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We aren't all perfect and 100% clued up on what things are called on a bike or part of the gear you use. Sometimes though some funny things do sneak in. 

 

Share them. 

 

I'll start with 

 

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This is a Helmut

 

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This is a Helmet

 

Only one of the two will save your head in a crash. 

 

I second that.

 

My lovely Fox dropframe, which started off as per the image in your post, looked like this after my crash. My old university buddy Helmut, currently residing 15000 km away in Europe, did absolutely nothing to help. :)

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There are the common ones like...

  • breaks vs brakes
  • front shocks (or sometimes just "shocks") vs fork
  • soft tail vs dual suspension (2 different things)
  • peddle vs pedal

Then there are the finer details like...

  • Sram vs SRAM (SRAM is an acronym for Scott, Ray and Sam. The brand's founders)

Scram

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What irks me are people who get their bike names wrong. Surely you know what you ride, the name is there, on the frame in big bold letters.

 

Fuji is a Fuji, not a Fiji or a Fugie.

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I married an Afrikaans woman. Her English is not brilliant. My Afrikaans is not brilliant. So we meet in the middle and don't knit pick.

 

Ag nee man, even as an Afrikaans speaker I know it is nit pick :ph34r: Edited by eddy
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The (infamous) Specialized Stuntjumper :)

I recently heard about this illusive bike too.

 

Edit: staying with spaz...i like those ‘Swerks’ (one word )models too????

Edited by morneS555

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