Cycling terms - how do you pronounce?

[steve52]

bugger i hardley have the lungs to get up hills, now i have to speak as well?

 

[ColinJ]

bugger i hardley have the lungs to get up hills, now i have to speak as well?

And in French!

 

[ASC1951]

["Audax] Or-dax

Ow-dax is also acceptable. It depends where you learnt your Latin.

 

[ayceejay]

I have linked to two web sites: one explains what a randonneur is, the other offers a table of how to conjugate the verb randonner which is way more information than any sane person could want to know.
http://veloweb.ca/randonneuring/
http://conjf.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=randonner

 

[Beebo]

How about gillet.
I can never bring myself to go full on with the french pronounciation. So I sort of mumble it.

 

[Fnaar]

dzai-unt
hal-fuds
li-dul
al-dee

ha-waay man feck off mee bak -weel, like ya b*stid

 

[ColinJ]

Ow-dax is also acceptable. It depends where you learnt your Latin.

That's interesting! I only did one year of Latin, but I quite enjoyed it. I would have liked to continue with it but it made more sense to switch to German.

 

[ColinJ]

How about gillet.
I can never bring myself to go full on with the french pronounciation. So I sort of mumble it.

It only has one 'l' - gilet - and is pronounced zhee-lay (the "zh" as in Dr Zhivago).

 

[colly]

I have a total mental block with, er, hang on while I check ... 'Sudoku' ... I can never remember if it is Sudoku, or Soduko.

It's pronounced ........su-bar-oo.

 

[Diggs]

Do you stop for coffee and cake at a cafe or café?

 

[PeteXXX]

Lezyne?

 

[growingvegetables]

Halfords' Carrera Valour is apparently pronounced ........ wait for it ............

"viloooor"

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I have linked to two web sites: one explains what a randonneur is, the other offers a table of how to conjugate the verb randonner which is way more information than any sane person could want to know.
http://veloweb.ca/randonneuring/
http://conjf.cactus2000.de/showverb.en.php?verb=randonner

Hah, they've left the past historic tense out! I can't remember how it goes though :il randonna....nous randonnâmes...ils randonassent, summat like that.

 

[buggi]

bontraguer innertubes. i always call them Bonty's.

Also, although i've been told many times... Cervelo (never sure whether its and S or a K at the beginning and velo or veeeloooooooo.... whatever)

 

[PeteXXX]

LIDL = Leeeedel or summat