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Mountain bike. Sometimes call it the Trailstar since that's what it is.
Road bike.
That's about the limit of my naming abilities!
Mine have a name on the side of them & get called that,cept for the 2 Inbreds -26" one's called "the inbred" & the 29er's called "the 29er inbred"....
Ian Botham/Mr Botham/Bothy - Cotic BFe.
I am a sad, sad man.
Bikes
06 marin mount vision = 'Faith' - yup from BUFFY 🙂
07 Trek road bike, silver = silver shadow
10 Helius CC black with silver component detailing = R2D2
10 Custom Rondelli Yellow road bike = C3PO
Mine is called Keith Lemon as it's a Zesty 😉
LOT'S OF ROAD BIKES ! HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED ! 😀
Shibboleth - Member
My Blur is called Hilda after my grandmother who left me a small some of money with instructions to treat myself. It was my first "proper" mountain bike and I'll never part with it... Her... Whatever.
Yep, with you on this one. Meet Nancy....
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named after my Grandma who left us a wee inheritance that was just enough to buy the frame & shock. Iroic thing is, Grandma didn't like getting dirty and couldn't ride a bike.
Nancy is going to Glentress tomorrow, so if you see her (& us) give us a shout!
In-Bred is called "FLASH" after the village near Buxton/Leek
The wife calls my sc nomad "the bitch".She is convinced I'm having an affair with it. Mind you ,I am riding it more than her at the moment. 😀
My identical twin road bikes are called Yui and Ui. Haven't named the Blizzard or the Merckx.
The Cove - Cove Stiffee
The Roadbike - Ribble Ribelle
The winter bike - Cube streamer
The big bike - Turner RFX
My Finnish gf named them so:
Musta kettu (means black fox in Finnish, it's black with Fox forks)
Valkonen kettu (white fox, white with Fox forks)
Ei kettu (no fox, CX bike with no forks)
And Gina, can't remember why.
Mog, Rags and Paco.
Android - MemberI have never named a bike, or a car for that metter, it's not as if you can call its name and it will come to you so what's the point.
My neighbours named their cats, they don't come when called either.
Android - MemberI have never named a bike, or a car for that metter, it's not as if you can call its name and it will come to you so what's the point.
My neighbours named their cats, they don't come when called either.
No, the cat's are just ignoring them!
Big silver for Obvious reasons
More replies than I anticipated. Many don't get it (as I expected), different strokes...
The Meta is now Alphonse (Commencal being French). I used to refer to them (different bikes) as the mountain or road bike, then something changed.
If I needed to shout at the bike in a moment of stress while on the trail, I'd feel pretty suspect shouting abuse at a "female" bike; it would seem a bit...odd. I'd rather it sounded like I was arguing with a Frenchman; the police are less likely to be phoned. Then again, puffing and panting while shouting "Come on Alphonse!" is probably not great either 😳
I call my bike by my ex-girlfriend's name to wind up the mrs.
"I'm off for a quick ride in the woods with Hayley, will be back in time for dinner" 🙂
I'm not joking.
Barry
The Enduro = "The Enduro" or "The Spesh"
The Marin = "The orange Marin" or "The Wolf Ridge"
Missus's Marin = "The white Marin" or "The Rock Springs"
Stepson 1's bike = "The Merlin" or "The prettiest bike I've ever built"
Stepson 2's bike = "The Hardrock" or "Stepson 2's bike".
Occasionally I have been known to address my Marin with a profanity, especially so during long sloggy climbs. My Enduro also gets this treatment when suspension squat related fatigue sets into my legs.
all vehicles are either Betsy or Samantha.
If a Betsy goes wrong, give her a second-hand spare and she'll love you forever. Dead reliable and always up for a ride 🙂
If a Samantha needs a new chain, she'll want new chainrings and her headset will need replacing. Then her cables will need fixing up. Ungrateful but often good-looking.
That green Trek is wrong in just so many ways it is difficult to now where to start.
It's like someone wants to do Dirt Jumping in their heart, but half listens to their head when it says 'but you are an old queen get a road bike'.
wrong wrong wrong
Do your LBS still talk to you or do you find the shop is closed every time you go there?
No offence.
Red bike, brown bike and grey bike. You can probably work out why each has it's name.
I like Bassspines theory. 8)
My haro/intense downhill bike was called "Stacey's Mom".
The fountains of Wayne song was out at the time and that bike had it going on!
" I'm off out to ride Stacey's Mom" was also quite amusing at the time.
Mate has a GT hardtail he calls Brian, as It's a Lopes frame.
