Cycling Glossary

When I asked readers for their favourite cycling terms, those below are most of what came in including Nudge, Bollard, Chopper, Echelon, Spat and so many more

Cycling Glossary

When I asked readers for their favourite cycling terms, those below are most of what came in including Nudge, Bollard, Chopper, Echelon, Spat and so many more

AND AWAY WE GO ….

– Allez Allez Allez – Go go go
– All the gear and no idea (looks the part but hasn’t a clue what they are doing)
– Attack ( to try and go clear of rider/group)

– Bergs (Shortish (non alpine) climbs
– Big blade (big chainring)
– Big hitter (star rider)
– Big dog (Big chainring)
– Big ring (Big chainring)
– Binning it (crash)
– Blown (no more energy to go on)
– Bonking (hunger knock)
– Bollard (getting in the way)
– Boxed in (surrounded by riders/barriers and can’t get out)
– Breathing out his arse or ears (breathing very heavily)
– Bunck kick/gallop (group sprint)
– Burnt matches (using up energy reserves)

– Can’t park there (crashing, sitting on the road)
– Car up (parked or on coming car)
– Chapeau (well done)
– Chewing the stem/bars
– Chipper or Fish and chipper (small race)
– Chomping at the bit (can’t wait)
– Chopper (inexpereinced rider in bunch)
– Chute (crash)
– Clip off (to break away)
– Cracked (dropped)

– Digging in (trying hard)
– Dispatched (dropped)
– Dive bombing (diving underneath riders into a corner)
– Dropped the anchor (dropped)
– Dropped some fat splits

– Early Doors (early in a race)
– Echelon (Groups forming in cross winds)
– Empty the tank (giving everything)

– Flat stick
– Flicked
– Full gas
– Full chat

– Gates fallen off
– Granny ring (Smallest chain ring)
– Get Down (crash)
– Glass cranking (no effort being made)
– Grippy (tough)
– Gutter sniping

– Half wheeling (a rider keeping half a wheel ahead of rider alongside)
– Hit the wall (energy all gone)
– Hold the wheel (don’t let the wheel in front get a gap)

– Keep the chain tight (putting the effort in)
– Keep your powder dry (saving something for later)
– Kicking legs (hurting a rivals legs with an effort)
– Keep it rubber side down, skin side up (Not crashing)
– Knock it back a cog (smaller gear)

– Lined out (bunch in a long line on the road)

– Mince/Flounce (all degrees of riding in the glorious Leicestershire lanes. Hands on tops, concentrating on STYLE)
– Move up (moving forward in a group)

– No chain on
– Nodding like a donkey (head bobbing up and down)
– Nudge. Snappy nudge – ave a go

– On the rivet (sitting on the front of the saddle, riding hard)
– Out the back (dropped from a group/rider)
– On your left

– Rag it -(pedal to the metal)
– Recovery ride
– Rolled by… (overtaken by so and so)

– Parcour (race course)
– Parking (Parked) up (legs seeze up)
– Penelope (pee stop)
– Piano (riding easy like when peloton is across the road)
– Punching tickets
– Putting him to the sword

– Sand bagging (not committing to an effort)
– Shelled (dropped)
– Shot his bolt (used up all his energy)
– Soft tapping/pedalling (glass cranking, not applying full pressure on the pedals)
– Slammed stem (Head stem that points down)
– Spent all his pennies (used up all his energy)
– Spat. Spat hard (Dropped)
– Stay on the wheel (stay glued to the wheel in front)
– Swinging -(about to be dropped, maybe)

– Tapping it out
– Ten tenths (giving everything)
– Ticket Collecting (hanging on the back watching riders get spat)
– The man with the big hammer has got ‘im
– The elastic snapping (some one lets a wheel go and gap opens)
– Through and off (riders going to the front of a group and then peeling off and replaced by next rider)
– Twiddling (high cadence pedalling)

– Weetabix jersey – like when your in Belgium and a bike shop offers you a jersey IE: everyone had them like they came in the cereal box
– Wheel sucking (sitting on a wheel and not going through to share pace making)
– ‘Whacked him on the little incline’ (attacked him)

– Up up up, (some one making a move, attack)