It gets on my tits when people in the biking industry say words that they think are "cool" but really it sounds geekish and like they're trying too hard to be cool!...ok, so I'll start off with...stoked! Grrr
preposterous
...ok, so I'll start off with...stoked! Gnarrr
Anyway. It's all in the eye of the beholder. Chillax, guy.
cool
'Marginal Gains'
Shredded!
trail
huck
rail
planted
laterally stiff yet vertically compliant
steed
run (unless actually referring to propelling one's self by the use of one's feet at a speed faster than walking)
Colorway (sic) - You mean "colour".
Surely this thread is negative use of the forum? As no positives, can come from a thread of people moaning about words they don't like.
Not amazeballs 🙁
"Cut and Paste Singletrack"
"Body English"
"Black Ops downhill run"
etc
always make me cringe in bike reviews. Mr Kesteven @ Future seems particularly prone to it.
Thrutching.
innit
Trouble is i'm 32 and have been saying Rad, Gnarly, Sick, Stoked, dude and other skaterisms for over 20 years... Its so hard to stop.
Whats wrong with marginal gains?
shredding the gnar!!
IHN - Membertrail
What's the issue with "trail"?
gotten
Starting sentences with "D'you know what?" in a kind of Simon Cowell, X-Factor way.
Also noticed a fashion for responding with "Really?" - kind of an American thing, hard to describe.
Annoying though...
thebikechain - Member
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Not having that. Thrutching is a great word if used properly.
SHABBA
SHREDDER
GNAR
RAD
COOL
MINT
REEM
INNIT
SkillWill - Member
Starting sentences with "D'you know what?" in a kind of Simon Cowell, X-Factor way.
"SORRY, but I've GOT to tell you...."
Awesome - especially when referring to something like a mobile phone or a pair or shorts
That garden pea was AWESOME!!!!
Simples.
just stop.
[i]What's the issue with "trail"? [/i]
Because I remember a time back in the day when we never used the word. We had other words like 'routes', 'tracks' and 'paths' that sufficed nicely. Then the magazine-promoted and mildt pretentious Americanism that is 'trail' started to rear it's head and is now seemingly ubiquitous.
A trail is a long distance route between two points (think Appalachian Trail), it's not some paths behind the Nationwide in Swindon.
MBR seem to spend a lot of time 'schralping' but I don't have a clue what it is...
Is it that thing that dogs do on the grass when they have itchy bottoms?
Not having that. Thrutching is a great word if used properly.
Completely agree, anyone who has seen me climb will have had ample opportunity to use this in its proper context.
Sick, when describing something they like and chillax!
Doooooooooooood!
Singletrack. Bwahahahhaha!
Also,
If you can get 2 bikes side by side does it become double track?
The only proper context for the word "thrutching" is when it refers to squeezing out a jobbie.
schralp is the same as shred pretty much.. As in,
"Alright stu, coming for a schralp?"
I went for a schralp this morning.....
Three month after my cousin bought her first mtb i text her to ask her if she wanted to go to GT,her reply was 'defo up for shredding the gnar' not cool when your over 40.
High cadence
Steeze
Random
Epic
Planted
Any of Rob warners quotes
Almost everything else mountain bikers who like to sound like they are mountain bikers say
cool
AMAZE
TOTES
Not having that. Thrutching is a great word if used properly.Completely agree, anyone who has seen me climb will have had ample opportunity to use this in its proper context.
Without the judicious use of Thrutching climbing below the grade of E2 would be entirely impossible on the majority of Yorkshire Grit and Peak District Crags like Black Rocks, Hen Cloud, Cratcliffe...
"watch this one" usually followed by "call an ambulance".
thunk
"You know what?"
"Here's the thing..."
"It is what it is."
"I have to say..."
THESE PHRASES MEAN NOTHING AND MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE A MORON.
Who is the authority on what can be classed as cool and what can't then?
Remember the 'Cool Wall' on Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson decided which cars were cool and which weren't. Does anyone on here genuinely think he was in any position to comment on what is cool and what isn't? Just look at him!
