Mountain Bike Slang Glossary
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Abubaca or blunt, can be done on a ramp or a low wall etc. Ride at obstacle, hop and land on the rear wheel, stall and hop backwards landing fakie.
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Bail: To ditch or release your bike whilst in the midst of jumping, hucking or crashing.
Bark: Skin. Usually commonly heard after crashing. "Bah, just lost a bit of bark"
Bling: This word is used to describe something on the bike, or riders gear (generally shiny, expensive, boutique) that ads want factor/prestige. An example - anything Chris King.
Blunt: see Abubaca.
Braking bumps: Sections of trail where people brake hard or skid, causing ditches and bumps form. These are called braking bumps. See Thredbo.
Bunnyhop: a controlled movement to lift your bike off the ground, and go over obstacles.
Butt Plugs: The plugs at each end of your bars covering the end of the handlebars.
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Catwalk - Similar to a Manual, shift your weight back and coasting on your rear wheel whilst pedalling.
Case, casing, to case - To attempt a jump but land short of the downramp. On double jumps if you land a wheel either side of to lip of the down ramp it is called a 50/50 case or crank case.
Chain suck - when the chain gets jammed between either the chainrings or between the crank and frame. This also causes scratches and chips. Most commonly caused by a poorly maintained and completely worn out chain, which is no longer interlocking properly with the chainring teeth.
Cookie Cutter - What happens if you crash and don't have butt plugs (on the bars OK?) the bars generally twist around impact on your stomach and punch a hole in you like a cookie cutter, nice. Also known as a core sample.
Core Sample - See above.
Cutty - An intentional drift without the use of brakes, done by leaning the bike over in a corner until the rear wheel looses traction and slides (think oversteer). Not typically done to go faster or improve run times, its more a display of bike skill. See Jared Graves' bit in the bonus section of Synopsis.
Crikey! - Often used when swearing is not appropriate (females or infants in presents).
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Double(s)/doublejump: a jump consisting of only a kicker and landing ramp, with the middle dug out. Generally considered more challenging than a tabletop.
Drift - Sliding both or your rear tire/s, usually through a corner. Can be described as a longer/faster cutty. Without brakes.
Dual Crown fork or DC fork for short/forum speak - Dual crown forks have stanchion tubes that continue on through the lower fork crown at the bottom of the head tube to a second crown that sits at the top of the head tube. The second crown clamping onto a greater length of stanchion tube creates a much more rigid fork. Dual crown forks are often referd to as 'Tripple clamp' forks, this refers to the top crown (1 clamp), bottom crown (2nd clamp) and wheel axel (3rd clamp) Rock Shox Boxxers, Marzocchi Super T and 888's are all examples of Dual Crown or Tripple Clamp forks.
Dug in - mostly describes a crash where takeoff was bad and you landed way on your front resulting in a hard vertical body crash rather than a skidding across the dirt crash
Dead Sailor - When the rider just freezes up in the air, often because while they are in the air they realize they are going to crash and there is nothing they can do they don't even try and save themselves. can also desribe same freezing up in the air but not as bad and the rider still lands the jump and live to tell the tale.
Duct tape- Don't leave home without it!
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egg'd- when you land so hard you wheel resembles the shape of an egg.
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Fakie - to ride or roll backwards
Freddy Flintstone - Sitting on your bike pushing it along with your feet. Used when your chain breaks on an uphill or flat section in a DH race or when you lose momentum in a rock garden and can't get started again. e.g. - "I bunted that rock and stalled, then Freddie Flinstoned the rest of the garden."
Freerider A general term used for people who like to ride the track as they see each obstacle, not normally the type of person who likes to race, but would rather spend a day out with the guys hitting up the trails. Freeriding is also associated with "Hucking" and "North Shore" style riding.
F'ahn sick maaan! A term used when your mates eats the ground.
face plant - a term used when a rider goes over the handle bars or slips out sideways and lands on their face. painful to experience, hilarious to watch XD.
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Granny Gear - The lowest gear possible on a bike. Typically the smallest front chainring is the “granny ring”
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Huck/Hucking/Hucker: Mostly known as the type of rider that likes to do drops off large things such as; cliffs, roofs, North shore style ramps. The name is supposedly taken from the noise one makes when bunnyhopping their bike as hard as they can off the edge of a drop. The word "Huck" is also used in other sports, notably white water kayaking, but it still refers to the same thing.
Huck to Flat: The act of dropping from a great height onto level ground. Sometimes unavoidable, but the act of doing it intentionally and/or repeatedly is widely regarded as unintelligent and unnecessarily damaging to one's bike. Nonetheless, most people get their start in more aggressive riding by this method, then progress to downramps and the pursuit of smoothness. Some are still playing catch-up.
Huck to Splat: A Huck to Flat gone wrong. See Josh Bender.
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Jibbing - Thor Wixom's word for street on a Mountain Bike, back when he though he was pioneering a new style of riding. It's just street on Mountain Bikes dude, nothing new about it. The word has been 'borrowed' from skiing, where it is used to describe similar high difficulty, low speed/airtime manouevres.
Jockey wheels - The pulley wheels in your rear derailleur
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Kicker - The "start" or take off ramp to a jump. Can be found on DH tracks, Jump Parks, Road Gaps.
