General Cycling Discussion - Naming Your Bike

Does anyone else christen their vehicles with a name? As teenagers, my friend and I appropriately named our junkers "Bertha" and "Beulah". Someone recently saw my bike and asked it's name. I had named one, but not the other and I'm still working on it. What name have you picked out for your bike?

I named mine Beatrice. I used to have a BMW motorbike and I called it Beatrice the Mechanical Wonder. A name is vital for the man-machine bonding thing - anthropomorphism I thinks it's called?

I really liked my BMW. I really like my Gemini. It seemed right to carry the name forward.:)

My bike tends to be My Lil' Swee'Pea, or Ol' Trigger, depending on how tough I'm feeling. :p Not that I'd risk calling it either name whern anyone else could hear....

Starship Exercise

Neither of my bikes are named as such, but I do talk to them and usually call them babe.

And in case you're wondering, I called my ex Honey, not babe. :D

Ellie

My faithful but funny looking commuter is Yorick. My beautiful old Bianchi is Dolce. And my self-assembled, no-name frame, custom painted purple and gold (Geaux Tigers!) is Corazon, short for Corazon del Tigre.

Hmm. You know, I always refer to Yorick as "faithful", but he's the one that threw me to the ground so hard last Tuesday I wound up needing surgery. I'm going to have to have a talk with that young man.

Originally posted by RainmanP

Hmm. You know, I always refer to Yorick as "faithful", but he's the one that threw me to the ground so hard last Tuesday I wound up needing surgery. I'm going to have to have a talk with that young man.

Alas! Poor Yorick!

I've mentioned before that my roadie is named Michelle Pfieffer, the Carbon Fiber Wonder-bike. Ms. Pfieffer for short.

My titanium mountain bike is Old Paintless.

And my touring rig is The Bike With No Name.

I never named the bikes but the wife has a few choice names for them.:rolleyes:

I've just this weekend decided to name mine,
"Grrrrrrrrr, damn, piece of..."

My dark blue '89 Paramount is simply ol' Blue. The '76 Paramount is Liberty. Love them Paramounts!!

The 2001 Schwinn road bike is Precious. I love Precious.

The 1995 Diamondback mtb is Bruno. I felt bad after naming precious that I had this bike for 6 years and beati the hell out if it and it had no name.

The 1999 Diamondback mtb is Pedro. It is named after Pedro Martinez (courtesy of my 6 year old brother). It is the Red Sox colors.

My sister's bike is named Max.

I seem to be all about naming bikes are reintroducing Necco wafers, this year.

Blue Streak, BS for short.

My XC mountain bike is a Rocky Mountain Spice. I named her her "Ginger", after the Spice Girl. My other mountain bike I have aptly named "Monster." :D

My XC mountain bike is a Rocky Mountain Spice. I named her her "Ginger", after the Spice Girl

That's a relief. One of the other tarts, Posh, married to footballer, David Beckham, just recently popped a new kid, and what did they name the poor sod? Romeo.:(

I feel sorry for any kid with a name like that when he gets on the playground at school, unless of course, like his parents, he does not go to one. I don't think there are too many gray cells on offer if the parents are anything to go by. But with millions of dollars in the account, who needs skool, rithmetik, speleng?:D

It was him who said about the first kid "we will have him christened but we ain't yet decided what religion.":D

Usually my bikes tell me what their name is...

My 50lb schwinn 3spd - "The Schwinnebago" or just "the 'bago"

My beloved blue Peugeot fixie-beater (recently retired after I fell into an open construction pit with her) - "Bleugeot"

The rest are just tools.

BK

I call the red one "The Red One."

The white one, I call "The White One."

Crow!

I call my Pinarello Bike,"Sweatheart"

My trusty steed Alphonse (Bianchi) and a friend named the specialized ole bessie seeing that she is the work horse

My very heavy Mt Bike is Shermie as in Sherman tank. My Black road bike that I am so proud of is the Black Beauty.

My inkwell blue Trek 2000 WSD road bike is "Beauty" and my 1994 Specialized Rock Hopper Ultra MTB is "The Beast". I love 'em both!

