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Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics, from Greek ἀήρ aer (air) + δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly its interaction with a solid object, such as an airplane wing.
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Alberto Contador
Alberto Contador Velasco (born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish former professional cyclist.
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Alleycat race
An alley cat race is an unsanctioned bicycle race.
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Angular velocity
In physics, the angular velocity of a particle is the rate at which it rotates around a chosen center point: that is, the time rate of change of its angular displacement relative to the origin.
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Art bike
An art bike is any bicycle modified for creative purposes while still being ridable.
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Audax (cycling)
Audax is a cycling sport in which participants attempt to cycle long distances within a pre-defined time limit.
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Australasia
Australasia, a region of Oceania, comprises Australia, New Zealand, neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean and, sometimes, the island of New Guinea (which is usually considered to be part of Melanesia).
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Autobus (cycling)
The autobus or the gruppetto is in bicycling terminology the name given to the group of cyclists in a road cycling race who form a large group behind the leading peloton.
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Basket
A basket is a container which is traditionally constructed from stiff fibers, which can be made from a range of materials, including wood splints, runners, and cane.
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Bearing (mechanical)
A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts.
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Bernhard Eisel
Bernhard Eisel (born 17 February 1981) is an Austrian professional road bicycling racer who currently rides for.
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Bicycle drivetrain systems
Bicycle drivetrain systems are used to transmit power on bicycles, tricycles, quadracycles, unicycles, or other human-powered vehicles from the riders to the drive wheels.
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Bicycle fork
A bicycle fork is the part of a bicycle that holds the front wheel.
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Bicycle frame
A bicycle frame is the main component of a bicycle, onto which wheels and other components are fitted.
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Bicycle handlebar
A bicycle handlebar or bicycle handlebars is the steering control for bicycles; it is the equivalent of a steering wheel for vehicles and vessels.
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Bicycle messenger
Bicycle messengers (also known as bike or cycle couriers) are people who work for courier companies (also known as messenger companies) carrying and delivering items by bicycle.
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Bicycle pedal
The bicycle pedal is the part of a bicycle that the rider pushes with their foot to propel the bicycle.
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Bicycle tire
A bicycle tire is a tire that fits on the wheel of a bicycle, unicycle, tricycle, quadracycle, bicycle trailer, or trailer bike.
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Bicycle touring
Bicycle touring means self-contained cycling trips for pleasure, adventure, and autonomy rather than sport, commuting, or exercise.
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Bicycle trainer
A bicycle trainer is a piece of equipment that makes it possible to ride a bicycle while it remains stationary.
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Bicycling (magazine)
Bicycling is a cycling brand published by Hearst in Emmaus, Pennsylvania.
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Box
Box (plural: boxes) describes a variety of containers and receptacles for permanent use as storage, or for temporary use, often for transporting contents.
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Breakaway specialist
In bicycle racing, a breakaway specialist is a rider who is specialized in attacking the race from the start in order to show off his sponsor and to try his luck in winning the stage without having to fight with the whole peloton at the finish line.
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British Best All-Rounder
The British Best All-Rounder (BBAR) competition, organised by Cycling Time Trials, is an annual British cycle-racing competition.
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Broom wagon
The broom wagon is the name for the vehicle that follows a cycling road race "sweeping" up stragglers who are unable to make it to the finish within the time permitted.
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Bunny hop (cycling)
The bunny hop or bunnyhop, is a bicycle trick that allows the rider to launch their bike into the air as if jumping off a ramp.
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Cadence (cycling)
In cycling, cadence (or pedalling rate) is the number of revolutions of the crank per minute; this is the rate at which a cyclist is pedalling/turning the pedals.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving
Causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving is a statutory offence in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Chain gang (cycling)
In the sport of cycling, a chain gang is a group of cyclists in a close knit formation usually of two parallel lines drafting behind the leader.
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Chris Froome
Christopher Clive Froome, (born 20 May 1985) is a British road racing cyclist for UCI ProTeam.
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Classic cycle races
The classic cycle races are the most prestigious one-day professional road cycling races in the international calendar.
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Classical Latin
Classical Latin is the modern term used to describe the form of the Latin language recognized as standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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Climbing specialist
A climbing specialist or climber, also known as a grimpeur, is a road bicycle racer who can ride especially well on highly inclined roads, such as those found among hills or mountains.
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Cogset
On a bicycle, the cogset or cluster is the set of multiple sprockets that attaches to the hub on the rear wheel.
