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Old 02-01-07 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by unbelievably
Any tips on some of the lingo that get's used on Bike Forums?

What's your example and what does it mean???
Here's a few to get you started:


1. tights/bibs/jerseys = fem-looking clothing = poseur bike uniform

2. crème = anti-chafing lubricant = poseur nut butter (preferably applied by another BFer)

3. cf = carbon fiber = poseur plastic bike material (somewhat akin to penis length)

4. double = never a triple = poseur crankset

5. Ksyriums/Boras/Ventoux/Aeolus/etc., = (take out a loan) = poseur bike wheels

6. Fi'z:k/San Marco/Selle/etc., = bloodflow-restricting, nut/taint-crushing a$$hatchets = poseur bike seats

7. flip it = what you must do to an unflipped stem = poseur motto

8. Ultegra/DA = upper end Shimano gruppos = Japanese poseur

9. Chorus/Record = upper end Campy gruppos = Italian poseur

10. Force = upper end SRAM gruppo = American (?) poseur

11. S-Works/Giant/Trek/Fuji/etc. = mass-produced poseur bikes

12. Colnago/Seven/Sachs/Vanilla/Scott/DeRosa/Pinarello/IF/etc.,= not-so-mass-produced poseur bikes

13. BFer = poster on this forum = poseur obsession

14. Lance/Jan/Miguel/Greg/Bernard/Eddie/Fausto/etc., = must-know names in the history of cycling = the poseur gods, objects of worship and the fodder for never-ending apocryphal stories

15. Poseur = weight weenie, leg-shaving, huge-thighed, elitist snob who couldn't make the high school football, wrestling, soccer, baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, chess, knitting, scrap-booking, or home-ec. teams, and looks down on those who could, so has attempted to compensate by taking up a manly sport like cycling...IOW most of the posters on BF.

This will be on Friday's test.

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