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Old 12-17-04, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Akak
Call me prude but naming a bike handjob, hummer, and hooker is pretty sad. The names have nothing to do with cycling and if the intent was to get a bunch of 5th graders to chuckle over it in the bathroom, then I guess they accomplished it.

Real creativity is to find a way to relate the risque term to cycling in the form of a play on words or a pun. Just throwing "hummer" on a bike is unimaginative and crude. Why not call the bike "Butt" or "Boobs?" Same level of creativity.

Take Ibis, as an example. Old Ibis bikes had a cable hanger that was forged to look like a tiny human hand. They called this thing a "handjob" because it actually looked like a HAND and did a JOB. That's far more creative than what this Cove company did.
I feel the name Fetish is a bit worse than the cove ones.
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