Tomato or tomato?

The Rookie
The Rookie Posts: 27,812
edited June 2011 in The Crudcatcher
02GF74 wrote:
oh, and it is CALIPER!!! :wink:
Actually it's calliper, but good effort! :roll:

Simon
Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.

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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    I almost exclusively use the lever to position the caliper over the rotor.

    and the British spelling is either LL or L. the Yanks just use one L :wink:
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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    The correct English spelling is LL, but yes many have adopted the US L, along with Rotor (here we go again! - :lol: ) and the German 'alu'.....

    Simon
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    The correct English spelling is LL, but yes many have adopted the US L, along with Rotor (here we go again! - :lol: ) and the German 'alu'.....

    Simon
    Rotor and Calliper are two very, very different things.

    Anyway, the lever method has never worked properly for me, so I always eyeball it.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    1215607777411_f.jpg

    ??

    :D

    Oh...and agree with above....lever squeeze to get it there or thereabouts, then final adjustment by eye if necessary.
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  • getonyourbike
    getonyourbike Posts: 2,648
    02GF74 wrote:
    oh, and it is CALIPER!!! :wink:
    Actually it's calliper, but good effort! :roll:

    Simon
    whoops, I didn't notice the extra L lacking, I was just looking at P instead of B
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    The correct English spelling is LL

    Funnilly enough no it isn't, the correct english spelling is one L, which corrupted to the LL form a few centuries ago, and is now corrupting back by coincidence. The root is calibre.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Really? How are the two linked, since Calibre means something very different to Calliper. Where did the two meanings split?
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    maybe to do with how you measured the calibre?
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  • SpiCan
    SpiCan Posts: 31
    I find that with the brake on technique the screws when tightened tend to move it all out of alignment. So its brake on with an eyeball tweak, err OK, just get it over something white when done, sheet of paper on the floor, and check the disk is centered and straight.
    If not see which way it has moved out of line and set it up opposite before tightening so it ends up straight.
    :roll: Bit long winded all that.

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  • The Rookie
    The Rookie Posts: 27,812
    The correct English spelling is LL, but yes many have adopted the US L, along with Rotor (here we go again! - :lol: ) and the German 'alu'.....

    Simon
    Rotor and Calliper are two very, very different things.
    No shite sherlock - very inciteful - but both examples of US things adopted here as I said, so your point was - oh sorry there wasn't one!

    In many examples of old text calibre is spelt with LL as well....

    Simon
    Currently riding a Whyte T130C, X0 drivetrain, Magura Trail brakes converted to mixed wheel size (homebuilt wheels) with 140mm Fox 34 Rhythm and RP23 suspension. 12.2Kg.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Less of the pedantic sematics please - back to the topic in hand.
  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Semantics, please.

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  • cooldad
    cooldad Posts: 32,599
    Loosen off and brake, hold brake and tighten up each bolt alternating slowly bit by bit. Works for me.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    nicklouse wrote:
    maybe to do with how you measured the calibre?
    Surely if you measured the calibre of something with a pair of callipers, then they're not actually one and the same?
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    so your point was - oh sorry there wasn't one!
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Split for fun and games ;-)
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,981
    I like Calippos.

    I also like Hippos

    Not too keen on Gyppos though.
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    nicklouse wrote:
    maybe to do with how you measured the calibre?

    See also: calibrate, which originally meant to measure the calibre of a gun.

    Caliber comes from an arabic word for a wooden shoe mould, which brings us nicely via french to sabot- wooden shoe- which is also used for the wooden "plug" used in primitive muzzleloaders to seal the bore. (still used today that). And o'course sabotage is what we would have done to that thread, if Supersonic hadn't given us a shoeing.

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  • *AL*
    *AL* Posts: 1,185
    Sonic,that's a Calibra

    You're thinking of a Cavalier Caliber ?

    retrorides_12a77f29-e313-4081-8b73-0c6db88daa83_2.jpg
  • Northwind
    Northwind Posts: 14,675
    That looks like it might be the nicest calibra on the council estate.
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  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,084
    cee wrote:
    1215607777411_f.jpg

    ??

    :D

    .

    I can't eat calippo's especially the strawberry ones because they freak me out and remind me of a dogs hump wand (I also just don't like strawberry)
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Northwind wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    maybe to do with how you measured the calibre?

    See also: calibrate, which originally meant to measure the calibre of a gun.

    Caliber comes from an arabic word for a wooden shoe mould, which brings us nicely via french to sabot- wooden shoe- which is also used for the wooden "plug" used in primitive muzzleloaders to seal the bore. (still used today that). And o'course sabotage is what we would have done to that thread, if Supersonic hadn't given us a shoeing.

    I ****ing love words, me. :lol:
    I still don't follow. If you measured calibre with callipers, then how is that the same thing?
    It doesn't help that this thread is now in two chunks and I have no idea what's going on anymore.
  • moster
    moster Posts: 121
    *AL* wrote:
    Sonic,that's a Calibra

    You're thinking of a Cavalier Caliber ?

    retrorides_12a77f29-e313-4081-8b73-0c6db88daa83_2.jpg

    Since this thread is about being pedantic....it was a Cavalier Excaliber :)
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  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    moster wrote:
    *AL* wrote:
    Sonic,that's a Calibra

    You're thinking of a Cavalier Caliber ?

    retrorides_12a77f29-e313-4081-8b73-0c6db88daa83_2.jpg

    Since this thread is about being pedantic....it was a Cavalier Excaliber :)
    Er No it wasnt?
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  • Gazlar
    Gazlar Posts: 8,084
    VWsurfbum wrote:
    moster wrote:
    *AL* wrote:
    Sonic,that's a Calibra

    You're thinking of a Cavalier Caliber ?

    retrorides_12a77f29-e313-4081-8b73-0c6db88daa83_2.jpg

    Since this thread is about being pedantic....it was a Cavalier Excaliber :)
    Er No it wasnt?

    So thats a Calibre, not a Caliber, Excaliber, Calibra Caliper, Calliper, Callipo or Camembert
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  • moster
    moster Posts: 121
    VWsurfbum wrote:
    moster wrote:
    *AL* wrote:
    Sonic,that's a Calibra

    You're thinking of a Cavalier Caliber ?

    retrorides_12a77f29-e313-4081-8b73-0c6db88daa83_2.jpg

    Since this thread is about being pedantic....it was a Cavalier Excaliber :)
    Er No it wasnt?

    actually you're right it wasn't...my bad
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