Zaphod Beeblebrox 

Lol, well fix'd Tim!

I'm changing my location to Club Jackwad.

Velognome 

Had a Peeve once, kept pissing on the carpets so I returned it

Zaphod Beeblebrox 

Here's my major peeve. You install a new tire, pump it up and all you hear is hissssssss.

First person to mention tubulars gets an internet knuckle sandwich.

Chrome Molly

"So" starts a sentence, and "then" ends the sentence. Insert inquisitive yet somewhat obvious speculation between. Just don't face anyone directly when talking. That's basic conversational construct in my neck of the woods.

rootboy 

vzwire

Friggin brilliant.....THANKS!

photogravity

Sounds like dialogue from an episode of "A Prairie Home Companion".

SJX426 

Hubs without skewers! Where did all the original skewers go? Are they consumables? Often hubs either don't have skewers or super cheap rusty ones. Someone must be hording all the Mavic skewers for the 501's! This just leads to the general peeve of missing small parts. Aero levers without the aero plate for the cable, adjusters for the calipers, skewers for the hubs, washers for the DT shifters, lock nuts for the barcons, adjusters for the RD's, missing HS washer, missing Campagnolo NR post parts, missing toe guides for the pedals, etc.

rootboy 

…and all the missing NR brake barrel adjusters and brake shoe holders. Who has got all of those?

strock 

fify

iab

The phrase "fast bike" - without rider, a bike will actually just sits there. Unless of course you are telling a story about how your threw your bike off a cliff, then it is fast.

The word "stable" when used in conjunction with bikes - its a bike people, not a horse.

The word "herd" when used in conjunction with bikes - its a bike people, not a cow.

And finally, it is beyond me people will post about things they think suck or don't like. There are many threads about stuff I don't like. And while I waste a great deal of time on bf, I wouldn't waste even more time to go into a thread about stuff I don't like, read all the posts about stuff I don't like and then compose a response about how I don't like it. What's the point?

rootboy 

Good question, Iab. But you just wasted some time doing it.

SJX426 

@rootboy I think one guy misplaced a part. Maybe it fell behind his tool box or on the floor and kicked under the workbench, doesn't matter. He then let people know he needed a replacement. Someone said, "Hey, I can make money on that!" Soon the 100th monkey started selling the parts out of his stash of complete components because he could make more money charging $25 for the aero plates for a Chorus/record lever and then sell the lever without them for $75 and then sell the damn hoods for another $35! This when the rare complet set would have sold for $65.

Soon there was a whole market for exorbitantly priced parts people were willing to pay because that guy was too lazy to look for his part under the bench. He has since moved and the part was swept up into the trash when the workspace was cleaned for the new occupant.

AND.... the parts are readily available on ebay! Not like there really is a shortage. Sherriff Stars, maybe.

revcp 

Niggling complaints, but it's a peeve when someone uses people (singular) to refer to persons, its instead of it's, their instead of they're, etc. I understand that language is fluid and it changes, but it's never changed so quickly. These are definitely peeves, though, and I seldom bring them up with anyone other than my boys. Not worth a rant.
I suppose my biggest BF peeve would be a five page thread in which only four or five posters answer the OP's actual question while the rest pontificate.

photogravity

Ah yes, if we can't pontificate, why bother?

photogravity

Of the above three, I'm guilty of two for sure. The one about which I'm definitely not guilty is using fast bike. To use the word fast in relation to anything I do is simply being untruthful. I typically use the term deliberate in referring to my usual rate of progress.

rootboy 

We need to come up with a specific term for a group of bikes. You know, a collective noun, like;

A murder of crows
A congress of baboons
An exaltation of Larks
A parliament of owls

Etc.

jimmuller 

A redundancy of bikes.

The Golden Boy 

I use fast bike as a compliment to someone that has obviously put work into a "racing" bike. It's not my area of interest- but I feel it shows an appreciation for a nice looking bike.

rhm

Despite the objections voiced above, I think 'stable' is a good term. It conveys the way they are stored, all together, and implies that they are all (mostly) ready to ride at any given time but that you cannot ride them all at once. 'Fleet' implies they all ride together, which is not realistic. Collection is too bland. Hoard is too realistic.

SJX426 

A "Tour" or "Peleton" of bikes. Kind'a weak or not very original. How about sticking with the sub theme, "Senate" for keepers and "House" for flippers?

jonwvara 

My, so many of us are so peeved!

These don't rise to the level of pet peeves by any means, but a couple of minor affectations that I think are best avoided are:

1. Referring to bike parts as "bits." Okay if you're actually British. A little bit silly if you're not British but are referring to parts for a British bike. Completely absurd if you're non-British and referring to parts for a non-British bike.

2. Referring to a bike as "she," however old and cherished it may be. C'mon, it's just a bicycle. Also kind of sexist, I think.

dave42

Yep, if someone says, "I need to loose weight," I imagine them pooping their britches. I have no idea why. Anyway, I gotta go my cassette keeps braking, so I'm gonna put a new freewheel on my tire. That'll help me when I go up hills in high gear. Peace.

rhm

+1. Some languages have grammatical gender; every noun is either masculine, feminine, or neuter, independent of whether the thing belongs to one sex or the other. For example: the German word for 'girl' is neuter. The Latin word for 'penis' is feminine. But I digress. The point is, English does not. In English, we use gender-specific pronouns only when talking about things that actually belong to one sex or the other: specifically, animals.

I don't get that, but whatever.

Paramount1973 

All that stuff is in cardboard boxes in bike coops.