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Col
In geomorphology, a col is the lowest point on a mountain ridge between two peaks.
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Col d'Aspin
Col d'Aspin (Còth d'Aspin) (elevation) is a mountain pass in the French Pyrenees in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées.
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Col d'Aubisque
The Col d'Aubisque (Còth d'Aubisca) (elevation) is a mountain pass in the Pyrenees south of Tarbes and Pau in the department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Aquitaine region of France.
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Col de Peyresourde
The Col de Peyresourde (Còth de Pèira Sorda) (elevation) is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees on the border of the department of Haute-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées in France.
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Col du Tourmalet
Col du Tourmalet (elevation) is the highest paved mountain pass in the French Pyrenees, located in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées.
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Collision
A collision is an event in which two or more bodies exert forces on each other for a relatively short time.
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Commissaire (cycling)
Commissaire is the generic term for an official in competitive cycling, approximately equivalent to umpires or referees in other sports.
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Courier
A courier is a company that delivers messages, packages, and mail.
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Crankset
The crankset (in the US) or chainset (in the UK), is the component of a bicycle drivetrain that converts the reciprocating motion of the rider's legs into rotational motion used to drive the chain or belt, which in turn drives the rear wheel.
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Criterium
A criterium, or crit, is a bike race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 800 m to 10,000 m.
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Cycle sport
Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles.
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Cycling
Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport.
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Cycling team
A cycling team is a group of cyclists who join a team or are acquired and train together to compete in bicycle races whether amateur or professional – and the supporting personnel.
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Cycling Weekly
Cycling Weekly is a British cycling magazine.
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Cyclo-cross
Cyclocross (sometimes cyclo-cross, CX, cyclo-X or cross) is a form of bicycle racing.
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Cyclosportive
A cyclosportive, or often simply sportive, is a short to long distance, organised, mass-participation cycling event, typically held annually.
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Cylinder
A cylinder (from Greek κύλινδρος – kulindros, "roller, tumbler"), has traditionally been a three-dimensional solid, one of the most basic of curvilinear geometric shapes.
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Danilo Di Luca
Danilo Di Luca (born 2 January 1976) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist, best known for winning the 2007 Giro d'Italia, but also for several positive doping tests, the last of which resulting in a lifetime ban from the sport.
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David Millar
David Millar (born 4 January 1977) is a Scottish former professional road racing cyclist.
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Derailleur gears
Derailleur gears are a variable-ratio transmission system commonly used on bicycles, consisting of a chain, multiple sprockets of different sizes, and a mechanism to move the chain from one sprocket to another.
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Derny
A Derny is a motorized bicycle for motor-paced cycling events such as during six-day and Keirin racing and motor-paced road races.
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Directeur sportif
A directeur sportif (French for sporting director, although the original French term is often used in English-language media; plural directeurs sportifs) is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event.
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Domestique
In road bicycle racing, a domestique is a rider who works for the benefit of his team and leader, rather than trying to win the race.
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Dooring
Dooring is a traffic collision in which a cyclist rides into a car door or is struck by a car door that was opened quickly without checking the side mirror for cyclists.
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Downhill mountain biking
Downhill mountain biking (DH) is a genre of mountain biking practiced on steep, rough terrain that often features jumps, drops, rock gardens and other obstacles.
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Drafting (aerodynamics)
Drafting or slipstreaming is a technique where two vehicles or other moving objects are caused to align in a close group reducing the overall effect of drag due to exploiting the lead object's slipstream.
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Drag (physics)
In fluid dynamics, drag (sometimes called air resistance, a type of friction, or fluid resistance, another type of friction or fluid friction) is a force acting opposite to the relative motion of any object moving with respect to a surrounding fluid.
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Echelon formation
An echelon formation is a (usually military) formation in which its units are arranged diagonally.
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Eddy Merckx
Édouard Louis Joseph, baron Merckx (born 17 June 1945), better known as Eddy Merckx, is a Belgian former professional road and track bicycle racer who is widely seen as the most successful rider in the history of competitive cycling.
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Electronic gear-shifting system
An electronic gear-shifting system is a method of changing gears on a bicycle, which enables riders to shift with electronic switches instead of using conventional control levers and mechanical cables.
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Elimination race
Elimination races in bicycle racing are a form of race wherein during the course of the race, certain participants are eliminated through various criteria.
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Enduro (mountain biking)
Enduro in its most basic definition is a type of mountain bike racing where the downhills are timed, and the uphills are not.
