Trivial cycling things annoy me?
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Bike names. Just this morning I got a Wrench Science email touting the Scylon, KOKO, Oltre RC, and Filante SLR. I guess "oltre" sort of makes sense, meaning "beyond", but "filante"? Spinning a thread? I suppose the bike industry has to keep up with the weird car names. Very trivial...
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Im not affiliated to Wilier in any way (but if Wilier is willing, my arms are open..), but I think you could tranlate it with "smooth"; when in Italian we say something "fila" means that it goes like butter or something among these lines.
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Filante as an adjective means streamlined, according to Google translate!kbbpll wrote:Bike names. Just this morning I got a Wrench Science email touting the Scylon, KOKO, Oltre RC, and Filante SLR. I guess "oltre" sort of makes sense, meaning "beyond", but "filante"? Spinning a thread? I suppose the bike industry has to keep up with the weird car names. Very trivial...
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The bike over the head thing that has invaded pro cycling bugs me. Where did that come from? Triathalon?
