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Anabolic-androgenic steroids.

• sudosysgen 6y ago
  Presumably this is an on-the-nose reference to the widespread use of dopants in cycling. In completely unrelated terms, the Tour de France started this saturday :)
  • perardi 6y ago
    I don’t really know the etymology. I have just always seen steroids called “gear”, and then figured “on the bike” derived from that. But also how dare you suggest that the highest levels of competitive sport, where the margin of victory is razor-slim, and you only have a few years of peak performance, are infested with drugs? How crass. How immoral. I miss the simpler days of my youth, when Hulk Hogan told us we just had to take our vitamins.
    • rsynnott 6y ago
      Ah, minor linguistic differences. In Ireland, 'gear' means heroin.
      • bluntfang 6y ago
        Gear is generally used for IV drug paraphernalia worldwide, and yes heroin users use that term as well.
  • newsbinator 6y ago
    Perhaps because steroids for muscle growth are meant to be "cycled" (i.e. used in a cycle of A, then switch to B, then C, etc.)
  • xdavidliu 6y ago
    it's not because of the Tour de France type of "cycling", but rather because of this: "Steroids are often used in patterns called "cycling." This involves taking multiple doses of steroids over a specific period of time, stopping for a period, and starting again." https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/steroids-other-appearance-performance-enhancing-drugs-apeds/how-are-anabolic-steroids-used https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/ster...