Not quite the same feel in English, but here is a (very bad) and half proofread translation into English:
Alphabet of Cycling
"coloured Language, to evoke the prohibited practice. Some definitions for better including/understanding."
A
With AMERICAN COFFEE (American coffee): Very widespread mixture stimulant at the beginning of the 20th century at the time of the six days races with the United States. Tests during which the cyclists remained on the saddle nearly twenty hours out of twenty-four. This drink associating caffeine, ether, cocaine and nitroglycerin made it possible the runners to fight against the hallucinations due to the lack of sleep.
ANTI-RADAR: any type of product which makes it possible to mask the presence of doping substances in the urines.
TO ENSURE THE BLOW: to just dope what it is necessary to hold the distance.
MOTORWAYS (to have): broad veins which facilitate the intravenous ones. The intensive practice of the sport supports the widening of the vessels.
OATS OF PHARMACY (to go to) to take doping products.
B
BIDON-PARACHUTE: suppositories of caffeine or amphetamines packed in paper of aluminum and stuck around the cans using an adhesive plaster. In its book Massacres with the chain *, Willy Voet, the former welfare man of Richard Virenque at Festina, tells: "A the approach of the supply, I slipped them into the haversacks. With 80 kilometers of the arrival, in order to prepare the final one, the runners did not have any more but to jump of the plane by managing a can parachute "BALLS OF FOUR: expression of the Thirties indicating of the strychnin pills having same volume (4 mms diameter) that small balls of the basin of direction of the bicycle. BALLS OF SPRINT: trinitrine. To reach a maximum power, certain sprinters avalent this cardiac stimulant with a few kilometers of the arrival.
LIMP WITH MILK: disappeared expression. See topette. BENT (it): amphetamines. This expression was made famous for Fausto Coppi. The Italian champion of the Forties and Fifties acknowledged that it practically took some before each race. BEND H: beer. This drink would be ideal before the effort, because it would allow a maximum storage of glycogen, the sugar which feeds the muscles. BOLTS OF 18 (to go to): to dope itself. In the Fifties, these bolts of gauge 18 were on the engines of 4 CV, a car much faster than a man on bike. Today, "to roll as one 4 CV" mean to be trailed.
TO STUFF THE GUN: to dope itself to the maximum.
CHEMICAL FOG: product masking in the urine the presence of a doping substance.
BRUTAL: name given to the red wine by Emile Georget, specialist in the Gold Bowl, a test of endurance which it gained with nine recoveries between 1903 and 1919: "I walk to brutal", repeated it with the envi.
C
RED HOOD (small): Decaf-Durabolin. This injectable steroid anabolic is contained in a bottle closed by a red stopper. Very much used at the time of the drives, it allows a greater load-carrying capacity.
BROUGHT TOGETHER CHARGERS: welfare men. The expression, wink with the maritime company of the same name, appeared within the group in the Fifties.
BOILER (to explode it): to use doping products and to increase the amount as their effects decrease.
COKE OF THE INCAS: potion containing cocaine consumed since 1892 and intended to allow an amazing start.
PEDALLING RETORTS: doped cyclists. Expression employed by Daniel Delegove, the president of the court of Lille, at the time of the lawsuit Feasted in October 2000.
D
DOPING TO ROOFING STONE: method consisting in managing with a competitor of the substances decreasing its physical capacities.
DOUBLE FACE: technique of substitution of urine invented by Willy Voet. The welfare man, in the caravan or the room of control anti-dopage, stuck, without the knowledge of official, a virgin bottle of urine provided with an adhesive plaster doubles face in the back of the runners. The cheater entered to move back in the toilets and carried out substitution.
E
WATER CLAIRE (to go in I'). not to have used, dispatched, or produced a doping agent.
MUSCULAR MANURES: all kinds of steroids anabolics.
F
FIRES (to push them): to increase the load of doping products.
DELICACIES OF The "DOCTOR X": doping cocktail of a famous Spanish doctor of the Nineties who mixed cortisone, ACTH (the synacthen, undetectable with control anti-dopage), stimulates the suprarenal glands and male hormone.
