Folding Bikes - Another d*&% Twenty Thread!

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social suicide
04-15-08, 06:06 PM
I had a guy show up to give me an estimate on new garage doors. He's English (yes quite!) and he spots my R20 and says "Oh, you've got a granny basher. And its the folding kind". Has anyone heard "granny basher" before? I'm psyched up to ride through the nursing home hallways allycat style!:eek:

stevegor
04-15-08, 08:37 PM
Not heard of a R20 referred as a "Granny basher" before, but, mine regularily gets called the "clown bike" or "circus bike" by my work mates.
veloceleste
04-15-08, 08:54 PM
My wife helped me name my bike. She asked in all seriousness, "Are you really going to ride that silly thing?" Henceforth I call my R20 "silly thing".

jur
04-15-08, 08:58 PM
Not heard of a R20 referred as a "Granny basher" before, but, mine regularily gets called the "clown bike" or "circus bike" by my work mates.Yep clown bike, as my mate asked me, "Are you going to use the clown bike on the Alpine Classic?" whereupon I answered, "Yep, I'll be riding the 700c Gaint CRX2 clownbike, the R20 normal bike is for commuting only."
LittlePixel
04-16-08, 09:00 AM
We all called them granny bikes as kids; This being in the North east of England. No mention of basher in our neck of the woods though. 'Shopper' was the most generic term for the twenty, much derided as it was at the time by us cool red-hand-gang style kids on our Raleigh Equipe junior-racers, Grifters and Strikas.