riding in groups.
No one has ever misunderstood either of the above. #heresy
'Front' and 'Back' are the British Cycling recommended terms, I think.
'Up' and 'Down' are easily misconstrued. In Olde Essex cyclist's slang up is the direction you're travelling, others may mean up (at the front - ie against you). 'Oil' (= motor), 'Big Oil' (= lorry/bus etc), from the early days of motoring when steam vehicles were fairly common and presented different hazards. Still use those terms habitually ...
I like 'Nose' and 'Tail' - from my days riding with Ayrshire CTC.
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Suceur de roue = wheelsucker: the bastard who slipstreams you so closely that you can smell him, and stays there without ever moving up front and doing some work.
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From the P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nz™® Tour de France Bingo Card (pat. pending)
Super happy
Super hard
Super strong
Super good
Full gas
For sure
Incredible
Crazy
There is still a long way to go
We will see
Anything can happen
A dream
yeh
On the limit
Good legs
Great team
No easy days
Wind!
Iconic
Looking forward to Paris Nice
Sean Kelly edition
On the limit
On the rivet
Cup of tea
As we say, in cycling terms
My postman could go faster than that
Too much weight
Too lean
I'm not sure of the tactic
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Freewheeling
Downhill
Tailwind
Smooth tarmac
Scenic mild trail
Free cake
Hot tea
Dry bus shelter
Sunny day
Warm night
Home
Far away
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Oh look, a pub. Pint?
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Chaingang
Through and off
Follow a wheel
Sit in
Sit up
Club-run winner
Engine
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Pothole
Chip'n'seal
Road rash
Black-enamel bastard (probably not common coin but it's how a school chum of mine referred to the peeler who gave him a dressing-down for riding through an orange-red light)
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From the P@nd3m1c Pr0duckt10nz™® Tour de France Bingo Card (pat. pending)
Super happy
Super hard
Super strong
Super good
Full gas
For sure
Incredible
Crazy
There is still a long way to go
We will see
Anything can happen
A dream
yeh
On the limit
Good legs
Great team
No easy days
Wind!
Iconic
Looking forward to Paris Nice
Sean Kelly edition
On the limit
On the rivet
Cup of tea
As we say, in cycling terms
My postman could go faster than that
Too much weight
Too lean
I'm not sure of the tactic
Yes well
Classement
Pog a charr
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The weather's just reminded me that it's not officially autumn until Kim's mentioned "chutney" (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10.msg2850745#msg2850745).
IIRC, it's the slippery mess you get when fallen leaves are soaked by heavy rainfall, and rather conducive to code brown moments when your bike tries swapping ends beneath you.
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'Front' and 'Back' are the British Cycling recommended terms, I think.
I did not know that. They do a pretty rubbish job of promoting it since I've heard very few people use both. Did they "adopt" it from me?
Just to anedotalise that: In the BC club I raced in (who shall not be named) it was Up and Back, unless I'm on the Front....
I do like to hear "Oil", though I don't recall every hearing "Big Oil" though. (Although quite possibly my brain contracts that in the same way it will instinctively make me classify everything as "Car")
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Unrelated to the above^
Diesel
Puncheur
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When slogging up a 1 in 4 , thinking you’ve reached the top with a hairpin bend, but no, it goes on…..’FNUK’’
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"Front" and "Back"
There's too much regional variation to describing on road traffic direction when riding in groups.
No one has ever misunderstood either of the above. #heresy
'Front' and 'Back' are the British Cycling recommended terms, I think.
'Up' and 'Down' are easily misconstrued. In Olde Essex cyclist's slang up is the direction you're travelling, others may mean up (at the front - ie against you). 'Oil' (= motor), 'Big Oil' (= lorry/bus etc), from the early days of motoring when steam vehicles were fairly common and presented different hazards. Still use those terms habitually ...
I like 'Nose' and 'Tail' - from my days riding with Ayrshire CTC.
Front and Back are just wrong!!!!
It's down and up!!
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"Car up" and "car down", but some confuse the direction; I remember it as up your ass or down your throat.
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Lest we forget...
"to take a packet" - nothing to do with performance-enhancing supplements. The equivalent of "blowing up". Take your pick [or packet]
An old timer once told me that "bonk rations" were also known as "nutty". I'm not sure how universal that was.
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"Tuggo"
I have no idea where this word came from, but it was in common usage in Northamptonshire in the 1950s/60s.
It was a somewhat derogatory term for a cyclist who was not a "Clubman".
As in "Oh, it's just a tuggo"
What we would now term a utility cyclist, going to work, shopping, allotment etc.
Has anyone else heard/used the term, and can anyone shed light on it's origins?
This forum has a former member called Tuggo but I don't know if the above usage was where his name came from. It's a joke he would maybe use about himself.
I was wondering about this myself. It occurred to me that it might be the influence of Chris Davies, who was versed in all matters of cycling lore. Postie would know.
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I was wondering about this myself. It occurred to me that it might be the influence of Chris Davies, who was versed in all matters of cycling lore. Postie would know.
From the same geographical area, we used Tuggo to describe a utility rider back in the 60s and more recently. I remember our own "Tuggo" starting riding, and indeed "Postie". Last met Tuggo in France in 2012.
Oil up and down were usual terms. Car back or front is an American import I think. I had never heard it until I lived in the USA in the late 90s.
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One of the tour commentators used to say of a cyclist 'he's got a big diesel'. Haven't heard it lately.
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One of the tour commentators used to say of a cyclist 'he's got a big diesel'. Haven't heard it lately.
IIRC this was a favourite of poor dead Paul Sherwen. This may be why it’s fallen out of favour.
Well, that and *** and Super Dave taking over.
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Talk of who is and isn't "more of a diesel engine" is still a staple of the long hours of the live coverage whenever someone is riding a bicycle quite fast for quite a long time.
The droning white guys are all an indistinguishable mulch. The suggestion they have names and faces and families and dreams of their own seems fanciful.
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Engine used to refer to the big bloke with no sense of tactics, who'd tow the bunch all day until the everyone went past him for the sprint finish.
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One of the tour commentators used to say of a cyclist 'he's got a big diesel'. Haven't heard it lately.
As opposed to 'now you're sucking diesel!' which is tractor-speak for going well after a bad patch.
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One of the tour commentators used to say of a cyclist 'he's got a big diesel'. Haven't heard it lately.
As opposed to 'now you're sucking diesel!' which is tractor-speak for going well after a bad patch.
And definitely not a mistype.