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07-27-16 | 11:43 AM
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07-27-16 | 12:47 PM
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I figure any made-up word or amalgamation of letters can be pronounced any way I want to.
If I buy a pair of Trek Mad Ones, does that mean I now have a Mad Two?
Ess-Ram is easier for this 'murikan to say than anything else. If they object, I might start pronouncing it "Shimano."
If I buy a pair of Trek Mad Ones, does that mean I now have a Mad Two?
Ess-Ram is easier for this 'murikan to say than anything else. If they object, I might start pronouncing it "Shimano."
07-27-16 | 03:28 PM
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(I agree it's awkward to pronounce, though.)
Agreed. And pretty surprising that Sally, Billy, and Andy are the kids of Robert Zildjian.
07-27-16 | 03:34 PM
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I figure any made-up word or amalgamation of letters can be pronounced any way I want to.
If I buy a pair of Trek Mad Ones, does that mean I now have a Mad Two?
Ess-Ram is easier for this 'murikan to say than anything else. If they object, I might start pronouncing it "Shimano."
If I buy a pair of Trek Mad Ones, does that mean I now have a Mad Two?
Ess-Ram is easier for this 'murikan to say than anything else. If they object, I might start pronouncing it "Shimano."
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07-27-16 | 04:33 PM
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07-27-16 | 04:39 PM
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Hm, I'm glad I'm not the only one who called it sHram. Bad idea number one, make your company name something hard to pronounce. 
07-27-16 | 07:15 PM
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07-27-16 | 07:39 PM
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07-28-16 | 08:56 AM
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Live and learn, I did not know that. I knew they'd bought Sachs, whhich had plants in Germany and then Portugal, IIRC. So does SRAM have any manufacturing capability in the U.S.? any assembly? any engineering? Or is it like, for example, Specialized, which outsources everything and might have a warehouse to receive all those containerized freight shipments?
