BMX tyre names

Reply to Pete Biggs

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These are real products:
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Schwalbe Crazy Bob Voxom Factor Nine Maxxis Maxxdaddy
Hoffman Skidmark Snafu Knob Job Snafu Rim Job Gusset Pimp
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What next!!?
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The Snafu Gratuitous

The Gusset Prostitute

The Voxom Saw-you-coming

The Maxxis Hey-kids-dig-these-crazy-new-tyres-they're-really-hep-
to- the-groove-know-what-I'm-saying-daddyo-that'll-be-
=A336-please

--=20 Mark, UK. We hope to hear him swear, we love to
hear him squeak, We like to see him biting fingers in his
horny beak.

Pete Biggs said:

These are real products:

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What next!!?

I guess they're being hip, cool and trendy... But I think
the award for just plain unfortunate naming goes to the
German recumbent trike which revels in the name of "Thorax
Sinus". What *were* they thinking?

Pete.
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Peter Clinch said:

Pete Biggs said:

These are real products:

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Quoted message said:

What next!!?

I guess they're being hip, cool and trendy... But I think
the award for just plain unfortunate naming goes to the
German recumbent trike which revels in the name of "Thorax
Sinus". What *were* they thinking?

Maths probably - the English name for that one is "Sine" to
go with their other model the "Tangent". The German version
does sound odd to English ears though.

--
Carol Change is inevitable, except from a vending
machine. (Anon)

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I just fitted some Kona Jack [censored] grips to my mtb...

I guess those would be slicks?

Jon

Carol Hague said:

Maths probably - the English name for that one is "Sine"
to go with their other model the "Tangent". The German
version does sound odd to English ears though.

We'll just have to re-release the Silver Mist.

- Richard 🙂

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Jon Senior said:

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I just fitted some Kona Jack [censored] grips to my mtb...

I guess those would be slicks?

Grips as in bar grips, not tyres. They're kind of nobbly
as you ask.

Doki said:

Jon Senior said:

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Quoted message said:

I just fitted some Kona Jack [censored] grips to my mtb...

I guess those would be slicks?

Quoted message said:

Grips as in bar grips, not tyres. They're kind of nobbly
as you ask.

I was amused to notice that the Kona grips on my
2001 Nunu glow in the dark. Sort of useful insofar
as I can find the bike in the shed when I've
forgotten to take a torch down with me at night🙂

--
Tim.