Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
 

If someone could please help out a new cyclist and maybe future users who will see this post.

What are some of the Acronyms and Slang or Lingo used in Bike Forums?

NOL ?

MUP ?

VC ? Vehicular Cycling, Bekologist helped me out with that one :)

Please post the answer to these and any other terms you know of.

(or just show me the previous thread on this that I couldn't find searching :) )

Thanks!

Narrow Outside Lane
Multi Use Path
Vehicular Cycling

I know we are not supposed to use acronyms, but these are so common for cycling (and we are lazy typists) we forget about the new guys sometimes.

Oh, and FWIW, don't forget LBS = Local Bike Shop

Now you are up to speed!

LOL

:D

Cognitive dissonance

Sensory conspicuity

It's interesting that they even had VC in Cambodia as well. :D

Whatever you do, DON'T ask for an explanation of these terms!

Unfortunately, another round of clarifications are no doubt building up steam now to be unleashed upon this list.

General online stuff:
LOL= laugh out loud
IMHO= in my humble opinion
WTF= What the F*** !?
OP= original posting, as in the beginning of a thread

Cycling oriented:
JRA= just riding along, as in, "I was JRA when this car buzzed by..."
Cager = a person dedicated to enclosed motor vehicle use and generally unpleasant toward bicycles on the roadway.
Fred= Broad classification for bicycle commuters who are concerned with funtion and indifferent to form. If it looks dorky but works, go for it.

JAM: jack@ss motorist

OCP= Obsessive Compulsive Poseur

Wow. I'm a Fred in just about everything I do.

:D

FREDS UNITE!! My own children and my students accuse me of it all the time.:D

Alternate fred: Cyclists who are concrened about form and indifferent to function.
eg, The overweight guys on charity rides on >$5k bikes who can't ride in a straight line. Usually seen with aero bars.

Similar to OCP, except OCP would be slightly more concerned about function.

Intervals normally refers to training sessions that involve a specified time of hard riding, then a specified recovery time riding slower and alternating them - e.g. warm up, hard, recovery, hard, recovery, cool down. The timing of each depends on goals desired and there are plenty of combinations.

Spinning is normally a couple of possibilities - indoor stationary cycling; typically setting an RPM rate, like 90-100 RPMs as a maintained speed. The other is "spinning up a hill" - gearing so that you maintain a faster RPM Cadence by down-shifting, rather than a hard slow cadence in a higher gear (mashing).

At least, that's how I understand those two terms, but I'm relatively new around these parts...

Spinning is high cadence (crank rpm) in an easy gear. Noodling is low cadence on an easy gear. Hammering is high cadence in a high gear.

MCEADAYOACP is moronic cager eating a donut and yakking on a cell phone. (AKA the bad guys)

RTOL Right Turn Only Lane
ROW Right of Way
BBQ Delicious

Let's not reinvent the wheel.
Try looking up anything you don't know at en.wikipedia.org.
If it's not there, it should be.

Okay knock yourself out buddy.

Huh?

I just did a cursory search of some of the acronyms mentioned in this thread on wikipedia. Not all that illuminating. Feel free to update wikipedia and add these terms for all of use.

I checked too. What's missing?

Okay, I see RTOL and even "right turn lane" is missing.

Thanks