My Giant's name is Dora Dempsey. I've no idea why. It just works.
My Litespeed really screamed male. So, his name is Mojito. Because he makes me feel like I have a little mojo. And he is hot!
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My Giant's name is Dora Dempsey. I've no idea why. It just works.
My Litespeed really screamed male. So, his name is Mojito. Because he makes me feel like I have a little mojo. And he is hot!
My bike is named Dara (as in Torres) and my car is named Sookie (as in Stackhouse).
For me, it's a matter of having spent so much time with the darn thing, it seems to have a personality even if it doesn't. I definitely anthropomorphize my bike beyond naming it, too; I think "Here we are" when we arrive somewhere (even when I'm alone), and I imagine she gets lonely if I don't ride for a few days, and of course I give them gender.
Specialized Hard Rock-turned-Xtracycle: Charlotte (the paradox of a delicate name with this monster of a bike appeals to me)
Seven Ti road bike: Artemis
I'd probably never call my bikes by their names out loud, especially at the lbs, but they are named. My red steel bike is Puddin', and my white bike is Arrow.
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I name them - or at least have since I've (kind of) grown up.
The first bike I named was Walter, a 1-year anniversary present from DH. He's a Raleigh, and, um, vintage enough that he's lugged. Really quite a nice bike, though he never fit me very well.
My other bike is William, the 'Bent. (After William Bent of Colorado history fame)
I've also named a bike I haven't even shopped for yet, but we're not going there.
All my bikes are male - I'm not the type to spend that much intimate time with females (no offense intended, that's just the way I was made) - and all have names that refer to a pioneer of some sort, have a logical connection to the bike itself, and start with 'W.' I'm not sure how this happened, but there it is. Elder Daughter thinks I'm done buying bikes, 'cause I surely have run out of names. (see above)
Come to think of it, my viola and string bass feel male to me, as have our cars, at least the cars I liked. Neither instruments or cars have been named, however, and I did spend quite a bit of one-on-one time with the instruments.
MomOnBike
(recovering musician)
I name my bikes and am currently looking for a name for my new to me handmedown mtb.
He's a Marin Rift Zone and used to be silver and orange but he's now matt black with some shiny shiny Marzocchi forks. Help me out ladies, he needs a name. Currently he's just "black bike" but i don't like that :(
Yes!
My bikes:
Motobecane Mixte with flip flop hub - "Mixte fixte"
GT Outpost trail commuter mobile - "Bradley" da' tank.
Mondonico - "Menace" 'cause she's lavender ;)
Knott's bikes:
Waterford Cross (bought right here on TE :)) - "Flossie" short for Flosshilde
Surly Crosscheck "Crow"
Giant (see lugged steel beauty thread) - was "Cedar" now "Red Cedar" :cool:
Knott's son's bike:
a Kona and I don't know if it's named :p
Easy - The Shadow. ("Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?")Quote:
Originally Posted by gnarwhal
I love it! How could i not have thought of that already...i love The Shadow!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by kfergos
Thought I would respond...after seeing this topic bumped up at times..
No, my bikes are nameless. In a lazy way, was thinking what would I name my regularily-used bike, which is silver.. Silver Dolphin? Certainly not Silver Bullet..cause I'm not fast on the bike! :)
Then I probably would forget to use the name..I'm kinda like that...best I start off a habit at the beginning, especially for something intuitive as nicknaming a person or thing. I had real problems using a nickname for a good friend when she decided to use it for herself after I knew her for first 5 years of our friendship under her full first name.
I've never named a toy, doll even as a child. So maybe that's why my bikes are anonymous.
I've tried and nothing ever seems to stick! Wait-- scratch that. I did name my former mountain bike Super Taylor. I do decorate my bikes as well. I painted Super Taylor on my top tube like so:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...upertaylor.jpg
I tried. I like my bikes A LOT, but just couldn't name them. Nor do I think of them as "him" or "her"...my SO is so funny about his bikes. He doesn't name them (or at least he has not admitted to it) but he calls the road bike "him" and the mountain bike "her"...not always consistently.
Just a couple of weeks ago, the name Rhoda came to me for my bike. I'm not sure why, but Rhoda reminds me of red and my C'dale Synapse is the color "Roarange" (Red/orange).
My mini cooper is named Max (DH even calls him that now)
haha if i had a mini, i'd name it too :D
I describe my bikes as "the recumbent" and "the upright," so they aren't really names, even though I'm fond of both of them. I used to play the guitar a lot more often than I have in recent years, and got a used Martin D-35 twelve string. Very beautiful guitar. I used to call him Martin, and referred to him in the masculine gender.
I named a friend's bike last week! We dug her mountain bikes out of the garage. After a ride through town, we stopped at Bubba Gump's restaurant for lunch. I bought a tiny stuffed shrimp and hooked it to the handlebars. His name is Bubba Shrimp :D The next day I switched to a different bike. She asked it the shrimp needed to be moved over--nope the name can't be transferred!
No, I just ride them. Actually I do not name anything that is not living.
