Applehead57

Yes, she has a name, but it's a secret she and I share.

David in PA

My bike treated me exceptionally well during my 2,500 mile tour this past summer. But my girlfriend didn't: she dumped me half-way through my tour. So I named my bike "Desdemona," who is one of my favorite characters (and a remarkle woman) in literature. She's a character from Othello by Shakespeare.

David in PA

aadhils

No matter what I name my bikes, they never come when I call. So what's the point...

hillyman

Sometimes I call my bike "Mule" , sometimes "Jackass".
It's just an extention of myself.

mr bill

note to self: read that book...

squire

My yellow and black ORC3 is "bumble bee" and when I buy a touring bike it will be "Francis" since it will be my "mule". If you are under 50 years old the last name will go straight over your head. ...........Sam

Camel

I bought my tourer barely used, and it had allready been painted "Richard's dream" along the crosstube. I fealt bad about re-painting, or covering up the stencil for a long while, but finally just covered it over with a "crazyguyonabike" sticker recently.

It looks neat/clean, though I'll probably put some clear tape over that sticker. Now I won't be mistaken for "Richard" (who sadly sold his dream), but just another "crazy guy on a bike".

I guess my bikes name then is "bike".

Rogerinchrist

Not So!! I'm only 40 & I get it, besides "Francis" was way cooler than Mr. Ed.

Oh, mine is called "Mule" as well.

bikejack

As my bikes get older I've called every part of them a name at some stage.

grolby

I don't name my bikes - a bike is a machine and a tool, and nothing more, no matter how much I love it. A machine must be truly exceptional to earn a real name. Besides, it's not like I have any difficulty telling them apart. My touring bike is "the Miyata" or "my Miyata." My Austrian Sears three-speed POS is "my three-speed."

That's not to say that people who name their bikes are wrong to do so, it's just not my thing - it feels very weird and not quite natural, and so I just don't do it. I can tell them apart without proper names, anyway.

foggydew

My 1994 Cannondale T700 is blue; I added various panniers over the years which were also blue; my cycling jackets were blue; I called (call) this bike Big Blue. I still do...

axolotl

I couldn't agree more.

YellowstoneYeti

My bikes name is Oscar. My LHT is bright green (not sage) like Oscar the Grouch. It's a Surly bike.

CoyoteLoco

My cannonondale super v which I toured mexico and cuba on is known as "coyote loco" Name came about the day after a coyote came up to me as i was in my sleeping bag fast asleep. I awoke to feel a little tugging on the bottom of my bag, kick my feet a little. a few seconds later i was dragged a couple feet til i screamed like a schoolgirl and the coyote ran away. next morning asked some locals and they said there was a rougue band of coyotes nearbye. My bike and I were then christianed "Cyote loco".

silverphoenix67

I have 3 bikes right now. Two of them, I haven't named. But the third... which I just picked up a few days ago to re-build and give to a friend for christmas, yeah... I named that one "Pretty Hate Machine". It's a cruiser I'm gonna re-build using NIN as my inspiration.

crazedbiker

not recently but, I think that it isn't wierd. especially if you get attached.

taylor8

Horse

Joe

hotwheels

I named my bike Gwaihir the Windlord and Shadowfax.

Mostly to annoy some of my coworkers who happen to be Lord of The Ring fans. But I do think they're cool names for a bike. Sometimes I even whistle for my coworkers, uhh I mean Gwaihir.

cooker

I just started naming them this year.

My "new' bronze coloured '84 Trek 520 is "The Bronze".

My '90s red Raleigh Century mountain bike is "Rubeus" because it's twice as heavy as a normal bike.

I need to find a very honourable name for my '80s silver Panasonic road bike - my now semi-retired, staunch and stalwart main commuter for the past 14 years and 20,000 km.

Robert

DannoXYZ 

GODZILLA!!! it's a monster...

cooker

Is that for your bike, or were you responding to my request (post #44)? If the latter, not bad!

DannoXYZ 

That's my bike's name, but you're more than welcome to use it yourself! I'm thinking about getting a Godzilla toy and putting the head on as my head-tube badge...

acantor

I don't name my bicycles, but I know someone who came up with a showstopper of a name for a tiny Italian-built frame loaded with Campy components: “il duce” (the leader) after fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945).

stokell

My bike was custom assembled to my specks so the frame had no logo on it. I rode it for a while and then decided that like a boat it should have a name.

I brought up the subject at the pub one Thursday and the men's committee (those present that evening) agreed that the most appropriate name was:

Kyoto Accord

If you have to explain it, the message is lost.

BRUCE NORTHCUTT

"He spent four days deliberating over what name he would give the horse, for (as he said to himself) it was not right that the horse of so famous a knight should remain without a name. So after having devised, erased, and blotted out many other names, he finally decided to call the horse Rozinante - a name, in his opinion, lofty, sonorous, and significant, for it explained that he had been only an ordinary hack before he had been raised to his present status of all the hacks in the world".

Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote", 1605