this is a whip

According to better informed cycling culture watchers hipsters, if we may still use the word, are now referring to their bikes as whips.

At which point, if I may swear, for fucks sake, if you’re going to steal equine terminology at least steal it correctly.

That above is a whip. Strictly speaking, that’s actually a crop. Whips are more flexible. To add to the confusion that there crop is being carried by a whip. Not all people who carry a crop are whips, but it’s fair to say that all whips carry crops. Never whips. Non-whips may carry whips. Further muddying the waters a crop is the thing growing in the fields that you ride round, never through.

The thing you ride is called your ride or mount, or if it’s a stallion, you may call it a steed. As bicycles are usually lacking in the testicular department, let’s not bother with steed. If you have more than one of them you have a string, abso-fucking-lutely not ever, no never a stable. A stable is where you keep your ride (or rides) when you’re not riding it (or them).

Speaking of equine history, while scanning through the last issue of The Ride Journal I found this advert from Brooks a little strange, especially for a company founded by a loriner and using images of it’s founder Boultbee Brooks out hunting on the heritage section of their site.

So what British tradition does apply to Brooks then, hunting or sabbing? I’m confused. To be honest when it comes to saddles I’ve always preferred Stübben to anything coming out of Walsall.