Does your bike have a name?

[pooks]

A name, a name! Now that I'm ready to get rid of her, she suddenly has a name.

"The Beast" (as mentioned above) does fit her quite well because I've had to tame her more or less, to force her up hills, to force myself to ride her at times. She weighs almost 40 pounds!

Since we both have Dynamic brand bicycles, I arbitrarily named mine Dynah and my husband's Mick. It went no farther until tonight.

But as I was fighting my way uphill this evening "Dyna-Beast" popped into my head, then "Dyna-saur."

Even though "Dyna-saur" actually may be better, I think she will be "Dyna-Beast" in my head from now on.

[KayTee]

I, too, have a bike named Fred, a fast and ultralight '02 Fondriest Carb Level with Campy Record 10 and all kinds of carbon fiber bits hung all over him. When I ride him I feel like a fred. I bought him after a particularly good season but have been on a downhill slide since then.

PeeWee is my '06 S&S-coupled steel IndyFab Crown Jewel - for my Great Adventures, get it? And Barbie, a.k.a. Barbie's Playbike, is my winter bike, a 1990 SLX steel Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra pictured below. She was repainted last year (and named for) her original Team Weinmann colors. What looks like blue paint is actually a deep purple. Quite flamboyant, but she rides and handles like a dream, and I love her.

And some call our tandem The Mothership.

[pooks]

Way cool colors, there!

[pooks]

KSH, I just noticed your post -- Buttercup is one hott bike.

Do you have trouble keeping those yellow tires yellow?

[kellichou]

I have a Trek 7300 hybrid, bright red. Even though I wanted to give it a female gender, the name Marcel has stuck. I have an obsession with Marcel Proust, and so this Marcel can take me on adventures on the bike trail and around town.

So like Sulis, I can say, "I'm going out with Marcel," and friends & colleagues will think I'm going somewhere with a hot Frenchman or something.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

So like Sulis, I can say, "I'm going out with Marcel," and friends & colleagues will think I'm going somewhere with a hot Frenchman or something.

Hey you guys, I love this idea! I have a blue Rivendell Rambouillet (Rambouillet being a village in France reknowned for their sheep breed), and I've had a terrible time trying to name it. I've always sensed it was a boy bike. In 2005 DH and I visited Quebec and loved learning some French. Now I'm going with the French theme and going to look up sexy French male names- I bet one will jump right out at me! (a name that is, not a French male...)

Thanks for the obvious-but-not-obvious idea!

[Cyclo Kitty]

My commuter is called Pale Horse, it's a white Fisher Aquila with panniers and I have a work situation that sometimes required me to be Wyatt Earp to some Ringos.

My 'cross bike is the Sea Snail, because it is a Cannondale. It's turquoisey blue, which is sea-like, but I'm the snail

I have a green Raleigh Superbe three speed step-through I call Mrs. Slocombe, since she often had green hair on Are You Being Served?

And my single speed conversion blue Bianchi that's not done yet is called Frankenbike, or just plain Bikey. Good Bikey.

My husband's Kona Kula is the Weasel, because it moves really fast.

I sure do love my bikes....!!

[pooks]

Mrs. Slocombe! I love it!

[7rider]

Geez.

I never even *thought* of naming my bikes until I read about it on this site.

I graffiti'ed up the chainstay of my Seven with a Sharpie drawing of a bunny (need to get the LBS owner to pen the VW Rabbit on the top tube - he's a much better artist than I) and planned to have a headset cover made up that said "Quick Like a Bunny" -- ha! that's called irony, folks -- but PurelyCustom doesn't make 1" headset covers anymore, so I was SOL. So I guess "Bunny" is it by default.

The commuter doesn't have a name. The mountainbike: well, I guess I could name it "The flat-tired dust collector"!

[silver]

My bikes don't have official names (yet)

The old one, the '05 Trek 1000, used to be called Silver. Because I'm a silversmith and silver is my thing. And the bike was about half silver in color. But then we had a wreck. For a while he (my bikes are male) was called the wrecked bike. I was going to just use it for a "beater bike" like maybe to the grocery store. But we got him fixed and now it's my travel bike and foul weather bike. And every time I get on him, ( ) I think he feels like putting on old blue jeans... so now he is sometimes referred to as "Old Blue Jeans".....but usually he is just called "the 1000"

The new one, the 07 trek Madone 5.0 with a matte carbon finish with silver decals, was to be called Silver, but is sometimes referred to as "My New Blue Jeans", but mostly called "the Madone." I keep thinking his name is "Mad One" but it still doesn't fit.

someone should ask Mr. what his car names are

My car is "the Tri Mobile" ('97 toyota sienna minivan)

[lauraelmore1033]

I'd mentioned I was waiting for my new bike to tell me her name and now the old hybrid bike has told me that she's not happy being called ol' Klunky, but would prefer instead to be addressed as Victoria. She's lavender and rather feminine in spite of her girth and is not really all that old. I suppose she has a point.

[Wahine]

I have a yellow Specialized stumpjumper M4 from back in the day. Her name is Sally.

I have a green Specialized Allez Pro that I got the next year. She was much more fussy about tuning and potholes and things. She reminded me of a southern belle. Very pretty and flashy but not meant for being exposed to rigorous conditions. Her name was Georgia. But now that I've riden some smaller WSD bikes, carbon fibre frames and the like, I've started referring to her as the Jolly Green Giant. I don't think she likes it very much. I still love her.

[Cella66]

I would love to know the name of my new sweet red trek pilot that I bought last week, but since I haven't been able to ride her with this crappy weather, I am calling her dusty for now...

[Python]

Mine's called Allie (Allie the Raleigh ).

Now we have another identical bike but haven't given it a name yet.

[pooks]

That's easy! Allie the Other!