Glossary of cycling

Glossary of cycling

This article aims making a list, alphabetically, terms specific to the world of cycling, and at explaining them.

With

To adjust : To precede an adversary very close gaining in the last meters with the sprint.
American : Test of Cycling on track. In each team, two runners take turns on 50 kilometers, one of both, alternatively, being able to put back some turns before taking again the relay. The classification is made starting from the number of revolutions traversed then according to the number of points obtained with the intermediate classifications (every five kilometers). This test is also known under the name of “Madison”.
To polish the rivets of the saddle : Metaphor applying to the runner with the sorrow which remains sitted in front of the saddle of its bicycle.
To have a good of exit : Says itself of a runner which is too not fears and which its competitors let spin in an escape. Sometimes certain runners can thus mislead their adversaries and benefit from it to go until the end.
To have the socks in Titanium : To have a skilled of pedal.
To have the pang of hunger : That means that the runner has a rate of insufficient glucose in blood. Medicine speaks about Hypoglycémie when the glycemia is low. For a runner normally burning many calories, if it did not take its precautions with the supplies, the sanction is brutal, it cannot advance more, it is the pang of hunger.
To have the sign : Says itself of a runner recognized to be one of the favorites of the race. Its adversaries know it, it is as if it had a sign on the back, and they nothing will make to help it. They will try to isolate it from its team-members to attack it.

B

To cover : To give up.
balustrades, To go up to the : Expression of the track to appoint a sprinter who goes up in the turns, either to attack while helping itself of the slope, or to oblige its adversary to do as much of it what makes it possible to control it.
good of exit, To have a : Says itself of a runner which is too not fears and which its competitors let spin in an escape. Sometimes certain runners can thus mislead their adversaries and benefit from it to go until the end.
Edge : Group runners not managing to enter the range. Generally, it results a break from it from the Peloton.
Bump : A rise, a collar, (longer than the “blow of bottom”).
To stop the hole : To reconsider a group since the back.
Gear ratio : Relationship between the number of times and that of the plates.
To burn the supply : Says itself of a runner which benefits from the deceleration of a supply to leave in escape. It can do it while neglecting to take its haversack (but attention with the pang of hunger) or by catching its haversack before the others (less risky strategy).

C

cover, To put the : It is to beat its adversary with the sprint with most negligible of the variations which does not represent more than the thickness of a bowel (a few millimetres).
Hunting potato : To be inserted between two groups of cyclists.
socks in Titanium, To have the : To have a skilled of pedal.
class, To make speak the : That means to take the direction of the operations and to dominate all its adversaries by calling only upon its qualities and its gifts, without the assistance of its team-members.
Traditional : Test of Cycling on road. Test on one day old line.
Casseroles : Handles of brake.
To count the paving stones : To roll to a too slow pace because one does not have any more forces to go quickly.
Against-the-watch : Test of Cycling on road. Race as a recluse, the runner must rejoin the arrival as fast as possible. The alternative by team has the same principle.
Blow of bottom : Rise in the road at a relatively short distance which requires of raising the buttocks of the saddle.
Race with stages : Test of Cycling on road. Race on line being held in several days.
Race at the points : Test of Cycling on track. Tests where about thirty runners clash on a long distance (up to 30 kilometers). The runners accumulate the points by gaining the intermediate sprints, every two kilometers, and the final sprint.

D

Dancer : Position of the runner when he did not sit on the saddle.
Medium-distance race : Test of Cycling on track. Race from 30 to 100 kilometers (or one hour) carried out behind a motor bike.

