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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    Rich158 wrote:
    Embarassingly my love of LoTR dictated my naming policy :oops: :oops:
    [...] I can embrace my inner geek :wink:

    Heheh, the geek shall inherit the Earth. Like many geeks, my naming policy is for my computers/routers rather than my bikes. Currently, my home has residents named Enterprise, Liberator, TARDIS, Voyager and, um, Firefly. OK, that last one doesn't really fit (should be Serenity, really), but I like the name. My laptop is named Orac. Again, it doesn't fit the theme of ship names, but...

    I suppose if I were to name my bikes, I'd call the RockHopper "Rocky". That might set a theme of its own, leading me to choose a boxer's name or nickname for my other bike. That being the case, it'd probably be Ali. The bike is red, with Coca-Cola stickers on it. Coca-Cola is commonly shortened to Coke. Cocaine is a drug, as is dope. Ali coined the terms rope-a-dope, so there we go.

    Alternatively, I suppose I could go down the Rockhopper penguin route. I'm not quite sure where that might lead though...
    MTB commuter / 531c commuter / CR1 Team 2009 / RockHopper Pro Disc / 10 mile PB: 25:52 (Jun 2014)
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    When a bike has "Bob Jackson" written on it it's sort of got a name by default.
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    biondino wrote:
    When a bike has "Bob Jackson" written on it it's sort of got a name by default.

    Ah, but were you to buy another Bob Jackson, then what?
    Swim. Bike. Run. Yeah. That's what I used to do.

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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    fixie is called "Barron" - because it is a Barron frame!

    Boardman is unimaginatively called "road bike".....

    I have a name for my guitar though - battered bitsa Fender Stratocaster - called "old brown"........
  • bigmat
    bigmat Posts: 5,134
    Commuter is "the iron horse", old road bike is "Bluey", no name for the new one yet - I think you need to develop an emotional attachment first and we've only done a few hundred miles together so far.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    The Commuter and The Scott. Inspired, eh? :roll:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Matt_westmids
    Matt_westmids Posts: 38
    gtvlusso wrote:
    fixie is called "Barron" - because it is a Barron frame!

    Boardman is unimaginatively called "road bike".....

    I have a name for my guitar though - battered bitsa Fender Stratocaster - called "old brown"........

    You could of atleast called it Chris. :lol:

    My Bike is called Martin as it's a Marin. Very imaginative. :D
    Commuter Bike ---- Marin Novato
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    JonGinge wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    Embarassingly my love of LoTR dictated my naming policy :oops: :oops:

    The commuter is Frodo - an utterly dependable, unglamorous friend that will never let you down

    The Mad one is Legolas - Light on it's feet, lively as hell, and tougher than it's appearance would suggest.

    I've never revealed this information before, but now it's in the public domain I can embrace my inner geek :wink:
    Lit has a gollum, so, just out of interest, what would warrant a Gimli? Or a Boromir?

    Boromir would have to go through a load of crashes, and survive until one final one and it totally fell into bits. Also it will have to keep pulling towards the darker path.
    Except for the crashes I like the sound of that bike. hehe
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    hisoka wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    Rich158 wrote:
    Embarassingly my love of LoTR dictated my naming policy :oops: :oops:

    The commuter is Frodo - an utterly dependable, unglamorous friend that will never let you down

    The Mad one is Legolas - Light on it's feet, lively as hell, and tougher than it's appearance would suggest.

    I've never revealed this information before, but now it's in the public domain I can embrace my inner geek :wink:
    Lit has a gollum, so, just out of interest, what would warrant a Gimli? Or a Boromir?

    Boromir would have to go through a load of crashes, and survive until one final one and it totally fell into bits. Also it will have to keep pulling towards the darker path.
    Except for the crashes I like the sound of that bike. hehe

    That would be my Ellsworth Joker in that case, the best MTB I ever owned untill I snapped the swingarm clean in half :cry::cry::cry:
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • carlosnashos
    carlosnashos Posts: 43
    carlosnashos wrote:
    My Stumpjumper HT is called....Stumpy Nash (my surname).

    My girlfriends Myka is called Lady Myka or The Lady.

    More bizarrely our Guitar Hero names are also called the same! and our band is The Squatting Peacocks....i'm honestly not a geek!!

    UPDATE:

    My stumpy has now had an official name change....

    As i'm a huge fan of the Doctor, and my flatmate recently decorated her with some Dr Who stickers! she is now proudly called....

    Martha....as she's my black companion :)

    My next bike (hopefully!) the Lapierre Spicy 514 will be called Rose....and she will be special...the love of my life (no pressure)
    Rose
  • Massimo
    Massimo Posts: 318
    My Cramerotti Gardena is called Fausto
    My Cannondale R800 is called Colin
    My Specialzed Tarmac is called Trev (not Trevor)
    My 1992 Ribble SLX is called Chris (as in Boardman)
    Crash 'n Burn, Peel 'n Chew
    FCN: 2
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Originally I thought I'd call mine Evita (Spesh Vita Sport) but have since decided that despite its girl-geometry, it's a boy.

    And I can only ever think of 'Dave' as a random bloke's name.

    Maybe I should go for a very posh name, seeing as my other ride is a Henry...
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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Ahahaha, some good ones here: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 118AAklRuZ

    Tarquin? Sebastian? Charles? Hrmmm... Shall have to ask him which he prefers on the way home...
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  • Matt_westmids
    Matt_westmids Posts: 38
    sarajoy wrote:
    Ahahaha, some good ones here: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/in ... 118AAklRuZ

    Tarquin? Sebastian? Charles? Hrmmm... Shall have to ask him which he prefers on the way home...

    Jeeves. 8)

    Sebastian would be good Seb for short. :)
    Commuter Bike ---- Marin Novato
  • fatgrimpeur
    fatgrimpeur Posts: 55
    Colnago is Colin

    Fixie is "the slag"

    Seven is called tricia after my mother, who passed away a couple of years ago and left me the cash specifically to buy the bike (its engraved on the seatpost clamp)

    All together now aaaahhhhh
  • jimmcdonnell
    jimmcdonnell Posts: 328
    Focus Cross Disc is yellow and black, therefore 'Bumblebee', and the Litespeed is 'Roadrunner'. I'm 'that middle-aged DT teacher wearing lycra' as far as my school pupils are concerned...
    Litespeed Tuscany, Hope/Open Pro, Ultegra, pulling an Extrawheel trailer, often as not.

    FCR 4 (I think?)
    Twitter: @jimjmcdonnell
  • Parkey
    Parkey Posts: 303
    My MTB has aquired the name "Gertie", and it's a bit of a long story. Basically she's not elegant and bits keep falling off.

    I'm resisting the urge to call the mighty Condor Agio, my road bike, "Isabella". Again, a long story...
    "A recent study has found that, at the current rate of usage, the word 'sustainable' will be worn out by the year 2015"

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