Originally Posted by
Iride01
In most of those uses, I think the author was just trying to use some words and phrases to get ones attention. You can't just say its a great bike all the time and expect people to be automatically motivated to read the rest of the article.
So the meaning of snappy to the author was probably buried down in the review with other descriptive terms. Not any necessarily terms unique only to cycling. Nor terms that specifically have one meaning. And despite the use of the term in those articles, I wasn't motivated to keep reading.
But thanks for finding those for us
terrymorse !
it puts a bike in a category, for sure. if someone describes a bike as snappy but smooth, i can certainly imagine how it would feel to ride. or solid, stable and smooth. or bouncy and lively. fast, twitchy, precise, springy, etc etc. despite the fact that most of these words are literally kind of silly, of course bikes are solid (being made of solids, not liquids) but they're also hollow, for the most part. imprecise terms used slightly out of context from their literal meaning but it all seems pretty descriptive to me.