Campy Sold?

[zzpza]

Anyone shed any light on this?

http://www.bike-eu.com/news/3501/rumours-on-campagnolo.html

 

[Theseus]

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[SimonC]

Campag, not Campy please (picky b**tard!)

Unless you are from US of A, which is whole different set of problems.

 

[simon_brooke]

Campag, not Campy please.

+1

If true, this feels like a death in the family

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Campag, not Campy please (picky b**tard!)

Campy is a registered trademark of Campagnolo.

Campag is a slang name used exclusively by sad old British bearded, sandle wearing stereotypes.

 

[Tynan]

I say campag

and I'm not sad, old or bearded

I do wear sandals in summer, campy sounds a gay and the whole thing sounds Italian

 

[SimonC]

Campy is a registered trademark of Campagnolo.

Campag is a slang name used exclusively by sad old British bearded, sandle wearing stereotypes.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Campag is a slang name used by most road riders, road racers, time triallers and tourers. Campy is a slang name used by newbies, MTB'ers etc.

If Campagnolo have registered "Campy" as a trademark, then thats their mistake, we dont have compound the problem by repeating it.

 

[Bigtwin]

Just call it hardware.

There is, apparently, another brand, but by all sensible accounts it's crap.

 

[Tim Bennet.]

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

If Campagnolo have registered "Campy" as a trademark, then thats their mistake, we dont have compound the problem by repeating it.

Campagnolo registered 'Campy' in 1977.
It's the abbreviation they endorse for use (sic) 'in the English speaking world'.

PS: Since when was 'time triallers and tourers' not interchangeable with 'bearded, sandle wearing stereotypes'.

 

[peanut]

Campy is a registered trademark of Campagnolo.

Campag is a slang name used exclusively by sad old British bearded, sandle wearing stereotypes.

+1

 

[Will1985]

Oi! Don't bring time triallers into this.

 

[Davidc]

More decorum in a period of mourning, please.

 

[SimonC]

Campagnolo registered 'Campy' in 1977.
It's the abbreviation they endorse for use (sic) 'in the English speaking world'.

PS: Since when was 'time triallers and tourers' not interchangeable with 'bearded, sandle wearing stereotypes'.

You might have a point there, Mr Bennet.

Still never going to say Campy tho.

 

[ASC1951]

Campagnolo registered 'Campy' in 1977.
It's the abbreviation they endorse for use (sic) 'in the English speaking world'.

The only people I have heard use it have been French bike mechanics; but then it sounds more natural to them than Campag.

 

[Davidc]

The only people I have heard use it have been French bike mechanics; but then it sounds more natural to them than Campag.

What, when they're talking about one another?

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