New contender for worst bike name

[legrandefromage]

Townsend Yaksmakka:

 

[The History Man]

Is that like a Donkey Walloper?

They must have known.

 

[REKIBorter]

Re:

Haibike translates as Shark Bikes and Rotwild as Red Deer. Not too bad, but lost in translation. Is it Kona that means something very rude in Portuguese?

 

[syncrosfan]

"Haibike translates as Shark Bikes and Rotwild as Red Deer"
Exactly! As a German speaker I find them pretty lame. Rotwild has an air of pretentiousness about it that rubs me the wrong way.

 

[Fudd]

Dogs Bollox and Donkis Nob? Have a word with yourself Mr Yates, great frames ruined by getting a 12 year old to name them.

Off Road Toad. Probably sounded cool for a few months back in 1990 but makes me cringe now.

As for Titanal, best not discuss that one on a family forum...

FWIW they are acronyms.

Wheres the cool list I'm sure they were there too... C.A.T.S W.I.S.K.A.S etc.

I'm well aware of that. Still, it doesn't excuse the fact that when naming frames it appears that he assembled a focus group of school kids to decide what they should be called, and that includes the Cats Wiskas :facepalm: .

 

[Fudd]

How do you pronounce that?

Tight anal. Or tit anal or tit Ann al.

Or any combination of above.

Google it. Go on, I dare ya!*




















*Just don't do it at work or if kids are in the room :shock:

 

[sinnerman]

Dogs Bollox and Donkis Nob? Have a word with yourself Mr Yates, great frames ruined by getting a 12 year old to name them.

Off Road Toad. Probably sounded cool for a few months back in 1990 but makes me cringe now.

As for Titanal, best not discuss that one on a family forum...

FWIW they are acronyms.

Wheres the cool list I'm sure they were there too... C.A.T.S W.I.S.K.A.S etc.

I'm well aware of that. Still, it doesn't excuse the fact that when naming frames it appears that he assembled a focus group of school kids to decide what they should be called, and that includes the Cats Wiskas :facepalm: .

I guess you never read Viz magazine then....

 

[reindeer]

Re:

Genesis - don't know if it's Phil Collins or the bible. Nothing wrong with both, but I don't want a bike with that name on it. Shame they have some nice frames.

 

[The History Man]

That was it, the gothic text one.

Prince Albert.

Do I need to add a pic?

 

[whoa]

Re: Re:

The worst names I've seen here in Portugal are both from German bike manufacturer Berg Cycles: Torah and Stuka. Clearly the guy who named them had just been reading about nazi persecution of the jews and world war 2...

German bike manufacturer? I'm with you that most german bicycle brands have stupid names, but i never heard about that brand. Looks like a portuguese brand to me. They don't even have a distributor over here.
https://www.bergcycles.com/about
https://www.bergcycles.com/distributors

To add more stupid german brandnames:
Corratec
Hercules
Red Bull (imho much worse than Rotwild)
Rose