Naming Bikes: Normal or Crazy?

[NJBikeGal]

Naming Bikes is Necessary!

My hard tail Fuji Tahoe - the Mudpuppy - he always seems to find his way through the largest puddle around, even when I attempt to steer him clear!

My Yellow Felt F70 Road Bike - Athena. Turned out she thought that when we entered triathalons in the Athena category (you know...the one for us gals who don't weight 100 pounds) that we were entering a category where all the bikes were named Athena!

My new Specialized Tarmac SL - Falco. #1 - he descends like a hungry bird of prey after a poor pigeon. #2 - i think there's an 80's German pop star in him somewhere!

[IFjane]

Nope, not strange at all. I have Jada the Specialized Roubaix and Carmine, the Rockhopper.

I also give my dogs people names.

I have one bike - her name is Godiva - because she is naked (so naked, in fact, that her pink hubs glisten in the sunlight ). I, however, am clothed when I ride her.

And two of my four cats have people names; Robbie and Lucy.

[rij73]

My new CF Cannondale Synapse is "Little Wing" for the Hendrix song "....butterflies and zebras, and moonbeams, and fairie tales, and all she ever thinks about is riding with the wind...."

I had a friend in elementary school named "Little Wing"... All of us kids didn't know the song of course, so we thought it was a Native American name! Poor kid, having to explain that all her life...

[MALcontent]

My town bike is Esmerelda, because I hear the Wicked Witch of the West song from the Wizard of Oz in my head when I ride it. I've had my road bike for 8 years now, but a name has never materialized. I just got a new mountain bike and will be trying out names as we become better acquainted. I name cars too. The green Subaru I owned for 10 years was Violet.

[firenze11]

Ever since I went into an LBS and they told me the bike would pick me I knew mine would have to have a name. (Not sure they meant it in the "bikes have souls" kind of way I took it though) Although I haven't found one that sticks just yet. Jake is ok, but Kona named him first. And yes, it's a him. For sure.

My first car was named Felix. Everyone who knew me knew to call him Felix and not the Volvo.

LBTC - I love that name! (And the song, of course)

[sandra]

I love my PedEgg so much that I would name it and marry it if I could.

Oh wait. This is about bikes. Yes, I named my beautiful Red Lotus Blossom.

(if you don't have a PedEgg, rush right out and get one. Don't spend another day without one )

[sundial]

Sandra, LOL!

I think I'll name you the Sweet Potato Queen.

[Meaux]

I named my bikes!!
The Specialized Hard Rock is Babe (as in, the blue ox)
the Giant OCR3 is Babette, because it is the diminutive Babe
and the Orbea is the La Nina de Espana. Because that is what she is.

Both of my cats have people names, Annabel Lee (for the Poe poem) and Vladimir (as in the Impaler, although, I think his real full name was Wladislav).

I named my husband's bikes, too, much to his chagrin. (Bevo and the Stormking)

[sandra]

Sandra, LOL!

I think I'll name you the Sweet Potato Queen.

I am THE Sweet Potato Queen wannabe.

[Zen]

Sandra, LOL!

I think I'll name you the Sweet Potato Queen.

Oh I named her that a long time ago.
I have this mental image of Sandra in some small town parade, sitting an one of those old web-type lawn chairs with her tiara and a sash, waving to her subjects from the back of a flat bed pick-up.

[sandra]

You've got it all wrong. It's really more like this.

[sandra]

or THIS? (and yes, that's panties on my haid.)

[Trek420]

or THIS? (and yes, that's panties on my haid.)

That's what I pictured.

Road bike - Lavender Menace, yes she's lavender.

Commuter-mobile - Bradley (my LBS calls her the Tour de France bike, 'cause she's bright yellow).

Free wheel - yet to officially be named, has several but not settled on one.

Knott's Giant RS940 - Cedar (she's blue and green).

My LBS jokes that they keep track of their clients in files by first name and name of bike. So the bikes have their name and I'm Trek Trek420 - Mondonico - GT- Motobecane - Giant

[KnottedYet]

I picture your mixte freewheel as some sort of flapper-chickie from the age of prohibition. Little minx haircut, flask of booze in her garter, twinkle in her eye.

Cedar might need reddish brown saddle and grips, so she has the red like the bark of a cedar.

[Trek420]

Cedar might need reddish brown saddle and grips, so she has the red like the bark of a cedar.

And a banana slug climbing up a pannier