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Energy
In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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European Athletics U23 Championships
The European Athletics U23 Championships is a biennial athletics competition for European athletes under the age of 23, which is organized by the European Athletic Association.
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Fabian Cancellara
Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981), nicknamed "Spartacus", is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTeam.
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Fall line (topography)
In mountain biking and skiing, a fall line refers to the line down a mountain or hill which is most directly downhill.
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Fatigue
Fatigue is a subjective feeling of tiredness that has a gradual onset.
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Fausto Coppi
Angelo Fausto Coppi, (15 September 1919 – 2 January 1960), was an Italian cyclist, the dominant international cyclist of the years each side of the Second World War.
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Fender (vehicle)
Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well (the fender underside).
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Fixed-gear bicycle
A fixed-gear bicycle (or fixed-wheel bicycle, commonly known in some places as a fixie) is a bicycle that has a drivetrain with no freewheel mechanism.
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For Dummies
For Dummies is an extensive series of instructional/reference books which are intended to present non-intimidating guides for readers new to the various topics covered.
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Fork end
A fork end, fork-end, or forkend is a slot in a bicycle frame or bicycle fork where the axle of a bicycle wheel is attached.
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Freehub
A freehub is a type of bicycle hub that incorporates a ratcheting mechanism, and the name freehub is a registered trademark of Shimano.
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French language
French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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General classification
The general classification (or the GC) in bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for bicycle riders in multi-stage bicycle races.
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General classification in the Giro d'Italia
The general classification in the Giro d'Italia is the most important classification of the Giro d'Italia, which determines who is the overall winner.
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General classification in the Tour de France
The general classification is the most important classification, the one by which the winner of the Tour de France is determined.
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Giro d'Italia
The Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy; also known as the Giro) is an annual multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries.
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Giro di Lombardia
The Giro di Lombardia (Tour of Lombardy), officially Il Lombardia, is a cycling race in Lombardy, Italy.
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Glossary of cycling
This is a glossary of terms and jargon used in cycling, mountain biking, and cycle sport.
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Groupset
A groupset or gruppo (from the Italian for "group", often misspelled grouppo) is a bicycle component manufacturer's organized collection of mechanical parts.
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Head tube
The head tube is the part of a cycle's tubular frame within which the front fork steerer tube is mounted.
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Headset (bicycle part)
The headset is the set of components on a bicycle that provides a rotatable interface between the bicycle fork and the head tube of the bicycle frame.
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Hillclimbing (cycling)
A hill climb is a cycling event, as well as a basic skill of the sport.
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Hitting the wall
In endurance sports such as cycling and running, hitting the wall or the bonk is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy which is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles.
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Hors catégorie
Hors catégorie (HC) is a French term used in stage bicycle races to designate a climb that is "beyond categorization".
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Hybrid bicycle
Hybrid bicycles blend characteristics from more specialized road bikes, touring bikes and mountain bikes.
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Individual time trial
An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock on flat or rolling terrain, or up a mountain road such as Alpe d'Huez (in French: contre la montre – literally "against the watch", in Italian: tappa a cronometro "stopwatch stage").
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.
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Keirin
– literally "competition ring" – is a form of motor-paced cycle racing in which track cyclists sprint for victory following a speed-controlled start behind a motorized or non-motorized pacer.
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King of the Mountains
The King of the Mountains (KoM; Gran Premio della Montagna or GPM in Italian) is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race; usually and officially known as the Mountains classification.
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Koppenberg
Koppenberg (literally "Heads Mountain") is a high hill in Oudenaarde, the Flemish Ardennes, Belgium.
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La Flèche Wallonne
La Flèche Wallonne (French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a major men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium.
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Lanterne rouge
The lanterne rouge is the competitor in last place in a cycling race such as the Tour de France.
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Liège–Bastogne–Liège
Liège–Bastogne–Liège, often called La Doyenne ("The Old Lady"), is a one-day classic cycling race in Belgium.
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List of bicycle parts
For other cycling related terms (besides parts) see Glossary of cycling.
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Luca Paolini
Luca Paolini (born 17 January 1977 in Milan) is an Italian former road bicycle racer who has been professionally riding since 2000.
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Madison (cycling)
The madison is a relay race event in track cycling, named after the first Madison Square Garden in New York, and known as the "American race" in French (course à l'américaine) and in Italian and Spanish as Americana.
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Madison Square Garden (1879)
Madison Square Garden was an arena in New York City located on the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
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Mamil
Mamil or MAMIL (an acronym standing for "middle-aged man in lycra") is someone who rides an expensive racing bicycle for leisure, wearing professional style body-hugging jerseys and shorts.
