Names for your bike

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  • Coriander
    Coriander Posts: 1,326
    ride_whenever wrote:
    well pompino is italian for bj apparently...

    I know. That's why I snorted.

    Just don't understand the logic behind the manufacturers calling it that.
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    sufferingpete wrote:
    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!

    I've always held this to be true (the female bit not the pain and suffering bit), yet I ride a Prince. I don't want to be riding a male bike, but seriously how gay would Princess be?!
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    Mine have names, not genders. They still get called "it".

    I'm not that sad....
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    jashburnham wrote:
    I've always held this to be true (the female bit not the pain and suffering bit), yet I ride a Prince. I don't want to be riding a male bike, but seriously how gay would Princess be?!

    :lol::lol::lol:

    I don't generally genderize things, but when I collected my road bike, the girl wheeling her her said 'here she is' and so she has been a she ever since. When I got my pink mountain bike, I found it amusing to refer to it as a him.

    It's quite appropriate for the pair - she's sleek and speedy, he's thick and chunky. :D

    The Bowery, again thanks to a comment in the shop when being collected, is referred to as the Batmobile. But that's not its name.
    Commuting: Giant Bowery 08
    Winter Hack: Triandrun Vento 3
    Madone

    It's all about me...
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    linsen wrote:
    Mine have names, not genders. They still get called "it".

    I'm not that sad....

    It's ok to call your bikes Frank, Joanne and Gladys, but not to refer to them as he or she? :o:lol:
    Commuting: Giant Bowery 08
    Winter Hack: Triandrun Vento 3
    Madone

    It's all about me...
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    well yes I think that's what I think. The whole thing only became an issue when I got two extra bikes. There is a story behind Joanne's name - I'll tell you when I see you!
    Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    iain1775 wrote:
    I have a Commencal Meta 55 - as it has 5" suspension travel it is called the "The 5 inch C.o.c.k" :lol:
    and a Commencal Flame VIP Titanium - "The Ti-C.o.c.k" :lol:

    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!!

    Leave those full stops in - that leaves in in the realm of quirky MTB names like the Roberts D.O.G.S.B.O.L.X. (I forget what that stands for - Dirt Orientated Geometry System... [something something something something]) and the Yates D.O.N.K.I.S.N.O.B. (explanation of that one on the Yates website)!
    But yes, the forum censorship thing can be annoying when you mean the c-word in the sense of poultry; you feel a right fool (by which I really do mean fool) when trying to post messages about things such as Baxters Fool (by which I actually mean c--k)-A-Leekie Soup and it coming out totally different....

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    mine have full names.

    bob jackson, w.f holdsworth, ernesto colnago, and then two others - the monster, and the beast.
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  • pst88
    pst88 Posts: 621
    Well I wasn't allowed to give my bikes girls names, made the mrs jealous. My good bike is called "Black Thunder", and my mountain bike is just called "the bad bike". :D
    Bianchi Via Nirone Veloce/Centaur 2010
  • peejay78
    peejay78 Posts: 3,378
    this one's called "WF".

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    this ones called 'ernesto'

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    this one's called 'the brown beast'

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    this one's called bob

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  • damage36
    damage36 Posts: 282
    Mine is called Madeleine after the Decemberists' 'Apology Song' (I'll be surprised if anyone on here has heard this!).
    My ridiculous old town bike I rattle around cambridge is fondly known by my friends as the Gazelle.

    DMG
    Legs, lungs and lycra.

    Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    The Giant is a bit of a wolf in sheeps clothing - it looks like an MTB but the slicks and gearing make it deceptively fast and I suspect given its colour (gun metal grey) and odd frame angles that it probably won't show up on radar - reminds me of an F117 and therefore in future will be known as the NIghthawk :) :oops:
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    Yes I should know better :oops: :oops:
  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    Mine are called "Road bike" and "Mountain bike".
    Steve C
  • amircp
    amircp Posts: 132
    Mine are named in order of adoption - see below
    1
    2
    3
  • Massimo
    Massimo Posts: 318
    My Cramerotti Gardena is called Fausto
    My Cannondale R800 is called Colin
    My Specialzed Tarmac is called Trev
    My early nineties Ribble SLX is called Chris (as in Boardman) :wink:
    Crash 'n Burn, Peel 'n Chew
    FCN: 2

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