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Glossary of bicycling: hammer

“to put the hammer down” means to pedal hard, often with the purpose of trying to eliminate opponents in a road race. As in the phrase “We really put the hammer down and sprinted to the end”. Some commentators have been known to reference a wide range of workshop tools in their ongoing search for sporting metaphor.

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