Bike-racking

Bike shedding, but amongst the professional sustainability mafia who will happily debate the optimum bike rack to occupant ratio for a building design whilst said building emits 10x a sustainable level of carbon emissions and the world burns due to climate change.

Richard: “If we could only increase the natural light level by four lux the occupant comfort would rise by seven happiness-adjusted-life-years and we’ll get a six star rating…”

Kate: “Oh for fuck’s sake Richard, stop bike-racking! You’re focusses on first world problems yet this design has enough carbon intensive concrete we’ll blow the carbon budget before day one of operations”

Bike-racking by TheNudeCyclist June 3, 2022

racing bike 

1. A BMX bike designed for racing over dirt tracks. They are lighter than other BMX bikes. They are fairly cheap but give their owners, usually boys in their teens or younger, a sense of status and pride.

2. Any road bike of reasonably light weight. This is sometimes another use of the term "racing bike" among teenage males. Although real cyclists would laugh at this definition, any decent road bike is much better for road racing than BMX racing bikes.

1. "Hey, want to race? Let's go down the dirt road a mile and back."

2. "Racing bikes are so awesome. They are so much fun to ride on the roads."

racing bike by spinningtabletop February 3, 2009

bikepacking 

"Bikepacking," coined by Noel Grove, a National Geographic staff writer, was first used to describe the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition in NG's May 1973 issue. "Bikepacking Across Alaska and Canada," described a long-distance bicycle tour, partly on gravel and partly on pavement. No weight was carried on the rider's backs--it was all hauled via panniers and handlebar bags, or strapped across the luggage racks. Weight carried varied from 35-60 pounds per rider, depending on the quantity of food and water carried. Hemistour, comprised of 30 riders who rode varying distances, traveled from Alaska to Argentina, and was the first north to south bicycle tour of the Western Hemisphere. The term "bikepacking" has nothing to do with the age of the rider, nor the pace of the rider, nor the number of miles ridden per day. It has more to do with the intention of riding long distance (touring), and being self-sufficient. No rules dictate what bikepacking is, but on Hemistour no motorized support was utilized, most overnights were camping out, and quite a bit of the cooking was done over a camp stove.
--June J. Siple, Hemistour rider

No rules dictate what bikepacking is, but on the Hemistour Bicycling Expedition no motorized support was utilized, most overnights were camping out, and most of the cooking was done over a camp stove.

bikepacking by Hemistour June May 5, 2016

Bikepacking 

Just like backpacking, but with a bike.

I just got back from a week long bikepacking trip in the UP. What a time!

Bikepacking by Aar0n p September 23, 2019

bikepacking 

Similar to the term “backpacking”, the term “bikepacking” is the sport or activity of exploring new places on your road bike while carrying a backpack. Not to be confused with the word “touring”, which many associate with old people leisurely tooling around with panniers and helmet mirrors at painstakingly slow paces.

“We went on a two-day bikepacking trip from San Fran to Morro Bay. What a beautiful ride along the coast!”

bikepacking by Laura Coombs January 21, 2008