Naming your bike

[Kenay]

I decided to name my bike Ultreya - that means onward in Spanish. I thought it was a pretty sweet name. Or I was going to call it Hermes for the Greek God of travel.
Does anyone else have a name for their bike?


Meet ULTREYA!

[getchoo]

I joking named my mountain bike heavy awhile ago. I named my first road bike old blue just like 2 minutes ago before I saw this thread. Funny.

[Boston Commuter]

I got my first bike at age 7 or 8. It was a green Schwinn cruiser with matching rack and fenders, and whitewall tires. I named it "Betsy".

But I haven't named any of my other bikes since then. I'm not sure why not ... maybe some bikes invite naming more than others.

[ilmooz]

Mine is "Bike". I got the idea after seeing John Wayne's dog in "Big Jake" which was named "Dog".

[StephenH]

My front-loading cargo trike is "The Thing". My low-gravity bike is "Thing 2" (as in Cat-in-the-Hat Thing 1 and Thing 2)

[Diggidy_Dylan]

At my work we have one of these:

It's rad. We call it the Uber Bak.

It weighs roughly 800 pounds.

[bmclaughlin807]

Tankerbelle:

[stockholm]

Oh yes. My beater is Priscilla and my Kona Jake is Hillary.

[Kenay]

I really like the Uber bak! Thats sweet! How do you steer it?

Tankerbelle...thats a sweet name.

[The Historian]

I've named all my bikes.

My main ride, a Trek 7.5 fx, is Roark. My Trek Navigator is Excelsior. And my Yakima Big Tow trailer is the Wussy Wagon, a name I took from an insult a Bike Forums poster called me six months ago ("wussy wagon rider.")

[peterpotamus]

My current bike is Octavia cause she's the eighth bike I've owned.

[Rollfast]

Mine is "Bike". I got the idea after seeing John Wayne's dog in "Big Jake" which was named "Dog".

Dog was a very fine dog!

[Rollfast]

Tankerbelle:

That is a very nice looking bike and deserved a name!

[Rollfast]

At my work we have one of these:

It's rad. We call it the Uber Bak.

It weighs roughly 800 pounds.

That WOULD hold a console tube radio. If you shaved 690 lbs. might it move a bigscreen?

Come to think of it, Marsha, Jan and Peter would be in a bike pool with you AWESOME

[Rollfast]

My front-loading cargo trike is "The Thing". My low-gravity bike is "Thing 2" (as in Cat-in-the-Hat Thing 1 and Thing 2)

Both are also Volkswagen model names for the mid 70s take on the Nazi German transport vehicle sometimes used as an officer's vehicle IIRC.

[Rollfast]

I decided to name my bike Ultreya - that means onward in Spanish. I thought it was a pretty sweet name. Or I was going to call it Hermes for the Greek God of travel.
Does anyone else have a name for their bike?

That is an excellent name and I'm surprised nobody has thought of that for a model or brand, if they indeed haven't. Fits a Trek to a 'T'.

My vehicles get names I feel will fit their particular 'character', after going though many names in my head usually. Don't like normal normally. My '87 Chevy Celebrity was known as Miriya, just liked the spelling for Mariah (they call the wind and some foxy singer that). My Schwinn Heavy-Duti was Charlemagne, Tempest came from how fast she is and my old 1966 Pontiac Tempest. My 1968 Chevelle sedan was Charlene as in the country song John Deere Green and my 1986 Pontiac 6000 sedan was Bettina (Gregory, an ABC reporter) Gayle (cute gal I know) and that was all to nickname her "Bette".

You never dreamed I'd write a book but I've done this for years.

[ban guzzi]

Before switching virtually everything out on my Giant I took to 'naming' it "You F'in POS!"

It has been renamed "Reliable!"

[girljen]

This is the Little B*tch, after the Specials song of the same name.
When it has the trailer attached, it is in "station wagon mode."

[ItsJustMe]

I think I'll name the rock at the end of my driveway, and maybe that piece of wood lying in the ditch down the road too.
I don't name inanimate objects.

[GearsForFears]

My bikes are new (or newly revived) and I'm still mulling names. But isn't it scary how you start to think of your bike as a living thing? When I pick mine up from the repair shop it's like when I used to get my dog from the vet. We're so happy to see each other.

[jgrendel]

I'm buliding a bad weather/utility bike in my head and I've got a name picked out for it already. A little odd since I don't own any part of this theoretical bike... yet. Oh, and I'm not telling anyone the name 'till the beast exists.

[neilfein]

My touring bike is named Hildy, after Hildy Johnson (a character in a novel named after the fictional reporter).


Little Red with her new saddle, sent to me gratis by a bikeforums member.

a quickr pickr post

[MMACH 5]

My most used bikes have names from Don Quixote. It's one of my favorite pieces of literature. The whole crazy-old-man-riding-around-on-an-old-broken-down-horse-which-he-thinks-is-the-most-magnificent-beast aspect really hit home for me, a while back.

Doña Molinera "Molly" (prostitute who plays along with Señor Quixote's delusions and "knights" him in the first chapter) - This is my new commuter and goes against the "broken down" part of my naming scheme. She's a 2008 Fuji Touring.

Rocinante (Don Quixote's horse) - This was my commuter up until this past Fathers' Day. She's a 1983, Austro-Daimler mixte and my wife calls her Rosie.

Dapple (Sancho Panza's donkey) - This is one of my grocery shopping bikes. She's a 1986 Raleigh road bike with baskets and a hitch for pulling my home-brew trailer.

Freeride - A 1987 Miyata that I built up using nothing but dumpster and curb-side trash salvages.

Special Ed - My Specialized HardRock. You can probably figure out where the name came from.

Big Red - The 2007, New Belgium Brewery special edition Felt beach cruiser that I won in the Urban Assault Race.

[Jonahhobbes]

Franco Stormcrow - Old MTB foul weather commuter.

Red - Salsa la Cruz.

Not named my other MTB yet.

[harleyfrog]

Mine is called Fredkenstein I: part man, part machine, all monster. (Yes, it does imply either a Fredkenstein II and/or a Fredkenstein 1.5 (or should that be I.V? ).)