Originally Posted by
PeteHski
As a Brit I always find the term “bicyclist” a bit awkward. We just call them “cyclists” over here, which I realise is slightly less certain of having 2 wheels, but it works just fine in most cases.
Sorry I’m bored, but this always bugs me for some reason. I’m ok with bicycle, but bicyclist is just a bit too much of a mouthful.
I discovered the Guardian archive a while back, it has quite a lot of cycling reports from around 1900
eg.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...-cyclists-1896
From that I discovered "wheelman" meant cyclist back in the 19th century.