Foo - What did you name your bike(s)?

Don't laugh. Most of us here have named our bikes. :)

Please tell us the name and what makes you call it that.









(If we already have a thread like this in Foo, I wish for the mods to delete this one.)

Haha, cool topic idea siu. :)

Look down at my sig.

From left to right.

Spitfire-Named it this because it just came to my mind while I was putting a spitfire sticker onto my frame. I used to only skate on spitfire wheels, and I had tons of falls while on spitfire wheels. I just love spitfire wheels.

jonah- this was what my cousins, and brothers, and friends called me when I was younger. They also called me jonabonedonafona and stupid crap like that. Lately no one calls me it anymore, so I'm thinking of changing the name

jodie-The first girl I ever liked was named jodie, I love this name it's very pretty, plus a bfer I really like is named this, so I named it after her.

My Raleigh is "Sir Walter"

The passage is "Wanderer"

My MTB/Commuter is "Rolls Canardly" (It's a cheap old Royce Union, and can 'ardly get any attention from thieves!:D )

But wait!! What made you guys choose these names?

Well, the Raleigh should be obvious, the Schwinn Passage is a touring bike and I use it to wander all over the place, and the Rolls Canardly (Royce Union) rolls down the road and can 'ardly get a second look!

I only have one, so I don't really need a name for it, and even if I did, I'm horrible at coming up with names, so it's just "my bike."

I only have one, so I don't really need a name for it, and even if I did, I'm horrible at coming up with names, so it's just "my bike."
I have a suggestion....

Allez Oop!:D

I have a suggestion....

Allez Oop!:D

Haha, that's pretty good!

Or if he's a climber, Allez uup! (throw in a little Frenchy for full effect)

number 9, cause its the 9th bike ive had

number 7 and 8 sit in the corner lately and collect dust bunnies

I edited.

yayyy.

Haha, that's pretty good!
Sounds like you just named your bike! It makes it more yours, by the way, to name it! Acknowledges that it has a personality unique to it and places it in a treasured place in the heart.

I only have one, so I don't really need a name for it, and even if I did, I'm horrible at coming up with names, so it's just "my bike."

I have 2. So they are road bike and mountian bike.

I have 2. So they are road bike and mountian bike.

Yeah, that's about the size of it. I occasionally get formal and say Litespeed or Epic. Boring, huh?

I sometimes call my Schwinns, Schwinnys. I call my Continental, conte. I call my Suteki, ****eki. :lol: I say Le Tour in a french accent.

Yeah, that's about the size of it. I occasionally get formal and say Litespeed or Epic. Boring, huh?


Yeah, I'd say so. You need to spice up your life a little, Skiahh.........;)

My commuter's named 'El Chupacabra', or just Chupa for short.

I call my 1967 Schwinn Paramount "the Paramount." I call my Lemond Zurich "the Lemond." I call my Trek 520 "the Trek" or, sometimes, "the touring bike." I call my Burley Bossa Nova "the tandem." What can I say, I have no imagination. :o

Well, let's see:

The Raleigh 3-Speed is Miss Moneypenny named for the prim British Secretary in the James Bond Movies.

I named the fancy titanium road bike the Stealth Diva after I stripped all of the decals off.

The 80s lugged steel road bike is the Ave' Maria, named after the heroine in the novel Big Stone Gap.

The 80s touring bike is the King of the Road, because it's mastered every kind of road and terrain imaginable over the past 23 years.

The Cannondale Bad Boy Ultra is the Bad Boy Ultra because I couldn't think of a better name for a mid-life crisis bike.

The grey beater with the jacked up handlebars is the Bad Back Beater because its forgiving set-up helped me beat a bad back.

The folding bike is the Duke of Orange, because, um, it's orange.

As I look at this post I realize that maybe I really am nuts. Oh well.

I call my 1967 Schwinn Paramount "the Paramount." I call my Lemond Zurich "the Lemond." I call my Trek 520 "the Trek" or, sometimes, "the touring bike." I call my Burley Bossa Nova "the tandem." What can I say, I have no imagination. :o



Men........................:rolleyes:


Hey Bikingshearer......if and when I meet you can I touch your Paramount? :love: I promise I won't leave any fingerprints..........:)

Don't laugh. Most of us here have named our bikes. :)

Please tell us the name and what makes you call it that.









(If we already have a thread like this in Foo, I wish for the mods to delete this one.)


I do not name by bikes.

I do not name by bikes.
Drink a few more cups of coffee, I'm sure you'll be naming them soon.

My bike will be called "Sexual Intercourse: The Bike"!

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Drink a few more cups of coffee, I'm sure you'll be naming them soon.

:eek: , i have no clue what you are talking about;) .

I call my old Schwinn LeTour "the steel Beater."

I'll get back to you when I buy my roadbike. :D

I call mine slick ... because of my worn out knobbies. at times it takes on a few 4 letter names though.

Drink a few more cups of coffee, I'm sure you'll be naming them soon.
:roflmao:

Hey Bikingshearer......if and when I meet you can I touch your Paramount? :love: I promise I won't leave any fingerprints..........:)
I forwarded your question to the Paramount (a neat pice of telepathy, since I'm at the office :( ) and it said - and this is a direct quote - "Oh, baby. For you, Siu, any time, any place, and don't worry about the fingerprints." And I'm okay with that. Really. I won't get jealous. Well, not that jealous. No, really, it's okay . . . :rolleyes:

My bf is the one that started me naming bikes. I used to ride horses and now bikes are sort of a replacement for horses and naming them seems right.

Ruffian is my black Surly Pacer. It's named after a favorite race horse from the 1970s. It's not tall and fast like the real horse was, but I haven't thought of anothr name since.

