I crimped the chainstay to suit a 200mm rear rotor.

[GoldenEraMTB]

None so good as "Chump" though.
Oldies are definately goodies!

I thought "chump" was ours, so I didn't include it...I grew up saying that here in NYC

I think Laurel & Hardy's classic, "A Chump at Oxford" spread it's use on both sides of the pond. I can't remember hearing it used in the film though...

Sorry my American friends, but "Chump" first appeared in English in the early 1700s meaning "lump of wood" (possibly from a melding of "chunk" and "lump"), and by the late 1880s had acquired its modern derogatory meaning of "blockhead" or "fool." The term "chump change" seems to have first appeared in the African-American community in the late 1960s with the meaning of "small change, a negligible amount of money." The sense of the term is "an amount of money only a chump would value; a trivial amount," as opposed to larger amounts of "real money."

Ahhh google......

ok ok, I'm convinced, you all have cornered the market on insulting the stupid.

 

[Harryburgundy]

Don't ya just love etymology

 

[suburbanreuben]

Don't ya just love etymology

Hit 'em with a newspaper, and watch them go splat! More effective than calling them names...

 

[Mr Chicken]

wouldnt crushing the stay like that effect dropout alignment? 16 bids says maybe not.

 

[rosstheboss]

He is a master of hyperbole and html.

You got that right!!

If you look at his other items, his door to door salesman patter continues....

Poor poor frame - I wonder how much money his crimptastic skills will cost him??? :roll: :roll: :roll:

And my personal favourite to describe the seller?

F*ckwit!

 

[DM]

Don't ya just love etymology

Hit 'em with a newspaper, and watch them go splat! More effective than calling them names...

Top marks for the zoological wordplay.

 

[Dr S]

Hey Rob, here's a few more for you...

From Yorkshire I give you 'Wassock' or 'Wasek' depending on area. Another Yorkshire fave is 'Potknob' and not fogetting my fathers favourite 'Demick'.

Liverpool likes 'Divvy'.

Si

 

[GoldenEraMTB]

Hey Rob, here's a few more for you...

From Yorkshire I give you 'Wassock' or 'Wasek' depending on area. Another Yorkshire fave is 'Potknob' and not fogetting my fathers favourite 'Demick'.

Liverpool likes 'Divvy'.

Si

Thanks for that, Si

I've compiled quite a list. One day, when I'm on your side of the pond, I won't have much of a problem starting a fight

 

[manitou916]

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[mikesnowdon]

In my home town mister chainstay crimper would be referred to as a 'dinlo'

Very apt I think.