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1. DirtyLyle - Member

   Anyone know what our metric-loving, beret-wearing, cheese-hooning French brethren call big wheelers?
   Can't be vingt-neufers can it?
   Please insert own 'roue de Pierrot' gags.

   Posted 4 months ago #
2. nedrapier - Member

   
   

   Posted 4 months ago #
3. MSP - Member

   vélos de clown!

   Posted 4 months ago #
4. lucien - Member

   Babel Fish supplies the following translation: -

   "Appelez ce un vélo, avec eux de grandes roues de chariot là-dessus - il n'a aucun panache"

   Posted 4 months ago #
5. clubber - Member

   Velo avec des grandes roues des Muppets

   HTH

   Posted 4 months ago #
6. ahwiles - Member

   homme-taille-velo?

   Posted 4 months ago #
7. Macavity - Member

   Its like what is the French for entreprenuer.

   Posted 4 months ago #
8. mr_mills - Member

   If you mean you want to ask about one in a shop, I'm pretty sure you would need to say "S'il vous plaît se caresser mes fesses".

   Say it nice and loud so they can understand you.

   Posted 4 months ago #
9. DirtyLyle - Member

   Tiens, this is all juste le billet.
   Merci pour the help.

   Posted 4 months ago #
10. ocrider - Member

    vingt-neuf pouces

    Posted 4 months ago #
11. barn - Member

    Roue d'explosif.

    Posted 4 months ago #
12. Bruce - Member

    Hybrid?

    Posted 4 months ago #
13. allthepies - Member

    Le 29er ?

    Posted 4 months ago #
14. headfirst - Member

    Isn't it soixante-neuf?

    Here you go, this is foolproof, pronounce it as I've written it:

    "Bon-jaw, juh voo-dray oon swa-sont nerf siv-oo-play"

    You can't go wrong. A big smile at the end always helps too.

    Posted 4 months ago #
15. mugsys_m8 - Member

    I bet they call them (at least the 'cool' people) "Twenty Niners"

    Posted 4 months ago #
16. DirtyLyle - Member

    Ooh, good point. I could go in at 'Le Weekend', ask for a vingt-neufer and watch as they look confused as they're know them twantee-nayneurs.
    Still don't understand how they can apply a gender to, say, an armchair either. The place is a fcking linguistic minefield.

    Posted 4 months ago #
17. Northwind - Member

    barn - Member

    Roue d'explosif.

    

    Posted 4 months ago #
18. hugor - Member

    Isn't it soixante-neuf?

    Here you go, this is foolproof, pronounce it as I've written it:

    "Bon-jaw, juh voo-dray oon swa-sont nerf siv-oo-play"
    

    No man that's not 29 your asking for there it's 69.
    Let me know if the smile and please work for you though.

    Posted 4 months ago #
19. ianv - Member

    Merde

    Posted 4 months ago #
20. headfirst - Member

    Oh hugor you're such a spoilsport! Or you're French and didn't appreciate that I was being humourous...:P

    Posted 4 months ago #

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