Wednesday, May 2, 2007


Some interesting things pop into your mind when you're workin' in the bike shop 50-80 hours a week.
These are the names we come up with for bikes/components/accessories that suck some/all the time or at least suck when we're having trouble with them:

Ergo-Throw, Ergo-Poo, Ergo-Fro, Eject-O-Mo
(the Ergomo Power Meter)

Open-Throw, Open-Ho
(Mavic's Open Pro rim)

Can-O-Ale, JackHammer, Ca-non-da-lay (the French way of saying:)
(Cannondale)

Open Sore V.D.
(The predecessor to the Open Pro- the Open 4CD rim)

Shrek, Truck, Wreck, MicrosoftGMCocaColaGEHaliburtonWalMart
(anything Trek)

Special Ed, The Great Consolidator, The Evil Empire
(Specialized- great- now Sinyard is gonna come after me)

Be Raunchy
(Bianchi)

se rota ("itself is broken" in Italian, loosely- cut me some damn slack)
(Serotta)

Power Crap
(duh)

Cramp and Go Slow
(Campagnolo, made up about 1138 years ago)

Shitmano
(duh- and shut up, I ride and like Shimano)

Please note if you have any strong affinity with any of these brands- the above comments are nothing but pet names assigned in frustration or when we see odd stuff with a certain product. I am in no way dissing what you ride or making any sort of judgement about you or your bike. We have to have some sort of fun sometimes. Get over it.