Does your bike have a name?

[aeiea]

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

Same.

I think of my bike as an extension of me, and I don't generally name my body parts. A leg is a leg.

"Where does it hurt?" "It hurts in my Bianchi, doctor."

[Cataboo]

Same.

I think of my bike as an extension of me, and I don't generally name my body parts. A leg is a leg.

"Where does it hurt?" "It hurts in my Bianchi, doctor."

mine are... my mountain bike, my litespeed, my carbon bike, and my flaming surly.

someone suggested that i call the flaming surly flurly, but that hasn't caught on.

[Crankin]

My Kuota is called "my bike." My Jamis Coda is called "the Jamis." Once in awhile I call it Jamie. The mountain bike is "the mountain bike."
I generally would not make up names for inanimate objects

[staceysue]

My old 3-speed beach cruiser was "Edith" and my road bike is "Lexi". I named her Lexi because that sounds like a fast, sleek, beautiful, sophisticated name.

It helps with work excuses too. "Sorry I couldn't make it in for the first part of the meeting. Lexi needed a little extra attention this morning." When you say something like that, people won't say "Who's Lexi?" because they think they're supposed to know and they walk off scratching their heads. I can hear their thoughts "I know she doesn't have a small child. Does she? No - but she doesn't have grandchildren, either. Her niece? Whatever."