Bidons

[cd365]

I use a water bottle with a flip lid plus I have bidons without!

 

[Oldbloke]

I'll stick with 'bottle'. I would be willing to bet that 80% of English-speaking cyclists would not know what a 'bidon' is.

Anyway, my first bidons bottles did have flip covers. I am not sure what I did with them (I have not seen them for years). I stopped using them because they were only 500 mL capacity and I use 750 mL SIS bottles now.

Imperial liquid measures only please Colin

 

[zizou]

Camelbak sell a mud cover thingy to put of the top of their podium bottle

 

[ColinJ]

Imperial liquid measures only please Colin

It amazes me that I did my O-levels using metric system units over 40 years ago but all this time later we are still sticking with the daft imperial system in day-to-day life here!

 

[bpsmith]

It amazes me that I did my O-levels using metric system units over 40 years ago but all this time later we are still sticking with the daft imperial system in day-to-day life here!

So you won't use Bidon, because that's French, but want to use KM's like they use in France.

 

[John the Monkey]

So you won't use Bidon, because that's French, but want to use KM's like they use in France.

That's nothing. Garmin have flatly refused to answer my emails re: Chains and Rods as units of measurement.

 

[ColinJ]

So you won't use Bidon, because that's French, but want to use KM's like they use in France.

The metric system is used all over the world, including here. The problem is that switching over all the road signs etc. would be very costly and UKIP would probably have a field day with it!

You only have to try and calculate the density of something whose size is measured in feet and inches and whose weight is measured in cwt, stones, pounds and ounces and compare that with how easy it is to do the same with metres and kgs. I don't care how big Henry VIII's feet were - let's join the 21st century!

 

[bpsmith]

Couldn't resist @ColinJ.

 

[confusedcyclist]

Spit & wipe. Done.

 

[User169]

PS If you are going to use foreign words, at least pronounce them properly! I have heard people call a gilet a gill-it, a faux pas a fox-pass, and so on ...

I'm definitely using "fox pass" from now on! My favourite is "horses doofers".

 

[John the Monkey]

I'm definitely using "fox pass" from now on! My favourite is "horses doofers".

"Bean venue?"

 

[User169]

Watching Gent-Wevelgem yesterday, I remarked several times on the "formation of riders caused by the cross-winds whereby the riders formed a diagonal-line across the road to shelter from the storm".

 

[Haitch]

Watching Gent-Wevelgem yesterday, I remarked several times on the "formation of riders caused by the cross-winds whereby the riders formed a diagonal-line across the road to shelter from the storm".

Or as the Geordie commentator said: "Why-ayer".

 

[User169]

Or as the Geordie commentator said: "Why-ayer".

 

[jay clock]

This thread is beginning to form an excellent aide-memoire.

In fact croissant means growing, so a crescent moon is a growing one. Unless it is served with jam