Althea Draper Mar 27, 2021:

According to this website - "Un vélo de voyage sans ses sacoches est un vélo nu… j’ai hâte de rhabiller le mien."
https://www.jacques-sirat.com/carence-de-vastitude/

Conor McAuley Mar 26, 2021:

This is a new one on me, but is there often a massive difference between estimated and true numbers?

Althea Draper Mar 26, 2021:

@Philippa and SafeTex According to this (which is about putting a google search facility on your website, but I would guess that the same would apply to a normal search), the number of results shown on the first page is an estimate if you have used a filtered term eg put it in inverted commas in this case. It's not until you look at the final page that it will give you the true number of results. (If you hadn't used the inverted commas you would have had soooo many more results as it doesn't search for the term as a whole but in its individual parts and throws out a whole load of irrelevant results.)
"The total count of results is an estimate of the actual number of results for the search request... When filtering is enabled, for all but the last page of results you see the estimated total number of results. If you have requested the last page of results, then you see the total number of filtered results, which is likely to be much smaller than the estimated total number of results."

https://support.google.com/gsa/answer/6329272?hl=en

Philippa Smith Mar 25, 2021:

Okay what is going on with Google search: I tried "revamp your bike" (which I think was the term I searched earlier), it shows over 500K hit until you click through to the final page, then says there are 142 - can't get my head round it! ;-)

Philippa Smith Mar 25, 2021:

@SafeTex Me neither - because I just tried again to double-check, it showed over a million hits on the first page so I clicked to the second page of hits - and suddenly there were only 16!
But that doesn't change the suitability of the verb here - "rhabiller un vélo" only gets 2 hits for example. As I see it, it's about tone, not technical vocab.

SafeTex Mar 25, 2021:

@ Phippa and all I just don't get how Google works sometimes,

"Revamp a bike" gets 13 ghits right now as it did last night on my computer.

just out of curiosity, what number of ghits do others get for this phrase?

Philippa Smith Mar 25, 2021:

@Safetex In response to your "Ghits tell you that this is the right verb as opposed to "revamp" at least?":
"revamp a bike" gets over 500K Ghits.
One example:https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2018/10/08/how-to-revamp-...
So clearly an appropriate verb. As I pointed out in my answer, there are lots of possibilities here, not one "right verb".

Nikki Scott-Despaigne Mar 24, 2021:

Suggestions If it means more than than just equipping the bike, in context, then maybe:
"to kit out", "to re-fit" (like with a boat).
If the term includes the whole of the bike from scratch, then:
"to do up"

Conor McAuley Mar 24, 2021:

Solid references from Althea. I think "déshabiller et rhabiller" should be the term to translate, as there's a bit more than basic meaning going on in there.

mchd Mar 24, 2021:

@ Philippa D'accord avec votre point de vue !

Philippa Smith Mar 24, 2021:

Yes, I don't think it necessarily means disassembling and reassembling the bike, more like choosing accessories to add to it or take off: I'm no bike expert but travel bikes presumably need lots of accessories?
Or, thinking about it, stripping down an old bike (which is what the Atelier specialises in it seems, doing up old bikes) then adding your own features to create almost a tailored bike...

philgoddard Mar 24, 2021:

Good point So déshabiller could mean strip down, as in remove unnecessary features.

Althea Draper Mar 24, 2021:

From what I can see, I think this refers to repainting and/or restoring and kitting the bike out again. Rhabiller, according to Larousse, is more along the lines of "Transformer l'aspect, le décor d'une construction, sans en modifier la structure."

For example, when used here regarding a car, it is used in terms of repainting the car to restore it back to its original colour and shine https://doczz.fr/doc/6392999/fiche-de-présentation-du-cap-pe...

In this next case, the work on the engine and mechanical parts has been completed and what remains to be done is to 'redress' the car " La restauration touche presque à sa fin puisqu’il « suffit » de rhabiller l’auto (sièges, pare-chocs, optiques…) mais le temps de travail atteint déjà 80 heures, ce qui équivaut à environ 7 000 euros de facture." https://www.largus.fr/actualite-automobile/video-ma-peugeot-...