Inappropriate brand/model names

[Bike Hoarder]

Late 90's stuff like Kona Jack Shit pedals, or G-Spot hubs on your S&M Dirt bike.

 

[kafer-k]

"Dogs Bolx" always put me off Chas Roberts frames

 

[greencat]

Frankly, the trend of calling bikes "trail weapons" is really offputting. I want a bike that seeks to minimise its tyre print rather than dominate, etc

 

[7Speed]

Note a bike - but the Toyota MR2 in France didn’t really sell as it sounded exactly the same as the Toyota Merde.

never liked the teenage boy humour of some of the bike names of the early 80s either. Wouldn’t stop me owning a Roberts DB though!

 

[Gtpulse]

Klein

Fuselage.

 

[bikeworkshop]

So interestingly there are multiple pathways to inappropriateness:

Deceitful marketing (the Townsend)
Lost in translation (titanal)
Deliberately unpleasant (gt aggressor)
Deliberately rude (dogs bolx)

 

[benjabbi]

 

[nic0]

Note a bike - but the Toyota MR2 in France didn’t really sell as it sounded exactly the same as the Toyota Merde.

in the same genre the E-Tron range at Audi (in French "étron" = turd)

 

[Dface]

So interestingly there are multiple pathways to inappropriateness:

Deceitful marketing (the Townsend)
Lost in translation (titanal)
Deliberately unpleasant (gt aggressor)
Deliberately rude (dogs bolx)

Yes I wasn’t sure if it was just bikes / brands they were named wrongly but looks like many interpretations are acceptable so I’ll add the ‘Professional - Black Russian’ Not Professional, not Russian but it was black at least. It would give that Townsend a good run for its money.

 

[nic0]

Picon, the range of parts from Corratec

in France we immediately think of