Motherly advice from Tyra Banks on cycle 16 of America's Next Top Model. The handlebars of fierceness alludes to when one achieves the pinnacle of amazingness usually when being photographed, or in any other stressful situation.
Tyra (to inconsistently performing model): You need to grab the handlebars of fierceness and not let go.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)