Difficult bike names to pronounce

[HorTs]

I started a thread a while back along a similar vain - about how many terms in cycling are difficult to pronounce (probably due to my general ignorance), often due to being or derived from French. Audax and its associated terms are rife; randonée, brevet, randonneur, grimpeurs...

 

[oldroadman]

I started a thread a while back along a similar vain - about how many terms in cycling are difficult to pronounce (probably due to my general ignorance), often due to being or derived from French. Audax and its associated terms are rife; randonée, brevet, randonneur, grimpeurs...

Try a French for beginners evening course at your local college. Plus you learn to shrug shoulders and grunt expressively!

 

[raleighnut]

Try a French for beginners evening course at your local college. Plus you learn to shrug shoulders and grunt expressively!

Plus you get to camp anywhere

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Actually, I get French for beginners at my workplace, because I work for a French-based multinational company. As for my female French coworkers: ooh la la!

 

[EltonFrog]

I have linguistic acrobats with Colnago! I keep wanting to bung a couple of extra syllables in that name.

 

[JoeyB]

whatever it is it must have Ksyrium wheels

I have these, how DO you say it?

 

[oldroadman]

Actually, I get French for beginners at my workplace, because I work for a French-based multinational company. As for my female French coworkers: ooh la la!

Teach 'em Aussie speak, much simpler, mate. Have they worked out what larrikins and utes are?

 

[growingvegetables]

The one that makes me grin - Halfords' Carrera Valour. Son has one - and insists on pronouncing it the way Halfords staff did. The "viloooooor" (as in "garaaage", "faraaaaage").

It's not a bleedin' "villoooor". It's a "Valour", as in HMS Valorous.

 

[ColinJ]

It must have been a slow day for the OP to post this ……………..

Having said this I can say Shimano easily, but I can't say Campagnolo. I get as far as Cam ……. but then I can't say any more, I am stuck. As for SRAM don't even go there .

I watched one of the classic cycling videos from the 1970s (it might have been 'Stars and Water Carriers'?) and the Italian chap on the PA system at the start introduced the Bianchi-Campagnolo team to the crowd, so I can tell you that the Italians pronounce them Bee-an-key-Cam-pan-yolo.

whatever it is it must have Ksyrium wheels

I have these, how DO you say it?

(Silent 'k') Si (as in sip) - re - um.

 

[mickle]

Well i always thought GIANT was the same as the Jolly green giant,but it turns out it's pronounced GEE ANT!

By who? No one ive ever met and iused to sell em!

 

[StuAff]

By who? No one ive ever met and iused to sell em!

Indeed. I think the word we're looking for to describe them is 'Pill-ock'.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm not even sure how to pronounce Topeak. I've said Top Eek and the staff have replied ''To peak.'' (And their after sales philosophy is ''Buy another one.''

 

[mickle]

Marin. Most people mispronounce it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

By who? No one ive ever met and iused to sell em!

I said to a bloke the other week that i saw someone on a Giant. He said with a roll of the eyes that it's not pronounced Giant but Gee ant,so he must be right(!)

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

It's why I have three Venges.
Its the only thing I can ask for in the LBS