SRAM pronunciation

bazbadger
bazbadger Posts: 553
edited February 2009 in The bottom bracket
just a thought.

I find SRAM tricky to pronounce correctly, but if one adopts a Sean Connery voice it becomes deceptively easy.

So, if you find yourself in the local LBS and having to plump for campag because you can't say SRAM then just adopt this new method and you'll be fine, and double tapping in no time at all...
Mens agitat molem
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  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    I don't have problems saying SRAM, but I still buy Campag
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  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    Thank God for inventing the Internet, where you don't have to be able to pronounce anything at all. Just don't leave out an apostrophe out of a post or its Hades for you :twisted:
  • Tempestas
    Tempestas Posts: 486
    I pronounce it SRAM, but I have heard some people call it SRAM and even SRAM at times, but I just stick with SRAM as it's easier to pronounce for me. I hope that's helped.
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Someone at the weekend pronounced it as ess-ram, which I'll admit was a new one on me.

    I'm not saying they're wrong, but I'd always assumed it was sss-ram.
  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    I always thought it was "ESS-RAM", but a mate pronounces it as "SHRAM" ???
  • jairaj
    jairaj Posts: 3,009
    Tempestas wrote:
    I pronounce it SRAM, but I have heard some people call it SRAM and even SRAM at times, but I just stick with SRAM as it's easier to pronounce for me. I hope that's helped.

    :lol:
  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    components are pronounced CAM-PAG-NOLO

    everyone know this
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • Ieuanllan
    Ieuanllan Posts: 152
    Watched a video on their website, and the guy talking pronounced it sss-ram.

    Liking the Sean Connery idea though, I'm looking at maybe buying the "shram" Red equipped Felt F3 at the weekend, and now any potential blushes will be shpared.
  • nwallace
    nwallace Posts: 1,465
    SchRAM.

    Wouldn't SSS-RAMbe βRAM?

    I can't rmember German well enough, but most words I remember starting with S, sounded like Sch, though I think they all were Sh---
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    Martin Van Nostrand Posts: 149
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    andy_wrx wrote:
    Someone at the weekend pronounced it as ess-ram, which I'll admit was a new one on me.

    I'm not saying they're wrong, but I'd always assumed it was sss-ram.

    I say both ess-ram and Shram depending on my mood...
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    fast as fupp wrote:
    components are pronounced CAM-PAG-NOLO

    everyone know this
    Er, no. The G is soft. It's pronounced CAMPAN-YOLO.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    I'm a Shimano man myself,

    Only 'cos there's no debate/confusion over how it's pronounced thus avoiding the embarassment of making myself sound a right tit when mis-pronouncing SRAM or Campagnolo. :wink:
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  • whyamihere
    whyamihere Posts: 7,716
    Frank the tank wrote:
    I'm a Shimano man myself,

    Only 'cos there's no debate/confusion over how it's pronounced thus avoiding the embarassment of making myself sound a right tit when mis-pronouncing SRAM or Campagnolo. :wink:
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    SHIM ARNO. :D
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  • Elganesh
    Elganesh Posts: 143
    SHY - MAR - NO :lol:
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  • Steve Kish
    Steve Kish Posts: 216
    ESS-RAM

    CAM-PAG (hate the USA version of CAMPY :x )

    SHI-MAR-NO
    AT MY AGE, I SHOULD KNOW BETTER !!!
  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    whyamihere wrote:
    fast as fupp wrote:
    components are pronounced CAM-PAG-NOLO

    everyone know this
    Er, no. The G is soft. It's pronounced CAMPAN-YOLO.

    i know

    my G was silent :D
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Frank the tank wrote:
    I'm a Shimano man myself,

    Only 'cos there's no debate/confusion over how it's pronounced thus avoiding the embarassment of making myself sound a right tit when mis-pronouncing SRAM or Campagnolo. :wink:

    Your a Shy mano? Find a good bike to ride and that will cure your shyness. :lol:
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  • mclarent
    mclarent Posts: 784
    For me...

    Shimano = Shi ma no (99.9% sure that's correct in Japanese)

    Can anyone pronounce Campagnolo with a silent G and not put on a fake Italian accent?

    Definantely a Sean Connery impersonator on SRAM, but pretty sure I copied David Harmon on that one!
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  • SteveR_100Milers
    SteveR_100Milers Posts: 5,987
    Shimano

    Shold be pronounced according to the rules of romaji as Shee mah naw buts said with short clipped vowels (else it would be spelt shiimaanoo)
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  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    No, there is still no "real debate" to be taken over the pronunciation of Shimano.

    If everyone else on this website wishes to have one, get on with it. I know where I stand thanks. :wink:
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  • feel
    feel Posts: 800
    I thought it was SHIM- A- NO, but my mate pronounces it ESS - HIM - AN - OH :wink:
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  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    shimanos pronounced FEE-SHING TAH-KEL
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  • mwo
    mwo Posts: 57
    fast as fupp wrote:
    shimanos pronounced FEE-SHING TAH-KEL
    :lol:
  • bazbadger
    bazbadger Posts: 553
    this pronunciation issue is really quite serious.

    For example, Fiat lost out big time. A chap in a dealership wants to buy a Cinquincento... "i'd like to buy a sequin.... sequin..... oh forget it, give us a Punto"

    But it looks like Sean has saved the day for cyclists who want to double tap on the drops... none of this changing gear with your thumb business - I mean - c'mon.... :lol:
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  • Rich-Ti
    Rich-Ti Posts: 1,831
    I thought Shimano Was pronounced "SH1T MAN, NO!"?
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  • Kenjaja1
    Kenjaja1 Posts: 744
    This is all very very silly :roll: Mr Sean Connery don't know nuffink about bikes! I have seen him in his various roles travelling in fast cars, slow cars, aeroplanes (commercial & military), space rockets, backpack rockets, motor bikes, power boats, smowmobiles, skis, helicoptors and lots of other carbon very unneutral modes of transport. however I have never seen him on a bicycle. How would he satisfy the lust in his loins (as he does in all his films) with a beautiful ample bosomed lady on a bicycle? I cannot believe that he even knows how to ride a bicycle, so how can he possibly be held up as an authority on the pronunciation of Campag, SRAM or even Shimano?

    Unless any of you can post pictures of Sean Connery making the beast with two backs while sitting on a Brooks Swallow or a Blackburn carrier then he has no credibility in this field.

    The real question is not how one should pronounce "SRAM" or "Shimano" so much as "Why would anyone want to?". If you go to a good LBS (pronounced "LBS"). They should automatically supply you with Campagnola (however you say it) when asking for the part.

    If I have offended any heretics who do not use Campag gear then Good!
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  • bazbadger
    bazbadger Posts: 553
    They should automatically supply you with Campagnola (however you say it) when asking for the part.

    I thought Campagnola was a peculiar shade of paint....

    you live and learn.
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  • alecstilleyedye
    alecstilleyedye Posts: 1,170
    bazbadger wrote:
    this pronunciation issue is really quite serious.

    For example, Fiat lost out big time. A chap in a dealership wants to buy a Cinquincento... "i'd like to buy a sequin.... sequin..... oh forget it, give us a Punto"

    nah, dealer's done alright. the punto is a bigger, more expensive car than the cinquecento (chin-kway-chen-toe)
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