Originally Posted by
VegasJen
Well, the one thing I'm learning about the biking community is y'all have a lot of confusing terms. "Clipless" pedals you clip into, seats are "saddles", clamps are clips, plus a whole bunch more I still haven't figured out.
Every sport has it's own vocabulary which one must learn. Cycling is quite ordinary, try sailing for vocabulary where some words and pronunciations go back to the Napoleonic Wars. "Clipless" refers to substituting clipless pedals for flat pedals with toe clips. Horses have saddles not seats. Bikes were developed back when everyone rode horses. Clip-on aerobars I think just refers to easy on and off, not being part of the bike's structure. About "bikers". Bikers ride motorcycles. There are two categories of bike riders, "people on bicycles" and "cyclists." We are the latter and quite snobbish about it, some of us.