Actually you're being the linguistic police, but that's OK and I
should have checked my dictionary instead of blindly accepting the
Google translation. Anyway, I like the sound of "stradale" for a bike
name better than "strada", and the adjectival form makes more sense
for a name.

On May 10, 4:20 pm, Aaron Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> I hate to be the grammar police, but stradale does not mean road in
> Italian, in the way that I think you intend it. Stradale is an
> adjective, as in "incidente stradale" (road accident) or "carta
> stradale" (road map).
>
> The noun for road is strada, as is employed in Hampsten's "Strada
> bianca".
>
> On May 10, 3:07 pm, mark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > For the Rambouillet/ Roadeo replacement: Stradale (Italian for road)
>
> > For the next tourer: Routard (French for trekker).
>
> > As attracted as I am to the Roadeo, the name leaves me cold.
>
> > On May 10, 2:49 pm, Ian Attewell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > 1 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
> > > 2 Milk of Paradise
> > > 3 Honeydew
> > > 4 Ancient Mariner
> > > 5 Xanadu
> > > 6 Abissinyan Maid (Sp)
> > > 7 Dulcimer
> > > 8 Alph
> > > 9 Sinuous Rill
> > > 10 Albatross
>
> > > Sent from my iPod
>
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