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The Thought Plickens

If you’re inappropriately focused on the minutiae of a project instead of the bigger picture, you’re said to be bike-shedding. Grant talks about that modern slang term and Martha discusses a word that goes way back in time, right back to...

bike-wack

bike-wack  v.— «“Bike-wack”…The competitors trekked through the trees to the second CP, another 12 km’s away, picked up their bikes at this remote drop point and mountain biked onward.» —“Hope Launches Western Canada...

bikewhack

bikewhack  v.— «The trail we proceeded down was overgrown and required us to hike-a-bike / bikewhack a bit. This section made me think of a similar trail in a race.» —“Eco-Challenge North American Championships” by John...

bike-whack

bike-whack  v.— «A straight bike-whack down through steep and unforgiving terrain. We lost our only odometer, a niterider battery pack, and I broke a spoke. It was nasty stuff.….We bikewhacked again and found no bridge...

bike-whack

bike-whack  v.— «We chose to take a gamble and take an old logging road deep into the forest, then bushwhack up the steep hillside to reach the Parkway.…After about a mile and a half uphill walk/ride up past a cemetery, we entered...

bike-whacking

bike-whacking  n.— «During September’s Subaru Primal Quest, a 400-mile battle of wits with Washington state’s rugged North Cascade mountains and mazelike coastline, Kloser said two impossible-to-pedal mountain bike legs through tangles of...