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Cyclist vs. bike rider
11-24-13, 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike
What makes you think you know more about how to ride your bike your way, than "some bum" riding his bike his way? Sounds like a matter of bicyclist snobbery to me.
Originally Posted by the sci guy
level of pretentiousness
11-24-13, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by muzpuf
I am used to ......Hey @#%$#^%& get on the sidewalk
11-24-13, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by agent pombero
His name is blazing pedals. He's a scorcher!!!!
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Originally Posted by Bjforrestal
I don't care if you are on a unicycle, as long as you're not using a motor to get places you get props from me. We're here to support each other. Share ideas, and motivate one another to actually keep doing it.
11-24-13, 01:09 PM
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I'm surprised that the term bicyclist wasn't mentioned. That's what I tend to think of myself as.
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Originally Posted by Bjforrestal
I don't care if you are on a unicycle, as long as you're not using a motor to get places you get props from me. We're here to support each other. Share ideas, and motivate one another to actually keep doing it.
11-24-13, 06:26 PM
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Cyclist vs. bike rider
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11-24-13, 08:37 PM
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Wheelman/wheelwoman.
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11-24-13, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by jowilson
Which name do you prefer to be called? To me bike rider sounds derogatory and childish. Cyclist sounds more masculine and adult-like, so I prefer that. What about you?
11-25-13, 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by BlazingPedals
It's a matter of semantics to me. To me, cyclist" means someone who knows what they're doing with a bike; while "bike rider" could be anybody on a bike, including some bum riding the wrong way up the road, at 4 mph in high gear.
11-25-13, 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by jsdavis
But once you leave the bicycling community, "cyclist" often has a derogatory connotation
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11-25-13, 12:32 PM
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Usually I hear "cyclist" or "biker" and "biker" is confusing because it normally refers to motorcycle riders, so I prefer "cyclist".
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11-25-13, 12:44 PM
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Cyclist when on my bicycle, biker when on my motorcycle. Don't care whatever you call me. Motorcyclist, bicyclist, bike rider etc. I do refer to myself as a I cyclist and a biker. One thing I don't know if it's annoying or not is answering "which one, the bicycle or the motorcycle?" when people ask me "how you doing with the bike?" or similar questions.
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11-25-13, 12:50 PM
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Velocipedestrienne! Or, alternatively, velociraptor. 
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11-25-13, 12:51 PM
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Originally Posted by jsdavis
But once you leave the bicycling community, "cyclist" often has a derogatory connotation so for that reason I don't really like the term. Person on a bicycle maybe...at least that way I at least I sound human rather than some nefarious creature taking up the precious street and doesn't pay non-existent road tax.
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11-25-13, 01:40 PM
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I like bicycliste, in the most pretentious fake French accent possible.
11-25-13, 02:01 PM
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Originally Posted by lsberrios1
How can "cyclist" be derogatory? Snobs? If we keep going along that tangent we might as well end up calling ourselves "Two-wheeled, limb propelled, multi-element contraption riding ****-sapiens".
11-25-13, 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Bill Fold
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Most people I know would assume that anyone "biking" thirty miles MUST be on a motorcycle.
Most people I know would assume that anyone "biking" thirty miles MUST be on a motorcycle.
11-25-13, 02:57 PM
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Don't care what you call me as long as you call me to dinner
11-25-13, 04:05 PM
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Bike pretty much means motorcycle here... I have even been confused for a motor cycle rider when I have used the term cyclist in reference to my activities, so I am starting to prefer bicyclist.
But, my issue is strictly clarity, not that I find the term bike rider derogatory.
But, my issue is strictly clarity, not that I find the term bike rider derogatory.
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11-26-13, 07:20 AM
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I would love to be called a scorcher.
