Originally Posted by thumpism

And the Australian word for trouser clips: boyangs.

Originally Posted by Camilo

The only way I can avoid saying something vulgar and insulting to the user of the term colorway is to justify stifling my anger and dismay by thinking that colorway refers to the overall color design including stripes, highlights, logos, etc. Then I can live with it. Just as I can live with "seat" and "clip in pedals". The alternative would be something like "color treatment" or such, like "window treatment" or "wall treatment". Which is worse?

I can't find such justification for those who either use the word groupset, or non-Italians who use gruppo.

Something I can totally get is the term used by the uncool, "clip in pedals" because about the absolute dumbest custom is calling modern pedals "clipless". Clips - and distinguishing pedals by the lack of them - is referring to such an arcane term and completely out of the realm of understanding of anyone born after, say, 1965, even enthusiastic and knowledgeable cyclists. And there's no need for them to know or have known about clips.

Clip in pedals is such a better term. Or as some call them, my preferred, automatic pedals or step in pedals, like ski bindings were known when we went from heel straps and toe levers that you had to push down engage the binding.

Thank goodness we don't refer to modern landline phones as "crankless phones".

Originally Posted by Vintage Raleigh

I've never heard that before but what do I know? There was a comic strip which ran in the Melbourne evening Herald newspaper from the 30s to the 80s called Ben Bowyang and he wore trousers with clips or were tied at the ankle.

Originally Posted by thumpism

I've seen it spelled with and without the W. I learned the term from an Aussie woman in Germany who explained to me that the term predates cycling, applying also to their cowboys' practice of tying a cord around the pant leg at the ankle. Great word.

Originally Posted by SloButWide

A close second has to be colorway. If the word snuck out of the fashion industry, shouldn't it have a classy Italian or French equivalent?

Originally Posted by Fett2oo5

"So Pedals used to come with clips?"
"No, they used to come with straps, or toe cages, or just flats"

Originally Posted by Andy_K

Also, while this is more of anachronism than misnomenclature, I find it hilarious that the U.S. tariff schedule still distinguishes between cotterless cranks (which are tariff free when imported from most countries) and "other crank-gear and parts thereof" (which carry a 10% tariff).

Originally Posted by AlexCyclistRoch

People are always calling the headtube angle "rake", rather than the fork offset (which is the real meaning of the term "rake").

Originally Posted by Salamandrine

I'm tired of people calling burnsides sideburns. Get it right folks.

Originally Posted by rhm

This is true on some bikes, but on some bikes it really is a triangle. And if you recognize that the "diamond frame" is formed from two triangles, then this is the main one.

So it's a double triangle; but it's still a triangle, and it's in the rear. When we speak of the rear triangle we all know what we're speaking of. Do you have a better term for it?

Originally Posted by SloButWide

A close second has to be colorway. If the word snuck out of the fashion industry, shouldn't it have a classy Italian or French equivalent?

Originally Posted by rhm

I grant you that the mere existence of this thing, the thing that you don't want to call a colorway, is annoying. But the fact is: it exists. Here we have the annoying fact of an annoying word for an annoying phenomenon. But is it an example of misnomenclature? Unless you're going to tell me the correct word for it, I think not.

Originally Posted by noglider

Every time someone says, "I'm jes' sayin'!" I laugh. I understand the spirit in which it's said, but the funny thing is that it adds no meaning to the sentence it accompanies.