Does everyone give their bike a name? I know some people think it's placing a curse on their bike to be stolen, but if you love something you gotta give it a name, right?

Due to my bikes lovely brown turd like colour, mine is called 'Richard the third'

What about yours?

My wife does. Not me.

no

Although I sometimes personify my bike other ways - by saying it's sad from being unridden for days, for example - I don't give it a name. That would just be weird

I just call him Surly, I always try to think of a better name, but Surly is good. Maybe Paper

I made on Wii Fit Plus a Dog that is actually my bike, just so I can see his weight when I want, with whatever I have to carry.

I don't have a scale,

Edit: I just realized I did kind of name it, Bread Bike, I plan to get new head badge just for it, of a pretzel, I might try to make it or find someone.

I name my bikes. I think of touring in the same way as I think of a seaman exploring the oceans! I think of myself as the captain and the winds as either my best friend or my worst enemy. With this in mind it is a well know fact that any expedition on an unamed vessel is bound to fail! You must name your bike!

I too like the name of Surly for my LHT, it just seems to fit right? There is just one problem. My bike is most definitely a woman. I can just tell by the way she feels between my legs (insert innuendo here). Therefore, I have named her Shirley. I briefly considered breaking a champagne bottle on her before taking her on my first ride but that would just be silly!

not bikes, I did name my daughter.

I've been toying with naming my LHT "Laurie" (lorry). So far, I haven't gotten it to stick, because I only have one bike and generally refer to it as "the bike."

I tend to wait for my bikes to name themselves. It seems to happen when I'm at my most exhausted, and I try talking to them.

Why? It won't come when I call it.

Actually mine all already have names when I buy them, Secteur, Globe, Raleigh, Concord, Huffy and Schwinn.

never name something you might have to eat...

My blue LHT = Babe, as in the (Paul Bunyan) blue ox.

My Trek Navigator, Excelsior, after the Longfellow poem.
My Trek 7.5 fx hybrid, Roark, after the protagonist of Rand's The Fountainhead.
My Surly LHT, Notung, after Siegfried's sword in Wagner's Ring.
My Yakima Big Tow trailer, the Wussy Wagon.

Nope, neither do I call my car, my house, my tent, my day-to-day bike something.
I kind of see a trend here.

mine has already a name "New World Tourist" I gave him a family name MERKAVA!!!

You mean like "Baby Blue" or "Big Bad Black Mother Trucker" ?
Nooooooo, never!

Yep, absolutely! I called my old MTB The Black Magic after I took it out on a three day tour on the Darling Downs, and it survived being trampled by wild horses without a scratch. It also developed a mystery flat tyre on the day my garage got broken into to prevent itself from being stolen. It's about to be reinvented as a single speed when I can find the time to do it.

My Hybrid (which will have new forks in an hour or so) is called The Blue Flame, after the colour of the frame. My new MTB is called The Blonde Assassin, because it has a black frame with a white top tube, and because I totally pwnd Mt Nimmel the first time I rode it.

No

Bikezilla

Bink, Blueboy, Blackie, Rat and Big Green

No. Well i just call mine Kona. Or "the bike". But thats not to say that it doesn't have a personality.

I named my Americano Perry Co-Mo just so I'd have an answer if anyone ever asked "What's your bike's name".

I have called all my bikes Moon Tears, after the song by Nils Lofgren.

roughstuff

Always. Tore, short for Toreador, and Hank.