Does your bike have a name?

[mary9761]

Maybe they're Fraternal Twins... Allie the Raleigh and OLLIE the Raleigh

[Python]

LOL. I like that. Allie & Ollie

[IFjane]

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.

KayTee! I'm so glad you posted a pic of Barbie! I know I talked about my bike's name somewhere - possibly on the "IF Riders" thread....

My bike (the only one as of now, though I am trying to save my pennies so I can catch up with KayTee ) is named Godiva. Not because of the chocolate, but because she is an IndyFab Ti Crown Jewel and she is totally naked. Not a speck of paint on her. Now if her rider only had long, flowing blonde hair to go with it....oh yeah, and then there's the girlish figure, too

[Gidiup]

I name my bikes too. My hybrid (Specialized Crossroad) is named "Blu". My road bike (Specialized Allez - '02)(now my husband's) is named "GO" Allez is French for Go, right? And my new love, Ruby (Specialized Ruby Comp '06). She came with her name. My husband contributes to my biking madness by letting Ruby stay in our living room. I can't help it. I like to look at her when I'm I not riding. My husband even asked if Ruby enjoyed the ride when I get back. I think this all started when I was a kid and I thought of my bike as being a pet horse. (much less expensive, by the way). Ruby and I are going on our first century in June as part of the MS150 ride.

[stella]

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.

KayTee: BEAUTIFUL bike! my so has a Merckxx, I love how they look. The colors on yours--georgeous! how long have you had her?

[Celeste]

My husband contributes to my biking madness by letting Ruby stay in our living room. I can't help it. I like to look at her when I'm I not riding. Ruby and I are going on our first century in June as part of the MS150 ride.

Me Too!! I keep Celeste in my living room as well when not riding. She is just so pretty to look at and it keeps me motivated to keep riding.

I also am going on my first Century ride in June, but to Lake Tahoe. I am nervous and excited all at the same time. Good luck to you on your ride, Gidiup!

[Fredwina]

I have three Bikes:
A cannondale road bike, which either goes by the Old Grey Mare (even thought it's actually Sliver w/ red accents) I got it on 9/11/2002, and it has about 17,000 miles on it, so it's old, but it get where I want to go.
A Cannondale Mountain bike - which is Captain Peg Leg It has the Lefty "fork".
A Bike friday - which is just Friday, although some think I should call the Folding tank - it's quite heavy , and built with some very low gears.

[KayTee]

KayTee: BEAUTIFUL bike! my so has a Merckxx, I love how they look. The colors on yours--georgeous! how long have you had her?

Barbie was an eBay bargain about 6 years ago. She had cruddy parts and wrecked up paint, so we upgraded components gradually and then decided that she really needed a repaint so she could look as lovely as she rides. I ride her every winter and on some social rides - she's heavier than my other bikes, so I get a better workout riding her. Hope your son enjoys his Merckx as much as I do this one!

[Hub]

The Giant in my avatar is named Boo-Sikki- because my brother (nicknamed Boo) gave it to me, the Trek 5200, on semi-permanent loan is Old Blue. Brother's Madone is called the Sacred Madone.

[Zen]

I have toyed with the idea the idea of naming my bike Myvagina for the intrinsic comedy value.
But i think i'll just go with Serenity.

[KnottedYet]

My new Kona Smoke is named "Mitzi G.O.V." cuz she's so butch, and that is a silly femme mutation of "Missy Giove."

And if you don't know who Missy Giove is, well, then I guess I'm old enough to be yer mother....

[alimey]

Oh yes - they all have names!!:

Mouse Bike - this is my silver Cannondale. It's about 43cm & when my husband showed a picture of him once I had built him to a friend, the friend commented "that's not a real bike - that's a mouse bike"

Ant bike - my blue Principia commuter. He came right after Mouse Bike & was bought from my friend Antonia - not sure how flattered she is now!

Mr T - our trek tandem

Peggy - my new pink Bike Friday - called Pegasus because it flies (in both senses of the word) - Peggy - who is really a boy, even has his name on a plate on the bike

Micky - my Terry Dolan track bike. Micky as in Micky Dolan - also this bike is a close friend of Mouse Bike . . .

My husband's bikes also have names:

Mars - his Planet X track bike - because it's red & it's the god of war

Big Blue - guess why?

Wagner - this is his mtb - I bought it for him an an engagement present - so it is the ring cycle . . .

Sushi - his Fuji track bike - one of the few girls in our stable

OK - I think that's all. We are currently having our house remodelled - so we can't even find all the bikes & can hardly even remember our own names!!

[Tater]

Let's see...the '04 blue Specialized Dulce Elite is Khamsin, ('desert wind' in Arabic, I think.)

The '05 red Raleigh M40 mtb is Java, she's my bomb proof commutermobile and better than a cup o' joe in the mornings.

My new ride, an '06 green Giant TCR cw just recently received her name: Greta.

[wannaduacentury]

I finally named my silver Giant Casper. It seems to fit and easy to remember fun name-although not real creative Jenn