E

Escaped : Runner or group of runners having outdistanced the group.
glare, To take a : That means released being of only one blow without being able to react and by losing very quickly ground.
elastic, To make the : Says itself of a runner which is made release several times of a group and which always returns. This situation is frequent after a bump when the runner has sorrow to go up but which it manages to return after the bump when the other competitors raise the foot either because they rest, or because they are less good on the dish.
to keep some under the pedal : Says itself of a runner which in the immediate future does not throw all its forces and which is reserved for the continuation of the race. This runner does not take part effectively in the relays of an escape. One says as him as it runs in rat.
To be in the Maffia : To belong to a group of runners of teams various but combined circumstances, and whose interest is not to let gain the other cyclists.
Range: Group runners which is placed in diagonal to protect itself from the wind. The first runner places with dimensions one of the roadway from which the wind comes, the other runners shift in order to be with the shelter of the wind, and thus take all the width of the road.

F

To make the rubber band : Says itself of a runner which is made release several times of a group and which always returns. This situation is frequent after a bump when the runner has sorrow to go up but which it manages to return after the bump when the other competitors raise the foot either because they rest, or because they are less good on the dish.
To make the hole : Says itself of a runner which succeeds in widening the gap and to put its prosecutors at a good distance.
To make speak the class : That means to take the direction of the operations and to dominate all its adversaries by calling only upon its qualities and its gifts, without the assistance of its team-members.
window, To pass by the : That means being surprised by an abrupt acceleration to which one did not prepare and not to be able to follow the rate/rhythm imposed by the adversaries.
FC : French federation of cycling.
arrow, To put the : It is to discreetly leave the race on abandonment, in the middle of its unfolding, without stopping to await the end car and without returning its number.
pang of hunger, To have the : That means that the runner has a rate of insufficient glucose in blood. Medicine speaks about Hypoglycémie when the glycemia is low. For a runner normally burning many calories, if it did not take its precautions with the supplies, the sanction is brutal, it cannot advance more, it is the pang of hunger.

G

Grupeto : At the time of the stages of mountain, groups being formed with the back of the race in order to rejoin the arrival before the times of elimination.

J

rim, To roll on, : That means being completely exhausted, to feel emptied its forces, like a bowel flat.
garden, To roll in, : It is the mishap which arrives at that which is found in grass of the side of the road by awkwardness and which takes the risk to fall into the ditch.

K

Keirin : Test of Cycling on track. Test originating in the Japan which sees a group from six to eight runners following a motor cycle whose pace increases gradually by 35 to 45 km/h. The motor cycle deviates with approximately 700 meters from the arrival to leave room to the final sprint.
Kilometer : Test of Cycling on track. It is a against-the-watch, standing start on 1 km for the men, 500 meters for the women.

M

Maffia, Being in the : To belong to a group of runners of teams various but combined circumstances, and whose interest is not to let gain the other cyclists.
Shirt with pea : at the time of a turn of France, the runner which is at the head classification of the Grand Prix of the mountain. The points are allotted to the runners passing at the head of the difficulties of the course.
white Shirt : at the time of a turn of France, the runner which is at the head general classification of the young people (runner of less than 25 years).
Yellow jersey : at the time of a turn of France, the runner which is at the head pink general classification
Maillot : at the time of a Turn of Italy, the runner which is at the head general classification.
green Shirt : at the time of a turn of France, the runner which is at the head points score. The points are allotted during the races at the time of the sprints allowances and on arrival of the stages.
Shirt of gold : at the time of a Turn of Spain, the runner which is at the head general classification.
To put the cover : It is to beat its adversary with the sprint with most negligible of the variations which does not represent more than the thickness of a bowel (a few millimetres).
To put the arrow : It is to discreetly leave the race on abandonment, in the middle of its unfolding, without stopping to await the end car and without returning its number.
To put whistling a (term of the track): That means to choose a very light bowel especially designed for the races of the greattest importance, the great competitions or the finales.
grinding stone, To draw on the : To accelerate the pace highly.
To go up to the balustrades : Expression of the track to appoint a sprinter who goes up in the turns, either to attack while helping itself of the slope, or to oblige its adversary to do as much of it what makes it possible to control it.

