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discount
'my mate knows about bikes'
kushty and chad/chadvalley until they get in print in MBUK then?
Fireroad
It's not a fireroad, it's a forest road. [Actually some forest roads probably also act as fire-breaks and access for fire-fighting peeps. Not that forest fires are common in damp Wales]
"new standard"
Fire breaks are fire breaks, may or may not contain roads, fire roads are for getting the kit in where there are a lot of forest fires. Here they're just forest roads.
My pet hate is still double track.
carbon bikes..(cos i cant afford 1 )
God it must be tough being you lot.
On One
thrutch/thrutching - as used by STW journos
'drift'
when what you mean is 'skid'
or 'my tyre slipped and i cacked my pants'
road bike
LBS
"you could buy a car for that!" and "is that your best price?" "it just needs" and "i was just riding along" (when bringing a repair in) all make my face hurt a bit.
Campy. It's Campag or Campagnolo, probably not a mountain bike issue since the eighties.
"is that your best price?"
No, it's the one I put on the price ticket for a laugh, you know, like a bit of a giggle. I mean, I don't need to actually make any profit on anything I sell, so I just put a price on it for shitsandgiggles. Tell you what, why don't I give it to you for nothing? Free of charge. Yeah, that makes more sense than actually asking you to pay for something.
You don't automatically deserve a discount, you ****tards!
'Carpet'
Really does my head in
MTFU (unless it's aimed at someone you know well enough for banter)
chappeau! (sp)
Schlepp
and also: Segue
"overbiked" or "underbiked" even "underforked" FFS. It's a bike which you ride.
Fork action that is described as buttery smooth.......I blame Marlon Brando
Ha ha! I er.. no.
Best left unsaid.
Anchor...
Colourway.It's a friggin's colourscheme!
This has to be the one that most annoys me. It fills me with rage everytime I read it.
Mission impossible?
Could someone compose a paragraph which could include some, fewer or none of the cycling words which annoy us most.
I remember 'thrutching' from caving, it meant to wriggle and well, thrutch, through a ridiculously tight space as is often found underground in Wales.
Vertical compliance
"The fastest growing sport"
Plush
Lush
Modulation
....anything remotely connected with bodged UST conversions 👿
Nadgery or knadgery, both annoying. As in a "nadgery bit of trail".
MTFU is a pretty annoying and stupid americanism although I have now started using it in everyday life, not just on here.
components being "redesigned from the ground up"...
+1 for "New Standard"
'content' in STW threads. Why do you feel the need? Just say what it ****ing is in the first place.
All the above is OK but 'Yay' is gay
darkside - it's not a vampire movie
unless it is the Frog Brothers!
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Blimey you miserable old giffers, Let the Yoof have their silly words every generation does it and it does no real harm…
I have ridden on several occasions with a chap who without fail calls everyone “Dude” it would be irritating but he’s probably one of the nicest, most enthusiastic and un-pretentious people I’ve ever met, and even with his Bill and Ted Tourettes a genuine pleasure to go riding with…
I do object a bit to the Mag’s playing bullshit bingo (picking up some marketing term and presenting it as technical jargon) but it’s easy enough to simply not buy the comics and thus avoid it…