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French to English translations [PRO] Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Advert for Cycling Workshops
French term or phrase:rhabiller
Les Ateliers de la Rue Voot vous montreront comment déshabiller et rhabiller un vélo de voyage afin d’avoir un vélo adapté à votre budget tout en étant de qualité avec des matériaux de récupération.
Explanation: Strip-down is common for anything mechanical needing to be taken apart, and rebuild, when put with strip-down, achieves the correct meaning in my opinion for a bike that needs customising. Customising implies your adding special bits which may not be the case. Rebuid is more true to rhabiller in the sense that you have taken it apart and re-jigged it to your liking without necessarily adding anything.
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."
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! ;-)
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.
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".
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"
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.
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...
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."
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-...