Today's hipster buzzword: "bespoke"🧚🏻‍♂️

concours · Feb 1, 2023

EstuaryBoy · Feb 1, 2023

But can it compete with the 961 for 'specialness?'

(see latest video review

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grandpaul · Feb 1, 2023

I can top that: "This is my bespoke build"

concours · Feb 1, 2023

"A REAL dirt bike bespoke wheeled..."

concours · Feb 1, 2023

I'm "building" a twin spindle, twin turret, 7 axis turning center today

Craig · Feb 1, 2023

Wow !

MikeG · Feb 1, 2023

I be spoke at by mah teacher befoe about mah grammer and behavior but I doan give no shyte bout it.

KiwiShane · Feb 1, 2023

That build is definitely "custom"

concours · Feb 1, 2023

KiwiShane said:
That build is definitely "custom"

Bespoke cafe racer build

grandpaul · Feb 1, 2023

They're using it to sell refrigerators (on TV) as well...

MikeG · Feb 1, 2023

Keep this up and you'll be spoken to in a stern manner!

concours · Feb 1, 2023

Keep this up and you'll be spoken to in a stern manner!

"I'm exempt"
Lol

concours · Feb 6, 2023

Bespoke contrasting designs milled into the aluminum end cap on this build.

Flatspot · Feb 6, 2023

She ain’t available man, she bespoke for already

Tornado · Feb 6, 2023

concours said:
"A REAL dirt bike bespoke wheeled..."

When I made my rear Commando wheel lacing (first ever for me), I stood back, sipped me cup of tea and declared that wheel "Be Spoked"!

Big_Jim59 · Feb 6, 2023

I think the word they were looking for was "sophomoric" and not "sophomore." Just sayin'.

concours · Feb 6, 2023

Big_Jim59 said:
I think the word they were looking for was "sophomoric" and not "sophomore." Just sayin'.

Second year flash-in-the-pan boutique bike?
V-twin cruiser.... so unique!

Tornado · Feb 6, 2023

In my former life in a large global BioPharma company, we had a genius fellow who would design and build all sorts of amazing equipment (everything from small lab equipment, to highly specialized environmental control systems for super high sanitary clean rooms for animal care) the scientists to use in their research. This guy was also actually a staff scientist, but was operating at such a Da Vinci level (for real, not being sarcastic here). Anyway, I was chatting with him one day, talking about his plans to build a useful gizmo he'd come up with to solve a very real problem in the lab...he wanted to make a series of them to make available across all the global research sites in the company. I pointed out that when service and support was needed with these very bespoke things, he would be the only person able to understand the inner workings and do that stuff. Not a good idea for long term strategy. I was kinda shocked when he queried what I meant by bespoke. He didn't seem to know what that meant. Within a few years, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour...

concours · Feb 6, 2023

Tornado said:
In my former life in a large global BioPharma company, we had a genius fellow who would design and build all sorts of amazing equipment (everything from small lab equipment, to highly specialized environmental control systems for super high sanitary clean rooms for animal care) the scientists to use in their research. This guy was also actually a staff scientist, but was operating at such a Da Vinci level (for real, not being sarcastic here). Anyway, I was chatting with him one day, talking about his plans to build a useful gizmo he'd come up with to solve a very real problem in the lab...he wanted to make a series of them to make available across all the global research sites in the company. I pointed out that when service and support was needed with these very bespoke things, he would be the only person able to understand the inner workings and do that stuff. Not a good idea for long term strategy. I was kinda shocked when he queried what I meant by bespoke. He didn't seem to know what that meant. Within a few years, he was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour...

Ohhhhhkaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy......

Sounds like your wordsmithing was accurate for those machines?

Big_Jim59 · Feb 6, 2023

concours said:
Second year flash-in-the-pan boutique bike?
V-twin cruiser.... so unique!

Any bike that uses a Harley clone is already compromised in some fashion. See "Buell" for really heroic design attempts using Harley lumps. Maybe they are banking on Keanu Reeves being the next incarnation of Steve McQueen to sell bikes?