G
LARGE ASSASSIN: the champagne. This drink, used since more than one century, allows to désinhiber the cyclist at the time of the perilous descent of a collar. Alas, after a short euphoria, the runner clinks glasses. Only advantage: the champagne is authorized by the international authorities.
H
HALT SCHLAFEN: of German "halt to the sleep". Nickname of the amphetamines given by the teams of in addition to the Rhine in the Fifties.
K
KÉKÉ: Kenacort Delay 80. This corticoid, very widespread at the beginning of armies 90, has an euphoriant effect. L NIBBLE (to put one): to take a "small supplement of doping products". LUBRICANT: a good lubricating indicates an effective doping agent.
M
MAX: Maxiton. The runners have habit to also give nicknames to the amphetamines. Thus, Mératran becomes "Mémé"; Ritaline: "Riri"; Pervitin: "Tintin" and Tonédron: "Uncle".
MILLION (one): injectable amount of one millilitre.
INSTALLATION: a protocol of doping intended for a race which one especially prepared with an aim of playing the first parts.
MULE (to charge..., to be charged like one...): to take doping products in abnormally large quantity. A frequent practice used by runners whose physical condition is precarious.
O
EASTER EGGS: oral testosterone (Pantestone) conditioned in the form of capsules brown reddish, resembling the new ones out of chocolate
P
BREAKFAST OF THE CHAMPIONS: anabolic catch the morning of a drive or a race.
HEADLIGHTS (to light them): get busy for a runner which surely called upon subterfuges. Its glance, at the time of the departure, does not mislead.
PHARMACIST: definition of the welfare man going back to 1911.
WASHING BOTTLE (it): control antidopage.
BELGIAN POT: the atomic bomb of doping. An explosive mixture of ten products: amphetamines, caffeine, cocaine, heroin, analgesics, corticoids...
PREPARED (to be): to be doped.
S
TO SALT SOUP: synonym to explode the boiler.
SERUM OF MONKEY: extractive growth hormone collected on corpses.
WELFARE MAN: "Male nurse, manservant of the athlete. The welfare man achieves the small useful works, [ preparation of the topettes, note ] from which it draws a thin profit but a great glory when the athlete leaves victorious. The welfare man points out himself by his constant desire to be fixed in photography "Definition drawn from the" Small lexicon for the use of the sportsmen "published in Match Intran of July 14, 1936. T
T
TOPETTE (container and contents): small flat aluminum can containing a stimulant most of the time. Come from the Picardy language (even root that spinning top), the word indicated a small long and narrow bottle. Today, it took the shape of a flat bottle which slips easily into a back pocket of shirt cyclist. One finds some even on sale in certain cycle shops.
V
VENOM (it): liquid with the bitter taste consumed a few kilometers before the arrival and the purpose of which is to mask the catch of doping agents. VITAMIN E: érythropoïétine, celebrates it
EPO. This substance supports blood oxygenation. "Before the EPO, I made bicycle. With the EPO, I had the impression to make Mobylette ", will explain in 1999 Erwan Menthéour, one of the rare cyclists to have repented.
VITAMIN G: growth hormone. This code name was used in the team Deutsche Telekom at the end of the Nineties.
W
WARNED OFF ALL TRACKS: "prohibited on all the cycle-racing tracks". This inscription prohibiting the use of narcotics appeared in the entry of the English stages from the very start of the twentieth century.
Y
EYES IN BALL OF LOTTO: the sporting magazine the Car gives the definition since 1924: "fixed Eyes and exhibiting symptoms under the influence of stimulant".
EYES IN THE CORNERS: contemporary expression indicating the presence of compressed amphetamines introduced into fruit pastes. In Massacre with the chain, Willy Voet tells: "We had fun to plant them in own way of eyes, with a nose in premium, if the runner wanted three of them. I knew cyclists who went up to 100 milligrams of amphetamines per day, in this case, we drew true skeletons on the delicacy "EYES OF
LOBSTER: picturesque expression drawn from the Mirror of the sports of November 4, 1965. It is the cyclist Lucien Teisseire who uses it to indicate the doped runners of which the "eyes left to them the head" Jean-Pierre de Mondenard (doctor of the sport, specialist in doping), with Jérome Jesse