bike name
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18 dog baby
Joined: Jul 2004
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From: Honolulu
Bikes: 2008 crosscheck complete, 1984 Pugeot fixed conversion
bike name
I notice a few posters have named their rides. The best I've seen so far is Stella. I think I should name mine now that I've broken it in, personalized it and come to love the way it (gender?) creaks with my movements, responds to my slightest thought and is always there for me in the morning. But what? Or should I wait a year and just call it "Ugly Thing" in case it gets taken from me, like all those Primitive cultures do with children?
What kind of names do your bikes have, and how did you name them?
What kind of names do your bikes have, and how did you name them?
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Bikes: Bianchi Brava (fixed), Nishiki Prestige (fixed), Plum Vainqueur (track), Fuji Boulevard (Single-speed)
My Bianchi is Spencer and my Nishiki winter fixie is Harriet. I call my beater "the ugly bike" (and believe me, it is ugly). In my freshman year of college, my friends dubbed my sparkly green 3-speed "the **** bike", and they wrote a punk song about it.
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Huachuca Rider

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From: Charlotte, NC
Bikes: Fuji CCR1, Specialized Roubaix
Originally Posted by scrantr
The yellow one.
The red one.
The blue one with no wheels.
The red one.
The blue one with no wheels.
My Giant OCR 1 is the "Red One," the Giant Sedona DX is the "White One." The wife's Giant is simply "Hers" or the "Blue One."
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From: chicago
Bikes: Rock Lobster, Serotta Coeur d'Acier, Schwinn Varsity, Schwinn Speedster, Schwinn Highplains, Raligh Marathon
MY Rock Lobster is named: giant green road racing machine
My Serotta is named: giant green exotic road racing machine
My Serotta is named: giant green exotic road racing machine
#12
Conquer Cancer rider
Joined: Sep 2004
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From: Toronto
Bikes: Fun bike, city bike, touring bike, swish new ebike, Bike Friday
The grown up bike and the baby bike, the latter because it's too small for me, and I never should have bought it. The yet-to-be-bought tourer will have a Real Name, to be determined once she (he?) and I have bonded properly.
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#13
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From: Cleveland, OH
Bikes: 2004 Trek 4600 SS, 2016 Cannondale Cujo 2 SS
Road bike="Grunt" as in, I ride it every day, it does my grunt work. My mountain bike I usually call "My Baby", but it varies, as in, it has been acting up recently, so I call it "*******"
#16
Brain Bucket Killer
Joined: Dec 2004
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From: Tallahassee, FL
Bikes: Beater--Magna Glacierpoint
my gf calls my bike the "Lil Red Midget"...because it's a 24" boys bike....and my bike looks really tiny next to her 26" purple bike. i call hers the "Purple Freaking Grape". i've always ridden boys bikes. and i'm only 5'1'' so i cant ride a 26". i've never really liked women's frames nor the colors that women's bikes come in anyway. i had my choice between a metallic red boys bike and a hot pink women's bike. yuck...pink
#17
I drink your MILKSHAKE

Joined: Jul 2002
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From: St. Petersburg, FL
Bikes: 2003 Specialized Rockhopper FSR Comp, 1999 Specialized Hardrock Comp FS, 1971 Schwinn Varsity
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From: Riverside, California
Bikes: Trek 2100 Road Bike, Full DA10, Cervelo P2K TT bike, Full DA10, Giant Boulder Steel Commuter
The cannondale, the trek, road bike, MTB bike
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From: DC / Maryland suburbs
Bikes: Homebuilt tourer/commuter, modified-beyond-recognition 1990 Trek 1100, reasonably stock 2002-ish Gary Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo
My road bike is named Hephalocipede, because I think it's fast and I like the word hephalump, also I call it Heph for short. My commuter is named Elmer, like the cartoon character Elmer Fudd, because it's stodgy and silly looking, but reliable and endearing.
If I ever start my own bike company, the mountain bikes are going to be called MUD RHINO, and the road bikes are going to be called Mádrino. Our cross bike will be called "LudiCROSSpeed" and our high-end carbon fiber racer model will be called "Roadiculous." You read it here first
If I ever start my own bike company, the mountain bikes are going to be called MUD RHINO, and the road bikes are going to be called Mádrino. Our cross bike will be called "LudiCROSSpeed" and our high-end carbon fiber racer model will be called "Roadiculous." You read it here first
Last edited by moxfyre; 12-07-04 at 04:00 PM.






