Does your bike have a name?

[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"!