Does your bike have a name?
06-20-03, 07:24 PM
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The Grey (helps if you watched Babylon 5)
06-20-03, 07:36 PM
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I just call mine "Stiffee". That's the factory name and it suits it.
I'm building up a Stinky Dee-Lux right now, which I will probably just call, "Stinky".
Not very original I know (sighs).
I'm building up a Stinky Dee-Lux right now, which I will probably just call, "Stinky".
Not very original I know (sighs).
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06-20-03, 07:59 PM
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Originally posted by late
The Grey (helps if you watched Babylon 5)
The Grey (helps if you watched Babylon 5)
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06-20-03, 08:32 PM
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Out of all of my bikes only the tandems have been given names.
The touring tandem has been given the title of Roller-coaster-o-love. Sappy, eh? The remake of the song done by the Red Hot Chilly Pepper's was playing at the shop when I was building it up.
The off road tandem is a purple Cannondale called "Martial Aid" It has custom cut hot pink decals with its name on the down tube. The last year I went to the mountain bike festival in Randolph VT. (before they moved it to a ski area) I gave out a few T-shirts to stokers, purple with pink lettering, that read "I rode the big purple martial aid" A friend had made them up for me as a joke, but the shirts wear very popular.
The touring tandem has been given the title of Roller-coaster-o-love. Sappy, eh? The remake of the song done by the Red Hot Chilly Pepper's was playing at the shop when I was building it up.
The off road tandem is a purple Cannondale called "Martial Aid" It has custom cut hot pink decals with its name on the down tube. The last year I went to the mountain bike festival in Randolph VT. (before they moved it to a ski area) I gave out a few T-shirts to stokers, purple with pink lettering, that read "I rode the big purple martial aid" A friend had made them up for me as a joke, but the shirts wear very popular.
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"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking." - Arthur Conan Doyle
06-21-03, 02:33 AM
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Every cyclist should give their bike a name, because bikes do have a soul. There was an excellent article about the spiritual side of bikes in Bicycling Magazine a few years ago.
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06-21-03, 12:10 PM
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I have an old single speed Triumph of indeterminate antiquity. My next-door neighbour had put it out for the binmen. New tyres, new tubes, new brake blocks and some cleaning later, it goes well...adequately. It was christened 'Stig' (as in Stig of the Dump') by a colleague at work.
See a picture of it at https://members.lycos.co.uk/braingear...scphotos0.html
Literary reference: https://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book...f-the-dump.htm
See a picture of it at https://members.lycos.co.uk/braingear...scphotos0.html
Literary reference: https://www.readingmatters.co.uk/book...f-the-dump.htm
