I find that if you name stuff you get attached to it and then upset when it breaks, so no, I never have.
However, a couple of my friends and girlfriends have named my cars/vans.
These have been:
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The Tardis
The Rust Bucket
The Toyoya
Percy
The Hyundai
Tina
The Van
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No bike has ever had a name
Dont have a car but bike names follow a formula.
The [distinguishing feature] one.
Not intentionally, but it just happens to some of the vehicles.
My Van ended up being called Jimmy (for various reasons) and the Passat was always "Alexa" thanks to the number plate being LXA. The new car is "Bob" because it's a Niro.
The rest have been called "the car", "the shitbox", "rusty pos", or by the mode. Actually, thos middle two were reserved for the Rover 620 I had. Such an amazingly complete shitcar. I genuinely have no idea how they made something so fundamentally bad.
I was just about to say no, I find it a bit daft - then realised that my e-bike on strava is named Evil Kenevo
I used to have names for my old cars, mk1/mk2 golf, mk2 scirocco as there was an emotional (and exorbitant expense) attachment to them but my new Tiguan is just a lump of steel used as a tool for moving my decrepit and useless carcass around
Mine are called by their names: the Stache, the Litespeed, etc.
We don't name cars, but on the number plate thing, we use TLAs so we can remember reg nos for parking machines
DHU = dirty hairy undercarraige
LMO = lubricated man organ
NFC = new fockin car
According to Strava my bikes are Bitch and Bastard.
I find that if you name stuff you get attached to it and then upset when it breaks
Bit like farmers and their pigs really.
Our car is called - The car
My Orange Patriot - Ermintrude
My Orange Four - Polly
My old Orange P7 - Victoria (all fur coat and nae knickers)
My newer P7 - Penelope
My Spesh Levo - Lemmy
My replica 1910's pathracer - Jasper
Our 1970's Pashley tandem - Sybill
Our new Dawes tandem - Enid II
Wife's Pashley Princess - Scarlett
My road bike - the road bike
Naming a car is just so weird, bunch of freaks!
C.
I called my first car Eric because I was into Monty Python (cliched student). Everything since has been called by what it is, be it a car, a bass* or a bike.
*Instrument not fish!
Zebedee and Greta.
I call my car Leon, cos that's what i says on the back
Missus has named the Toyota 'The Flying Shoebox.'
My Tesla Model 3 has a name because it makes you give it one when you add it to your phone. Mine is called "Scooty Puff Jr" (Futurama reference).
Car names? no.
Bike names? yes. Red Eddy & The Duck live together in my garage.
The new car is “Bob” because it’s a Niro.
I'd have gone for the Emperor as a nickname.
Well. Like many I don’t.
However Mrs CFSB does:
Our camper is apparently Wilf. Her car is Wendy.
Her two bikes are Penny and Ginny.
In her words my full suss bike is Smelly Boy Bike.
Harmless, I guess, but…..
All the time! Examples include...
Stanton Sherpa with the green/purple flip paint job - Ramona after Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim.
Roadbike - Jennifer after the she Hulk as it's green and white.
First car - Leela - after Futurama because most of the time only one of the headlights worked.
Van is called Henry, because, well, he just is.
Not all are flattering - old gravel bike was called the Steel Pig, because it was hefty.
It is becoming harder with newer cars. Old cars have more of a character to them and thus easier to give names to. New cars are a bit, dare I say it, soul less. Now, if anyone has a 1992 Polo GT Coupe with one working headlight going for sale, let me know!
Actually, we once had a FIAT Stilo estate that was known as the breadwagon
My car is called Nemo - Registration is NMO. It is the first car that has ever had a name (I am 58) Only did it because the Volvo App insisted on it, but it is nice to get text messages from Nemo occasionally.
My Dad always named cars, usually based on the numberplate or the model and always female (he was in the Navy). I can't bring myself to carry on the tradition. My bikes are just known as 'the road bike', 'the gravel bike' and 'the mountain bike'. That's really boring.
