Things you've heard people call parts or equipment

[Butterbean]

Campagnola

[patches]

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)

[patham]

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

 

helmet.jpg

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.

[Eugene]

Campagnola

Or Campac

[Eugene]

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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

[Eugene]

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.

[MrJacques]

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.

 

The (infamous) Specialized Stuntjumper

[MrJacques]

Calling the drive train a power train. Maybe ok if it's an ebike?

[eddy]

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 Edited December 18, 2020 by eddy

[Jewbacca]

Ag nee man, even as an Afrikaans speaker I know it is nit pick :ph34r:

I left one or two others in there for the real Nazi.... 

[MORNE]

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 December 18, 2020 by morneS555

[MORNE]

Its also fun hearing how ‘Schwalbe’ gets massacred haha. But thats their fault...to many letters in there. I’ve heard an Ausie refer to them as ‘Swabels’

[MORNE]

Or Campac

I avoid this word completely by just saying ‘Campy’. Too easy to insult a rightwing bike fanatic lol

[Vroetelvarkie]

 

And they say you can't hear a picture....

[sirmoun10goat]

Calling pretty much any gps device a Garmin

[TheoG]

I've seen "Petals" as well. I blame afrikaans people.

 

But, but, how can it be our fault, ons noem dit trappe ...