Originally Posted by
chinotex
I was looking for a set of Mavic wheels, ....... I go to the counter in bike shop #2, and say "What MAA-vick wheels do you have?" and one of the employees on the other side of the shop says "MAA-vee?" I've heard (Bianchi as)"Bee-on-chee" and "Bee-on-key." ?
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what a bunch of tossers those guys are.
Amongst my other bikes, I have 2 Cervelos and a Ciocc, and I delite in pronouncing them to Eurotrash bike shop guys as "Kervello" and "Chee-ock" in my broadest Aussie accent. Stuff 'em!!
Tossers.
Mavic is "Mavick", Bianchi is "Bee-ankee", and Ksyrium is "sirrium". The end
What
REALLY gets my goat (and I've said this on here before) is people putting on Italian accents for the Italian brand names. It's a joke, and
SO pretentious! What's almost as funny is the excuses people came up with for doing so the last time it was discussed here. They said stuff like, "I just think it's the correct way", "my parents are Italian", "I once went to Italy so I've used the accent on 'Campagnolo' ever since", etc.
It's silly, because, to be consistent, they'd have to be change accents all through their bike chat. They'd have to use a Japanese accent for "Shimano", and Dutch accent for "Vredestein", a German accent for "Continental", a French accent for "Michelin", a Swiss accent for "BMC", an American accent for "Trek", a Candian accent for "Cervelo, etc, etc.
It's a big toss!