Same goes for words, you might not think Shred (picking a random example) is cool, but the teenager flying down your local dh track, clearing doubles you could only dream of might think so 😀
Its got to be age-related I reckon, there must come a point where it just sounds wrong using skate/surf-talk
"Wrong forum"
That gets my goat.
Hive mind AND Massif.
Argh.
Cycling words that aren't cool... RAPHA.
If middle aged men think something is cool then quite frankly it isn't.
Hive mind AND Massif.
Hmm. I'm not sure about that. Let's put it to the hive mind, of this parish.
*explodes*
"suffering" - more of a roadie than mtb word, but for pity's sake stop telling me how much you're not enjoying the thing you purport to enjoy.
"Feed off each other" 😀
"Remember the 'Cool Wall' on Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson decided which cars were cool and which weren't. Does anyone on here genuinely think he was in any position to comment on what is cool and what isn't? Just look at him!"
In fairness to the big C he made that very point numerous times.
Its not as bad as watching top gear and then moaning about it not being cool. just accept it for what it is and accept that you like it 😀
If middle aged men think something is cool then quite frankly it isn't.
amazeballz and awesomesauce
dude
Speshpaul - did he? I didn't watch it enough to catch him saying that, fair enough, he has redeemed himself slightly there!
Lycra
29er
80mm stem
😀
well, if we're going to list phrases...
"Will I die?" FFS probably not. Grow up.
As for uncool words:
"Twentyniner".
"Twentysixer"
Just go ride your bike!
Roost
Gnarly
Dude
Not a word,but people who "High 5" each other & when they try & be "down with the kids" doing those daft handshakes too.....
Eurgh god, I hate "shredding the gnar"! Especially as it's generally used in patronising/sarcastic way by the unskilled trying to do down those that have put in the time to get skilled.
"At the end of the day..." - I mean, why?
"At this moment in time..." - what's wrong with "now"?
"Blue-sky thinking" is also deserving of a sound beating. With a pointy stick. Wrapped in nettles. And smeared with dog excrement.
...and phrasing everything as a question???
Eclectic
Eclectic
Eclectic
Artisanal.
Or just
Artisan.
the unskilled trying to do down those that have put in the time to get skilled.
you mean riding your bike?
Trail, especially when people call something a trail bike, it means nothing in mtb. To me "trails" is and always will be a bmx term for dirt jumps.
I'm sure that most of us use the previously mentioned words in a fun, and post-ironic way, rather than believing we're cutting edge tools.
29er
650b.
are my contributions.
Oh, and
Colorway (sic) - You mean "colour".
I thought this was a pattern of colors, not a single colour. In which case it's fine.
"oopa gangnam style"
it's not cool, it's a modern okey cokey, just less cool, so shut up
"Going forward"
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Happy days....
At the end of the day....
Sure as eggs is eggs....
daft o'clock
Rarhhh and Rarrsss (boil my piss these two)
Sick
Yer get me
Yer know what i'm sayin'
Basically everything that comes out of the mouth of your typical chavy manc scroat
'Stonking' (from the front page...) 🙂
Basically everything that comes out of the mouth of your typical chavy manc scroat
middle class i bet you are 😀
Rig.
I thought I was quite stressed until I read this thread.
Today's favourite words are:
Supplant
Parsimonious
Flange
Plinth
One of my all time favourites is:
Inhomogenous
mainly because I was told by an external examiner at a viva that the word did not exist. Oxford concise in your face Prof. B.
oh yeah.
Blows smoke from end of imaginary gun and drinks a cold beer. :o)
Just noticed that Pinhead is yoda. ;o)
The abuse of "like" or starting a new thought / subject with "So...." as if the audience has been thinking of nothing else....Grrrrr!
Just about to "pull the trigger"
big days out in the lakes
Chuckable.
Flickable.
Steed.
Niner.
Any stupid french words used by the leg-shaving crowd are way more offensive than most here, but there is a special place in hell for "steed".
Any word that ends in 'z' when it should end with 's'.
"You do realise this is a footpath..."