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  • What do you call your bike?
  • Spankmonkey
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    how many on here have a name for their bike? if you do, what bike is it, what name have you given it.. and why?

    btw- I do not but one of my mates calls his bikes Norma and Ian, weird

    goldenwonder
    Free Member

    I tend to call mine 'Anthem' 'Road bike' or 'hardtail'

    Vortexracing
    Full Member

    mate at work calls his road bike Debbie.

    He has always had a thing for Debbie Harry and he openly admits this is the only way he gets to 'ride Debbie' 😕

    wierdo

    KINGTUT
    Free Member

    It's as bad as calling your bike a 'steed'.

    crazy-legs
    Full Member

    the Cove
    the Epic
    the road bike
    the cross bike

    firestarter
    Free Member

    i also tend to call mine road bike,turner,blue pig,crosser and the monkey

    hilldodger
    Free Member

    'steed of supreme domination' usually…..

    sturmey
    Free Member

    Sad I know but the only way I could afford my Cotic Soul build was due to the death of my Aunt, she left me some money so my bike is known to me as aunty Mary. 😳

    psychle
    Free Member

    1) big bike 2) little bike 3) frankenbike 4) wife's bike 5) brompton 6) fun bike

    and that's that… I'm not very imaginative me 🙂

    DezB
    Free Member

    Yeti, Hardtail (aka Cove, aka Handjob), Dog-walking bike and Road Bike.
    No pet names, cos that's be silly.

    ourmaninthenorth
    Full Member

    Sad I know but the only way I could afford my Cotic Soul build was due to the death of my Aunt, she left me some money so my bike is known to me as aunty Mary.

    That's all right, I think. I did a road ride with a chap recently who rides Colnagos. He has contacts at the factory so, instead of the usual "Ernesto Colnago" siganture on the top tube, he has his mother's name: Dorothy Louise. She's also deceased and, he said, he did it because she would have been amused to know he was a cyclist.

    Mine are altogether more prosaic:

    Winter road bike: "No.1 bike"
    Summer road bike: "good bike" or "race bike"
    Cotic Soul: "Cotic" or "mountain bike" or "black bike"
    Kona lavadome: "Kona" or "singlespeed" or "purple bike"
    Track bike: "track bike"
    Road fixed: "fixed bike"

    nedrapier
    Full Member

    I decided ages ago that if it had a name it should be something pretty and inappropriate, like Samantha Dekerf.

    But as I've only got one, it's usually referred to as "it" or "my bike".

    loup
    Free Member

    I'm a girl so I'm allowed to name my bikes…. FS is Black Beauty (and is black), HT is Piglet (steel aka pig iron, and with pink bits), Roadie is Flicka (as in the horse not the photo hosting website).

    The OH has Stumpy (cause it is) and "The Beast" (old heavy HT).

    Am I really really sad?? 😕 🙄 😀

    xc-steve
    Free Member

    Jeff… well its actually jeff 1.5 it got upgraded

    All my DH play bikes have been called Phil.. Phil1 and Phil2 both are no-more.

    However I'm soon to be getting a more xc race style bike, what shall I call that?! I'm thinking quite a camp name as can't imagine an XC race bike being butch now not like Phil!

    And my car is called Paul… me and my wife like the term personification!

    oldgit
    Free Member

    The mountainbike, the crosser, the road bike. The pile of crap in the corner my retro bike.

    wombat
    Full Member

    I have a Boardman so, naturally, I call it Stan

    ton
    Full Member

    january
    february
    march
    april
    may
    ……….
    ………
    ….
    ……………. 😉

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    So … are your bikes male or female?

    Nick
    Full Member

    My single speed kona caldera is called 'black bastard', because it's wheels are black, it's frame is black,it has black P2 forks and it's a complete bastardisation.

    xc-steve
    Free Member

    All mine thus far have been Male, but new one might be Female as its made of plastic 😉

    organic355
    Free Member

    "yafooka"

    well I often find myself saying "come on yafooka" when on a gut busting climb.

    AndyP
    Free Member

    So … are your bikes male or female?
    christ. Mine are just a collection of metal and rubber. They have neither chromosomes nor genitals.

    DezB
    Free Member

    cinnamon_girl – Member
    So … are your bikes male or female?

    Even I'm not that sad!

    MrBlond
    Free Member

    Similar lack of imagination here:

    The Inbred
    The fast bike / The condor
    The commuter / The touring bike
    The IF 😉

    Dancake
    Free Member

    *Dog bike
    *Posh Bike

    senorj
    Full Member

    my sub5 is called "the princess of darkness"
    my evo4 is called "evo"
    they are both female.obviously.

    clearly i need help.

    btw like the aunty mary tale.

    Alex
    Full Member

    Bike naming is silly. As opposed to trail naming which is perfectly all right. My road bike is known as "The Essex Lightening", but was named by someone else with more than a nod to irony. I liked that.

    Generally if I'm addressing a bike directly it's something like "Shift Gears you Chainsucking, Recalcitrant, Mule Headed BStard".

    thecrackfox
    Free Member

    The Big Dog – Cannondale Rize
    Race Bike – Scott Spark
    Singlespeed – Cotic Simple
    Road Bike – Gary Fisher Triton (singlespeed)

    Looks like that makes me normal, rather than boring.

    jedi
    Full Member

    i call all my bikes jessie after my nan who left me money to buy a bike when she died. she loved cycling

    🙂

    I_Ache
    Free Member

    One is referred to as The Pitch or The FS another The DMR or The Hardtail and finally The Trek or The Road Bike.

    Spankmonkey
    Free Member

    Im thinking mine is going to be called Evie May after my daughter who is 1 today!

    Dancake
    Free Member

    With ref to Alex my bike is sometimes called "**** this im diching these f**king SPDs"

    I never do though

    tandemwarriors
    Full Member

    Just like Aunty Mary and Jessie, our tandem is called Nancy as she was only bought due to a small inheritance when my Grandma died.
    My mum thought it pretty funny, Grandma, although being brilliant, was never known for getting muddy and she could never ride a bike!
    It's a nice way to always remember her.
    Love you Gran!

    Rob

    joolsburger
    Free Member

    I call mine "my bike" as I only have the one.

    This isn't full metal jacket chaps!

    boxelder
    Full Member

    'Her outdoors' covers most

    I think of my steel hardtail as Neil Young? Dunno why
    My FS is more Danni Minogue

    Andituk
    Free Member

    Lucifer
    Thor
    Loki

    and Graham

    Actually I made that up. Who would seriously name their bike?

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    Ahem 😳

    My old FS was known as "The Sofa".

    The Ti is known as "The MLC".

    The latest is known as "The New Girl".

    The singlespeed is known as "Dirty Little Inbred".

    The other one doesn't have a name.

    Yeah, so go on, point and laugh 🙄

    coogan
    Free Member

    *points and laughs*

    GlennG
    Free Member

    No names, but when missus asks me to move bike/s or enquires "are those new shiny bits on your bike????" she referes to them as thus:

    Big bike (Rocky Mountain Switch 2)
    Green bike (On One SS)
    Blue Bike (Curtis FR)
    New Bike (Cotic Soul)
    Skinny Bike (Bianchi)
    Gold bike (Kona Dew Delux)

    Which is fine by me as I can just about remember my kids names let alone naming my bikes.

    nedrapier
    Full Member

    wombat – Member

    I have a Boardman so, naturally, I call it Stan

    Not Greame?

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