I'm glad it's not Stephen King's "Carrie" :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pink Diva
Yes. My Schwin is Wilma, and my Rodriguez Stellar is Betty. Didn't intend it that way, but when I saw the Stellar, she was immediately Betty without question.
My road bike (Orbea Onix) is "the bat bike" because the color scheme is similar to the batmobile from the old TV series.
The folder (Birdy) is "the clown bike".
I already put that I name mine but in the last week I have referred to both while riding by name.
Climbing a long hill last week on the roadie "Come on Miranda, I know we got it in us!"
Then I had a nasty wreck on the mountain bike "Alright Tess, I am not ready to give up, are you?"
I tend to think I am relatively sane but my car is named Gretchen and yes when she broke last month I begged her to fix herself. :rolleyes:
Ha, we call my husband's Bike Friday "the clown bike," too.
This started after some kids laughed at him while we were riding a few years ago. They made some reference to him being a clown, after screaming loudly, "What the hell?"
Oby...after my favorite beer, Bell's Oberon. :D
Yeah, I name my bikes. It feels more personal, makes it more of a friend.
I named my Trek 520 "Buckley" after Jeff Buckley the late singer/songwriter
I named my Jamis Aurora - "Starbuck" after the female lead in the modern re-make of Sci-fi classic Battlestar Galactica.
I think the bike either seems male or female because as humans we anthropomorphize alot of things - cars, bikes, wind, rain, etc. Other than that, I can't explain anyone else's reasons but my own. I find it comforting and charming.
My Kona is Firefly. She has lots of blinking lights for commuting. Fireflies always make me smile. The name suggested itself one night when I was biking around the lake and I saw the flashing of her lights on the water.
The new Giant MTB is Sliver. She is silver and has gotten under my skin.
I always named my guitars. I currently have Pete and Arlo. I have a little Yamaha mission trip/beater we refer to as the "guitar to be named later." At some point it will tell me its name.
I have one daughter who names everything, and two who don't. All our computers have names (it's a Mac thing, I think). My iPod is Elinore. Even my DH refers to these things by their names.
Deb
My Subzero is Artemis( blue and white) and the new Orbea Onis is supposed to be Nepthys( egyptian goddess of perfection, seeing shes a Orbea and carbon, hehe) but I have a feeling 'she'is a 'he'.
I dont call them by their names though, they are just 'the bike'.
I tend to name animals badly as well - being 'kitty' , puppy', 'bunny' and then nickname them( the rabbit was memorably - 'snuggle puff'!:D)
I tried naming my cars but that didnt work either.
However, the bike has a name that IS hers.
When I told BF, he said he thought of his bike as his 'mistress' - always needing little presents, to be taken out etc - he renamed her 'Ishtar' ( we both study mythology)but he just refers to her, as the 'bke'.
My road bike, a Cannondale Synapse full Dura Ace Fem 1: "Lucille Bike"
My Surly Cross Check, black with a pink-accented Ride Like a Girl Terry seat, the reliable second fiddle to Lucille Bike: "Ethel"
As in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wp3m1vg06Q
I name everything that I can have a strong reaction to. So appliances that annoy me or machines that make me happy. All my computer and photo gear has cartographical names (Atlas, Maps, Legend, etc.).
As for my bikes I have Mary, Queen of Scots (an emerald green and gold pinstripes Motobecane Nobly) and Spooky. I had a dream that I had an orange bike with black accessories and it was the spooky bike. So when I got my Cross Check I reversed the colors for the black frame and it became my Spooky.
No I don't name them. Would like convince myself that I would...but it never occurred to me. Have been cycling for a long time now.
Maybe it's because I never had a doll or toy to give a name long ago as a kid. Dunno.
My bike got fitted to me today, and her name finally came to me. Jaguar is beautiful, fast, and she loves to go long distances
Here is her new profile, complete with Cat Eye Cadence computer, Light and Motion Stella headlight, and nice new Ergon grips! Her brake levers and shifters were also moved, along with just about every other part of her anatomy :)
Ok, so Jaguar didn't work :) Stella works much better... I love big cats and tried to pick one of those, but Stella fits. Reminds me of that movie (that I never saw) "How Stella got her groove back", or something like that...
Maybe Jaguar is her middle name? My bikes have first, middle, and last names, and nicknames. (I like naming my bikes)
Well, I didn't really do it on purpose, but my mountain bike picked up the name "el Diablo." Because, well, he's the devil :)
Hmmmm - Jaguar = long/endurance ride nickname and Stella = her first name. I LIKE it.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
I've always named my cars, but they have never been so "personal" - always something like the Blue Chariot, the trusty rustbucket, or Zoom-Zoom (this was the 6-cylinder with the high compression engine :)
My bike is more personal though, which is interesting. I don't know what it is about naming our transportation, whatever form it takes, but many of us do seem to do it.
My Gary Fisher full squish named herself Holly Golightly on the first ride. I am a big fan of Audrey Hepburn and was shocked at how my new bike just seemed to float like a little waif. :)
I like this nickname. ;) My own zoom-zoom car (my '06 Mazda 3s hatchback) is Dash...after the zippy little guy in The Incredibles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin