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Rail a Berm
Rail a Berm: To hit a berm at high speed, keeping both feet on the pedals. The guy who hits the berm fast and exits the berm with high speed has railed the berm.
Rail
Rail: To hit a corner/section as if you were on rails. If you have to ask, then you haven't done it.
Pump
Pump: A technique of pushing the front of the bike with your arms and the rear with your legs to gain momentum through a section by utilising the natural contours of the trail.
Pre–jump
Pre–jump: Bunnyhopping a short distance before the edge of a drop with no kicker, in order to land on the downslope - instead of flying straight off it, overshooting and landing to flat ground.
Pinned/Pinner/Pin it Ya Fairy
Pinned/Pinner/Pin it Ya Fairy: A term borrowed from motocross, meaning to have the throttle pinned, or held all the way open. Used in mountain biking to descibe people riding really hard, e.g. "I had it pinned coming into that last corner and washed out".
Owned
Owned: A term used when someone crashes hard. I.E "He got owned by that tree". Can also be used when someone takes a difficult section with ease. "Man he owned that section".
Manual
Manual: Manualing is shifting your weight back and coasting on your rear wheel (wheelie) without the use of pedal strokes.
Kicker
Kicker: The "start" or take off ramp to a jump. Can be found on DH tracks, Jump Parks, Road Gaps.
Jibbing
Jibbing: Thor Wixom's word for street on a Mountain Bike, back when he though he was pioneering a new style of riding. It's just street on Mountain Bikes dude, nothing new about it. The word has been 'borrowed' from skiing, where it is used to describe similar high difficulty, low speed/airtime manouevres.