Bidons

[John the Canuck]

That's fine. And I will continue to take the pi55 out of cycling pseuds who feel the need to use pompous foreign language terms for such mundane objects.

maybe you're wrong to use the word 'plss'..............after all,...a pissoir is

[French, from Old French, from pissier, to urinate

 

[John the Monkey]

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

I think I would like a growing croissant, as a bon vivant meself, like.

 

[mybike]

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

Hmm, butter & jam, definitely grows my belly. Never did like the way the French dip them in their coffee tho'.

I will confess to not knowing what a bidon is & some of those other terms (peloton, dossard, mussette) what????

 

[Brandane]

Plume de ma tante and other classics:

 

[Panter]

Halfords used to do a bidon/bottle/cycling-specific-liquid-receptacle-thingy with a flip cap, and very good it was too.
Perfect for my really mucky commute through country lanes.
Only snag was that I, being unable to ride no-handed, still had to remove the flip cap with my teeth which somewhat defeated the object. But, it still seemed better than sucking from the road debris spattered nozzle!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Ooh la la

 

[jefmcg]

I've got mudguards see the picture there <----

I find on the cow-shitty roads, the bottle on the downtube is fine, but the one on the seat tube gets gritty. So I just got two bottles the same, and when I swap them over (I can't reach the seat tube bottle easily) I swap the lids too. This has worked fine so far.

I used to row on the Thames tideway, that is down stream from an often-overwhelmed sewerage treatment plant. Lids were vital, if you didn't want to get e-coli that is.

(I hope @Citius insists on ordering pig and cow in restaurants. Beef and pork definitely entered the language via pseuds wanting to separate themselves from the hoi polloi .... are greek roots acceptable, or do with have to stick with strict saxon? Edit: no, saxon is a german language, right? I need some guidance here.)

 

[Dogtrousers]

Edit: no, saxon is a german language, right? I need some guidance here.)

I think you've captured the zeitgeist there.

 

[Tim Hall]

Beef and pork definitely entered the language via pseuds wanting to separate themselves from the hoi polloi

Hoi polloi, not the hoi polloi, shirley. Have we discussed schadenfreude yet?

 

[Oldbloke]

It works both ways-in bike shops here in FroggieLand , MTBs are 27 or 29ers, laptops/tablets quoted in pouches(inches)

Bon journee a tous

 

[John the Monkey]

It works both ways-in bike shops here in FroggieLand , MTBs are 27 or 29ers, laptops/tablets quoted in pouches(inches)

Bon journee a tous

I could critique that, I suppose, given a dossier of such terms, or maybe a more laissez faire attitude is needed in our millieu.

 

[Dogtrousers]

My sauna was destroyed by a howitzer

 

[John the Monkey]

My sauna was destroyed by a howitzer

Eh, c'est la vie.

 

[Mugshot]

Give it a rest now, the joke's been done to death, I'm starting to suffer from deja vu.

 

[Tim Hall]

My sauna was destroyed by a howitzer

Is this the "my postillion has been struck by lightning" de nos jours?