Specialized Fat Boy anyone?
Ah, but that was a very skinny complete slick, name after a race iirc, and not fat at all. I used to have them for commuting and got pedal strikes on the road.
Shirley these macho names are for schoolboys who watch Top Gear and have a cool wall.
Racing Ralph, Rocket Ron, Dirty Dan, Nobby Nic, Magic Mary, [b]F[/b]at [b]A[/b]lbert, [b]T[/b]hunder [b]B[/b]urt, Furious Fred, Jumbo Jim, Smart Sam, Sammy Slick, Tough Tom, Rapid Rob, [b]C[/b]razy [b]B[/b]ob, Jumping Jack, Mad Mike
does anyone else get a little twitch when they see the Schwalbe names that are not alliterative?
does anyone else get a little twitch when they see the Schwalbe names that are not alliterative?
Yes.
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If you're going to shred your way through war zones like Ho Chi Minh, Baghdad and Berlin Wall, you need to make it sound like you mean business.
Dampfnudeln?
She has just looked it up and now concedes it does indeed mean a jack of all trades. She has admitted she's wrong! A historic moment in our household. I'm going to party like we just signed the Treaty of Versailles
I recon there's an opening for a Dictator themed range of tyres.29*2.5 Hugo on the front and a 29*2.2 Kim bringing up the rear. The pleasure in scrubbing those buggers down to the canvas would be enormous.
Coffee, meet keyboard.
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If you're going to [s]shred your way through war zones like Ho Chi Minh, Baghdad and Berlin Wall[/s] join the caravan club you need to make it sound like you mean business.
This is a common conversation on family roadtrips.
I'm looking forward to new models, rutting Rachel, and sideways Susan!
Designed for cheeky rides in closed parkland / regular dogging spots and fast straight line gravel trails, respectively?
Having spent the weekend playing around in the forest with a couple of Rubber Queens, I can't see what all the fuss is about.
Rusty Spanner - MemberOr the Bontrager Blue Route?
I did like seeing their special team issue at the EWS, the "Minion with the logos coloured in-5" I think it was called.
Then there was Danny Hart's proto Schwalbe, the Dirty Flytipper
Specialized have history as the Cannibal was out in the early 90's, maybe they should have stuck at Ground Control.
And don't forget the classic Tioga Physco.
Continental tyre names always disappoint, they are all a bit too literal and dull for instance the 'Trail King ProTection Apex' or the 'Trail King Sport'.
Continental tyre names always disappoint, they are all a bit too literal and dull for instance the 'Trail King ProTection Apex' or the 'Trail King Sport
they changed rubber queen as those suppressed Americans thought it was too gimpy!
What about Michelin then, at one point all tyres were Wilgrippers or was it "Wild'grippers" meaning that all online orders were like blind aunties christmas presents - never knowing what you would get until the box was open.
Continental tyre names always disappoint, they are all a bit too literal and dull for instance the 'Trail King ProTection Apex' or the 'Trail King Sport
Beat's Vapour/Vertical/Gravity/Explorer which bore no relation to what they were good at (the Continental Nothing).
I remember the days when the anser to "What tyres" was Panaracer Fire XC Pro 2.1, regardless of conditions, unless it was biblical mud in which case trailrakers.
they changed rubber queen as those suppressed Americans thought it was too gimpy!
Nah, it's because a rubber is US slang for a condom.
Bizarrely when I worked in the trade I was asked (along with a few others) by the marketing director of Conti's MTB programme whether Der Kaiser was too risky a name with reference to Germany's past, or if it would be taken in good humour.
Onza Octopus FTW!
specialized should bring back the fear control/master name.
Maybe the Evil Twins should be resurrected too?
specialized should bring back the fear control/master name.
I seem to recall the 'Control' moniker being the descriptor for the more trail / XC level tyres, hence Ground Control and Storm Control. The 'Master' crept in there somewhere too - I think to differentiate between front and rear.
Or maybe I'm just making it up.
Maybe the Evil Twins should be resurrected too?
Preferably in Umma Gumma.
UmmaGumma
Oh crap. PMJ and I are clearly mind-melding
Now that's a scary thought.Oh crap. PMJ and I are clearly mind-melding
I want to launch a range of scottish-specific tyres. The Nugget, for riding muddy rocks. The Zoomer, for muddy XC racing. The Screamer, for muddier XC racing- it's just the same as the Zoomer but you crash more. The Steamer for muddy #enduro trails. The Bam for muddy #enduro trails in Dunkeld. And the Rocket is, quote, "Malignant, petty, vengeful, sadistic, and utterly, utterly unstable". OK it's just a rebadged Hans Dampf.
Oh crap. PMJ and I are clearly mind-melding
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And the Rocket is, quote, "Malignant, petty, vengeful, sadistic, and utterly, utterly unstable". OK it's just a rebadged Hans Dampf.
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We're gonna need 36ers to fit that much text on them hahah!
Pinky, the word you were looking for is "arousing", not scary. HTH.
I recon there's an opening for a Dictator themed range of tyres.
29*2.5 Hugo on the front and a 29*2.2 Kim bringing up the rear. The pleasure in scrubbing those buggers down to the canvas would be enormous.
A bit of a tangent but my OHs niece (18months) has a set of bath toys- a dolphin, a turtle, a crab and a pelican.
They are known, respectively, as Adolph, Tito, Ceau?escu and Polican-Pot.
A rabbit arrived at a later date and was near instantly christened 'Rabbit Mugabe'.
I've just taken the Tioga Psycho 2s off my son's bike as they kept slipping round the rim and ripping the valve.
Don't get the Umma Gumma reference even though I bought the album the first week it was out.
I too liked the Camelbak names.
Hawg - Holds Alot of Water and Gear
Mule - Medium and Ultra Long Expeditions
A bit of a tangent but my OHs niece (18months) has a set of bath toys- a dolphin, a turtle, a crab and a pelican.They are known, respectively, as Adolph, Tito, Ceau?escu and Polican-Pot.
A rabbit arrived at a later date and was near instantly christened 'Rabbit Mugabe'.
A friend's daughter's doll was used in a school nativity play and so the name 'Jesus' stuck when she got the doll back - it got a bit embarrassing having to take Jesus everywhere with them - getting upset because Jesus fell out of the pushchair somewhere in Tescos and so on. So it was decided that next Christmas 'Jesus' could go to live in the school as part of their nativity play kit and a new doll would be bought.
"What are you going to call your new doll?"
"John the Baptist"
Don't get the Umma Gumma reference even though I bought the album the first week it was out.
Great idea. But the lifespan wasn't all that, if memory serves.
Specialized probably let their aggressive lawyers name their slightly less aggressive tyres.
I heard they're going to sue Christoph Sauser for using their trademark name
