Fugly cycling trends

[TheDoctor]

[QUOTE 4686306, member: 45"]Fugly cycling trends? Has anyone mentioned Brompton yet?[/QUOTE]

Better than that ruddy Decathlon thing I bought off you. Nobber.



There's nowt that splits opinion like Bromptons. And Marmite, I suppose.

"Chapeau!"

I'm a bit dubious about that one, harmless though it is. I've been following the sport avidly since the early 80's and only started hearing the word chapeau in the last 5. I wonder if it's a recent invention.

We actually had it said to us by a french hotelier about 15 years ago.
We'd snatched the opportunity to ski for the morning before driving to Lyon to get a TGV back home late afternoonish.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I looked up the etymology of bidon, and Anglo Saxon purists can relax. The root is Old Norse/Old German so it's not a poncy Latin import.

Bidon bidon bidon bidon.

 

[raleighnut]

Ah but do posh people live in a Dead End Street or a Cul-De-Sac.

 

[TheDoctor]

I live in Baggy Bottom, myself.

 

[Tim Hall]

I've not looked but would guess velocipede is Latin.

Although The Romans did a great load of for us, I don't think they invented the bicycle.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Although The Romans did a great load of for us, I don't think they invented the bicycle.

Just looked.

Google suggests that velocipede comes from the latin velox ped which apparently become velocipede (with some accents I can't be bothered to type) in French, then adapted into English

 

[Blue Hills]

We actually had it said to us by a french hotelier about 15 years ago.
.

Well, yes, but he was French wasn't he.

If he'd said "well done old chap" i'm sure you would have thought he was a t****/taking the piss.

 

[Crackle]

[QUOTE 4686306, member: 45"]Fugly cycling trends? Has anyone mentioned Brompton yet?[/QUOTE]
Bromptons are the cycling equivalent of dad dancing.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 4691467, member: 45"]Apparently Paul Nuttalls invented the Brompton.[/QUOTE]
He doesn't like to brag about it though.

 

[dan_bo]

This is far from Ugly. On my next bike short list.

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do they not do that in a lugged 753 version?

Does it even have a downtube to put shifters on?

 

[raleighnut]

do they not do that in a lugged 753 version?

Does it even have a downtube to put shifters on?

 

[Sunny Portrush]

[QUOTE 4691467, member: 45"]Apparently Paul Nuttalls invented the Brompton.[/QUOTE]


And he won the Tour de France on it - two days earlier than everyone else because he didn`t stop on the rest days

 

[mickle]

Yellow and/or Flouro.

 

[mjr]

Ah but do posh people live in a Dead End Street or a Cul-De-Sac.

And yet, I cannot read that without thinking "bouge ton cul, hein?" and ohmigod don't search that on duck duck go trying to find what film(s) it's in because its porn filter doesn't seem to be blocking French obscenities

 

[Blue Hills]

You have a porn filter?

Why?