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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"
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2012/sep/07/david-mitchell-soapbox-going-forward-video ]David mitchell explains...[/url]
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..."
IHN - MemberBecause 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 an americanism, nor is it restricted to long distance routes. It's just you.
chapeau
[i]It's not an americanism, nor is it restricted to long distance routes. It's just you.[/i]
It's use in relation to mountain biking came from the States, but, yeah, I know I seem to be the only one who dilikes it. It just sounds a bit w@nky and, well, like I said, pretentious.
Nah, we were talking about bike trails back when there was no internet to tell us what to think and none of us could afford magazines, it was just an appropriate word we had lying around.
"Keeping it real."
Haha.
Dont mind "trail" though.
"Its all good."
Hmm.
Its good to have a bit of lingo but you run the
Risk of sounding like a frickin drongo...
chapeau
banhammer
big hitter
epic..... now there's a word that is really annoying me at the moment.
very few epic things happen day to day.
Some muppet falling on their harris in a comical way is not epic
The word innit is totes amazeballs and in no way preposterous. After all it's a cab-innit.
Pootle
Technical
Gnarly
Energy Gel
Turbo Trainer
Lycra
Biomechanics
Bottle cage
Bib shorts
Power meter
I've just thought of another one. I don't think it's really transitioned from written English to spoken English yet (thank God), but
"Keep calm and carry..."
YOU WON'T BE CALM ONCE I'VE SMASHED YOUR FACE IN YOU CRETIN