Funny as **** Nick - "You're from Swindon".. 😆
I'm afraid I actually rather like most of this stuff. But I tend to assume that no-one is 100% serious about taking their steed on a road-trip. So I don't feel any anger towards myself when I wind out my forks and announce "my gnarl is adjusted to the max. Let us slay this trail." And make the horns. Ironically. 😀
Anyone remember toolmaker? The guy would simply post "Rad." in every thread, for months.
You are not in California so don't use their terms. It makes you sound stupid and ill educated.
Hehe. Nice irony complaining about the use of imported terms actually in the medium of a language mostly consisting of imported terms 🙂
As for the other stuff like 'darkside' etc - they are actually jokes. That one in particular is a superficially pejorative term used as everyday terms by people who actually enjoy road biking. Personally, I find the texture of language created by people who weave eloquence together with stupid jokes and smart wit to be one of the most attractive things about this forum 🙂
You're from Swindon
which [i]is[/i] actually a ghetto
Mleh.
When people tell me I should NEVER called it Nevis, it just makes me want to call it that all the more, knowing it's winding them up. Like Switchbacks, and fire-roads, for instance.
"local" bearing shop, motor factors, machine shop!
as if we all have one of them!!
[i]As for the other stuff like 'darkside' etc - they are actually jokes. That one in particular is a superficially pejorative term used as everyday terms by people who actually enjoy road biking.[/i]
really? I've never met a road cyclist who uses the term 'darkside'. But then I ride with people over 8 years old.
People who say "Really???"
I hate that. Makes me want to repeatedly own the perpetrator's face with a pair of Bombers, whilst saying "YES, REALLY YOU ****!"
Also saying pair when refering to a fork 🙂
big dummy-"my gnarl is adjusted to the max. Let us slay this trail."
Quality. I'll be using that at the start of every trail on my next ride!