Names for your bike

Bassjunkieuk

OK, maybe I'm missing something here but who else has given their bikes(s) names?

I've seen in linsen signature that her bikes have names and I've just noticed another person refering to their bike by a name.

So here's the question:

Have you named your bike? If so what is it??

If you haven't what name would you give your bike?

For me I haven't named mine, heck I'm having trouble finding names I like for the kids (gone through 5 names for them each so far......) let alone the bike :-)

NGale

Shanks' Donkey usually....

nicklouse

yes i name them.

greg66_tri_v2.0

I named the first one Mrs. Greg T.

Then I couldn't think of a name for the second one.

always_tyred

Greg66 wrote:

I named the first one Mrs. Greg T.

Then I couldn't think of a name for the second one.

I take it that you delete your browser history at regular intervals?

DonDaddyD

Donovan!

When I first met Donovan:

I was on my way (via train) from work in Camberwell heading to DeVer Cycles in Norbury at lunch time (tee hehe yeah I was skiving) to look at a SCR2. The guy wheeled out a ready assembled SCR3, I didn't test ride or anything, I didn't need to because from the moment I set eyes on him I knew he was called Donovan and that I had to have him. Seriously! He wheeled out the bike and I said in my head "That's it that's Donovan" I don't even know where the name came from!

It took me a day to break it to my girlfriend that I wasn't taking her to the Lake District as we agreed because I bought a bike. Its something we don't discuss but she has displayed a certain amount of jealousy and resentment towards Donovan :shock: Lol, even her Mum asks me how's Donovan :shock:

I love my Donovan.

linsen

I also have Gladys

Jen J

No no no no no no no no no no.

snooks

After burning brain cells for literally seconds I came up with the names for my bikes

1994 Marin Pine Mountain - All weather commuter
Ol' Rusty - Cos it's old and....erm rusty

1989 Kona Fire Mountain - Owned since new
Heavy Kona - cos it's heavy

1994 Kona Kula - Fun MTB
Light Kona - Cos it's light

08 Felt Z65 - Dry Commuter, weekend tarmac cruncher
The Felt - Cos it's made by Felt

Those are the only names I have for them

NGale

I have already named by next bike which I hope to have by the new year. Will be called Picard, as it is a Trek :roll:

linsen

I don't talk to them though, or give them personalities. It saves me saying "the road bike", "the mountain bike" or "the cr4p bike" all the time.

hisoka

My old bike, before being stolen, was "La Moo" as it was a french cow. But it wasn't french, and it wasn't a cow. It just sounded funny and it is fun to say when talking to your bike on a long long ride.

New bike when I get it (rather then one borrowing at moment) will be either
"La Moo Too" or "La Moo 2", not sure which it depends on the nature of the bike I suppose.

Littigator

My first carbon road bike was immediately named The Beast.

My fixie, I didn't have a name for. But I've just bought my wife a vintage ladies roadie which I've restored, when it arrived by courier she said "Hello Rosie" so Rosie she is, so my fixie is now called Jim.

Belv

They tell me at work that i must be mad to commute by bike.
They have obviously met you lot and are tarring me with the same brush!
:roll:
I would no more name my bicycle than name my saucepans or pens or other tools i use during the course of my day.
Totally bonkers!

knight2k

My touring bike is named the 'Knight'. I only called it that so I could title the online journal (link in sig) of my first tour 'It'll be all Wight on the Knight'. I went to the Isle of Wight - can you see what I did there?

My other two are loosely named as the Booze Bike (self explanatory) and the Racing Snake - it's thin and fast (Lemond Tourmalet).

I’m in the process of joining the fixed wheel club – what shall I baptise that one? Hmmm.

ansbaradigeidfran

Hm, my current bike doesn't have a name yet. Childhood ones didn't have any names other than 'the Raleigh' type.

I expect that this'll change, as all my various computers are named (for networking purposes). A desktop with a turquoise and silver trim was the Turq, then when it got a new Apple-Mac-white case, it became Krikkit (Douglas Adams reference). My succession of IBM Thinkpad laptops have held the name Tpad, and when I got a bluetoothy phone (Nokia) it became Npad. There's been more imaginative names like Teatray, Thunderbird, and Brick, and the names my friends give to theirs range from sweethearts to German teutonic mottos!

But no, my bike is still 'the cheap, cheerful, Chinese folding MTB (with full suspension)' for now...

