Tour of California

[Bluetree]

One more question, albeit a silly one...

How do you pronounce Mavic? I've heard people say Mah-vic, May-vic... etc.

Boy, did I get grief when I pronounced SRAM "S-RAM", which was the way everyone I knew pronounced it. It is simply... "Sram'

[slinkedog]

We always say, "mah-VEEK." Don't know if it's right or not.

[bikerchick68]

Mavic... like havoc...

here's what it stands for:

Manufacture d'Articles Vélocopediques Idoux et Chanel (French wheel manufacturer)

(I googled something one day and stumbled across that... ) and the history:

Two brothers, Léon and Laurent Vielle, created a 'nickel-plating' business in 1889. A little later Charles Idoux and Lucien Chanel ventured into the 'manufacture and the sale of spare parts for bicycles'.
While the Vieille brothers founded Etablissements Métallurgiques du Rhône (EMR) with the brand name AVA, the latter created MAVIC, Manufacture d’Articles Vélocipédiques Idoux et Chanel (Idoux & Chanel’s Manufactory of Articlesfor Velocipedes). The common factor between these two businesses was their President, Henry Gormand.