Talk:Chicane

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...usually an S-shape curve or a bus stop...[edit]

The article indicates that a chicane is "usually an S-shape curve or a bus stop". What precisely is a bus stop chicane? The most famous one I know of is at Spa-Francorchamps. I had always just assumed that there had once been an actual bus stop at that chicane, since Spa runs (ran?) on public roads. I guessed that other "bus stop chicanes" were named either in honour of the Belgian one or due to their similarity to it. Can anyone shed more light on this? Pburka 03:00, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bicycle racing too[edit]

A chicane was also used in the last few km of the stage 10 of the 2009 Tour De France bicycle race. Kevink707 (talk) 01:19, 15 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But non-racing bike chicanes are covered with pedestrian chicanes in Chicane (barrier). Seems to me, this just points out that the separate articles make no sense. One article with sections can give better understanding for all chicanes made to discourage speed, no matter whose speed, or why the engineers of chicanery desire slowness. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:42, 25 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Other languages[edit]

In Dutch and German, the word "chicane" (Schikane in German) is primarily used for abuse of rights. I wonder whether that is not the case in English. Rbakels (talk) 21:32, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Use in lyrics[edit]

The word chicane was used in the first verse of the Electric Light Orchestra song, Can't Get it Out of My Head, from their Eldorado album. The context was a reference to a creature of the ocean walking along the wave's chicane. IMHO, it's one of the most unusual words used in pop music lyrics, perhaps second only to Steve Miller's use of the word pompatus in the song The Joker by the Steve Miller Band.

Fgoron2000 (talk) 19:52, 11 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]