noglider 

Peddle is just a misspelling of pedal. Never heard pendle.

Block was somewhat common in the 70's, short for gear block, i.e. freewheel. A straight block was one where each sprocket size was one tooth off its adjacent sprocket.

Italuminium

It's common in Dutch to write "pendalen" instead of "pedalen", but I've seen "pendles" once or twice here. Bugs the living daylights out of me.

thumpism 

Not a misspelling, but a different word. To peddle is to sell. You might encounter bike shops named Bike Peddler as a play on words for Pedaler (as a rep I had dealers who used both of those names), one who sells bikes as well as pedals them.

YouthxCrew

Related to an earlier post, why do we call bikes "10 speed" or "12 speed" or what have you based on the the freewheel? Once you get rid of two of the cross-chain gears, your'e already down to 8 usable gears on a 5-speed freewheel, and it's probably more like 6 safely.

Don Marco

I downloaded a browser word-replacement extension a while back specifically to change that word to "gruppo" when i came across it. It's improved my quality of life, I'm sure.

jimmuller 

What's the point of using a consistent grupposet anyway?

dddd

Nowadays, everything. There's the cable pull ratio between levers and shifters and levers and brakes, and there's sprocket-spacing differences that must be respected both front and rear. There can even be chainring size steps that have to conform to the particular front derailer.

Manufacturers have shown only slight and intermittent preference for making their gruppo parts compatible with any other maker's parts, and often take measures to assure otherwise.

jimmuller 

Ah, I'm afraid you took my question literally. It wasn't meant to be. Perhaps I should have asked about using a coordinated consistent grupposet collection superset gruppo.

The original point was about a gruppo set. Seems rather redundant to me it seems redundant. I didn't do nuthin' but extend the concept.

dddd

Yeah, that's funny. I find that redundant non-words like groupset are sometimes used when introducing unfamiliar subjects to newbies, maybe to help them grasp a concept. But then these new words don't go away and are repeated.

Don Marco

repechage

They did so as the French stayed true to metric... No one wanted to copy them.

noglider 

Bump. What's your favorite bike misnomenclature?

ApolloSoyuz1975

I gotta admit: this struck me as "Pittsburgh-ese"

rhm

So, "rake" is an angle. On bicycles, when we say "rake" we really mean "offset."

thinktubes 

Fahrenheit531 

^^ I suspect someone spent some quality time with their bottom bracket and seat post during construction of that diagram.

SloButWide 

Clearly, the solution is to rename the Derailleur the "chain mover thingy". Some bikes have a front chain mover thingy and a back chain mover thingy. But wait, you object, "Doesn't the crank move the chain also? Isn't it a chain mover thingy?" No, No! It's a chain goer around thingy! Clearly, it makes the chain go around.

If you think this is ridiculous, you've never listened to people explain their problem to a bike mechanic.

SloButWide 

A close second has to be colorway. If the word snuck out of the fashion industry, shouldn't it have a classy Italian or French equivalent?

agmetal

I love "hyperdrive core"....might start using that

clubman 

Crank set vs chain set. Crank sets have no rings unless you are Sheldon. Also wondering which includes the bottom bracket?

Reynolds 

"Natural" languages aren't completely logic. Artificial ones are, but they haven't had much success.

Grand Bois

Wikipedia disagrees and so do I:


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




A Shimano Deore right crankset, showing crank arm, spider, three chainrings and chainring guard



Belt-drive crankset on a Trek District



A chainring that incorporates the manufacturer's brand name


The crankset (in the US) or chainset (in the UK), is the component of a bicycle drivetrain that converts the reciprocating motion of the rider's legs into rotational motion used to drive the chain or belt, which in turn drives the rear wheel. It consists of one or more sprockets, also called chainrings[1][2][3] or chainwheels[3] attached to the cranks, arms,[4] or crankarms[5] to which the pedals attach. It is connected to the rider by the pedals, to the bicycle frame by the bottom bracket, and to the rear sprocket, cassette or freewheel via the chain.

JohnDThompson 

I prefer "a seat is something you sit on; a saddle is something you ride on."

clubman 

I don't make any claim to knowing what is correct. I do remember that one of them should include or used to include the spindle and cups. I think it was an English idiosyncrasy that's gone away.

Camilo

The only way I can avoid saying something vulgar and insulting to the user of the term colorway is to justify stifling my anger and dismay by thinking that colorway refers to the overall color design including stripes, highlights, logos, etc. Then I can live with it. Just as I can live with "seat" and "clip in pedals". The alternative would be something like "color treatment" or such, like "window treatment" or "wall treatment". Which is worse?

I can't find such justification for those who either use the word groupset, or non-Italians who use gruppo.

Something I can totally get is the term used by the uncool, "clip in pedals" because about the absolute dumbest custom is calling modern pedals "clipless". Clips - and distinguishing pedals by the lack of them - is referring to such an arcane term and completely out of the realm of understanding of anyone born after, say, 1965, even enthusiastic and knowledgeable cyclists. And there's no need for them to know or have known about clips.

Clip in pedals is such a better term. Or as some call them, my preferred, automatic pedals or step in pedals, like ski bindings were known when we went from heel straps and toe levers that you had to push down engage the binding.

Thank goodness we don't refer to modern landline phones as "crankless phones".