Re: [CR]re: The worst name for a bicycle company ??

(Example: Bike Shops)

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:39:36 -0500
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: The worst name for a bicycle company ??
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <014801c3f2b0$286b9190$0100a8c0@warehouse>


At least for tires the inimitable Dae Yung.

But the problem runs both ways. My Alfa Romeo 164 is known as a 168 in Hong Kong because " In the Cantonese dialect, which is prevalent in Hong Kong, 164, when pronounced as a phase, literally means "the more you go the more you die."

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