You should see if he has a basement full of cool old top-end stuff to sell. (It seems this only works with people who are too old to use the internets.)[all your base are belong to us]
Gook is a racist term for Viatnemese people, from one of the oddest websites out there:
Gook-Vietnamese-Most likely originated in Korea either by referring Korea's original name, "Hanguk", or during the Korean War when Koreans would ask American GI's "Mi Guk?" ("American?" in Korean) which sounded like they were saying "Me gook." Was soon adopted for use in the Vietnam War.
aware that its primarily used towards Vietnamese, but if the guy can't pronounce (from Alexi's phonetic spelling) Campagnolo and refers to Shimano as "jap shit" I wouldn't put it past 'em.Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
or he was using "gook/gouk" unintelligibly to describe all asians (which I've heard), implying he had Shimano on his bike and didn't like it...Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.