Quote Originally Posted by DebW
She won't bite me. I have a 12 inch crescent wrench and some sharp cable cutters (they cut spokes too). Seriously, she looks like a great bike. I won't call her adorable or cute, but harda$$ might be appropriate. Is she what you call Miss 'Cakes? You must tell us how she got that name.
She bites constantly when I'm careless with the screwdriver and it slips etc.
I was riding with a Eugenian MTB group, and my exdh and I were talking about how pagan folk in Eugene talk about woodland spirits. We decided it'd be funny if there were one named "B*tchcakes" who clomped around the woods in heavy steel toed boots (not unlike me and mine) and one guy in the group heard the name and thought we'd attributed it to my bike. It caught on with us quickly, and soon she was the woodland spirit that clomped through the woods with beefy, knobby tires.

Since then, I've had a hard time talking about the bike or her name because some people are sensitive to such words... and as I've grown more attached to my bike and less militantly "Grr, boots/leather/grease!" er... (less militantly *cough*d_key*cough*) she's gotten the title "miss" and her name abbrevriated.
... and that's the story of the name Miss 'cakes. If I'm a hard-a** cutie-pie, I must be the cutie-pie on the hard-a** bike.