Sorry Fred. Not quite.
When somebody went too hard in front we would always yell :"EASY", and get
the guy to adjust the pace to keep the line together.
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA 90274
> > Ted Ernst wrote:
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> > Got to thinking about some of the old bike lingo.
> > This is one I remember from when I was a kid back
> > in the '30's.
> > It was used through the fifties, and slowly died out
> > with the new age riders.
> >
> > Yo-yo-yo-yo-yo.
> Ted,
> In my youth (somewhat later than yours) we were told to yell
> something like that to a leadout rider who was going too fast.
> Then again, that was in NYC, where "yo" was also used as an
> introductory syllable to all sorts of phrases...
> Fred Rednor - now in Arlington, Virginia (USA)
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