Use of the term "Cockpit" for bicycles

[Joe Low]

Just out of interest and to save further spoiling the Best Buy for a Beginner thread.

 

To me its the silliest term in cycling but I could be out of step with popular opinion.

 

Knobbymech had asked Eccentric to come up with another name for it - So I thought I'd have a think before realising I've never had a reason to refer to it before. I would probably say "the bit between the handlebars" if pushed into a corner or waterboarded.

 

Anyway on with the Biggles helmet, climb into the cockpit and chocs away for this exciting poll.

Edited May 11, 2011 by Joe Low

[TNT1]

Yeah, even though I admitted to shaving my balls yesterday, I can't bring myself to refer to the bit of handlebar around the stem as anything fowl related.

[BlinkFan]

https://community.bikehub.co.za/topic/103074-what-on-thehubsa-annoys-you-the-most/page__hl__thehub

[Tumbleweed]

They can't use FlightDeck. It's taken.

[Big H*]

Yeah, even though I admitted to shaving my balls yesterday, I can't bring myself to refer to the bit of handlebar around the stem as anything fowl related.

 

Same as the word "tjommie"

[MTBer wannabee]

I think it is fair to say that 29ers can have a cockpit.

(thats a joke by the way)

 

what does wikipedea say, they know everything.

[LeTurbo]

Blame Bike Snob. He used it for his "Cockpit of the Year" competition, but I sense his tongue was firmly in his cheek as always. Irony is, however, lost on most people. Perhaps an alternative could be "Cyclopsphere", being the region of the bicycle where the one-eye trouser-snake lives - or is that only relevant to TNT1? The "Torsostretch", perhaps?

[Big H*]

Just out of interest and to save further spoiling the Best Buy for a Beginner thread.

 

To me its the silliest term in cycling but I could be out of step with popular opinion.

 

Knobbymech had asked Eccentric to come up with another name for it - So I thought I'd have a think before realising I've never had a reason to refer to it before. I would probably say "the bit between the handlebars" if pushed into a corner or waterboarded.

 

Anyway on with the Biggles helmet, climb into the cockpit and chocs away for this exciting poll.

 

Good one Lo Jo

[Tumbleweed]

Blame Bike Snob. He used it for his "Cockpit of the Year" competition, but I sense his tongue was firmly in his cheek as always. Irony is, however, lost on most people. Perhaps an alternative could be "Cyclopsphere", being the region of the bicycle where the one-eye trouser-snake lives - or is that only relevant to TNT1? The "Torsostretch", perhaps?

 

The Cockies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was on an Arabic cycling forum the other day and they call it: ميدان مصارعة الديكة

[NotSoBigBen]

The Cockies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I was on an Arabic cycling forum the other day and they call it: ميدان مصارعة الديكة

 

Sorry TW but during my last trip to Dubai ميدان مصارعة الديكة was not used but rather ختم سخيفة

[nolipoli]

Snatch?

 

...as in...

 

Your snatch is longer/shorter/more upright/stretched out/compact.

Edited May 11, 2011 by nolipoli

[Tumbleweed]

Sorry TW but during my last trip to Dubai ميدان مصارعة الديكة was not used but rather ختم سخيفة

Dubai is Westernised, so they use the shorter version.

[Lotus]

Is this not the mythical and mysterious place known to roadies as "The Zone"?

[NotSoBigBen]

Dubai is Westernised, so they use the shorter version.

 

Ah that explains it

[KnobbyMech]

Seems like there are some varied perceptions here.

 

The way I understand it, a bike "cockpit" is that which relates to the handlebar, stem and stem height from bottom Aheadset bearing. It relates to it's lengths and angles. With other words, what you steer with. I would agree that there must be a more appropriate name.

 

I far as I understand it has nothing to do with saddle or top tube. I do not care what you call that part.

Edited May 11, 2011 by KnobbyMech

[Eldron]

I think it is fair to say that 29ers can have a cockpit.

(thats a joke by the way)

 

what does wikipedea say, they know everything.

 

So 26er cockpits are just called pits?

 

That does explain a lot