This is my rifle, there are many others like it but....

SimonAH
SimonAH Posts: 3,730
edited June 2012 in Commuting chat
Do you name your steeds? Mine tend to be named by #1 daughter (she's eight, they like naming things at eight. Usually "Ruby" for some reason).

Fixed District is Dizzy
CAADX is Rockstar
Felt Curbside is Custard
Islabike is Ruby (told you)
Retro Peugeot is Bluebelle
Pedicab is Joe (Joe Le Taxi)
Unicycle is Silly

Yours?
FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
Litespeed L3 for Strava bits

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    I am male and grown up. No.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Your eight-year-old named the pedicab, Joe le Taxi? Really? After a song from 25 years ago? Really?
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,666
    As an 8 year old girl, mine are called bikey, kaffy, fixie and bikey
    - Genesis Croix de Fer
    - Dolan Tuono
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    UndercoverElephant wrote:
    Your eight-year-old named the pedicab, Joe le Taxi? Really? After a song from 25 years ago? Really?

    Ah, no. I admit that that one was mine :oops: but it was a steer away from Ruby :D
    FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
    CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
    Litespeed L3 for Strava bits

    Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    daviesee wrote:
    I am male and grown up. No.

    You are grown up? Poor fellow. One should never grow up.
    FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
    CAADX 105 beastie for bumpy bits
    Litespeed L3 for Strava bits

    Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
  • Hoopdriver
    Hoopdriver Posts: 2,023
    I don't name my bicycles although I made an exception in the case of my bespoke one-off tourer I had built for me by Enigma. I did it mainly because I had mo other descriptive for it - no model name that would set it apart from the other models in the Enigma line up. I settled on calling it the Elgar. It was my own donnish play on words since the bicycle with its stainless mudguards and French fittings and randonneur bag was, and is, a Variation on an Enigma.
    http://www.My-Bicycle-and-I.com
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    My S1 was called Lee after Maggie Gyllenhaal's character is Secretary. This was because every time I took her for a ride she begged for a damn good thrashing.
    Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
    Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX
  • redderekthelampshade
    redderekthelampshade Posts: 105
    My bike was named Maurice, by my better half.. I'm not quite sure I like that I ride Maurice to work everyday - meh.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,893
    Hoopdriver wrote:
    I don't name my bicycles although I made an exception in the case of my bespoke one-off tourer I had built for me by Enigma. I did it mainly because I had mo other descriptive for it - no model name that would set it apart from the other models in the Enigma line up. I settled on calling it the Elgar. It was my own donnish play on words since the bicycle with its stainless mudguards and French fittings and randonneur bag was, and is, a Variation on an Enigma.

    Show off! :P

    No names here
    1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
    Pinnacle Monzonite

    Part of the anti-growth coalition
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    SimonAH wrote:
    daviesee wrote:
    I am male and grown up. No.

    You are grown up? Poor fellow. One should never grow up.
    It's a fluid state but I have my moments :oops: :wink:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    The Dawes is called 'The Bike'

    The Duster was named 'Glow-worm' by Mrs JW on account of its fluorescent green colour
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Joan and Peggy.
    FCN 4 PX SL Pro SRAM Red
    FCN 8 Scott Sportster '05
  • sufferingpete
    sufferingpete Posts: 524
    Mine are

    Summer bike - low weight ti road bike no mudguards.

    Winter Bike - mudguards, dynamo hub steel 531 frame.

    For clarity. I use Summer Bike in the Summer
    The Winter Bike in the winter but sometimes in the summer when its raining - ie recently.
    Racing is rubbish you can\'t relax and enjoy it- because some bugger is always trying to get past.
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,895
    My daughter calls my bikes Daddy's bike, Daddy's bike and Daddy's bike. The Frankenbike is known by all as the Frankenbike, I blame Greg T.
    My son's road bike (Frankenbike 2) has been named Count Bikeula. So it's going to be satin black.
    Kinesis Pro6
    Marin Nail Trail
    Cotic Solaris
  • Dog Breath
    Dog Breath Posts: 314
    I have always thought it bizarre and irrational to name inaminate objects. Therefore, no I don't.
    Planet-X SL Pro Carbon.
    Tifosi CK3 Winter Bike
    Planet X London Road Disc
    Planet X RT80 Elite
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Lynyrd (after Skynyrd
    and Jimi (after Hendrix)

    Harry (my royal enfield - see what i did there)
    Keeping it classy since '83
  • Hot Orange
    Hot Orange Posts: 157
    SimonAH wrote:
    Mine tend to be named by #1 daughter (she's eight...)

    Likewise. She's not hugely imaginative, mind.

    My Trek has been named Tricky and my Charge is Charlie. I have just disposed of an old Scott commuter, which she called, um, Scott.
    Summer: 2012 Trek Madone 3.5
    Winter: 2013 Trek Crockett 5
  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    My daughter names everything to do with bicycles "Bicycle hat"....I have no idea why.
  • rebs
    rebs Posts: 891
    edited June 2012
    I call mine Rough Arse

    It's a Felt AR5.....
  • Long_Time_Lurker
    Long_Time_Lurker Posts: 1,068
    I don't, but my friends have named them for me.
    My old Felt is known 'The Beast' due to it's heavy weight and grinding/clunking noises it makes.
    The other one is known as 'The Fairy Bike' due to the colour and weight. :oops:
    2007 Felt Q720 (the ratbike)
    2012 Cube Ltd SL (the hardtail XC 26er)
    2014 Lapierre Zesty TR 329 (the full-sus 29er)
  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    Both named by my 3 year old:

    Slowly Bike - the commuter
    Fast Bike - the race bike

    Nothing more adventurous than that.
    FCN3: Titanium Qoroz.
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    The Rusty Raleigh is called "The Rusty Raleigh". Because it's a Raleigh. And it's rusty.
  • rubertoe
    rubertoe Posts: 3,994
    Mine gets called all sorts of names (dependant on how well i am climbing) and most of them are unsuitable for a family show...
    "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."

    PX Kaffenback 2 = Work Horse
    B-Twin Alur 700 = Sundays and Hills
  • jonnyboy77
    jonnyboy77 Posts: 547
    My 2 year old son named the Kona Boris and the Ridgeback Bertie. I like them and they've stuck :)
    Commuting between Twickenham <---> Barbican on my trusty Ridgeback Hybrid - url=http://strava.com/athletes/125938/badge]strava[/url
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    My black bike is called 'The Black Bike'
    My blue bike is called 'The Blue Bike'
    My folding bike is called 'The Folding Bike'

    or so my wife thinks...

    they are actually named after ex-lovers: Sarah, Emily and Steven.
    Dolan Mythos
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    clarkey cat wrote:
    My black bike is called 'The Black Bike'
    My blue bike is called 'The Blue Bike'
    My folding bike is called 'The Folding Bike'

    or so my wife thinks...

    they are actually named after ex-lovers: Sarah, Emily and Steven.

    Was Steven a folder?
    Sun - Rain - Snow
  • clarkey cat
    clarkey cat Posts: 3,641
    he used to be straight
    Dolan Mythos
  • DrLex
    DrLex Posts: 2,142
    I think of my Pompetamine as Derek Zoolander, due to the look of Blue Steel.
    Location: ciderspace
  • Twostage
    Twostage Posts: 987
    I thought this was going to be a thread about rifles. :(
    Neither my bikes nor rifles have names.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    DrLex wrote:
    I think of my Pompetamine as Derek Zoolander, due to the look of Blue Steel.

    I'm not sure I'd ride a uni-turner on the road.
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