User3094 said:A Roubaix (Specialized) is Gods gift to the cycling world, the very epitome of what a road bike should look like, the thing that I spend most of my waking hours lusting after (just before the wife)....
An Audax is some old cranky thing with mudguards that old men with beards dawdle around the countryside on.
gavintc said:It must be an English affectation to keeping shoving 'r' into words without them; eg Barth. I would pronounce Audax as o-dax with the o similar to the o in stop.
Arch said:How would you pronounce audacious, which is from the same root?
Depends - it forms the second part of "bodacious", so you could argue that in some cases gavintc would be rightArch said:How would you pronounce audacious, which is from the same root?
Cathryn said:OOOOOOH...my bike's an audax and she's beautiful. I'm also not an old man and have no beard. However I do use mudguards and there's a lot of dawdling round the countryside involved in my cycling.