Does your bike have a name?

[Lakerider]

I just bought a new bike. I call my other bike "R.B.", short for Red Bike. I'm considering names for my new bike and wondered if other riders have named their bikes. (Or am I just crazy?) My bike is like a good friend. We'll spend lots of time together and I think it deserves a name!

Do you talk to your bike? (Or again, am I just crazy????)

[wackyjacky1]

Do you talk to your bike? (Or again, am I just crazy????)

I do. ("Hello, dah-ling, would you like to go for a spin?") No name for my bike, though.

[Tropical Scream]

Just named her "Speedbump."

And I've been promising her all week that I won't lay her down on the street again for a while.

Best regards,
Darilyn
http://www.tropicalscreamer.blogspot.com/

[Pedal Wench]

Does your bike have a name?

Which one? Ernie, Ashley, MaryKate, BabyBlue, or the others that just go by their model names?

[Aggie_Ama]

There have been several threads on this and I think a slight majority of us name our bikes. I name all of mine:

Miranda- the feisty roadie
Tess- My hardtail mountain bike, she is a Scott Contessa but she is so tiny just Tess.
Fiona- since sold but she was my first road bike.

Holly Golightly - my new love is my full suspension mountain bike.

And yes I talk to my bikes when I need a little extra push. "Come on Holly, we can do this" or "you're right, Miranda, I am a wimp. Let's go!"

I name my cars too and DH's last two trucks but I don't talk to them.

[owlice]

A name? My bike has a song, My Sedona:

Oo my little pretty one, pretty one
When you gonna give me some time, Sedona?
Oo you make my motor run, my motor run
Gun it coming off of the line, Sedona

I think most people know only the My Sedona refrain, though.

[Cataboo]

Bizarrely, I've named other people's bikes, but never mine.

[Kalidurga]

My bike's name is "my bike".

[MartianDestiny]

I'm considering names for my new bike and wondered if other riders have named their bikes. (Or am I just crazy?)

Mine are:

Cougar (because he left a nasty claw scar on my leg)
Oxymoron (the extra small Giant)
Prez (bought him on election day)
"V" (the 5th bike I've bought + Wilier (W is pronounced V) + movie reference)

Do you talk to your bike? (Or again, am I just crazy????)

Yes, but more the mountain bikes than the roadies.

[Pip]

My current road bike is called Cleo, but she's a Genius Cleo 105 so she was named when I got her and has her name painted on her frame:

http://www.geniusbikes.com/bikes.php...kes&bikes_id=9

My first road bike was a red, black and silver Diamondback Interval. She was called Lola (as in Run Lola Run), because she was red and she went fast.

Most of our cars have had names as well. Our last car was an apricot VW Polo nicknamed Piglet. My husband rides an orange and black Peugeot scooter and he agonised for a long time over what to call it. He finally settled on Black Wolf (from Dr Who).

[Owlie]

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?

[Pedal Wench]

OH - and Jackie Jekyll (my Cannondale Jekyll) just reminded me that she has a name too.

[Sadie]

My cruisers' name is Sally, and my Specialized name is Ronda...As in Help, Help me Ronda

[Pyannyplayer]

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.

Lorie

[Nightowl]

Apple

Red Specialized Dolce Comp

An apple a day ...