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Manayunk Wall
The Manayunk Wall is a steep road in Northwest Philadelphia used by the Philadelphia International Cycling Championship, in 1985, and every year subsequently.
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Mass
Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (a change in its state of motion) when a net force is applied.
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Mavic
Mavic is a French bicycle parts manufacturer (its name an acronym for Manufacture d'Articles Vélocipédiques Idoux et Chanel), founded by Charles Idoux and Lucien Chanel.
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Michael Rogers (cyclist)
Michael ('Mick') Rogers (born 20 December 1979) is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer who competed professionally between 1999 and 2016, for the,,, and teams.
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Miguel Induráin
Miguel Induráin Larraya (born 16 July 1964) is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist.
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Milan–San Remo
Milan–San Remo (in Italian Milano-Sanremo), also called "The Spring classic" or "La Classicissima", is an annual cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy.
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Moment of inertia
The moment of inertia, otherwise known as the angular mass or rotational inertia, of a rigid body is a tensor that determines the torque needed for a desired angular acceleration about a rotational axis; similar to how mass determines the force needed for a desired acceleration.
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Motor-paced racing
Motor-paced racing and motor-paced cycling refer to cycling behind a pacer in a car or more usually on a motorcycle.
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Mountain bike
A mountain bike or mountain bicycle (abbreviated Mtn Bike or MTB) is a bicycle designed for off-road cycling.
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Mountain bike racing
Mountain bike racing (shortened MTB or ATB racing) is the competitive cycle sport discipline of mountain biking held on off-road terrain.
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Mountain biking
Mountain biking is the sport of riding bicycles off-road, often over rough terrain, using specially designed mountain bikes.
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Mur de Huy
The Mur de Huy (Wall of Huy) is a high hill located in Huy, Belgium.
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Muur van Geraardsbergen
The Muur van Geraardsbergen (English: Wall of Geraardsbergen/Grammont, French: Mur de Grammont) is a steep, narrow road with cobblestones in Geraardsbergen, Belgium.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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Omnium
An omnium (from Latin: of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling.
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Outline of bicycles
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to bicycles: Bicycle – pedal-driven, human-powered, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Pannier
A pannier is a basket, bag, box, or similar container, carried in pairs either slung over the back of a beast of burden, or attached to the sides of a bicycle or motorcycle.
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Paolo Bettini
Paolo Bettini (born 1 April 1974 in Cecina, Livorno, Tuscany) is an Italian former champion road racing cyclist, and the former coach of the Italian national cycling team.
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Parimutuel betting
Parimutuel betting (from the Pari Mutuel or mutual betting) is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are removed, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winning bets.
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Paris–Roubaix
The Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium.
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Peloton
In a road bicycle race, the peloton (from French, originally meaning 'platoon') is the main group or pack of riders.
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Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan (born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer for UCI WorldTeam.
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Philippe Gilbert
Philippe Gilbert (born 5 July 1982) is a Belgian professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team.
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Platoon
A platoon is a military unit typically composed of two or more squads/sections/patrols.
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Pump track
A pump track is a type of off-road terrain for cycle sport consisting of a circuit of banked turns and features designed to be ridden completely by riders "pumping" - creating momentum by up and down body movements.
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Puncheur
Puncheur, or puncher in English, is a name given to a road bicycle racer who specialises in rolling terrain with short but steep climbs.
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Q factor (bicycles)
The Q Factor of a bicycle is the distance between the pedal attachment points on the crank arms, when measured parallel to the bottom bracket axle.
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Race stage
In sports, a stage, or leg, or heat, is a unit of a race which has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event.
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Racing bicycle
A racing bicycle, also known as a road bike, and once popularly known as a ten speed, is a bicycle designed for competitive road cycling, a sport governed by according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).
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Randonneuring
Randonneuring (also known as Audax in the UK, Australia and Brazil) is a long-distance cycling sport with its origins in audax cycling.
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Reciprocating motion
Reciprocating motion, also called reciprocation, is a repetitive up-and-down or back-and-forth linear motion.
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Recumbent bicycle
A recumbent bicycle is a bicycle that places the rider in a laid-back reclining position.
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Rim (wheel)
The rim is the "outer edge of a wheel, holding the tire".
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Road bicycle
The term road bicycle is used to describe bicycles built for traveling at speed on paved roads.
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Road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held on paved roads.
