Bike Speak du Jour

Ghost Bike Memorials

New bike terms I hope to go viral:

Aggromuter – a combination of aggressive and commuter.  From Bike Portland was coined by Joe Doebele of local shop Joe Bike to describe a line of bikes he sells. Specifically, Joe says the Proletariat model from Portland-based bike brand, Stop Cycles is the bike for aggromuters (it caught my eye at the recent Pedal Nation Bike Show).

And “Policy Crush” from the same Bike Portland site — to mean to have an affinity for someone because you love their policy ideas. In common usage, the term has so far been mostly associated with NYC DOT’s Janette Sadik-Khan — the much-loved, bike-riding visionary who has spearheaded a transformation of public space in that formerly (but not as much now) car-choked metropolis.

Fit these into your conversations around the bike rack.

And one more form our Green Growth Terms “Ghost Bike”.  How many have heard of these?