the best and worst names

[Scarfacexxx08]

I've always liked

Cannondale's Killer V
Kona Explosif and Kula
GT Zaskar

and components like

Rock Shox
Mavic

They all sound

 

[dyna-ti]

In the new stuff in mbuk -forkskins
No way am i putting them on my bike

 

[Stick Legs]

Thank you to the following companies for these great names:

Dyna Tech Ogre

Cannondale Beast of the East

Overburys Pioneer

Klein Attitude / Adroit / Panache

Kona Lisa

Orange Prestige (matt black aspiration!)

Yeti ProFro

I must add that the fact that RC in Pace RC200 stands for Racing Chassis is not cool, it is more than a tad pretentious. On mine it may as well stand for Ray Catcher 'cos it 'aint coming out in the rain.

 

[errol]

I don't like 'Attitude' sounds more like a name you'd see on a bike sold by a supermarket.

 

[BlackCat]

Names

Always liked Merlin Extralight.

Just sounds pimp.

 

[retroyetirigid]

It's not a real bike, but I liked Jo Burts 'Bona Pine Cone' form the Mint Sauce cartoon so much that I renamed my Park Pre after it.

 

[RobMac]

Re: Names

Always liked Merlin Extralight.

Just sounds pimp.

Sounds like a Condom

 

[Scarfacexxx08]

Not a fan of the name Scott for a bike, sorry if that's someones name here

 

[Scarfacexxx08]

Oops double post

 

[Rich Aitch]

Two things I thought while out riding (Must keep concentrating on the track!)

First, and I don't know if anybody has already said it, the worst bike names are from Trek because they are just a number. Cold clinical, doesn't get me going. I thought maybe they may be named after grades of Aluminiumeg eg. 6061 but it doesn't look like it. Had they thought what would happen if they had, say a Reynolds framed bike with a ten speed cluster and 29" wheels? It'd be a Trek 6000, 501, 30, 29er!

Second;

Marin always had good names. Then again Marin County had some great trails to take a name from.

I'm thinking if Marin were based in Manchester they would have names like the.....

Chorlton water park, Mersey banks, Benchill and the Withington.

al.

Marin Hacienda! It fits with the Spanish sounding Bolinas/ Palisades thing and although I never went (I didn't own a puffa jacket and an Uzi!) it looked like the kind of place that a Zolatone Marin could have been designed for.