Not because it's a very naughty boy.
other than that, well, the road bike is the road bike, the cross bike is the cross bike and the XC bike is the hardtail, the full suss XC bike is the Spesh, the 4x/messing about/jump frame is the little hardtail.
winterfold - Member
That green Trek is wrong in just so many ways it is difficult to now where to start.It's like someone wants to do Dirt Jumping in their heart, but half listens to their head when it says 'but you are an old queen get a road bike'.
wrong wrong wrong
Do your LBS still talk to you or do you find the shop is closed every time you go there?
No offence.
My thoughts exactly!
matthewlhome - Member
Red bike,
Because it's a communist?
the colnell
No offence taken 😉
It just happens to match our team kit perfectly..... 🙄
But for the record, a lot more people like it then dislike it.....It`s all down to taste and everyone is different.
Good job n`all 8)
I dig the Shrek, apart from that cable outer on the back end. Lowers the tone I feel. But what do I know? I started a thread on bike names 😆
I ? Nancy
stoney - if you are fast you might get away with it - looking at that Ridley - you'd better be 😈
I'd never named one until a couple of weeks ago when I built up a Heckler out of spares and cheap/2nd-hand parts. Since I was reading 'Don Quijote' at the time it seemed fair to call it Sancho. It's pretty overweight, slightly tempremental and there's a mad, bearded idiot leading it around getting it into trouble. It just fit.
My Inbred is still 'The Inbred'.
Old Trek was Tracy (white forks reminded me of white stilettos)
Giant Anthem - Ginge (cos it is Ginger)
Orange 5 - The 5
P7 - The 7
Speciaized Sirrus - Cyril
MrCMs P7 - The Weapon (black and SS)
Car - Smudge (reg plate ends in SMJ)
It's nice to give 'em names 😀
My only bike is a 15 year old, mid-range Saracen. Mockingly known as "the Silver Bullet".
I`m non too shabby on a bike 😉
My first tt on the Ridley after 10 years was a 24 dead, only a good minute off my previous average....I`d say that was pretty good.
Herman....the rear cable is now a lot shorter 😛
Famine (singlespeed), Pestilence (child carier), War (hardtail) and Death (commuter).
In reality, the black bike, the red bike, the white bike and the grey bike.
Pestilence !!!! I like that one 😛
both my bikes are green, i like green;
the cotic is called Bertha (lovely Bertha, you are a lovely machine) 90s kids animation about a green machine and the Superlight is Olive, cos it's Olive green.
Pointless tangent: There's an old Renault Clio round the corner with "Dennis" written on the back in big homemade silver lettering.I always like to think it's because the driver is called Dennis - but I suspect it's actually some teenage girl's first car.
I always wondered why firemen had Dennis written on their engines. That makes sense now.
As for bike names: that one and that one. Or the dirty one and the clean one according to my 3yo daughter.
Never bothered with names till recently My Cotic Soul is called Mary as it was aunty Mary who left me some money and I spent some of it on it and now I have Noel not a bike but Uncle Noel left me some money which enabled me to do this to a panel over the last 6 months apt really as in his younger days he loved traveling
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My track bike seems to have acquired the name "The Golden Eagle" cos it's big and gold. I didn't christen it, it just seems to have stuck.
My ex named her bikes. One of them was called Sprinkles, one of them was called Brian. No, I don't know why either. Another (female) friend of mine names all her bikes - I did wonder what she was on about when she said she'd been for a ride on Dominic.
DC.
Sterling.
Beast.
Morris.
Mad One.
Heinz.
Stan.
GRF's bike is soon to be in a box with my name on it, on account of all the favours Ive done him recently. Although I would settle for a Bandit.
stoney - Im currently mid 23s on my std road bike and want to take a minute off that this summer - if I cant do it by fair means I will take back what I said about Kermit and ask nicely to borrow that Ridley 🙂 (which is lush, so you must have some taste)
I don't go in for the naming thing, but I did LOL at Dr.Shipman and Josephine. 😆
Hey Winterfold ❗ that was me 10 years ago, Mid- short 23`s on a standard roady with clip ons.....
I figure that now i`m 40 i need technology to make up for my losses 😆
Shrek has only been out twice but it does feel very good indeed....
If you need to borrow the speedy bike.......... 😉
I think the whole girls name for a bike is a bit, er....
but my commuter bike does get referred to as 'son of death trap' cos my dad had a fixed gear through out the 70s and 80s when they really weren't fashionable (his was a right shed) and someone once borrowed it, rode off and turned around to shout 'come on' to everyone and was dumped over the handlebars quite spectacularly, as a result my dads bike was known as the death trap, mine was the next generation
I also have
'my mountain bike' aka 'my voodoo'
my 'best bike' which is my geared summer road bike