Mountain Bike Slang Send It

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Mountain bike slang send it. I picked up the mountain bike in college and have been riding the dark side ever since. Check out this list to learn the basics of mountain bike terminology. As with everything mountain biking has its own slang terminology or jargon and when i recently started getting into it i found it quite difficult to get to grips with what people online were talking about. To complete a section of trail without crashing stopping or taking your feet off the pedals.

From the term 1st ascend as to climb a route with no falls on the first try bastardized into ascend which was then bastardized into send it. I cleaned that rock garden so easily dab. The unofficial incomplete mtb glossary of terms jargon and mountain bike slang i ve been riding a lot of bike since my early teens when pops suckered me into bike ride across georgia. I would never take that bso off road clean.

By jeff barber february 12 2018. Whether you re a noob trying to break the code or an old timer. Bikes with 26 inch wheels may be referred to as 26ers. Enticer s send it comes from the rock climbing slang send a run in which a climber completes a route without falling or resting.

Brush up on your mountain bike lingo. The term said to originate in climbing slang in the 1990s and possibly inspired by the notion of sending as delivering on a promise spread to snowboarding skiing mountain biking. Typically refers to 26 inch diameter wheels which is the classic mountain bike wheel size. To be sure it s far from being a complete lexicon of all mountain bike lingo but a quick overview of commonly used mountain biking terms any beginner may encounter when fraternizing with other mountain bikers.

For those outside the sport it might seem like mountain bikers speak another language.