Commuting - Whats your bikes nickname.

I just read a post from Rainy. It got me thinking I'm not the only person that gives there bikes nicknames.My Trek 520 is die hard,my Trek zx6000 is back in black.Come on and lets here yours.

I call my purple Bianchi my pretty purple Bianchi. I have a hybrid that I try not to refer to. I usually end up calling it horrible names. I'm going to replace it soon with a mountain bike. I can't wait! :D

My recumbant is Idelle (named after my mom). My Postal bike is Speed-O. And my Guerciotti SL is Retired, and for sale.:D

i have a green road bike that i've nicknamed "kermit." ribbet ribbet. no nickname yet for my orange/black jamis, but i'm leaning toward "pumpkin."

i've named jade/black honda valkyrie touring motorcycle "kiwi."

Havn't named my bike yet, but I think it has a nickname for me....It's LARD@$$. :D

After many upgrades to my '97 Kaitai, I've dubbed my ride "monster bike". Particularly because of the drastic front-end height increase with my new Marzocchi mxr forks.

:) Come on I know more of you got nicknames for your bikes.we all do.

My hybrid/commuter is Two Ton Tessie. 'Nuff said..

My road bike is Gladys, after reading Frances Willard's "How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle".

My hybrid is called the White One. My road bike is called the Red One. Original huh?

Originally posted by Gojohnnygo.
:) Come on I know more of you got nicknames for your bikes.we all do.

This is a topic that comes up occasionally. Here (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1927) is one thread on the subject.

Here (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=14371) is another.

My bikes are:

Michelle Pfeiffer, the Carbon Fiber Wonder-Bike,

Old Paintless,

and,

The Bike With No Name.

My new white FSR "The Ghost" and "Ol' Faithful" my '99 Hardrock commuter.

when i get a flaty its name changes quite dramaticly, but i cant critisise it ,cos it will know & get me later !

I haven't yet named my bike. With almost 12,500km since I bought it at the end of April, maybe it's time I did. Any suggestions?

I need to find a new set of geeks to hang out with. ;)

They don't need names; they know who they are.

(When discussing them with other people, though, they are "the rain bike" and "the good bike."

RichC

Well my new bike is "My Baby" and my older cannondale is Calvin. Haven't named anything else. Other than cussing at it when it fails :(

I don't have names for my bikes, besides the "cross" bike and the "mountain" bike, aka the "beater" bike. If anything I'd rather just name one part of my cross bike... in particular the back wheel... aka the b*st*rd. If you haven't read my posts about my wheel problems, I'm always breaking spokes. The sales people and mechanics at my LBS all know me by sight and name now. I'm keeping them in business, one spoke at a time. LOL. Maybe someday I'll teach myself to build my own wheels, until then... it'll just be "the b*st*rd back wheel did it to me again".

PBW

I've dubbed my Trek 520 Passapartoute. Like the valet in 'Around the World in 80 Days' but feminine. Don't know why I decided she is a she, but she is. I named her in hopes that she would take me around the world, but mostly she just takes me to work, I'll forgive her for that, because she always takes me home at the end of the night.

My single bikes don't have names, but the tandems do,. The off road tandem has a set oc custom cut decals in hot pink... Marital Aid. One year at the Pedros Mountain Bike festival I gave out Team Marital Aid T-shirts to any one who stoked the tandem.

The road tandem (touring bike) Is the "Rollercoster of Luv"

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/Trx1/greenmachine.jpg
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y42/Trx1/GMname.jpg

It's a HOG: Hibberknowski Overland Gazelle....:)
http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo129/doulikeboobsalot/hog.jpg

n.

All my bikes are named for ex-girlfriends.



Katrina (the best looking girl I ever dated), is my carbon framed road bike. She’s lightweight and pretty and fun to ride, but she’s high maintenance and prone to break-downs at inopportune moments.


Cheryl (the one I should have married), is my steel framed commuter. She isn’t as attractive or as fun to ride as Katrina, but she’ll let you ride her anytime and take all of the abuse you can heap on her. She never complains and requires very little maintenance even though I ride her more than all my other bikes combined.


Susan, my grocery bike, is an old hybrid I spray painted and put a bunch of cheap Wald baskets on to make her look bad. I try to load her down as often as possible and generally treat her badly. She stays in the garage instead of in the climate controlled workshop with the rest of my bikes. I named her after my ex-wife.

I usually call it "my bike," unless I'm talking to people who already know I have more than one, in which case I call it "my commuting bike" or "my folding bike" depending how much specificity is needed.

My Trek 7.2 FX commuter is "The Tank"
My Felt Z80 is "Tweety Bird"
and my Nirve cruiser is "Wally"

:)

titanium road bike: "Magnum T.I."

hybrid: "the beast"

folder: never gave it a proper name, i just refer to it as "the folder"

"my bike"
Never figured out why people name things. This has never made any sense to me, I've never owned anything that I felt needed a name.

