It's pronounced "Fah-jean"...

[Junonada]

Here's my Faggin. It's my bad weather bike. It's an SLX King with a Columbus Air fork and had terrible paint. So I stripped it and put some re-pop decals on it. It's currently set up as a restomod. Although it's Ultegra 6600 10 speed. Which is considered a relic and retro by today's standard I guess.



Any one else got one?

 

[novocaine]

It's pronounced "fay gin" isn't it? as in Oliver Twist.

here we go again, this is going to be like the tange thread all over again.

nice Italian stead, I like it.

 

[grantoury]

Nice, it is just a naked frame?

 

[sjcprojects]

That's your bad weather bike? I hope your bad weather isn't as bad as my bad weather

Lovely thing, anyway.

 

[Junonada]

It's pronounced "fay gin" isn't it? as in Oliver Twist.

here we go again, this is going to be like the tange thread all over again.

nice Italian stead, I like it.

I went to a bike shop down the road from me that had a good working relationship with Bill from Torelli who was a distributor of Faggin till they went behind his back and distributed bikes directly to other shops and just shrugged when confronted about it (typical Italian business moves in my experience) and he said fahjean with kind of a J and shean sound in the name. So Imma guess that's how it's pronounced.

 

[Junonada]

Nice, it is just a naked frame?

That's your bad weather bike? I hope your bad weather isn't as bad as my bad weather

Lovely thing, anyway.

It's chromed but not polished under where it was painted. So I guess it would be NSFW if I did close up shots of it.

Here's one of my good weather bikes, a 2005 Mondonico Columbus EL-OS Monza (IYKYK)with Campy bits and bobs. I'm lucky to have fancy pants bicycle's for the most part. I actually got this bike for free off Craigslist in a pile of bikes that some rich guy who had a house that was bigger than the whole lot my house sits on was giving away. He told me he got it and it wasn't his thing. He had the seatpost slammed down to the collar, a riser stem and big MTN flat pedals on it and the Shimano 6600 group I put on the Faggin. I ended up giving the other bikes to the local co-op for karma's sake.

 

[Junonada]

On a side note, that guy at the bike shop is always correcting my pronunciation...
Alahwn for Alan, Mahvic for mavic and gwer-chee-oh-tee for guerciotti.
It gets annoying. It's like, I know I had a usa public education but give me a break dude.

 

[sjcprojects]

On a side note, that guy at the bike shop is always correcting my pronunciation...
Alahwn for Alan, Mahvic for mavic and gwer-chee-oh-tee for guerciotti.
It gets annoying. It's like, I know I had a usa public education but give me a break dude.

Yeah, you can take these things too far . If we pronounced every non-English word the way native speakers did, I think we'd all end up sounding quite odd. One of the commentators for TV cycling coverage here pronounces every rider and place name as per their native language, and whilst it's sort of impressive I also find it decidedly distracting to listen to.

But, anyway I think you're right about 'Fah-jean', as it happens. Probably. I think. My favourite example is probably Ciocc which is pronounced 'chuch.'

And that Mondonico is also lovely, by the way...

 

[LondonClassic]

. One of the commentators for TV cycling coverage here pronounces every rider and place name as per their native language, and whilst it's sort of impressive I also find it decidedly distracting to listen to.

Rob Hatch...give me strength. Loves to give it the big un in French and Spanish but nobody de-sexifies Italian better than him. Its the weirdness of pronouncing everthing like you come from Bedfordshire and then dropping in a Colle del Ghisallo in caracature OTT accent. He grates me so much I can't watch the cycling if he's doing it.

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