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The Dictionary of Mountain Bike Slang

Introduction

There's a little Internet history behind this dictionary. In February ('95), Tom Purvis, from Colorado State, posted a message to the rec.bicycles.off-road newsgroup that said, in part:

Offroading needs more lore. More culture. More vernacular. [...] Let us use the 'net for something really valuable -- let's compile a list of bikey slang. Biff, face plant, gravity check, endo; those are pretty good terms, but let's get some of the really clever ones.

So a lively thread ensued; and I assume Jerry Dunn made another, similar request a bit later. He (Jerry) summarized some of it in April, for a book he has in the works...

Thanks so much for all the responses to my request for off-road bike slang, for my book ( -- to be published in fall 1995). Here's the summary I said I'd post. (Any corrections? Please e-mail me: jerryd@rain.org). Thanks for everything! You're a great group of people, very helpful, articulate, and funny. All the best -- Jerry

Jerry's summary is in the exact style of, and is almost a total superset of, a list that my brother Mike sent me by e-mail in May or June (some of the entries were edited down; only one was added). He said he'd found his list in the LA Times Sunday magazine. The format and wording is too similar to be a coincidence. So ... a question for Jerry Dunn, I guess: did the LA Times Mag article appear under your byline? (I'm just curious.)

Jerry's original chapter title was "Off-Road Bike Riders Offer a Crash Course in Slang".

Over the years many people contributed to this dictionary; see the Cast of Characters for a partial list.

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-- JimF - 25 Aug 2005

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