Bicyclist!
 

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 thought bicycles were push bikes in Uk jargon

That’s more of a slang term. Just “bike” is used most often here. Motorcyclists, or should that be “motorbicyclists” in the US, are also often called “bikers” here too. It rarely causes any confusion unless used out of context.

I’m with you. I use (and much prefer) cyclist. I really don’t like biker. I have never been on a motorcycle.

Biker Pete is really a cyclist.

I tend to agree with the sentiment.

A thought on the term bike. Most of my friends know I ride both bicycles and motorcycles, a lot too. Some friends and family do the same. My friends also know that within a 50 mile radius of my house, I'm liable to take either the motorcycle or the bicycle if I'm going somewhere. Saying I biked somewhere isn't specific enough often times because of this so I will usually specify whether I rode the motorcycle (or moto) or my bicycle. Sometimes I'll say that I cycled somewhere and that's specific enough to say that I rode my bicycle.
I don't recall ever really using the term biker in any context (motorcycle or bicycle) except mountain biker.

I thought that Spring had arrived

I've always referred to bicycle-riding enthusiasts as "cyclists."

As far as the term "bikers," referring to people who ride motorcycles, I don't really like that term. "Biker" conjures up images of leather-clad pirates on Harley's. As a guy that rides European dirt bikes and Japanese sport bikes, I don't really fit into the Harley biker tribe.

That was but false spring. We're back into second winter here but real spring looks to be just around the corner.

I prefer to be called a scorcher

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When you lift the bonnet of your automobile, do you see a motor or an engine?

My friend from Shirley, Solihull, Birmingham, once innocently told a guy with a Harley that she liked his motorbike.

Grant Peterson at one time tried (and, for all I know, still tries) to promote the term "cycler," presumably to be used to identify Rivendell acolytes (steel, cotton, wool, beeswax) and distinguish them from cyclists (carbon, Lycra, technical fabrics, etc.).

Next thing you know, we will be told to say anesthetist instead of anesthesiologist.

I agree “biker” is much more associated with motorbikes here. But “bike” is about 50/50. I would always say I was a cyclist rather than a biker, but I would say I ride a road bike or mountain bike.

“Bicyclist” sounds like someone from Victorian times 😂

I’ll ask the guy who maintains my motor pool.

Isn't that a term for some type of cosmetic procedure women get (at least here in the USA)?

You just hope that corner isn't a never-ending European roundabout! :eek:

Most of the bikers around here are leather clad doctors and lawyers in costume on the weekend.
I ride a bicycle because I can't afford a Gold Wing.

In the buis’ they are called ‘gas passers’.

I’m going with John on Scorchers. No confusion if the person rides a motorcycle or an acoustic bike.

Not to be confused with a scorching medical condition of some sort (which reminds me of how an old girlfriend would describe her UTIs).

That's the work of a cosmologist.

Not to be confused with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

When I see a bicycle rider on the road and recognize them as *not* a fellow randonneur (and that's easy), I say to myself, "normie".

Normies. Y'all are normies.

When I was getting my Tech Ed teaching cert I was told by an instructor that motors were electric and engines were mechanical. I grew up with that power plant in a car being an engine.

When I am "en moto" I am a biker. On the pedal bike I am a cyclist. But, when I'm driving my Fiesta ST I am Captain America.