I assumed brifters had been coined as more manufacturers (Campagnolo, SRAM, there's another whose name I can't recall) produced integrated brake and gear levers. A way of both avoiding copyright problems and indicating that you're referring to a whole genre rather than a particular firm's product. It does sound ugly, but that's just my opinion, I'm sure some like the sound of the word.
Kim, you are very bad!
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 14 June, 2012, 02:07:16 pmAn abbreviation that sticks in my craw is alu. The English abbreviation for aluminium alloy used to be pronounce as alley. Alu just sounds so wrong but I assume again it is the magazine editors trying to write in a manner that an international market will understand.I dislike the misuse of "alloy" when they mean "aluminium alloy". I've never owned an alumnium alloy frame but most of my bike frames are alloy - iron alloyed with manganese, chromium, molybdenum, nickel or vanadium, and of course carbon.
An abbreviation that sticks in my craw is alu. The English abbreviation for aluminium alloy used to be pronounce as alley. Alu just sounds so wrong but I assume again it is the magazine editors trying to write in a manner that an international market will understand.
I road my bike yesterday, and I had to use the breaks and peddles!