Fred's Bike: Bicycles in the Dictionary

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Bicycles in the Dictionary

When I go out to ride my Cross-country bicycle I think it is definitely a good idea to have goggles, a fork, a really old rear suspension and some clip-less pedals. If you don't have goggles how are you going to perform acrobatics. Always wear your goggles.

Cross-country bicycle: relatively small, sturdy bicycle designed for performing acrobatics and competing in competitions on rough terrain. Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary - Cross-Country Bicycle

Cross-country bicycle

When riding on a downhill bike forget about the fork or back suspension. The most important items are your chin strap and your raised handlebar.

Downhill bicycle

Downhill bicycle: small, very sturdy bicycle for racing on rough ground with steep hills and strewn with obstacles. Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary - Downhill Bicycle

When riding a road bike it is good to have a frame, a tire or two, a fork and sometimes a chain comes in handy. On a road bike the most important items are the jersey, stretchy pants and gloves. In my opinion pedals are optional but shoes are a must.

Road-racing bicycle

Road-racing bicycle: bicycle that is designed for speed; it has narrow tires, a lightweight frame and handlebars conducive to an aerodynamic position for the cyclist.

Merriam-Webster -Road Racing Bicycle

On the pursuit bicycle forks, frames, tires, chains, goggles and shoes take a back seat to the seat-tube and handbars/grips. Many people don't realize that without handlebars (for the grips) and a seat-tube (for the seat) it is nearly impossible to ride a pursuit bike.

Pursuit bicycle

Pursuit bicycle: bicycle with limited equipment, that is, no brakes, no derailleur (no gears) and no freewheel.

Merriam-Webster - Pursuit Bicycle

BMX

Merriam-Webster seems to think that you need hands to ride a BMX bike. I think that sounds reasonable.

BMX bicycle

When not smoking one some BMX Bicyclists ride on this thing called a pipe. I wonder if a Cross-country bicycle could do acrobatic tricks on one these things?

Half Pipe: A wooden U-shaped track that is set up for performing various acrobatic stunts (such as jumps and slides).

BMX Half-Pipe

BMX: A sport that consists of performing freestyle acrobatics using a small, one-speed bicycle.

Merriam-Webster - BMX

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Bike Quotes

As I get older the tendency to stick my foot up someone's ass is starting to subside. - Fred on Pump Track Pricks

The 29 inch chingaderra rolls best downhill! ~ Fred

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

~ Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan

It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan Nobel prize winner

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884

PEDAL. Pray Every Day And Listen. ~ Rev. Johannes Myors, The pedaling preacher

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~Bill Emerson

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong

Never use your face as a brake pad. ~ Jake Watson

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing. ~ Jacquie Phelan

When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
When I race, I don't want to lose.
Dying and losing, it's the same thing. ~ Lance Armstrong

"It is no longer a beast of steel,
no it is a friend it is a faithful
and powerful ally against one's worst
enemies. It is stronger than anxiety,
stronger than sadness. It has all the
power of hope." ~  Maurice Leblanc