Maybe if you said it in the title more people would know?
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They can't know it's a tire repair kit, shhh...
Fair haha. Seems cool.
Why the hell is there an "Ü" in the name? It is a California based company. No natural occurring umlauts within a 10000km radius.
And also btw:
How do you pronounce it?
The correct pronunciation is “g-oop” and not “g-up”…obey the umlaut.
No, this is totally not the correct pronunciation if you obey the umlaut... 😆
Spanish has them, and there's plenty of Spanish in California
You are somewhat right, dots appear above a bunch of Spanish (and even some old fashioned English) words, but are not umlauts (which the company claims their ü to be), but have a different function.
It's a U with two dots on it ehhhhh tomato/tomāto
Pronounced as "gee-yep, we sure decided on dumb name for our company."
Gyoop?
It is very hard to find something fitting, as the ü-sound doesn't seem to exist at all in the English language.
Perhaps the nearest I can think of is, if you take the "eo" sound as you speak it in "theorem", but try to make the "e" noise less high-pitched but make it sound fuller and somewhat deeper.
What's a "Claw Plunger Tool"?
This link at the end of the article is amazing.
They're just trying to see how many places they can stash a plug kit on a bike at this point.
Having a single purpose tool on a saddle rail is an extreme waste of real estate. 🤔