Got my Cingles du Mont Ventoux badge. Any French speakers out there?

[betty swollocks]

Gulp. I've used the translate app on my phone and 'Cingles' translates as 'rape'. Surely, in this context it must mean 'assault'.?? Any native French speakers out there?

 

[AndyRM]

You're not going to get raped off a mountain, it means 'madmen'.

 

[Globalti]

Tu es cinglé = you're barking.

 

[accountantpete]

google translation :Brotherhood of Goons of Mont Ventoux

 

[betty swollocks]

So, we've got
brotherhood
nobbers
goons
madmen
and barking
....so far

 

[w00hoo_kent]

So, we've got
brotherhood
nobbers
goons
madmen
and barking
....so far

It's almost like it's a different language.

 

[Fnaar]

Is this the "Are you cingle" thread?

 

[AndyRM]

Is this the "Are you cingle" thread?

Ventoux get a drink sometime?

 

[betty swollocks]

Madmen it is. Thank you.
Did the ride and this morning, received the cycling jersey.

 

[AndyRM]

Madmen it is. Thank you.
Did the ride and this morning, received the cycling jersey.

Nice one, what was it like?

 

[GrumpyGregry]

cinglés = crazy person. Just asked the three native French folk in my room and they all gave variations on this theme.

So you are a member of the brotherhood of the nutters of mont ventoux. Which, given what you've done seems fair enough.

 

[ColinJ]

Cinglétons are people too mad to risk having a relationship with!

 

[Dave 123]

Cingles= bell end?

 

[T4tomo]

Hats off to you, I went up there on Monday, did the classic climb up from Bedoin, then descended to. Sault for lunch and then went back to Bedoin via the gorge de Nesque, which is a stunning 40km ride mainly downhill through beautiful scenery. The descent down into Sault through the lavender fields is pretty good too. Approx 90km all told, virtually all the climbing in the first 22km and thoroughly recommended for anyone wanting to do a single ascent of Ventoux.

The last think on my mind having done the climb once was to go and do another 2 variations of it, so chapeau to Betty S and the rest of the crazy Cingles.

 

[T4tomo]

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