Referring to your bike...

ridley2010
ridley2010 Posts: 115
edited February 2011 in The bottom bracket
...as a FEMALE!!!

Been reading a few posts on here now and it puzzles me as to why people refer to their bikes as a female. It's cringing. It's a bike.

WHY?!?!
«1

Comments

  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    ridley2010 wrote:
    It's cringing
    So is your abuse of the English language. :wink:
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Because ...
    ... one way or another, they cost a lot of money.
    :lol:
    A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,542
    I refer to it as, wait for it....it....
    _
  • nevman
    nevman Posts: 1,611
    not sure I like where this might go?
    Whats the solution? Just pedal faster you baby.

    Summer B,man Team Carbon LE#222
    Winter Alan Top Cross
    All rounder Spec. Allez.
  • demorider87
    demorider87 Posts: 42
    give the guy a break Nuggs, you can't expect the Queen's from a Sheffield dweller :wink:
    "That doesn't look like a foot"......thought the sock.
  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    One day bikes will have intelligence and if you refer to it as "it" then it'll probably chuck you off.
  • markyboy2005
    markyboy2005 Posts: 465
    Because I ride her once a day........ :oops:
  • PhilofCas
    PhilofCas Posts: 1,153
    mine's just known as 'me bike', never been into all that 'aw in't she lovely' malarkey
  • lucan
    lucan Posts: 339
    Random thoughts...

    It can't be female because..

    I ride it whenever I feel like it.
    It never says it's not in the mood for a ride
    I ride it as hard as I like, not how it likes
    It never complains if it's a very short ride
    Nor if I have a crap day and can't get up like I did last time

    oh, and it once tossed me off in front of my friends.

    Definitely not a 'she'

    :)
    Summer: Kuota Kebel
    Winter: GT Series3
  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    Someone I knew called his bike 'Katrina' :roll: .That's just awful.
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    The wife refers to my bike as 'the b***h. Jokingly I think?!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I always find it a cringe-worthy when people refer to their bikes as "builds" or "rigs".
  • Red Rider
    Red Rider Posts: 93
    When you have more than one bike knocking about naming them becomes very handy for ease of reference. It's like having to name the first born when the second one comes along because "child" is no longer sufficient.

    I've got one of each sex (bikes, not kids).
  • stevec205gti
    stevec205gti Posts: 366
    Lucan wrote:

    oh, and it once tossed me off in front of my friends.

    Definitely not a 'she'

    :)

    Something your male friends do then?
    Has the head wind picked up or the tail wind dropped off???
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    Mine are referred to as the cannondale, me birdy & the crosser. Easier than trying to remember a made up name for them
  • Ber Nard
    Ber Nard Posts: 827
    RichardSwt wrote:
    I always find it a cringe-worthy when people refer to their bikes as "builds" or "rigs".

    I'd add "steed" to that.

    Rob
  • pb21
    pb21 Posts: 2,170
    Ber Nard wrote:
    RichardSwt wrote:
    I always find it a cringe-worthy when people refer to their bikes as "builds" or "rigs".

    I'd add "steed" to that.

    Rob

    'Rig'

    Does anyone actually say that in a serious way?! Hilarious if they do!

    :D
    Mañana
  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Princess Armstrong...
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    Mine are referred to as the hack, the tourer, the trail and the wreck.

    AKA yellow, red, white and, well I think it's brown, or that could just be rust, or mud, or...well, let's just stick with brown.
    Bob
  • lucan
    lucan Posts: 339
    stevec205gti wrote:
    Lucan wrote:

    oh, and it once tossed me off in front of my friends.

    Definitely not a 'she'

    :)

    Something your male friends do then?

    Not all of them, obviously... :oops:
    Summer: Kuota Kebel
    Winter: GT Series3
  • brin
    brin Posts: 1,122
    ridley2010 wrote:
    ...as a FEMALE!!!

    Been reading a few posts on here now and it puzzles me as to why people refer to their bikes as a female. It's cringing. It's a bike.

    WHY?!?!

    Because it does what it is told, and it doesn't understand the 'offside rule'
  • mattshrops
    mattshrops Posts: 1,134
    can i call mine Hot Momma?please?
    Death or Glory- Just another Story
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    pb21 wrote:
    Ber Nard wrote:
    RichardSwt wrote:
    I always find it a cringe-worthy when people refer to their bikes as "builds" or "rigs".

    I'd add "steed" to that.

    Rob

    'Rig'

    Does anyone actually say that in a serious way?! Hilarious if they do!

    :D

    Yeah, both terms tend to be used by some people who build their own bikes, I think to emphasise, the fact they built it up themselves.

    Funnily enough you get the same two terms used in computer forums when people are talking about their computers.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Lady Siena


    Waits............
  • mattshrops
    mattshrops Posts: 1,134
    ...sound of bell tolling in the distance......

    tubleweed rolls on by.....
    Death or Glory- Just another Story
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    dmclite wrote:
    Lady Siena


    Waits............



    Ooooooooooooooooooooh, Why!!!!!!!?
    "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world, t'would be a pity to damage yours."
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,384
    ahem....

    Suzy Soda
    Cindy Cindercone
    Ribecca Ribble

    my mate -

    Roxy Ridgid
    Wilma Whyte

    :oops: :cry: :oops:
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Aggieboy wrote:
    dmclite wrote:
    Lady Siena


    Waits............



    Ooooooooooooooooooooh, Why!!!!!!!?

    'Cos I have a litespeed Siena and she is a Lady :wink:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    ddraver wrote:
    ahem....

    Suzy Soda
    Cindy Cindercone
    Ribecca Ribble

    my mate -

    Roxy Ridgid
    Wilma Whyte

    :oops: :cry: :oops:

    Have you written their names on them? If not, you should.
  • AndyF16
    AndyF16 Posts: 506
    Ber Nard wrote:
    RichardSwt wrote:
    I always find it a cringe-worthy when people refer to their bikes as "builds" or "rigs".

    I'd add "steed" to that.

    Rob

    Haha, yes that's very Alan Partridge-esque :lol:
    2011 Bianchi D2 Cavaria in celeste (of course!)
    2011 Enigma Echo 57cm in naked Ti
    2009 Orange G2 19" in, erm orange

Categories