Vocabulary

[smilingcat]

missing on the list was Lantern Rouge. (red light of a caboose) The last rider.

Fred, Wilma, Barney

Chucking biscuit, snot rocket,

feed zone was in but what about feed bag?

Can't think of much more.
Smilingcat

[Eden]

Cool Thanks!
Feed zone is a good one - though the 4's will encounter few of those :

I think I'm going to stick to the more techical terms for the most part- they can figure out how to insult one another themselves... that reminds me, Wheels in Wheels Out and Neutral Support will be good ones too.

but as I promised definitions!

Feed Zone- an area on the race course where riders may be able to pick up water bottles (the pro's can get food too, but I have yet to see anyone pick up a muzette [food bag] in any of our races). Short races generally will not have a feed zone and you are unlikely to see one in a 4's race unless you do one of the longer combined category races. If you have someone to wait in the feed zone for you, you will be able to get anything you supply, otherwise at best you will be able to get a bottle of water, at worst nothing. Check with the organiser before hand to see if they will be providing neutral water - usually it will say so on the flyer or in the Race Bible.

Fred, Wilma, Barney - a Fred/Barney is a person who is shockingly out of fashion, but annoyingly able to beat you, even when riding an old heavy, unhip bike..... poseurs with expensive bikes intensely dislike Freds. A Wilma is the female equivalent of a Fred.

Snot Rocket- snot blown from a single nostril on the fly. Snot Rockets are best only done at the *very back* of the pack or paceline. It can be difficult to maste the art of blowing them without getting snot all over your face or arm. Most people find that they are more skillful at one nostril than the other.

I'm going to have to guess that chucking a biscuit is puking.

[Trek420]

One of my favorite TE compilations of cycling vocabulary/slang

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=4806

[kat_h]

I had to look up Bonking after seeing it on some cycling forums. There's a fun word to try to google.

I'm still brand new at this. Could I have a copy of your handout please?

[ehirsch83]

Don't forget primes(i can never spell it correct). I remember my first few crits, I had no idea what they were but I felt to embarrased to ask.

[Andrea]

Please explain a rotating paceline! They're great to use in a race if everyone knows how to do it!

[chickwhorips]

Does SAG actually stand for anything?

[7rider]

missing on the list was Lantern Rouge. (red light of a caboose) The last rider.

Lantern Rouge???
I never heard of that one.
Hmmm.....

[Eden]

Lantern Rouge???
I never heard of that one.
Hmmm.....

I think it may have been first coined at very early TDF's - a red lantern used to be displayed on the caboose of a train to indicate that it was the last car - so the last guy in the race got dubbed the lantern rouge.

[7rider]

I think it may have been first coined at very early TDF's - a red lantern used to be displayed on the caboose of a train to indicate that it was the last car - so the last guy in the race got dubbed the lantern rouge.

Well, then...that would be me!

[ehirsch83]

I think it may have been first coined at very early TDF's - a red lantern used to be displayed on the caboose of a train to indicate that it was the last car - so the last guy in the race got dubbed the lantern rouge.

It was. At my work party last year(I work for a gym, and the owners also own one of the LBS's, so it was a joint gym/lbs gholiday party) we went bowling and I got the Lantern Rouge Trophy for being the worst bowler-haha!

[RoadRaven]

I think it may have been first coined at very early TDF's - a red lantern used to be displayed on the caboose of a train to indicate that it was the last car - so the last guy in the race got dubbed the lantern rouge.

Yes, it did evolve from the TdF.
They used to give out a jersey for it, and it was quite tricky to keep the red jersey... you had to ensure you were finished within the time restriction, but still be slow enough to keep the jersey.
The riders who consistently got the Lanterne Rouge had to be very skilled at pacing themselves "just so".
One of last years bike mags - it was either RIDE, CycleSport or Bicycling Aus - had a list of Lanterne Rouge "winners" - some of these guys were able to win it 2-3 years running!

Like the "yellow jersey" has become synonmous with winner, "lanterne rouge" has become part of cycling vocab.