Quiz: Do You Know Your Bike Acronyms?

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CNC’d XC BSO with ETT of 571 and BSA fitting… we’ve all scanned our way through the spec list of a new bike and read the letters, but do we…

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  • Quiz: Do You Know Your Bike Acronyms?
  • tthew
    Full Member

    17. Strong start,  faded at the end.

    jeffl
    Full Member

    17 as well, annoyed I got the BSA one wrong by not reading the answers correctly.

    nickc
    Full Member

    21. Christ, what a nerd

    nixie
    Full Member

    20! Not bad. BSA was a guess.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    18/23

    DHI for downhill?
    Never seen that before. It’s always been just DH. 🤔

    dawson
    Full Member

    21

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    21!

    mashr
    Full Member

    It’s always been just D

    in UCI world it’s been DHI for a while, think it happened at the same time as XCC, XCO, etc

    kayak23
    Full Member

    in UCI world it’s been DHI for a while

    Oh right, in an official, competition sense then .
    I’m more used to people saying, ‘I went to BPW and took the DH bike’, for example.

    Actually, oops. Just realised we’re discussing correct answers. Sorry 😅
    I guess most will do the quiz bit first though.

    dangeourbrain
    Free Member

    20, missed dhi, never heard that, I guess from the above it’s broadly unused in the UK (and USA?) were DH is much more familiar?

    fsr which I has been around long enough to not really have its original meaning any more

    arc which I assume relates to yeti but no idea, and if it does, again hasn’t held true for years.

    kayak23
    Full Member

    You missed out OWB
    ‘Own them with Bombers’

    OwenP
    Full Member

    AND you left out ‘LTB’!

    Oh wait, wrong forum.

    Might start using that for punctures though.

    stwhannah
    Full Member

    Before anyone pipes up, I did ask Specialized for the official answer on FSR! Google had many theories!


    @kayak23
    Bombers is in a future quiz, I’m working on it!

    jonnyboi
    Full Member

    17/23 poor for a nerd. Would have been happier if it had told me I had got 74% correct..

    fazzini
    Full Member

    16. In my defence I’m the YTSer 😂

    docrobster
    Free Member

    17 here too. I knew bsa but still out the wrong answer thinking context was wrong. Idiot!

    droplinked
    Full Member

    20 correct, jeeeez – I need to spend less time on here 😂

    P20
    Full Member

    18/23

    boco
    Full Member

    19 not too shabby!

    CheesybeanZ
    Full Member

    18 – BSA isn’t a bike Acronym?

    ampthill
    Full Member

    18

    Really pleased to know BSA now. It clearly is a bike acronym

    lister
    Full Member

    19. I’m happy with my nerd level.

    andy4d
    Full Member

    17 with a few lucky guesses.

    hightensionline
    Full Member

    22. Every day is a school day for the one I got wrong as well.

    dangeourbrain
    Free Member

    Before anyone pipes up, I did ask Specialized for the official answer on FSR!

    Don’t you know you can’t trust manufacturers to know how they came up with their product names deer?

    kelvin
    Full Member

    20

    Spoiler:
    Don’t understand the Downhill thing… well, I do now I’ve looked it up

    🤗

    but don’t let a bit of pedantry get in the way of some fun

    Have you read the forum!?

    Loved the last podcast by the way… glad you found a use for the eye test idea from the snow mag ad.

    Ambrose
    Full Member

    20 for me. It’s the racing categories that got me.

    speaker2animals
    Full Member

    23 whoop whoop

    nuke
    Full Member

    17…a little disappointed but an ok score

    docrobster
    Free Member

    BSA definitely is a bike acronym. My first proper racing bike aged about 10was a bsa. My grandad told me what it stood for.

    sillyoldman
    Full Member

    21

    TiRed
    Full Member

    17. Not an MTB nerd. I am a bike nerd. Of course BSA is an acronym! I’ve been a DNF a few times too 🤣

    Yak
    Full Member

    19. So not bad nor full neek (youth speak..dunno if it’s neek or neak..?).

    frankconway
    Full Member

    A solid 20 which means…absolutely nothing!

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    21, happy with that.

    matt_outandabout
    Full Member

    What no OTB or PSI

    ThePinkster
    Full Member

    21, should have been 22 as I appear to have retapped the wrong answer to FSR when looking for the submit button.

    Never heard downhill being called DHI before. Where is that ever used?

    aide
    Full Member

    Only 16….

    Jordan
    Full Member

    16 for me too. The ones I got wrong were all my only guesses apart from FSR which I was sure I knew…

    johncoventry
    Full Member

    I am no English expert but are not most of them initialisms not acronyms?

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