B r i f t e r s

[the bottle ride]

That word belongs with skurfing and frolf in the dustbin of stupid sports terminology.

BINGO! Winner winner winner (confetti falls from the ceiling, blow horns go off and dancing monkeys emerge)

Some words are best not uttered.

Shifters is just fine in modern vernacular.

[wcu]

BINGO! Winner winner winner (confetti falls from the ceiling, blow horns go off and dancing monkeys emerge)

Some words are best not uttered.

Shifters is just fine in modern vernacular.

Sorry but if you say shifters I see down tube, bar end, stem mounted, twist, thumb, suicide shifts, etc.. Oddly I don't think of brake levers with built in shifters at all

hense B R I F T E R S

[zetroc]

If a company called them b_______ in their literature I'd be more inclined to call them that, but they don't. Why make up a word when there are perfectly suitable words everyone already understands?

Nobody has ever been confused by my calling them "shifters".

[wcu]

If a company called them b_______ in their literature I'd be more inclined to call them that, but they don't. Why make up a word when there are perfectly suitable words everyone already understands?

Nobody has ever been confused by my calling them "shifters".

As I wrote above that is way to broad a term, bringing with it all of the variations (and then some) to mind.

Not specific enough. Maybe on the start line of a race but that ain't the real world.....

[jitahs]

Shants.

[zetroc]

As I wrote above that is way to broad a term, bringing with it all of the variations (and then some) to mind.

Not specific enough. Maybe on the start line of a race but that ain't the real world.....

I'm trying to think of a sentence where the word "shifters" as it relates to bicycles isn't specific enough, and failing.

[R.Liverman]

I'm trying to think of a sentence where the word "shifters" as it relates to bicycles isn't specific enough, and failing.

Me too. Shifter? Oh! You mean the thing that makes the derailleur move regardless of where it's mounted.

Brunch is acceptable because it provides a reasonable excuse to drink before lunch. Drinking at breakfast is tacky, drinking at brunch is refined. No need for a made up meal to justify drinking after noon.

[72gmc]

Should I call boxers that aren't baggy briefers?
Is a breathable rain jacket a brainjacket?

I can't get dressed until this is resolved.

[chasea]

Brunch is an abomination of a meal where one is forced to either eat pancakes and eggs at a restaurant that normally serves a full menu, or eat eggs and pancakes at a bar that doesn't normallyserve food at all. And you know how you're kinda tired/kinda hungover and just want more booze to "normalize?" Well your server is kinda tired and hungover too; in fact, this goes for the entire kitchen. And they can't drink on the job because the manager is a dick. So, yes, they're just eggs and pancakes, and they'll take as long as they'll take. Now enjoy not being able to drown out the pretentious blowhards seated a little too close to you.

BFS
Brunch uFcking Sucks

[wcu]

Me too. Shifter? Oh! You mean the thing that makes the derailleur move regardless of where it's mounted.

Brunch is acceptable because it provides a reasonable excuse to drink before lunch. Drinking at breakfast is tacky, drinking at brunch is refined. No need for a made up meal to justify drinking after noon.

What if it was an internal geared hub?

[sharkboyrob]

naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word is brupid.

[corko]

SHART.... a small, unintended defecation that occurs when one relaxes the anal sphincter to fart (blend of "shit" and "fart")

source: Urbandictionary

[jitahs]

I'm trying to think of a sentence where the word "shifters" as it relates to bicycles isn't specific enough, and failing.

"What're building your bike with?"
"Modern w/Assway, not old school dts."

[wcu]

I'm trying to think of a sentence where the word "shifters" as it relates to bicycles isn't specific enough, and failing.

"I was doing a build last night and wound up using these really crappy shifters"

[davids]

Someone needs a nap.

[Bob Ross]

I'm trying to think of a sentence where the word "shifters" as it relates to bicycles isn't specific enough, and failing.

Well, in fairness, I have a dear friend I've known since 1975, he's played in 3 or 4 bands with me, was my roommate for several years, blah blah blah... And we cycled together a bit in our youth. In fact, he was the guy who taught me how to ride through traffic like a meth-crazed messenger decades before there was such a thing. (Or at least a trend.)

Anyway... his awareness of cycling hardware ended right around 1986, when he bought a matched pair of BMX bikes (one to leave at the office, the other at home). Fast-forward a bazillion years, and here I am trying to describe my (then) new Cannondale Synapse with its mixture of circa-2006 Ultegra & DuraAce components.

believe me, if I'd used the word "shifter" -- or "STI", or "Integrated Shifter" etc. it just wouldn't have helped. At all. He was completely blown away by this entire concept of integrating the shift lever with the brake lever!!!!

So yeah, I called it a br!fter. It helped.

[nahtnoj]

Someone keeps missing the joke.

My fucking piece of shit naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word broke on my damn bike yesterday.

And what got edited? If you can't get behind that I feel sorry for you.

[e-RICHIE]

hey! so what's the deal with brunch, i mean that if it's a combination of breakfast and lunch.
how comes there's no lupper or no linner? going forward the parts shall be called shevers atmo.

[hmbatrail]

hey! so what's the deal with brunch, i mean that if it's a combination of breakfast and lunch.
how comes there's no lupper or no linner? going forward the parts shall be called shevers atmo.

I know funny and that, my friend, was funny.

[e-RICHIE]

I know funny and that, my friend, was funny.

it's a tough room atmo...