Salmon

Someone who insists on going against the direction traffic, be it in a bike lane or in the street. This is sometimes a cyclist who thinks all bike lanes are bi-directional despite the fact that the bike lane follows the direction of motor traffic adjacent to it. A Cyclist-Salmon views all bike lanes as fully-fledged MUPs plunked down in the middle of the street. There are also runner/jogger varieties of Salmon, as it has become more common recently for runners to believe that the proper place for them is to run in the street, against the flow of traffic; this is of course a complete misconception fed by some kind of delusion because this area of the street is coincidentally the exact place where cyclists are legally supposed to ride. So strong is this delusional belief that Runner-Salmon often expect that cyclists will veer out into traffic at their own peril so that the Salmon may continue without changing course (See "Insistent Salmon").

Salmoning (n): the act of behaving as a Salmon. "I was riding down 15th street and this pack of runners were totally salmoning and I had to ride out into traffic to avoid them!"

Reference
Coined originally by Eben Weiss on his blog BikeSnobNYC, the reference is to how salmon migrate upstream by swimming against the flow of water. Salmon are people who ride against the flow of traffic.

Forum Introduction

 * Switching from backpack to panniers? http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?p=4132#post4132

Links

 * "The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Notes on a Scandal" - BikeSnobNYC http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2007/10/indignity-of-commuting-by-bicycle-notes.html