MTB
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New
to mountain biking, or just want to sound like an old hand!
We've taken the liberty of providing some of the more colorful mountain
biking slang that exists out there. Depending on what part of
the country you are from you may experience some semantic differences,
but for the most part the descriptions below are universal, universal
maybe, but they don't often make sense!
Some
things you'll most likely encounter during your beginning days in
mountain biking:
rookie
mark n. chain grease on a rider's pant leg as in "Give that guy
extra points for his rookie mark. It's even on the wrong leg!"
chainring
tattoo n. the dotted-line scar you get from gouging your shin
on the chainring.
Some
things you hope to avoid for awhile:
face plant n. hitting the ground face first as in, "Joe hit
a tree root and did a spectacular face plant." Other colorful phrases
for face plants are also, digger, soil sample, spring planting and
auger.
endo n. the maneuver of flying unexpectedly over the handlebars,
thus being forcibly ejected from the bike. Short for "end over end".
"I hit that rock and went endo like nobody's business."