O

Omnium : Individual test gathering several tests of the track, the such Decathlon in Athletics.
ears, To pedal with its : Runner whose style misses fluidity, balancing the head at the rate/rhythm of sound pédalage.

P

sign, To have the : Says itself of a runner recognized to be one of the favorites of the race. Its adversaries know it, it is as if it had a sign on the back, and they nothing will make to help it. They will try to isolate it from its team-members to attack it.
To pass by the window : That means being surprised by an abrupt acceleration to which one did not prepare and not to be able to follow the rate/rhythm imposed by the adversaries.
paved, To count the : To roll to a too slow pace because one does not have any more forces to go quickly.
pedal, to keep some under the : Says itself of a runner which in the immediate future does not throw all its forces and which is reserved for the continuation of the race. This runner does not take part effectively in the relays of an escape. One says as him as it runs in rat.
To pedal with its ears : Runner whose style misses fluidity, balancing the head at the rate/rhythm of sound pédalage.
Group : Group principal at the time of a test cyclist.
Individual pursuit : Test of Cycling on track. Test putting in opposition two runners out of 4000 m (3000 m for the women) standing start. At the beginning of the race the runners are on the other hand one of the other. The gaining runner is that which manages to exceed its adversary or finishes in first the four kilometers
Poursuite by team: Test of Cycling on track. Even principle that individual pursuit but carried out this time by teams of four runners taking turns.
To take a glare : That means released being of only one blow without being able to react and by losing very quickly ground.
To take the good coach : That wants to say not to miss a decisive escape, that which gathers the runners of big class. As for a train which serves two destinations, it is necessary to take the good coach to arrive per hour at its destination and to take part in final packing.

R

supply, To burn the : Says itself of a runner which benefits from the deceleration of a supply to leave in escape. It can do it while neglecting to take its haversack (but attention with the pang of hunger) or by catching its haversack before the others (less risky strategy).
To relay : To pass at the head from group to protect the other runners from the wind. The successive relays make it possible the group to roll while making less effort than a solitary runner.
rivets of the saddle, To polish the : Metaphor applying to the runner with the sorrow which remains sitted in front of the saddle of its bicycle.
wheel, To suck the : It is to supervise and mark closely an indicated adversary, while being put resolutely in its wheel and without never taking the least relay.
To roll in the garden : It is the mishap which arrives at that which is found in grass of the side of the road by awkwardness and which takes the risk to fall into the ditch.
To roll on the rim : That means being completely exhausted, to feel emptied its forces, like a bowel flat.

S

To jump : To be made outdistance by the group.
Scratch : Test of Cycling on track. Race of 15 kilometers, departure on line.
to be raised : To abruptly reduce its pace after an significant effort.
siffleu, To put unr (term of the track): That means to choose a very light bowel especially designed for the races of the greattest importance, the great competitions or the finales.
To suck the wheel : It is to supervise and mark closely an indicated adversary, while being put resolutely in its wheel and without never taking the least relay.

T

Tandem : Test of Cycling on track. Competition of continuation by teams on two kilometers, of two pairs of runners associated on the same cycle.
To draw on the grinding stone : To accelerate the pace highly.
hole, Butcher the : To reconsider a group since the back.
hole, To make the : Says itself of a runner which succeeds in widening the gap and to put its prosecutors at a good distance.

U

UCI : international Union cyclist. More high ranking authority as regards cycling.

V

individual Speed : Test of Cycling on track. Test disputed by two runners out of 2 or 3 solo circuits. Like any race, the winner is the first to pass the line, however the tactics play a paramount role in this type of test.
Speed by team: Test of Cycling on track. Two teams of three runners clash on three solo circuits, each runner carries out a turn at the head to involve its fellow-members then deviates.

W

coach, To take the good : That wants to say not to miss a decisive escape, that which gathers the runners of big class. As for a train which serves two destinations, it is necessary to take the good coach to arrive per hour at its destination and to take part in final packing.

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