Names On Bikes
06-23-15, 01:00 AM
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Names On Bikes
Part of the looks of a bike is the brand name on it. Not only the style, size, but also the actual word, because written words themselves have an aesthetic value, I believe.
There are not many names I dislike on a down tube, but one of the best bikes out there I will never buy as long as I have an alternative other than repainting the bike. I think the word Cervélo, especially as big as they have it, is plain ugly. And a word with an accent at that. Please. No offense meant to Cervélo owners. This is about aesthetics only. My aesthetics. Unlike judgment, taste needs not be justified.
I like Cinelli and Gios
Specialized and Sworks, cool for me.
Trek, iffy
Orca, cool.
Colnago, not sure.
Look, cool.
Felt, ok
Firefly, Enigma, really cool
Parlee, Iffy.
Cannondale, cool. But not the logo.
Pinarello, cool, especially the logo.
Waterford, classy.
Willard, not quite.
De Rosa, the least of all Italians...
Pegoretti. Nope.
Bianchi, yep.
Cervélo, never.
So many others...
There are not many names I dislike on a down tube, but one of the best bikes out there I will never buy as long as I have an alternative other than repainting the bike. I think the word Cervélo, especially as big as they have it, is plain ugly. And a word with an accent at that. Please. No offense meant to Cervélo owners. This is about aesthetics only. My aesthetics. Unlike judgment, taste needs not be justified.
I like Cinelli and Gios
Specialized and Sworks, cool for me.
Trek, iffy
Orca, cool.
Colnago, not sure.
Look, cool.
Felt, ok
Firefly, Enigma, really cool
Parlee, Iffy.
Cannondale, cool. But not the logo.
Pinarello, cool, especially the logo.
Waterford, classy.
Willard, not quite.
De Rosa, the least of all Italians...
Pegoretti. Nope.
Bianchi, yep.
Cervélo, never.
So many others...
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06-23-15, 01:20 AM
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I like the word Nissan far better than Lamborghini so I think I'll get a Nissan instead.
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Just in terms of the names themselves (only the word and the way it rolls from the tongue).
From my youth (the good): Jeunet, Bianchi, Batavus, Mercier, Cinelli
and the bad: Schwinn (sounded Germanic, Germans were the bad guys), Peugeot, Italvega, Paris Sport, Merckx
From my youth (the good): Jeunet, Bianchi, Batavus, Mercier, Cinelli
and the bad: Schwinn (sounded Germanic, Germans were the bad guys), Peugeot, Italvega, Paris Sport, Merckx
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Names I'd like to see: Enigma, Strategem, Archetype, Soliloquy
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I'm just finishing a build of a beater bike using a black Nashbar steel road frame. I'm really thinking it needs some "Motobacon" decals on the tubes. If I don't take the bike serious, maybe no one else will either.
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I thought this thread was going to be about putting your own name on your bike.
Name Stickers - Bicycle Name Stickers
Name Stickers - Bicycle Name Stickers
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There are nice rims with that name.
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I thought this thread was going to be about putting your own name on your bike.
Name Stickers - Bicycle Name Stickers
Name Stickers - Bicycle Name Stickers
My son is riding a bare frame from Performance and I would like to come up with a cool name decal for the downtube but just come up empty. Something that reflects the spare-parts-bin nature of the build.
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There needs to be bike with a palindrome on the down tube.
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So buying a GMC Denali and putting a Pinnarello decal on it would make it cool ?
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I bought a carbon bike from Performance. Completely bare. I thought about putting "Orphan" on it because nobody knows who its parents are.
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And I think Cervelos (or at least some of them) are gorgeous, while Specialized looks like excrement. Goes both ways.