Does your bike have a name?

[Orange utopia]

I bought a "Robin's Egg Blue" Surly Cross Check that I'm waiting on. Not sure what the name will be. My Trek FX 7.3 is Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird. The Cross Check is sturdy, utilitarian, quirky, and pretty ...like a Bulldog. So I'm thinking the name needs to represent the quirky/solidness, but sound "sexy" to compensate. lol

Ideas?

I think Rockin' Robin

[KatzPajamas]

I have never named my bike...can't even come up with anything that fits...hmm. It is a Cannondale Synapse in brushed aluminum and swirly designs on it. Any ideas?

[FunSize]

I have a bike of many different parts. And right now it has mis-matching tires. So i've thought of calling it "Ragamuffin" but that's a little long. I usually just call it "bikey bike". Which isn't much shorter, i guess. But kind of follows calling my boyfriend's car "Jeepy Jeep". Not very creative.

[molliewog]

I just started cycling again after a break of many years. My bike is dark purple cannondale aluminum frame with some components that are probably about 20 years old. Yes, I even have down tube shifters.

It's name is Professor Plum

[marni]

I have a bike of many different parts. And right now it has mis-matching tires. So i've thought of calling it "Ragamuffin" but that's a little long. I usually just call it "bikey bike". Which isn't much shorter, i guess. But kind of follows calling my boyfriend's car "Jeepy Jeep". Not very creative.

for the bike of many parts, mongerel, pot pourri, mixmatched, heinz 57, scrappie and bits (as in bits and bobs or bits and pieces) spring to mind.

My Trek pilot the one and only bike I own started out as blue bike which got shortened to BB which got lengthened to BeBe because I had a huge blue stuffed bunny in my younger years that was referred to as BB and I thought BeBe (pronounced a la francais as BeyBey)was a little leaner, meaner and more fun.

marni

[Lavigne]

My Orbea is so gorgeous she has to be female. Yes, I talk to her...usually when I'm feeling guilty because she's been leaning against the wall for a week and I'm promising we'll ride soon. I call her Charlie. It came to me after a fall mid-ride. I had some pretty bad scrapes and blood running down my leg for about 30 miles and I kept thinking "That hurt, Charlie...and it still hurts" (in a British accent).

[Dr.Doo]

My gorgeous mid 80s, handbuilt, 531 tubed tourer is called Lady Haydock.

She's a real refined ride in comparison to anything I've ever owned and she was built (for the lady I bought her from) by Roger Haydock (here in Accrington, UK).

FunSize...a friend has a bike made up of various parts and it's called Frankenbike

[Jolt]

for the bike of many parts, mongerel, pot pourri, mixmatched, heinz 57, scrappie and bits (as in bits and bobs or bits and pieces) spring to mind.

How about Frankenbike?

[Lauralyn]

I have a Felt Z85 that my husband named 'Black Beauty' and that she is. I have a 28 year old horse and I believe he thought if he named the bike that I would not buy another horse

[rubysoho]

I call "her" Ruby. It is a Ruby Elite. Guess I wasn't original. Funny thing is I picked Rubysoho as my board name loooooong before I actually bought (or even knew about) my Ruby. Seems it worked out nicely.



ETA ... my guy friend named his bikes. Nitro and Titan.

[ArgyleDinosaur]

My Kona's name is "Bucky"

Why? Because I was re-reading one of my favorite childhood books, Watership Down, when I got him and the name of one of the characters, Buckthorn, just kind of stuck.

[tulip]

My Luna's name is...Luna.

I sometimes call my Bike Friday L'il Bit. Or Lil. Or Lily. Or just Friday.

[Velocivixen]

On my way to pick up the Surly we ate a late lunch/early dinner, which I commented about. My DH asked, "So did we just eat 'dunch' or 'linner'?" (changing the first letters of the words "lunch" & "dinner". I responded "linner" which then got morphed into "Leonard" by DH. So now the inside joke is that my bike's name is "Leonard"!

[elbowglitter]

I'm so glad it's not just me. I commented to a biking friend yesterday that my new bike needs a name, and I got the strangest look from her!

[Catrin]

I suspect my trainer thinks I am odd for naming my car and bikes - of course he probably already thought that