Jay dubbleU

Wrong wrong wrong :shock: One of our IT guys has named the servers at work after characters from Hitch-hikers Guide - trying to explain links to Trillian or Zaphod to visiting consultants is just embarrassing

biondino

My old car had a name, but I can't think of anything else I've named. It was called Mr Rushworth as it was slow, dull and not interesting in any possible context. Anyone get the reference without cheating? (NB if any male "guesses" it correctly I'll know you've cheated )

Jen J

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Wrong wrong wrong :shock: One of our IT guys has named the servers at work after characters from Hitch-hikers Guide - trying to explain links to Trillian or Zaphod to visiting consultants is just embarrassing

When I started work at my current company, the printers were all named after Trumpton characters. The one near me was Cuthbert.

Bassjunkieuk

ansbaradigeidfran wrote:

Hm, my current bike doesn't have a name yet. Childhood ones didn't have any names other than 'the Raleigh' type.

I expect that this'll change, as all my various computers are named (for networking purposes). A desktop with a turquoise and silver trim was the Turq, then when it got a new Apple-Mac-white case, it became Krikkit (Douglas Adams reference). My succession of IBM Thinkpad laptops have held the name Tpad, and when I got a bluetoothy phone (Nokia) it became Npad. There's been more imaginative names like Teatray, Thunderbird, and Brick, and the names my friends give to theirs range from sweethearts to German teutonic mottos!

But no, my bike is still 'the cheap, cheerful, Chinese folding MTB (with full suspension)' for now...

My manager got hold of an IBM desktop and notebook and named them Stinkcentre and Stinkpad, he's not a fan of IBM........

I was also once on training at the St Alban's TK Maxx store and they had named all their scamp machines (the things that print those red labels that make the cheap cr4p even cheaper cr4p) after the characters from Buffy.........

Jay dubbleU

Jen J wrote:

Jay dubbleU wrote:

Wrong wrong wrong :shock: One of our IT guys has named the servers at work after characters from Hitch-hikers Guide - trying to explain links to Trillian or Zaphod to visiting consultants is just embarrassing

When I started work at my current company, the printers were all named after Trumpton characters. The one near me was Cuthbert.

I think we may have been traumatised by past experience, Jen 8)

gtvlusso

I don't name them, but if I had to:

Ambrosio Commuter - Bitsa; as it is built out of spare bits I had in the shed
Merlin - Ow!; I keep falling off it whilst MTB'ing
Boardman - Holy Shite; because it is quite a fast and agile bike........

See pics in signature...

sufferingpete

mine are named

summer bike

winter bike

Bikes should always be feminine – no male would ever inflict such pain and suffering on another so they must be female!

Light blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance!

gtvlusso

My guitar (Fender SRV strat (circa 1995)) is called "The Beast"....because it is beaten to hell and has heavy guage strings on it....13 years of solid playing has taken it's toll and it is one ugly mother now....And my 1992 Audi 80 2.8 Auto is also called The Beast. The naming convention causes all sorts of confusion and trauma in my house.

ride_whenever

My girlfriend likes to name bikes, so far she's named both of hers and two of mine and my housemates.

Her first roadbike is called Baby, and it is waaaay too big for her
Her new (second hand) bianchi is called Celeste
my 456 is called The Monster
my pompino is called BJ
my housemates rockhopper is called Boron

she still needs to come up with names for my silly little bike and my ssxc bike but I'm sure she will at some point.

iain1775

I have a Commencal Meta 55 - as it has 5" suspension travel it is called the "The 5 inch C.o.c.k"
and a Commencal Flame VIP Titanium - "The Ti-C.o.c.k"

The C.o.c.k bit came from another internet forum - www.CommencalOwnersClub.com, or "The C-o-C-k club" as the missus christened it!

BTW just edited as noticed you cannot write the name for a male chicken on this forum, it gets changed to Fool, how odd!!

salsarider79

My Langster gets call Richard the Third. Rhyming slang...

coffeecup

My commuter is just called the Bianchi, although i like the idea above of calling it Celeste, and my Dahon is called the geek

But my weekend ride is called 'The One'

Coriander

ride_whenever wrote:

My girlfriend likes to name bikes, so far she's named both of hers and two of mine and my housemates.

my pompino is called BJ

Snort. Bad girl.

ride_whenever

well pompino is italian for bj apparently...

linsen

Ha!

I knew I probably wasn't alone in the naming thing........