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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 : 27/01/2012 12:53 pm
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Posted : 27/01/2012 1:17 pm
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vélos de clown!


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 1:19 pm
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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 : 27/01/2012 1:25 pm
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[url= http://www.culturevelo.com/Les-VTT-29-pouces ]Velo avec des grandes roues des Muppets[/url]

HTH 😉


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 1:26 pm
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homme-taille-velo?


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 1:29 pm
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Its like what is the French for entreprenuer.


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 1:30 pm
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If you mean you want to ask about one in a shop, I'm pretty sure you would need to say "[u]S'il vous plaît se caresser mes fesses[/u]".

Say it nice and loud so they can understand you.


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 1:32 pm
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Tiens, this is all juste le billet.
Merci pour the help.


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 1:52 pm
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[url= http://www.vtt29pouces.fr/ ]vingt-neuf pouces[/url]


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 2:18 pm
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Roue d'explosif.


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 3:03 pm
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Hybrid?


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 3:13 pm
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Le 29er ?


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 3:15 pm
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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 : 27/01/2012 3:16 pm
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I bet they call them (at least the 'cool' people) "Twenty Niners"


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 3:21 pm
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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 ****ing linguistic minefield.


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 4:26 pm
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Roue d'explosif.

:mrgreen:


 
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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 : 27/01/2012 5:02 pm
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Merde


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 5:08 pm
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Oh hugor you're such a spoilsport! Or you're French and didn't appreciate that I was being humourous...:P


 
Posted : 27/01/2012 6:07 pm