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Stupid Names for Bikes
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.
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My favourite - not stupid, but I love it:
https://twitter.com/nedboulting/status/918517437783474177
I don't disagree with your general point, but 2Bliss tyres are called that because they are tubeless which isn't that daft
I quite like the silly Pearson bike names
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.
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...
And who can forget the infamous Chas Roberts D.O.G.S B.O.L.X back in the day
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Cove with their 'G-Spot' do it for me.
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.
Once you've had a Super Tuff Burner it's all downhill.
Numbers are a shit idea.
I've got a BMC AC02 ONE, it's a completely different bike from the AC01 TWO. Obviously.
Remember that old Simpsons episode about the Canyonero?
And the Persephone.
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.