[Closed] settle an argument on bike name pronunciations?

BON-TRAY-GER

PAN-A-RACE-ER

No!

Bontrager is.....
BONT - RAG - ER

ibis is.....
EYE -BIS

AND YEAH, panaracer is...
PAN A RACE ER what would anyone think its panaRACKer?

IGH-BIS thats what the guys who work there call them in there videos

How about Marin then..?

aarrringe foive.

i'm from deb'm

BON-TRAR-GER

IGH-BIS

PAN-A-RACE-ER

Commence Al

or

Common Saal

?

Marr in

coat ic
or
cot ic

COM-EN-SAL

BON-TRAY-GER

EYE-BIS

PAN-A-RACER (how do you get that wrong?!)

It's cot ic, isn't it, the owner is called Si. Si Cot Ic.

I don't like it.

I'm assuming most people pronounce Bontrager with a hard G, as opposed to BONTRAYJER?

I used to say JER but now I say GER 🙂

Cot ic

As in cycotic / psychotic

I used to say BONT-RAY-GRR, then was corrected to BONT-RAY-JER. Is that wrong then?

And I thought it was EYE-BIS too.

Panaracer obvious surely?

It's cot ic, isn't it, the owner is called Si. Si Cot Ic.

Yup but as Podge says it's Cy.

See I was corrected opposite chakaping 🙂

Sram, shram, s-ram?

The thing is with Bontrager - he's American isn't he? So it would probably be bon tray ger with a hard g, but presumably the name is of French origin so should really be pronounced bon tra jer or something? 🙂

Common-Kal i was told, but i was never sure if they were taking the widdle

Well Keith himself pronounces it BON-TRAY-GER

I'm going to start saying PanaRACKer.

Keith Bontrager introduced himself over the PA at the 24/12 as 'bon-tray-ger' (with a hard g) so whatever the euro pronounciation I suppose we should go with his version if we are talking about bike things with his name on them.

As a half frenchie I can advise that the name Commencal has a soft c in the middle, and the 'en' bit is that French vowel sound half way between 'on' and 'an'. You say 'on' with your voice but open your mouth wide. (try it out loud!)

But where do you stop? Michelin has its own very recognised pronounciation in English and you'd sound well wierd going into your lbs or garage and asking for the French (ie real) way of saying it. (meesh-lang in my accent!)

What about Lapierre.How the hell does that one go... 😉

Anyone else say SpeCKialized?

Lapierre = LA PEE AIR

What about Lapierre

Or is it Lap-e-air :-).So it translates as The Peter...Worst name for a bike ever.....
Does that mean that my spicy is really (Peter the hot) or (The hot Peter).Very grim indeed... 😆

OT.

Don't start me on Nike (as in Bike imo, i do not ride a Bikee) and Adidias (Adid-ass, not Adeedas)

Anyone else pronounce trek as truck?

Is Giant JAI-ANT or JAI-UNT?

Is Yeti YEAH TEA?

Yeah but Nike is from the Greek innit? So you pronounce the e

Bon-tray-ger
Igh-bis (like the bird)
Pan-a-racer
Mar-in
Commen-chal (as in loch)

SRAM is just stupid, though - first rule of marketing, don't give your company a name that no-one can say without sounding daft. Ess-ram? SSram? S-R-A-M? What does it stand for anyway? I still call it Sachs 😉

Nick O'Lie's Irish yeah?

PanaracKer? That's funny

Reminds me I once went to the touring cars and an anorak next to was talking loudly so we could all overhear, as he educated his son in correct car pronunciation,

NEEE-SAAAAWN
Ruh-huh-en-out

And that's before he stared on the drivers names.

Nigel Farage rhymes with Barrage.

Barrage Balloon - Farage Buffoon.

(oh and if Heston Blumenthal pronounces it Blumen Thor L (as in thor, god of war) why does the rest of the world ('cept me) pronounce it Blumen Tar L?)

What about Marzocchi?

Mar Zoch Chi
or
Mar Zock Ee
or something else?

From google, out of interest.

"Q.What does SRAM mean?

A.SRAM is the conglomeration of our founder's names, Scott, Ray and sAM. The initials provided a simple way to come up with a corporate name that could be trademarked and directly translated into languages other than English. It is not pronounced S-RAM, SchRAM, or SkRAM. Just SRAM."

Alright, so is it correct to plaurulise fork names. Most people Pikes, recons, Lyriks, Floats. But the sticker on the side is singular and they using only have one susupension fork, or 'pair of forks'.

And is 'pair of forks' for 1 Pike, a tautology?

I eat my dinner with a knife and a pair of forks. That's why I'm Big John

ORANGE
or
O-RANGE

those who know how that Halifax lot of filing cabinert recyclers got their name would probably say O-RANGE

This one's quite funny for us - we have a bit of an in joke about the S-Ram pronunciation. Not sure where it came from, as you'd never have it with other brands, would you?

Ess-himano
Em-avic
Gee-Opro

😉

I've heard Commencal referred to as Com-men-kal,Com-ekal,Com-menshal,Com-mershal and my personal favourite Cannondale .

