"Puky" is a riding toys company in Germany.
Aldo Ross
Middletown, OH
> Hey Ya There Larry ,
>
> Once again , yer just like way-cool in my book there dude !
>
> As I'm sure we all know already ( but in case some of us don't ) , the
> common , and perfectly acceptable , word "Fahrt" , auf die Deutsch
> Sprache ( please feel free to correct my grammar ) , means , in the
> English Language . . .
>
> The Journey , or Trip , or Drive , or Ride .
>
> As for Puky , no clue here . So , I tried to look it up . No results
.
> I am curious about it . I would love to know just what kind of trip a
> "Puky" trip might be ????
>
> Anyone from Deutschland out there ??
>
> By the way , I was indeed rather shocked the first time I ran into the
> word "Farht" . Even after knowing exactly what it means , it still
makes
> me look twice . You will see it in bicycle magazines , motorbike
magazines
> , and automobile magazines ( which of course are just the sort of thing
> I'd be looking at , auf Deutsch ) . Hearing , or seeing in writing ,
> someone wish someone else , "have a good trip" , can be rather
disturbing
> to an English speaking person .
>
> Honestly , I never thought to look up the rude word before . The word
> for passing gas is , " Furz " . But don't tell anybody that you learned
it
> from me !
>
> Raoul Delmare
> Marysville Kansas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ABikie@aol.com>
> To: <benkamenphoto@nyc.rr.com>; <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 8:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]what's in a name? (bicycle brands)
>
>
> > Now it's names!
> > In the 60's we found a drawer in the back of our old shop withg bike
name
> > badges.
> > Mead, Ranger, Rixe, Columbia, .....
> > I took a few German ones
> >
> > 'Puky Fahrt" - still got 'em, somwwhere.
> > Centurion marketed the 'Clic' and quickly changed it after a brief intro
> in
> > the early 80's
> > 'Tease' was a tough one to sell in the '72 boom. we pronounced it
> > 'Tee-AH-say' which helped only a tad,
> >
> > Blackburn started to call their hydration pack the 'wetback' and changed
> it
> > to wetPack after a very brief period.
> >
> > Larry 'too long smelling patch glue' Black
> > Mt airy, Md