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LBS - Local Bike Shop
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Manual : Manualing is shifting your weight back and coasting on your rear wheel without the use of pedal strokes.
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North Shore - This originally came from Canada's North shore, hence the name, where wooden ramps were used to ride over areas of environmental sensitivity. Now "North Shore" is used to describe a trail, which has man-made obstacles such as ladders, bridges, ramps, seesaws, etc.
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Owned - A term used when someone crashes hard. I.E "He got owned by that tree". Can also be used when someone takes a difficult section with ease. "Man he owned that section"
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Pinned/Pinner/Pin it ya fairy: a term borrowed from motocross, meaning to have the throttle pinned, or held all the way open. Used in mountain biking to descibe people riding really hard, e.g. "I had it pinned coming into that last corner and washed out".
Pre–jump: Bunnyhopping a short distance before the edge of a drop with no kicker, in order to land on the downslope - instead of flying straight off it, overshooting and landing to flat ground.
Preload: 1) Pushing down on your pedals and handlebars to create stored energy. Typically done to get more height off a jump, a rider can preload before leaving the lip of a kicker. With suspension bikes, you can preload by using up the bikes travel before you take off. With the travel used up the bike cannot soak up the kicker and instead sends you flying into the air.
2) In reference to suspension, also known as 'sag'. Preload affects the amount of initial force required to activate the suspension. Most suspension forks have an external adjuster of some description - rear shocks have either an air valve or a spring collar. More preload means you have to work harder to get the suspension to move, and more bottom out resistance. Preload is largely independent of suspension damping (see above).
Pump: A technique of pushing the front of the bike with your arms and the rear with your legs to gain momentum through a section by utilising the natural contours of the trail.
Punter: a derogatory term, generally meaning clueless rider, but rather broad in its possible uses. Good examples are: someone who spends up big on a shiny new DH bike and armour, then walks carefully down the rocky bits / Someone who thinks a helmet mirror is a good idea / anyone who has used a can of Spray-on Mud. (Reckon I'm kidding?)
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Rail: To hit a corner/section as if you were on rails. If you have to ask, then you haven't done it.
Rail a Berm: See Sam Hill. To hit a berm at high speed, keeping both feet on the pedals. The guy who hits the berm fast and exits the berm with high speed has railed the berm.
Roost: To send a cloud of dust/dirt/mud into the air or onto something/one. Typically done via a cutty or drift. Example: "I completely roosted that camera guy..."
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Sandbagger: Derogatory term for a person or persons who enter a grade below their actual skill level for an easy win.
Session: to hit the same thing over and over until you’re really good at it. eg. "we sessioned the top rock garden for a while" or "do you want to session some dirt jumps today"
Single Crown fork or SC for short/forum speak: A single crown fork has its stanchion (slider) tubes clamped or pressed into a single fork crown that sits below the head tube of the frame. Marzocchi Z series forks and Rockshox Pikes are all examples of single crown forks.
Singletrack: A narrow trail with only enough room for one rider at a time, as people tend to follow the same worn in path. Generally considered by most riders to be the most fun of any trail type.
Spoke Nipple: The nut at the end of a spoke, usually connecting it to the rim. I figure it belongs in slang, there have been too many jokes about nipple tweaking in order to straighten a bent wheel...
Stair gap: to clear the first set of stairs and the flat section following them, and land on the second set. The act of launching a single set of stairs to land on flat ground is commonly mistaken as a stairgap, when it is in fact only Hucking to Flat.
Step-down: a double jump or gap where the height of the kicker is higher than that of the landing.
Step-up: a double jump or gap where the height of the kicker is lower than that of the landing.
Stoppie: at speed, the front brake is applied and the bike lurches onto the front wheel until stopped... or you go over the bars.
Street: A word originally used by freestyle BMX riders to describe riding a bike aggressively and creatively in a man-made environment ie: a city or skatepark. Example: to jib, or to go on an urban (or erbon) ride.
Squid A squid usually refers to a Pretty ordinary rider with a fantastic bike. Or they are referring to the administrator 'Squidly didly'Who's nickname is 'squid'
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Taco'ed Wheel - To damage your wheel to deform it's shape in any way which deems it unrideable. (ie. bend it so far it resembles a taco shell)
Trail Fairies - used "The Trial Fairies have been out" When you go down a track you know well but there are changes to it to you weren’t aware of.
Trail Nazi's - People/Walkers that intentionaly sabotage trails in an attempt to injure or deter riders from using the trails, eg. "The Trail Nazi's have been busy, look at those logs"
Tail Tap- Similar to a abubica but instaed of fakieing away the rider spin 180 degrees to land going forward
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Wadded up - A crash where you and your bike stay friendly - too friendly - for the entire experience. Comes from the concept of crumpling up paper into a wad
Wide Open - Refers to a type of track/trail that is wide, allowing the rider to choose from multiple lines. It's pretty much the opposite to singletrack.
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Yard sale (American) - When your crash is so bad they find you by following the trail of debris you left behind in your path. “a pedal broke off, lost my chain, my pack ripped open and I lost all my tools....it was a total yard sale!”. If you're Australian call it a "Garage Sale".
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Zipties - Part of any great riders accessories.
