Lingo...
 

Any tips on some of the lingo that get's used on Bike Forums?

What's your example and what does it mean???:o

je ne sais pas

You may as well be speakin' Greek:rolleyes: ...:rolleyes:

I have no idea what that means?

Why do you hate France ?

I don't know....

I'll start but will not define...

OCP....Obsessive Compulsive Posuer...

私は知らない

That's not Greek either! :D

Flip it. If you don't know I'm not gonna tell you. ;)

You ever find yourself riding by the big slab when a bucket of bolts knocking the stack out like a ***** ape dusts your britches and you wish there's a brown bag around there somewhere cause you were just enjoying your magic mile?

LBS=Local Bike Shop

Training is for wussy.

I hate when that happens.

What's up with "brifters?"

edit: never mind. I got it. Newly converted mountain biker. Fancy technology is new to me.

"Fred" n. - goofy looking cyclists, tend to be the laughing stock of elites.

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.

ξέρω, ήταν ιαπωνικά.

Actually, there are two definitions

A.) "goofy looking cyclists, tend to be the laughing stock of elites.".... but has a motor to back up his torn sweatpants and 28 pound 1982 steel bike.

B.) Someone with a $7,000 latest and greatest carbon bike, Assos everything, all the latest lightweight technology but can not hold his line in a paceline, and generally has no physical fitness. ( A poser with a big wallet)

SWEET!

****=Sincity just started a new thread

Dial it up to 400W- Term made famous by the poster R600DuraAce when he totally dropped a turtle on an uphill.

And I thought this was about Chuck Woolery and LIngo the game show!

Translated to Southern-ese: I ain't gots me no idear.

Here is a good one...

DICTIONARY OF ROADIE SLANG

http://members.tripod.com/geert_pc/slang.htm

What sports did YOU play in high school, young lady?

:roflmao: :roflmao:

Balls are in the purse - When your buddy either won't ride with you or he is exceptionally weak and timid. "Get your balls back from your girlfriends purse!" "You must have left your balls in your purse!".

I would have also accepted : "At home washing his skirt"

OK, so I didn't make the knitting team. Something about my reverse-purls being off. Who cares? I didn't really want it anyway. Ever check the price of yarn? Bunch of elitist snobs with all their afgans and doilies. Whatever :rolleyes:

For your information, I was invited to join the frosh Home Ec. team my senior year, after I redshirted 3 years due to acute dishpan hands. But I could tell they really wanted me on J.V. so I played hard-to-get, they caved, and I eventually scored the invite. It was sweet...almost too easy. :rolleyes:

Barney - See Fred

- muppet/carpet smoker (R.I.P., sydney)
- roughly 19 mph/comutting
- Aiyaahh...oh, no...
- "We're going to yell at you."

Just do a search on these and it should explain everything you *really* need to know about BF.