Does your bike talk to you?

[Kitsune06]

Mine isn't thrilled with her new slick tires. We zip and zoom over the country hills (okay, sometimes she's dragging me and sighing as I grunt and snert and puff up to the top)... then she sees a little bit of poached singletrack running off into someone's woods. It's all over.
"Let's go! It'll be fun! There'll be rocks and sticks and trees *gasp* ANDDIRTANDFUNTHINGSANDYOUCANJUMPMEANDWE'D HAVE FUN!!!"
I look at her sternly and say "Not with your little thin smoothies, missy. Besides, I've got a bag full of groceries and it's 90 something out here."
"*whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine* But it'd be fun!"
"No." But by this time, I'm eyeing the trail, too.
"You know you want to..." The front brake squeaks a little as I start rolling forward onto the trail, and I have to pull her back onto the path and give a forceful pedal to get us down the street and out of sight of that... temptation.
"You'll pay for this," she grumbles, in her fashion.
True to form, as I'm creaking and groaning up that last huge gravel hill on our stupid gravel road, I try to shift to get a little more out of my burning thighs, and... *CHAINSUCK*. I pedal backwards, then try again. *CHAINSUCK*. GRR. MizCakes giggles merrily as I swear and pop off the bike to pull the worn chain off the sprocket and turn the pedals to get everything in its right place again.
"****!!!"
"That's my name, sweety," she smirks haughtily.
God, my bike has some **** attitude. Anyone else want to deal with her for awhile?

[Cassandra_Cain]

Not merely talk, but long intimate conversations. Most especially on those tough solo rides.

Oftentimes my bike sounds like a naval commander "all ahead! What is the problem up there in the engine room! Arrrrrghhhh, put yer back into it, we can go faster....

[chickwhorips]

the days bloo doesn't want to go out she whines (squeeks) and so do i usually the whole way.
the days we are both having a good day you can hear us both going wwwwwweeeeeeeeee and no whining on either of our parts.

lately though because i've been running more she's sitting there whining because she wants to go out more. she doesn't understand what a bear can do to her or me but still she complains. though having her holed up for a while sure makes her want to go faster when she gets out.

[latelatebloomer]

"pssst....pssst....hey cutie.....over here......yeah, it's me. Get me down. Yeah, get me down. Let's you and me go out....it'll be good, real good.....I promise...."

and such an innocent blue, too

[MomOnBike]

William was whispering sweet nothings to me about long trips across the country while he was still on the show room floor.

Nowadays, he's mostly just bored with the same old routes we've been riding and has been complaining about not getting out more. Getting out involves crossing state lines, BTW.

Tonight, though, he informed me that no snot-nosed pre-teen on a knobby-tired bike was going to pass us and the engine had just better find some juice. He does that sort of thing all too often.

Yeah, my bikes often talk to me, but DH doesn't often like what they have to say - or that I'm an all too willing listener.

[crazycanuck]

On today's 6hr here in perth my legs said "oi, let's go and sit under the tree and read a book"...my bike said "WTF...let's keep going"....I had so much fun on ze bike today yer...Mr bike said "thank you..."

When i got home my road bike said "you're welcome for the help"...i'm here anytime you want to engage in some hot N steamy stuff..""


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[Bad JuJu]

Looks like we've established pretty firmly that our bikes DO talk to us. So here's a question: when I get my Bianchi, will I have to learn Italian to understand her?