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  • When did you last describe a bike component as "trick"?
  • chakaping
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    One of my friends still does it – though he did have a big break from MTB since the mid 90s – and so does someone on eBay whose item I just checked out.

    Wondered if the term is still in use by anyone else?

    CaptainFlashheart
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    I’m now rocking “all dat bling-shizzle” instead.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Bregante
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    Never

    wwaswas
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    I suspect you had to be in the ’70’s custom car scene to ever describe something as ‘trick’ 😉

    RobHilton
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    Only when being ironical

    See also: Pinned, running, stoked, line, epic, dialled, gnarly & sick

    mikewsmith
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    nope

    binners
    Full Member

    I suspect it would have been something like this:

    I would have been about 12

    thisisnotaspoon
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    I’ve probably used it, usualy to describe those uprgardes you make once the bike’s already sorted and are purely gilding.

    I do regulalry used line, dialled and gnarly though!

    thered
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    About 17 years ago i think

    TuckerUK
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    Hmmm, used to use the word in the early 1980s as it was used a lot in US motocross magazines.

    Edit: As was gnarly.

    philconsequence
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    about the same time i last used ‘fizzypop’

    wwaswas
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    about the same time i last used ‘fizzypop’

    about 20 minutes ago then.

    Onzadog
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    I think I last did in the mid 90s. After that, I got a job and could afford the bits. Once you own them, they seem less trick.

    trail_rat
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    1998 ? think i was 12 back then….

    So it’s just me then ? 😳

    In the words of my 13 year old stepdaughter “You’re not cool, you’re old”.

    crashtestmonkey
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    it can only be time for

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW7xzBC-qa0[/video]

    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eSj640K2xM[/video]

    yeas theyve been posted before, but still funny and relevant to OP

    ski
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    Must have been 11-12?

    BMX Z-Rims (anyone old enough to remeber them)

    The magic of sticking them in your fridge to true them again, the word ‘trick’ back then could well have been used.

    Untill I shattered them 😉

    CaptainFlashheart
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    BMX Z-Rims

    I had Skyways. 8)

    kelvin
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    1996?

    huws
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    17th may 2012 (in an email), in reference to some cranks for a fixie. The 90’s are cool again in London’s trendy East London.

    bullandbladder
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    All the time, nowt wrong with it.

    I’m also thinking of reviving the word “skill”.

    RobHilton
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    I’m also thinking of reviving the word “skill”.

    African bum disease

    Apparently

    retro83
    Free Member

    skill means penguin poo

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Line?

    Please elaborate.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    About 2004.

    Pretty damn trick.

    LoCo
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    I have probably used it a some point this week, I apologise and I’ll get my coat 🙁

    singlespeedstu
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    BMX Z-Rims (anyone old enough to remeber them)

    You mean ACS Z Rims I pressume? 😉

    I cracked quite a few rear hub flanges seing how far i could flex them. 🙄

    In answer to the original question. I use the term Ratners instead of trick.

    burnsybhoy
    Free Member

    I once had a jacket I was wearing described as “trick” by a shop assistant in St Andrews

    unovolo
    Free Member

    Probably last used the word “trick” at the same time as I referred to a lady garden as a “biff”.

    kevj
    Free Member

    Casually browsing EBay tonight and apparently SLX cranks are ‘trick’. Shame as I may have put a bid in for these had they been normal SLX cranks.

    ’Trick crankz’

    (Not my sale BTW)

    leffeboy
    Full Member

    is this a trick question

    RobHilton
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    chakaping – Member

    Line?

    Please elaborate.

    Certainly; I knew this one would get picked up on 🙂

    It’s regarding calling a track/trail/path etc. a “line”.

    I’m familiar with the term “racing line” and the concept of A & B lines in DH racing, however I find a comment such as…

    Old School is my favourite line here

    (when riding at Ribbesford)*

    …to be MBUKtastic and worthy of nothing but derision :mrgreen:

    *This is a true story, no names were changed to protect anyone.

    chakaping
    Free Member

    Gotcha, ta.

    Kevj – That was the very item that prompted this thread!

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