I have the following names for mine:

"The commuter"
"The road bike"
"The cyclocross bike"
"The mountain bike"
"Wife's bike"
"The single speed"

That's what I call my Giant Rin Con. And Jewels my 74 Schwinn. So named because of its rough condition.

I guess I feel I should be more creative, but I just use the bike color and name. "Blue Legend", "Green Legend", "Orange Odyssey", I suppose that will work until I get two bikes of the same model and color.

I did have a Porsche once that I named "Gretchen" . . . probably because I felt like a braggart calling my car a "Porsche". I didn't buy it for the name.

My Commencal commuter bike is called Deneuve because she is beautiful and, well, French.

My Specialized road bike is called Ramona because my son wanted to call her Ramon. (Plus I love that Dylan song.)

Cannondale summer commuter (touring bike): Cannondale
Cannondale winter commuter (hybrid): hybrid
Cannondale road tandem: red tandem

My LHT goes by "Rocinante"

Currently riding the [mæd͡ʒƐstɪk Ɛks]
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/6190694691_b540a3e3e1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/6190694691/)

Replacement for the destroyed (Hit by car) Ludwig Van Dammit (Dammit's 9th)
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4930111811_649d98d16a.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/4930111811/)

Replacement for the broken frame of Henry (the Eighth Dammit)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3192/2742852469_b89a8cfd2d.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/2742852469/)

Which was intended to augment Dammit (Mk VII) (still have/use)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3173/2697188369_0b3069323e.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/2697188369/)

And the previous bike to that, "The Crazy Dammit" (Still have/use as my winter bike)
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3124/3129618311_1568955373.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/3129618311/)

Previous too that, there was The Carl VinciDammit (Loaner), The Bon Homme Dammit (Broken Frame), Brave Sir Dammit (Wore out), Le Dammit Rouge (Stollen), and Dammit (Destroyed in single bike crash).

Prior to the Dammit series, there was Le Baron Rouge (Later cannibalized with the original Dammit), Grey Ghost (Given to neighbor kid), and my first bike...

The Green Ghost... (probably sold by my parents when we moved from Hawaii)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3042/2893664373_e9b9010c32.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/2893664373/)

"my bike"
Never figured out why people name things. This has never made any sense to me, I've never owned anything that I felt needed a name.

I've seen a lot of bikes named "my bike"... you can see some of them in my photoset on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/ufobike/sets/72157607153883176/with/2893664373/).

The '72 Schwinn Super Sport I drive daily is affectionately called 'Sledge'. She pounds asphalt rain or shine, despite hot an cold air temps. The SS has a nick name too, Buick, cause it handles like a deuce and a quarter.

Pugsley- Puggy (not really original)
Commuter- Blue (color and cartoon character)
Mountain bike (with same frame as the commuter)- Cheeze (yellow color AND Cartoon character)
(Together they make... BLUE CHEEZE!!!)

Betsy (http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/2011ccmpath1.JPG)

Edith (http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/edith2010spring1.JPG)

Reg (http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/reg2009c.JPG)

Forrest (http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/2011forrestbuild1.JPG)

My bikes were all named by other people.

I have changed and added so many things on my Trek 520 that I started calling it Frankenbike but have shortened that to Frank. My old Giant Iguana is named Max after the Mad Max movies.

I call my Brompton Ding Ding...if you've ever been around a Brompton, the bell dings every time it hits the smallest bump.


!!! DING !!!

My 20" folder is "Fireworks", because it's beautiful, fun to ride, and sometimes noisy - just like fireworks.
My big bike is "Trucker" - like a truck it hauls my behind to work, weekend rides, shopping.

Stretch...

http://www.ravingbikefiend.com/bikepics/2011stretchfall1.JPG

Thread's only 9 years old, so not a record on resurrection.

But it's probably in the top 10.

Nicknames? I just call them by their branded names. Guess I'm not very creative, but then again I don't see point of it. I have classic cars, I call them by their model names not their branded names; not sure why I didn't do that with the bikes.

Tis zombie season...

My commuter is called "Roscinante"

Road bike: Lucy
Tandem: Betty
29er: Armando Rex
26 inch winter commuter, old steel Trek rebuild: Kermit

My bikes get renamed every time they have a major component change

Frequent Flyer
Firefly
Fiesta
Fee Fi Foo
Flow Factor

They are more like make/model names other than personification names, though

Trek 520 is Mr. Brooks. Has a Brooks B 17 , also named after a senior high chem teacher. A most dependable bike. Takes me to work year round. Doesn't break down.