General Cycling Discussion - Bike gender.

This is to kind of go along with the bike names thread. Do you consider your bike to be male or female?

Mine is female and I named her Joker. See the bike names thread if you want to know why.

Depends on the bike...

My Marinoni road bike, 'Noni, is female.

My Kona cyclocross bike, Jake, is male.

My Specialized MTB, Mango, is vegetable.

My utility bike, The Mule, is male.

Depends on the bike ---

1982 metallic brown Bianchi -- definitely masculine (Italian stallion)

1988 red-white-blue Schwinn mountain bike -- likewise

1959 Capo; delicate, intricate -- probably female under the ugly Rustoleum paint job

1980 Peugeot: probably likewise (plain Jane?)

My MTB is definetly a male

My road bike had better be female ;)

me being a male... i personly dont like the idea of riding on another male... so if i had to give my bike a gender... it'd be female.

In this age of political correctness, Lloyd's registry has stopped referring to ships in the feminine. My bikes are all gender-neutral. That includes Michelle Pfieffer the Carbon-fiber Wonder Bike. :D

My road bike is male: Derek DeBernardi
My track bike is female, named after the woman who had it before me: Nicole

My bike is an extension of me. Therefore, it is male.

My bike is beyond gender,it is a medium...Hilly

For all the males that have rode the village bicycle, she better be female !

Mine are all gender neutral. I call them by the manufacturers name. The Aegis is "The Aegis". It is a pure sexy machine though.

I offer nevertheless anatomic classification: the male's frame bike is a male, and female - so it's a female. :rolleyes:
But you're amusing guys! Have you thought to plant bicycles, crossing them? :p

if i am going to throw my leg around and sit and ride anything, human or inanimate -----> it's going to be female...

To put a different "spin" on the discussion:

If you're French you can choose between "le vélo" (male) or "la bicyclette" (female). The former is obviously more commonly used.

If you're German, well, its "das Fahrrad" (neuter). If you want to get diminutive about it, you can call it "mein Rädchen" or "mein Fahrrädchen," but you still end up with it being neuter.

Other languages?

I was going to say exactly what AutoAudio said :lol:.

I thought mine would be female; however, as I though about it, I can't be sure.

If it is male, I'm sure I wouldn't be riding it (going along with what AutoAudio said).

But, on the flip side, it doesn't have mood swings, doesn't complain, and although I spend money on it from time to time, it doesn't spend any of my money on its own. Therefore, could it still be female?

2jmlee: all russian words that signify a bike are masculine.

What happens when you strap jam toast to the back of a cat..

They increase your medication dose of course.