Cars, nope, just tools for a job. Bikes have all been named on Strava. Current one is The Ti Bride. Last one was The Bomb (Dirtbomb), Aqua Man (Aqua coloured Cotic) with the rest having increasingly shite nicknames.
Recently got a new car and was devastated when the wife pointed out it said “knob” so had to go for a private plate 🙁
IT's ironic that by getting rid of a registration that says knob you've made yourself look a bit of a knob 😛
You should have owned it 😀
When I got my last car my nephew asked what I was going to call it.
Car
When I replaced it my nephew asked what it was going to be called
Car2d2
I made that up on the spot and was actually quite surprised and please with myself.
Have named all of my recent bikes, and the duck that rides some of them!
There will be a pattern here too 🙂
Bossnut V1 was Cali
Triple B V2 is called Eleanor (was stolen from work and recovered within 24hrs, so unstealable! haha) and the duck on the bars is Memphis.
Dark Peak is Donnie (as in Darko)
Haven't come up with one for the Sentry Pro yet, or got a duck for it....
I only name trails. But that would be a whole new thread.
My old Toyota Rav4 was referred to as Shankar, mostly by friends and I when working out which car would be used as packhorse for a trip. I sold it to another friend and the name still remains in use by him and his family.
Indeed we have a mixture. Rora the Explorer is our T2, Redshed the Mini, Kermit the Land Rover. Dale the Cannondale, front and back bottom the touring bike.
Only the Dekerf.
Samantha, because it seemed like a silly name for a bike. Samantha Dekerf. But it's more often called "the SS" or "the little green bike", mainly because Samantha is a silly name for a bike.
i dont name my bikes but was boring my wife a few years back about my latest epic adventure up the pentlands. i happened to say 'we' at some point and she asked 'i thought you were alone?' i awkwardly admitted i meant me + the bike!
I've not named either of the two cars I've owned but they've both had stuffed toy mascots that have had names - Rowlf (a dog) for my old car and Bug (a Rhino) for my current car.
Some of my bikes have technically had names but I rarely find myself calling them by their names. My Orange 5 was BOB (Big Orange Bike) and so my Clockwork Evo is technically BOB2. My Nukeproof Mega is officially Bikey McEnduroFace. Generally they just get called by their brand or model name - the Mega, the Orange, the Ibis, etc.
Flaperon wins with his scooty-puff junior 😆
Our Tesla is called Baby Shark, it’s grey with a pointy nose!
IT’s ironic that by getting rid of a registration that says knob you’ve made yourself look a bit of a knob 😛
Fortunately I already owned it so it was a painless (free) decision 🙂
Cars are named. Two car family and my wife and I often swap between cars. It was easier to tell the kids to get into Bertie or Bertha.
The names stayed when the cars changed. Bertie has been a 5 series (x2), S3 and a 3 series. Bertha has been a couple of X5s (big Bertha!)
Now Bertha has been replaced by Brad as it didnt seem to suit the American Tesla.
Horsebox is called Brian because it has to start with a b.
Never named a bike though!
Not names but gender, yes.
I have even made my partner a little jealous over the way I talk about my bike! I'm not even joking.
I bloody love my old Jeffsy. (And my partner.)
I always name our cars (in the Connect App). The Audi A7 is the Death Star and the A5 Convertible Mister Frosty on account of the Turbo Blue paint job.
Never named a bike. Cars/vans only once, called my old Bluebird Madge on account of its MAJ numberplate.
My first thought was no! But then I realised that I have in the past. Only for Strava, but named my commuter the very imaginative SS Boardman. Cos it's a Boardman, and singlespeed.
My 5 spot is predictably named Tina
It would appear that eccentricity is prevalent on STW.
First car was named Winona, second car was “Wi-no-name”. Current car is known as “the skip”
Honda Jazz is The Black Slug. 🙂
The Doblo was The Potting Shed and my old Daewoo Nexia was Shedric.
Bikes, not so much.....
molgrips
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I don’t, of course – why would I?
Because someone does it for you:
garage-dweller
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Marvin the paranoid Mercedes with genuine people personality?