Evening all, just back from a cheeky mid week road ride and I popped into see some friends on the way home, whilst having a cup of tea, talk turned to cycling and cycling culture/lifestyle, (both girls aren’t cyclists) and I tried to explain the enjoyment of riding with freinds, and they then tried to define what you would call a group of cyclists, the highlights (?) being A Rash, and An Irritant. So is there an actually collective noun to define us and if not how would you describe a group of cyclist other than as a group of cyclists?

a peleton?

only for the road riders!

a faff of mountainbikers

Good call there TJ, I like ‘faff’ I did think fettle, but wasn’t sure if it sounded right.

Surely you need a different noun for each category:

A gnarr of downhillers
A mince of XCers
A beard of singlespeeders
A stoke of freeriders
A roll of 29ers

I have a collective noun for ramblers – a “Chunter”…

It’s a “tut” of ramblers, surely?

How about a knobble of mountain bikers?

a bimble of mtb’ers

Okay winning so far are ‘faff’ and ‘bimble’ any others, and no it’s not going to be a CTBM sticker fest competition, but then again…..

surely that should be a “meander” of singlespeeders

A magnificence of …

ron jeremy
whilst having a cup of tea, talk turned to cycling and cycling culture/lifestyle, (both girls aren’t cyclists) and they then tried to define what you would call a group of cyclists, the highlights (?) being A Rash, and An Irritant.

I take it at this stage you smashed the cup on the floor and made a dirty protest on the table?

Anyway, I’ll go with ….
A moan of roadies.
A waffle of single speeders.
A mince of XC racers.
A rabble of DH’ers.
A shamble of weekend warriors.

And if I tried typing the collective noun for brompton riders I might be banned.

Forum
Using
Cyclists
With
I
T
Skills

I think the acronym is quite fitting 😀

I’m not going any where near this thread now the MODS will be alerted 😳

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a “ruckus” of mountain bikers

A drone of STWers?

I always use a “Scutch” – I’ll come home after a ride and my wife will ask if I saw anyone else while I was out and I’ll say “I saw a whole scutch of them up in the plantation”.

Same as somebody being described as having a scutch of kids…..

If it’s our group on a Sunday mtb ride it would be a ‘shower’ of mountain bikers

If it’s the local roadie club who insist in riding 4 abreast on single width country lanes round here it would be a ‘bell-end’ of roadies