My personal favourite is when people call Schwalbe "Schwabble" 😀

Adidas is definitely Adi Das, not the long eee sound.

Come from the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler who was a German cobbler.

Rudolph Dassler was his older brother who set up Puma.

Horst Dassler was his son who set up Arena swimwear.

Quite impressive really for one family.

What about Marzocchi?

Mar Zoch Chi
or
Mar Zock Ee
or something else?

In Italian "ch" makes it equivalent to a "k" sound in English so the second of your two would be right...but really? folk have actual arguments over this kind of thing?

Commen-chal (as in loch)

😯

Had a guy in the bike shop asking about Pew-Joe bikes once. It took a while to work out that he meant Peugeot.

I've heard all sorts of interpretations of Marzocchi. The correct one (apparently) being Mar-ZOK-Ee.

Sort of bike related was hearing some Americans at Coed-y-Brenin pronounce the name of the nearest town as Doller-Gelloo (hard g). 😆

My personal favourite is when people call Schwalbe "Schwabble"

how about Deuter bags, then:
doo-ter (in californian)
doy-ter (in german)
dir-ter (in frenchish)
dyoo-ter (in, err, dunno)

robhughes

What about Lapierre.How the hell does that one go...

Current evidence would suggest "SNAP" to be a good approximation........ 😉

"Commen-chal (as in loch)"
but aren't they from Andorra?

"my personal favourite Cannondale"
lol. Beats my old favourite of commonfail

😆 I've just remembered something else...

When I was working in one of a large chain of bike shops, I had a guy come in and ask if we sold "Bomkss" bikes (difficult to spell the noise he made)
I asked "I'm sorry, what kind of bikes?"
"Bomkss"
"Umm... I'm not sure I've heard of that brand, Could you spell that please?"
"Yeah sure, B M X"
"Oooooh..."

maxtorque..Hope my spicy does snap(no warranty)as i,ll have a good excuse to buy a shinny new 160 frame.Different manufacturer of course... 😀

psling

How about Marin then..?

It's M'rin, like Marin county I suppose.

Anyway, here are the definitive pronunciations.

Shimano: [i]She-mow-tow[/i]
Trek: [i]Track[/i]
Lapierre: [i]La-per-eeee (Lap-er-ee-aye would also suffice)[/i]
Commencal: [i]Come-mer-shal[/i]
Specialized: Spesh-all-ist
Pinarello: [i]Pin-ah-reel-io[/i]
Wilier: [i]While-er[/i]
Schwalbe: [i]Shwab-al-ee[/i]
Mavic: [i]Mav-er-rick[/i]
Colnago: [i]Coal-nag-leo[/i]
Norco: [i]Nor-dik[/i]
Giant: [i]Gee-aunt[/i]

Pana-racK-er Trail-rack-ers for the mud?

Met a guy once who kept telling us how good his [i]Continent-arl[/i] tyres were... Surely that can't be right?

Maxx-ees or Maxx-iss tyres?

How about CERVELO ?

is it SIR-VELO or CHER-VELO. If Italian then the latter, but everyone uses the former...

CERVELO

They're Canadian. Only ever hear it pronounced

SIR-VELO

Another good one is Cinelli. I've heard 'SIN-ELLI' and 'KIN-ELLI' as well as the correct version.

whatnobeer
.

Another good one is Cinelli

Cinelli: [i]Kin-er-ell-iollii.[/i]

How about Marin then..?

...Muh-rin

PAN-A-RACK-ER

A well known lbs owner of considerable riding skillz and mechnical repute near me says "Bianchi" wrong despite talking fondly of the one he used to have a few years ago. 😀

"Commen-chal (as in loch)"
but aren't they from Andorra?

iirc Max Commencal himself is French, but runs his bizness in Andorra because of the excellent trails, mountains, chairlifts and tax arrangments 😉

I think I will start saying "Ca-non-da-lay" from now on and see how long it takes before someone gets all upset at me. 😀

Specialized = muh-ree-de
Giant = muh-ree-de
trek = muh-ree-de
wilier = muh-ree-de

Luckily, I've got a bike from a straightforward British company- it's an Onion Flatbread. Or something

On One 456.

Four-hundred-and-fifty-six
four-five-six.

Yes i'm taking the piss. 😆

"Bomkss"
"Umm... I'm not sure I've heard of that brand, Could you spell that please?"
"Yeah sure, B M X"

Cervelo - Chur-vel-eo was the most inspired one I heard.

I heard about a customer asking a bike shop sales assistant if they sold gee-an-tee bikes. Assistant looked very blank then the penny dropped, he said to the customer "is that like James and the gee-an-tee peach?"

BONTRAGER is it

BON-TRAY-GER
or
BON-TRAR-GER

tricky, but I believe it's pronounced TREK

I heard about a customer asking a bike shop sales assistant if they sold gee-an-tee bikes. Assistant looked very blank then the penny dropped, he said to the customer "is that like James and the gee-an-tee peach?"