Friday, April 22, 2011

Fave bike words

one of the things I appreciate about bikes is that there is an enormous, bike-specific vocabulary in English.
y'all might think that's a pretty strange thing to appreciate, but coming from kendo, where there's an enormous kendo-specific vocabulary in Japanese but nothing in English, I really notice it.
so here is a random collection of my favourites so far:

crown race


ferrule


straddle wire/straddle cable


trail*


cluster


spindle


fillet


guidonnet


stay


skiptooth


fork end


cotterless


chainline 


bolt circle diameter



*in relation to frame geometry

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