I have Black Beauty. I love her!!! Even when I crash, she only got a scratch, I took the abuse. She puts up with mine.

Well... this thread has come up a few times... My bikes are:

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Road bike [Marinoni with Campy Daytona]: 'Noni
Cyclocross bike [2001 Kona Major Jake upgraded with Campy Centaur components]: The General ... thanks to the upgrade
MTB [1997 Specialized S-Works]: Mango ... It's mango yellow
Utility bike [1992 Specialized Rockhopper Sport]: The Mule
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I suck! I am so-o-o boring. My bikes have no names. I never noticed or cared, until now. Now I'll have to stay up late tonight thinking up something. :confused:

And to think I'm riding my MTB after work tonight. Poor unnamed thing. What about the road bike? It's sitting home in the basement with no identity.

My road bike - Kennedy - after a relative who died and left us some money so I could buy it.

My MTB - Duck - it likes to play in the rain.

The way I see it, if you ride something long enough, you should get to know her first name. :lol:

My bike's name is Salma.

When my Fiancee and I first started dating, she decided that the bikes should have names, so that she would know which one it was that I was talking about :). Its amazing that she had put up with me! I have two road bikes in the UK, a Dawes now known as Diana and a Peugeot framed rebuild known as Penelope.

My Fiancee lives in LA, and we have found a couple of old bikes out there to play with - obtained for only a few dollars! An old Schwinn 10 speed, now known as Sophia and a Miata cyclocross now known as Miranda, after a tiny town in California on the "Avenue of the Giants" where I first took her for a spin.

Sometimes if we are feeling really soft in the head, the bikes are referred to as "the children".

I know....

Ed

Used to have a Stowe road bike I called "Butch," builder Rob Stowe made the custom Terry frames, my Stowe was the same tubing, shell, lugs, etc. as a Terry custom except not built to female-skeleton-friendly geometry--a butched-out Terry, of course.

It's blazing yellow, 2.25" monotube frame reminded me of a banana, so I named her Chiquita.

I will tell you all the truth: I have never named my bike.

I can't say why not, I just never thought to do it.

I'm better with faces than names, anyway!

My bike is black, hence his name is Soot.

Barbie

My single I call "my Bike". The tandem is called "Our Bike!" :D

Given that my commuter is an old Schwinn MTB frame with Airwing bars, 7 speeds and is built of mostly second hand parts, I think of it as "le Freak". The MTB is "the Pony"; got a little plastic Cracker Jack pony stuck on top of the stem, and the bike weighs roughly the same as a horse. The Bianchi road bike is just, well, "The Bianchi". A suitable name hasn't presented itself yet, I guess.

My friend has christened my bike "The big purple lesbian bike" I'm not sure exactly why since I'm not a lesbian, but it was funny and makes sense when you look at it. "Big purple lesbian" it is, then.

I've been staring at my road frame for a week trying to figure out what to name it. I finally came up with a name that I don't think anyone here is using, and if you are I'm sorry to copy you. My new bike will be called Sweetness, after my favorite football player. Now all that needs to happen is for Emmitt to get hurt so he can't break Payton's record.:D

Does "beater" or "POS" count as a name? I don't know if its a noun or an adjective. I guess I'll have to talk it over with the old red goat and see what the bike thinks.

Does "beater" or "POS" count as a name? I don't know if its a noun or an adjective. I guess I'll have to talk it over with the old red goat and see what the bike thinks.

My fixie is "Hammer Head." She's a sweet heart. The Gary Fisher has a new name "Piece of S***," thought it might get it to preform better, threatend to leave it a "barrio" neighborhood, telling the bike they ride bikes with flat tyres, no cables, and bikes don't have warm apartment basements to stay in, or get wiped down after rides.

Seemed to shape the Gary up. I don't have any other's with names.

My kona is Jack (aptly named after my fav drink:beer: )
and (not that any of you probably care) my '87 Yamaha is Catherine or Kitty for short. Both bikes told me there names on a long solo spin.:rolleyes: