I know what you mean but…
Do you know what ‘bonk’ means over here in the UK?
On the whole, drinking too much is more likely to make a female bonk, and may make a male unable to…
A quick trip to an online UK slang dictionary and now I know. Gives new meaning to PowerBar’s old ad slogan of “Don’t Bonk”
<http://www.marathonman.org/Sponsors/Power_Bar/power_bar.html>
When the body stops turning carbs, protein, and fat into energy is known as “bonking” or “hitting the wall” over on this side of the pond. What do you call it over in the UK?
ok one thing it needs is pictures and i have one with a moral. the moral wear leg protection, the picture is the bloody leg, feel free to use it.
Thanks but I’ve a few pictures of my shin-bone when I did the big injury - and that was THROUGH a set of roaches.
I think I’ll post them - although they’re a bit on the gory side. You can see 2 1/4 inches of shin-bone 
As it happens, when I was a keen bicyclist/tandemist, we called it ‘the bonk’, ‘bonking’ and variants of these words. That was before the tabloid press hijacked the word.
I once saw it referred to in a bicycle magazine as ‘the dreaded knock’. It is a well known phenomenon, and horrible when it happens.
Re: Ride Guide
john_childs <john_childs.gt4hz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:
> Mikefule wrote:
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>> I know what you mean but…
>> Do you know what ‘bonk’ means over here in the UK?
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> A quick trip to an online UK slang dictionary and now I know. Gives new
> meaning to PowerBar’s old ad slogan of “Don’t Bonk”
> <http://tinyurl.com/4469>
> When the body stops turning carbs, protein, and fat into energy is known
> as “bonking” or “hitting the wall” over on this side of the pond. What
> do you call it over in the UK?
“Bonking” or “hitting the wall” - we just make our words work
harder (and have to be more careful about context…)
Paul
Paul Selwood
paul@vimes.u-net.com http://www.vimes.u-net.com
I don’t have to avoid bonking - it seems to avoid me these days 
To avoid “hitting the wall” I bring along a large-size Snickers or Hershey bar and eat part of it every 1.5 hours or so. I sip from the Camelbak all the time. This approach is very cheap, easy to grab on the way to riding, and is pretty tasty. In hot weather Power Bars or the like work better. Snickers bars are staple backpacking food and don’t mind getting smashed on those backwards UPDs.
After 3.5 hours or so more substantial food is in order - the chocolate just won’t cut it after that.
Re: Ride Guide
> Something that would help riders ride multiple styles would be more
> people having quick release seatposts
I’ve always found it impossible to make them hold the seat so firmly
that it does not twist around. This is very annoying. I favour DM’s
welded double pinch bolts though, as you say, adjusting the seat in
the field is a little time-consuming.
OTOH, it’s a good excuse when kids are clamouring for a go. “Can’t
you adjust it?”. “Sorry but the tools are at home”, he lied…
Arnold the Aardvark