Is there a dumber term than cockpit?
02-01-16, 08:36 PM
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Is there a dumber term than cockpit?
I don't get why anyone would use that. A bike has a stem, bar and brifters.
02-01-16, 08:37 PM
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I actually call that area of my bike, the 'command module'.. 
02-01-16, 08:52 PM
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02-01-16, 08:53 PM
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02-01-16, 08:53 PM
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"from cock1 + pit1. In the early 18th century the term was in nautical use, denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the “pit” or well in a sailing yacht from which it was steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles (sense 1, early 20th century)."
So it fits the meaning as it is where the controls are.
02-01-16, 08:59 PM
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IME it depends on the bike. With some bikes, I have the feeling of being in, rather than on the bike. I like and seek that feeling. I have no idea about why that is.
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I thought the term was a reference to the location of the joystick, which is also kind of dirty
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02-01-16, 09:23 PM
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Raise the dongers, drope the hamer.
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Why is it called a seatpost when you clamp a saddle to it?! Shouldn't it be called a saddlepost?
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well the definition is:
"from cock1 + pit1. In the early 18th century the term was in nautical use, denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the “pit” or well in a sailing yacht from which it was steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles (sense 1, early 20th century)."
So it fits the meaning as it is where the controls are.
"from cock1 + pit1. In the early 18th century the term was in nautical use, denoting an area in the aft lower deck of a man-of-war where the wounded were taken, later coming to mean ‘the “pit” or well in a sailing yacht from which it was steered’; hence the place housing the controls of other vehicles (sense 1, early 20th century)."
So it fits the meaning as it is where the controls are.
02-01-16, 10:12 PM
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Hey Dave, come on now. There are children in this forum and there is no need to bring down the forum to sexual innuendos and double entendres :-)
02-01-16, 10:34 PM
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I don't care much for cockpits, but if we have to live with them, well, I get to have fun with these "cockpits" on one bike. It has two. Swapping them takes about 5 minutes. (Different bars, quill stems, levers and calipers. It's a completely different bike after the swap.)
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02-01-16, 11:03 PM
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is your cockpit laterally stiff and vertically compliant?... and I hope it's aero, aero is everything.