![]() OTB: (adj.) acronym for going over the handlebars. “Jerry is the biggest ogre this side of the river.” “You want to go on a mission to that rail we found?” Mission: (n) riding under the cover of night, typically to avoid security and police. “He looped out at the end of his barspin.” Launch: (n) any obstacle the rider uses to help propel them into the air. “He absolutely killed the half-pipe yesterday.” “I’m just going to huck it and see what happens.” “There is some kind of gnar on my shoes.” Any thing or substance that is particularly disgusting. Anything that is particularly cool or awesome. “He has excellent flow through the half-pipe.” “I totally just flipped the bars.” see also Endo, OTB, Scorpion.įlow: (n) how smoothly a rider transitions from ramps or obstacles. “I totally did an endo back there.” see also Flip, OTB, Scorpion.įlip: (v) to tumble over the handlebars. “That dude just ate it, dude.”Įndo: (n) when the front wheel is stopped and the rider tumbles over the handlebars. “I got some fresh dubs over the winter.”Įat: (v) to crash violently. “I can’t believe how dialed Doug’s can-cans are.”ĭubs: (n) twenty-inch bicycle wheels, the standard for BMX. ![]() ![]() “He nailed the first jump, but did a dead sailor on the second.”ĭialed: (adj.) when a rider executes something consistently and perfectly. “Hanson laid down some intense combos.”ĭead Sailor: (n) A trick that goes wrong and results in the rider staying still in the air and landing. “Clean landing there, Joe.”Ĭombo: (n) a series of tricks performed in sequence. “Dude cased the landing on that last jump”Ĭlean: (adj.) to land smoothly and without incident. “His combos were pretty buttery.”Ĭase: (v) to land short of a jump or target, often rattling the rider and probably hurting your tenders. “He’s a total butcher.”īuttery: (adj) clean and smooth execution of a trick or combo. “That was a burly grind.”īutcher: (adj.) someone who is constantly breaking parts on their bike. “Do a little bunnyhop and go from there.”īurly: (adj.) doing something that requires greater strength or experience. “Land carefully or you’ll blow off the pedals.”īunnyhop: (n) lifting the front and rear wheels off the ground. “That biker was yelling at me yesterday.”īlow: (v) to lose your footing on the pedals. “That dude biffed on that barspin.”īiker: (n) A motorcyclist. “Dude nailed a gnarly barspin off that bank.”īiff: (v) to crash. “There’s a pretty nice bank-to-wall over by the barber shop.”īarspin: (n) A trick where the rider rotates the handlebars 360 degrees into the original position. “Use that bank over there for a bit of air.”īank-to-wall: (n) A slope that inclines into a vertical surface like a wall. “You really wanna jump that alligator pit, dude?”īank: (n) A slope or hill the rider can use to perform tricks. This isn’t comprehensive and there are tons more, so if you have a phrase unique to you and your friends, leave it in a comment below!Īlligator Pit: (n) Any gap that is particularly difficult and could seriously injure or otherwise kill someone. These aren’t technical terms, just words and phrases you’ll hear in the wild. So before you show up with some buddies and have no idea what anyone is talking about, check out this short compendium of BMX slang. You finally got that sweet ride you’ve wanted for a couple months now, but you’ve never actually rode BMX before.
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