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Road rash
Road rash is a colloquial term for skin injury caused by abrasion with road surfaces, usually as a consequence of cycling and motorcycling accidents.
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Rodale, Inc.
Rodale, Inc. was an American publisher of health and wellness magazines, books, and digital properties.
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Rouleur (magazine)
Rouleur is a British cycling magazine first published in 2006 by sportswear brand Rapha and later as a part of Gruppo Media Ltd.
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Shifter (bicycle part)
A bicycle shifter or gear control or gear levers is a component used to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio.
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Single track (mountain biking)
Singletrack (or single track) describes a type of mountain biking trail that is approximately the width of the bike.
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Slipstream
A slipstream is a region behind a moving object in which a wake of fluid (typically air or water) is moving at velocities comparable to the moving object, relative to the ambient fluid through which the object is moving.
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Sociable
The Sociable or Buddy Bike or Side By Side Bicycle is a bicycle that supports two riders who sit side by side.
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Sprinter (cycling)
A sprinter is a road bicycle racer or track racer who can finish a race very explosively by accelerating quickly to a high speed, often using the slipstream of another cyclist or group of cyclists tactically to conserve energy.
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Stem (bicycle part)
The stem is the component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the steerer tube of the bicycle fork.
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Stiffness
Stiffness is the rigidity of an object — the extent to which it resists deformation in response to an applied force.
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Stoppie
The stoppie is a motorcycle and bicycle trick in which the back wheel is lifted and the bike is ridden on the front wheel by carefully applying brake pressure.
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Strava
Strava is a website and mobile app used to track cycling and running activity via GPS.
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Superman
Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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Tandem bicycle
The tandem bicycle or twin is a form of bicycle (occasionally a tricycle) designed to be ridden by more than one person.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.
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Thomas Frei
Thomas Frei (born 19 January 1985) is a Swiss road bicycle racer.
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Time trial
In many racing sports an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time.
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Time trial bicycle
A time trial bicycle is a racing bicycle designed for use in an individual or team time trials raced on roads.
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Time trialist
A time trialist is a road bicycle racer who can maintain high speeds for long periods of time, to maximize performance during individual or team time trials.
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Tirreno–Adriatico
Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite cycle race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts.
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Tom Boonen
Tom Boonen (born 15 October 1980) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2002 and 2017, for the and teams.
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Toronto
Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.
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Tour de France
The Tour de France is an annual male multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries.
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Tour of Flanders
The Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as De Ronde ("The Tour"), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring.
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Track cycling
Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes (but many events are held at older velodromes where the track banking is relatively shallow) using track bicycles.
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Tricycle
A tricycle, often abbreviated to trike, is a human-powered (or gravity-powered) three-wheeled vehicle.
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Tubular tyre
A tubular tyre, referred to as a tub in Britain, a sew-up in the US, a single in Australia, or just a tubular is a bicycle tyre that is stitched closed around the inner tube to form a torus.
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UCI World Championships
The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists.
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UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC).
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USA Cycling
USA Cycling or USAC, based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the national governing body for bicycle racing in the United States.
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Velomobile
A velomobile, velomobiel, velo, or bicycle car, is a human-powered vehicle (HPV) enclosed for aerodynamic advantage and protection from weather and collisions.
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Vincenzo Nibali
Vincenzo Nibali (born 14 November 1984) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, considered one of the strongest stage race riders of his era.
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Wheelie
In vehicle acrobatics, a wheelie, or wheelstand, is a vehicle maneuver in which the front wheel or wheels come off the ground due to sufficient torque being applied to the rear wheel or wheels, or rider motion relative to the vehicle.
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Wide outside lane
A wide outside lane (WOL) or wide curb lane (WCL) is an outermost lane of a roadway that is wide enough to be safely shared side by side by a bicycle and a wider motor vehicle at the same time.
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1910 Tour de France
The 1910 Tour de France was the eighth edition of the Tour de France, taking place 3 to 31 July.
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2009 Tour de France
The 2009 Tour de France was the 96th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours.
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27.5 Mountain bike
27.5 mountain bikes, also called tweeners, are mountain bikes which use a wheel that is approximately 27.5 inches in diameter with a large volume ISO 56-584 (27.5 x 2.25) mountain bike tire installed in a ISO 584 mm rim.
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29er (bicycle)
29ers or two-niners are mountain bikes and hybrid bikes that are built to use 700c or 622 mm ISO (inside rim diameter) wheels, commonly called 29" wheels.
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References
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