Camion is my LHT. It's named after a horse I knew. It also means truck in french. It's the green LHT, and once on a long slow climb I started calling the bike Turtle. Turtle is a character in a book, a little girl in The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver.

Skitters is my Rockhound mtn bike. It skitters all over the trail.

Morgan is my Novara commuter bike. It's a touring frame that takes 26" wheels. It's a very versatile bike as it can be set up like a mtn touring bike or a road touring bike. The Morgan horse is a very versatile breed of horse, that's where I got the name.

Previous bikes I've had:
Greene was a rainforest green 2002 Trek 520. It was not named because of the color! It was named after the bike the author rode in Where the Pavement Ends (Erice W? rode her bike across Mongolia). She spray painted grey over the green bike to uglify it for her trip.

Sequoia was a 2003 Novara Safari. I named it after a llama I packed with in the mtns of WY one summer.

Fiddlesticks was/is a early 90s Giant Rincon mtn bike. It was named after another llama I worked with in the mtns of Wyoming. This bike is now owned by some friends of ours. They still use this bike quite a bit!


My bf's bikes include:

Planet Express, his 2006 Surly Crosscheck. Nmaed after the ship on Futurama.

Ferric is his 2003 Gunnar Roadie. It's a steel bike, Fe3+ is ferric.

Redox is his Trek 970 commuter. It's a commuter, it can get rusty.

Entropy was his Trek 7000.
Kelvin was his blue Klein Attitude.
Inertia was his 2003 Trek 520.

He likes to name his bikes after chemical or physical properties.

My blue and silver mountain bike is named "the blue and silver mountain bike"
the green commuter bike is named "the green commuter bike"
the white schwinn crosscut is named "the white bike"
And that is about as complicated as I allow things to get around my household

:roflmao:

Yeah now you know i am a coffeeholic:D .

:roflmao:
Jamma get's all funky when he's had too much coffee. Someone needs to regulate his coffee intake.

What's a gal to do, Jon? He's already on the "dark side." <serious Vega look>

You're supposed to name them? Gosh - i suppose next people are going to tell me you have to clean them, and talk to them. :-/

mines called roger

I have names for some of my bikes. I tend to name them for horses (which I'm terrified of incidentally).

Gold Raleigh SuperCourse - Cyclone (it has SunTour cyclone derailleurs)
White Fuji "The Finest" - Phantom (Zorro's white horse)
White Raleigh Professional - Shadowfax (Gandalf's white horse)
Black J.A. Holland (she's at least as old as me) - Tornado (Zorro's black horse)
Blue Miyata 210 - Dreamer (seems a reasonable name for a blue horse :p)
Green Raleigh Superbe 3-speed - Charger (she's as heavy as a knight's horse with full barding)
Black Trek 830 - Fury (another famous black horse)

There are plenty of other good horse names left, so I guess I need more bikes. :D

While I don't have names for them...I feel that each one has it's own personality...it's own "feel" to it. My blue 5200 is the bike I get on when I need confidence, or have had a string of sub par rides...I'm always faster on that bike. Always. They each mean something different to me when I look at them. But I don't have names for them other than the models/years.

"Red" and "Blackie". I'm not very imaginative.

My Synapse is Gisele.

Two reason: Cuz it sounds like gazelle and I bought it after coming back from a trip to Brazil (see: Gisele Bundchen).

I call my Vent Noir "Moneypit"

What's a gal to do, Jon? He's already on the "dark side." <serious Vega look>
If road is the dark side, how come you don't see lots of youngens ridin' roadbikes?

Since when has the Darkside ever had more people?
STar Wars 1-3.
Up till the end there was like a million more good guys then people on the dark side.
Even in 4-6 there was like 2 dark side to 5 light side.

I call my mountain bike "The mountain Bike"
I call my Flyte "The Blue one"
I call my Scattante "The silver one"
I call my K2 Mach 2 "The K2"
Not very original huh? Let me think, I will name them right now.
I will now call the mountain bike "Joey bag of donuts"
The Flyte will be called "Maximus"
The Scattante will be "Dry Heave"
The K2 will be "Mr Pickles"
I feel better now.

I pretty much name everything, so of course I have names for my bikes.

My hardtail's name is Choco, which is short for Chocobo, which is a mode of transportation in the Final Fantasy series of games.

See the resemblance?
http://www.almostlame.com/gallery/d/457-2/IMG_0008.jpghttp://images.quizilla.com/G/Grumpshkin/1124990998_blackchoco.jpg

And the FS is named Flammie because the color is flame red. Flammie is also the name of the white dragon you ride in Secret of Mana :)

Whee!
http://www.almostlame.com/gallery/d/1337-2/IMG_1210.jpghttp://www.bemanistyle.com/images/merch/Flammie.gif

...God I'm a huge nerd :p

I haven't named my mountain bike...we have more of a "hey you" relationship.

My motobecane I call Monique, cuz she's french.

The Eddy Merckx is "The Eddy".
The Colnago is "The Colnago".
The Vitus Futural is "The Vitus".
The Catamount MFS is either "The Catamount" or "The Cat".

Prior bikes were "The Zebra", "The Bianchi", "The Grizzly", and "The F1".

The Prophet is Ghost Rider. It's an all white frame, named by the wife.
The road bike is Italiano, (Masi) and the C-Dale commuter is just old reliable, read to go in any weather.

Pro Machine.

By popular vote................Jasper! means wasp in England or something like that.:)

My Comfort Bike (Trek Navigator 300) - "John Deere" (becuase it now feels like a tractor compared to my road bike.

Touring Road Bike (Trek 520) - "Roadie" (original, eh?)

New road bike I picked up at garage sale that I'm putting into riding shape - Froggy (It's a Peugeot).