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Stupid Names for Bikes

by Crookie
Tue, Feb 05, 2019 12:33
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I have a Pinnacle Arkose. I looked it up and it is a type of sandstone with 25% silica in it. So can we look forward to the Cannondal Oolite sometime soon or the Specialized Lower Greensand?

This is getting dafter by the minute with tyres called 2bliss! I mean wtaf is going on? 

I can accept a bit of marketing, after all Ford had a Cortina which went well and an Edsel which didn't so there is something in a name.

Bonkers!

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Simon E | 5 years ago
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My favourite - not stupid, but I love it:

https://twitter.com/nedboulting/status/918517437783474177

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Me_ | 5 years ago
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I don't disagree with your general point, but 2Bliss tyres are called that because they are tubeless which isn't that daft

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henryb | 5 years ago
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I quite like the silly Pearson bike names

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DanaColby85 | 5 years ago
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Pinnacle's range has a lot of bikes named after minerals: Laterite, Dacite, Monzonite, Dolomite, Arkose. I asked a geology expert or two what the theme might be but they hadn't a clue. Rather looks like someone opened a geology book and picked out names of rocks at random.

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Rahario | 5 years ago
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As a kid I had a Giant mtb, model name Boulder. Presumably named after the place in the USA, but I may as well have been wheeling a rock to school...

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StraelGuy | 5 years ago
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And who can forget the infamous Chas Roberts D.O.G.S B.O.L.X back in the day .

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simonmb | 5 years ago
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Cove with their 'G-Spot' do it for me.

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HoarseMann | 5 years ago
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I used to ride a Peugeot ‘Black Mamba’ in the late eighties. Thankfully I was too young to know that is a common name applied to a more ‘adult’ object for riding.

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Rick_Rude | 5 years ago
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Once you've had a Super Tuff Burner it's all downhill. 

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IanGlasgow | 5 years ago
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Numbers are a shit idea.
I've got a BMC AC02 ONE, it's a completely different bike from the AC01 TWO. Obviously.

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brooksby | 5 years ago
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Remember that old Simpsons episode about the Canyonero?

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HarryTrauts replied to brooksby | 5 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Remember that old Simpsons episode about the Canyonero?

And the Persephone.

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Kendalred | 5 years ago
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I'd rather a bike have a daft name if it's memorable - rather than those that have the boring letters/numbers

But then again I've just bought a Planet X EC180 frameset, so I'm a complete hypocrite. I could always take a paintbrush to it and call it 'Stramash' or 'Shazoom' or something.

Besides, it doesn't really matter what the word means, especially if 95% of the population won't understand it.

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