I have referred to my bike as a "she", but she hasn't had a name until I read this thread and a name suggested itself:
Bluewing, after the duck, since my bike is the teal Avail 3. My boyfriend and I also have an ongoing joke about birds, and he's my riding buddy if I want one. It just fits.
I'm trying to think of a name for the Cannondale CAAD9 I keep drooling over. Guess it means it's meant, right?
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09-20-2009, 06:41 PM #1
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09-20-2009, 07:22 PM #2
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OH - and Jackie Jekyll (my Cannondale Jekyll) just reminded me that she has a name too.
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09-20-2009, 07:38 PM #3
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My cruisers' name is Sally, and my Specialized name is Ronda...As in Help, Help me Ronda
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09-20-2009, 07:59 PM #4
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My road bike's name is "Pinkinator" or "Pinky" for short. Yup, she's pink...with lotsa pink accessories.
My other bike is just my Bike SUV; she takes me all over town.
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09-20-2009, 08:59 PM #5
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09-21-2009, 10:31 AM #6
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My Trek Madone is named Dara for Dara Torres since I started cycling and bought her at 40.
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09-21-2009, 10:45 AM #7
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I just got a used Diomand Back. She reminded me of Kathrine Hepburn's character in "On Golden Pond" so her name Ethel but. Yea, I know to most other people it would seem crazy that a bike would remind you of a movie character. But I'm ok with being bike obsessed.
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09-21-2009, 11:39 AM #8
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Hmmm...
I'm still trying to think of a good name. My new bike is black with a little red.
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09-28-2009, 12:31 PM #9
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"Buffy" after my favorite character from my favorite TV show...Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I've apologized to her at times for accidental roughness.
My comfort bike's name is Sally.
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09-28-2009, 03:14 PM #10
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I don't usually use names; my cats probably think their names are "cat" and "other cat" (interchangeable, depending on number of cats in sight and which I see first).
My commuter is a 2005 Bianchi Castro Valley... it takes much to long to explain that it is a Volpe cx frame built up and sold as a commuter, so I've actually started thinking of it as the Volpe (if I get S&S couplers put in I will actually "rebrand" it as a Volpe, I think). It was my first and only bike for a long time, so it really didn't need anything other than "my bike." Now its name is "my workhorse" if anything. Gender neutral or male.
As a contrast to "my workhorse," I started thinking of my 1998 Bianchi Eros as a gazelle. This is close to my cousin's online handle Giselle, so that just slid into place. Sorry coz for stealing your "name," and sorry Eros for giving you a French name!
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