Fw: [CR]Bicycle brand nicknames

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Chater-Lea)

Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 15:01:21 -0500
From: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>
Subject: Fw: [CR]Bicycle brand nicknames
To: Classic Rendezvous <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Larry wrote:
> That's it, I'm out, and I kept it family
> Hopefully one of you secretarial types is keeping a lexicon

I never thought of myself as a secretarial types, but here it is:

AMF = AlwaysMalFunctions Avocet = Avoshit Baylis = Payless Biopace = Biospace Bontrager = Buttranger Bottecchia = Botchateka Bottecchia = Botchelada Campagnolo = cramp and go slo Campagnolo = Camp in Jello Cannondale = beercannondale Cannondale = cannonsnail Cannondale = canándalé (ca NAN da LEH) Cannondale = canyon snail Cannondale = Crack & Fail Cannondale = Can 'o' ale Chesini = Cheese Wienee Cinelli = spinelli (Italian slang for 'joints') Ciocc = Choke Citadel = Shitadel Colnago = slonago Columbia = Colunkia Columbus = Colunkus Tubing Condor = Condom Croce D'Aune = Crouch down eh! Dae Yung = Die young Dura Ace = duracé (doo RATCH eh, with a hard "r") Dura Ace = Do Race? Easy-seat = Sleazy-seat Eddy Merckx = Sleddy Mairx Eisentraut = Eisentrash Eisentraut = Eisen Carp Falcon = Fall-Can Falcon = Fowl-Can Fuji = fudgy Gitane = Shit one Gitane = Gitank Guerciotti = Gear Chucker Hakkapeliitta = hock a loogie Harley Davidson = Hardly Davidson Holdsworth = Holdsworthless Huffy = Huffy Puffy Hyperglide = Hype or glide Invulnerable = Vulnerables Jack Taylor = Joke Taylor Kestrel = Castor Oil Kryptonite = Kleptonite Lambert = Slambert LeJeune = Le Junk LeMond = LeMonster Lightspeed = Frightspeed Loco.motion = slo-motion Lugged Frames = slugged frames Maillard = mallard Marinoni = macaroni Masi = Mousy Mavic Open 4 CD = open sore v.d.'s Minoura = Manure-a Motobécane = Motobecant Motobécane = Butter Pecans Murray = Schmurray (when Murray sponsored the wheaties team) Paramount = Paraquat Peugeot = (Peugeot backwards) toe guep Peugeot = Pig-wad Peugeot = Pig-out Phil Wood = Phil Wouldn't Pinarello = Peenarello Proteus = Bloateus Puch = Puke Puch = Pook Puch = Poke Rapid Fire = Rapid Failure Regina = Vagina René Herse = René Hurts Robergel = Rubber All Ross = Loss Sachs New Success = Sucks no success Santana = satana Schwinn = schwein Schwinn = squint Shimano = ShimaNO Shimano = Shitmano Shogun = Slowgun Sidi = seedy Simplex = Striplex SIS = SI Guess Specialized = speckelized Specialized = Special Ed Specialized = Fecalized Suntour = Slow Tour Tesch = Tush Tomasini = Thomas Ninny Trek = dreck Trek = Truck Tufo = tofu Univega = Univagrant Viner = Winner Viner = Whiner Viner = Weiner Vitus = Bites Windsor = Windsore Wolber = Wobbler

Steven Maasland Moorestown, NJ

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