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Tour de Nez cycling terms |
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Written by Staff reports
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Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
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Confused about what the announcers are talking about on televised cycling races? Here's your primer to sound like a pro when the Tour de Nez rolls through town June 22-24.
Cycling Terms 101:
Attack: a sudden attempt to ride ahead of a group of riders.
Bonk: cycling's classic term for running out of energy; becoming completely depleted (and it’s followed by inability to ride fast). Can be caused by insufficient water or food intake.
Break or breakaway: one or a group of riders who get ahead of the rest of the racers, or field.
Criterium: A multi-lap race on a closed course of a mile or less in length.
Draft: to ride behind a wind shield, such as another rider or a motor vehicle. This is much more efficient than riding in the front or alone thus the reason you see riders in a pack or riding one behind the other. Also refers to the area sheltered behind a moving object.
Echlon: a diagonal paceline, which modifies the single-file formation for a crosswind.
Field: the group of riders near or at the front in a road race.
Fieldsprint: a sprint for the finish line involving a large group of riders.
Forcing the pace: to increase the speed of the race to the point that other riders have trouble keeping up.
Hammer: to ride fast and hard.
Off the back: when a rider is dropped, or cannot keep up with the field and falls behind.
Off the front: when a rider takes part in a breakaway, where one or more riders are ahead of the main field.
Paceline: a single file of riders, each of which takes his or her turn battling the wind at the front.
Peloton: the large, aerodynamically-efficient, and extremely fast pack of riders near the front in a road race, also known as the HYPERLINK "http://www.bicyclesource.com/you/culture/bicycling-glossary.shtml#field"field.
Pull: to ride at the front of a group of riders, where there is no protection from the wind.
Pull off: to give up at the front of a group, and return to a position in the formation that is sheltered from the wind.
Pull through: to take a turn at the front position in a paceline after the previous leader has pulled off.
Rolling enclosure: a type of traffic control where escort vehicles form a caravan leading and following a group of racers. The enclosure sets aside a moving part of the roadway in the direction of the race for exclusive use of bicyclists. Racers inside the enclosure are not required to follow the normal rules of the road. Racers are not allowed to cross the center line unless the entire road is traffic controlled. A rolling enclosure is the typical traffic control used to run a road race.
Sitting in: when a racer isn’t taking his or her turn at the front of a paceline or field.
Stage race: these combine several different types of bicycle races into one multiple part bicycle race event. Stage races commonly include road races, time trials, and criteriums. These races are usually scheduled over a period of two or more days. Order of finish is determined by lowest combined elapsed time or combined points depending on the scoring format.
Time trials: bicycle race events in which individuals ride the same route and distance separately for elapsed time.
Tour de Nez: the best bicycle event ever (well, at least in our opinion)!
USCF: abbreviation for the United States Cycling Federation which oversees the conduct of road, track, and cyclocross bicycle racing in the United States.
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I like it
Written by Guest on 2006-08-04 22:38:13
I would like to wish you much luck. And a lot of money. Thank you. |
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