Audax/cycling euphemisms

[Hillbilly]

"200km" = 210km

[caerau]

Or more 

[Deano]

"I bounced the first control" ~ I was too cheap to stop there.

[Greenbank]

"What was the info control answers again? I didn't write them down and thought I'd be able to remember them." = "I completely forgot there were even info questions. Can you give me the answers?"

[Exit Stage Left]

'Caution!' = We never did determine what caused that accident.

[Hillbilly]

'Caution!' = We never did determine what caused that accident.

"Extreme Caution" = you are following a sportive route by mistake (I'm assuming those signs are used outside of the South East, where the sportive organisers seem to put danger signs up if you are doing anything other than turning left).

[Lars]

"R@T, answer info question on brevet card here"

means

"R@T, answer info question on brevet card for which the exact location you need to find to obtain the answer is anywhere within a circle with 500m radius and centre at the T-junction"

[Exit Stage Left]

'Caution!' = We never did determine what caused that accident.

"Extreme Caution" = you are following a sportive route by mistake (I'm assuming those signs are used outside of the South East, where the sportive organisers seem to put danger signs up if you are doing anything other than turning left).

I was thinking more of the route sheet. = No one has ever really been sure if the rider had the heart attack before the pile-up.

[Camrider]

Continue through village = Whatever you do don't stop to talk to banjo playing yokels.

[Exit Stage Left]

'Exhausted, demoralised, beaten, thirsty, hungry but despite this generally in good spirits.' = The medication had kicked in.

[caerau]

Although of course most audaxers are banjo playing yokels

[contango]

Apart from the first night you can do the whole of PBP in daylight......

Poole - Bournemouth - Poole

or Putney-Barnes-Putney

That route is shorter and less hilly

Pub - Bar - Pub

The sort of ride that leaves you crawling

You win... I was trying to think of places beginning with P and B and totally missed that one

[caerau]

This ride is close to being under-distance.  = 300 km actually means 300 km in this case.  All other rides are massively over-distance.

[nightrider]

Although of course most audaxers are banjo playing yokels

I think what you are trying to say is(many audax rider are folk musicians)

[mattc]

'Caution!' = We never did determine what caused that accident.

[thing1]

"At the start of the brevet, the group will promenade out of town together for the first 2 to 4 miles, whereupon you may ride at your desired pace" [1]
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"Before I finish uttering 'off you go' there will be a scramble and half the pack will head off hell for leather, while the other half are still powering on GPS's and working out which way to turn out of the car park"


[1] - never seen it in a UK info sheet, but seems very popular over here in USA

[jaybea_auk]

Diverse wildlife = someone saw a mountain lion.

I remember riding the first Cambrian 600, and climbing up the mountain road from Rhayader to Aberystwyth into a howling gale, eyes half closed from the effort.

Just as I got to the top, I raised my eyes above the level of my front tyre to see a lion silhouetted against the sky, standing by the side of the road. The yell of shock was still echoing around the hills when I realised it was actually a moulting sheep, with its fleece dangling down around its neck looking very mane-like.

I was still shaking when I got to Aberystwyth!