How many of you have named your bike?

[spazzdog]

Thank you... she's a good pony.

Hopefully this "kidney issue" (is it a stone or not?) will clear up soon so I can actually ride her again... haven't been in the saddle in 2 weeks. Kidney hurts too much... maybe this weekend I'll get a little pedaling in.

[IronHorse213]

Hey - no chips, no dip, no ice cubes. Oh well serves me right


My first road bike was a 1983 powder blue Panasonic (! - yeah, they got into everything at one time or 'nother) who got named "Pani." I still have him, but he lives at my sister's place, so I have a ride there, and also 'cus I live in Manhattan and have no space and for the longest time was too afraid to ride it here.

When I realized my going insane in the city was partly due to the lack of biking I got another, more correctly sized bike, (in 1983 Pani was the smallest bike I could find - 17.5, meant to be for adolescent boys! The top tube is bent down about 7 inches before going across to meet the seat post), and he is a blace, silver and red-detailed Iron Horse MTB, I call "Truck" cus he's kinda heavy and I'm heavy (thou getting lighter) and he trucks me around.

I have my eye on a Specialized Dolce for next year - a li'l sister to Spazzdog's Epesi - and I'm still working on possible names for her....

[spazzdog]

Back when I was a mere teen and started racing (the first time) in 1974 my bike of the moment was a Huffy 10 speed. Heavy! The nice bike shop man that took me under his wing for some training 'sold' me (He basically gave it to me for a very low price) a beautiful champagne colored Puch Bergmeister. God, how I wish I still had that bike, it's a classic.

Anyway fast forard to 1989 and I receive a b'day gift of a Trek1000. I rode recreationally off and on, but mostly ran. In '98 I had banged my achilles in complete submission by running the NYC marathon and hopped back on the old Trek for recovery... ended up riding it for the 2000 Boston-NewYork Aidsride.

Fast forward again through the 'didn't do nuthin physical' period to now. Decided I need to ride again, want to race again. Trek1000 was beyond saving so I had the de-lemon of buying a comparable bike to 'start out' on or go for the almost dream bike. I went for it, BUT I needed to exercise a little financial responsibility. So I bought new last years model... a 2003 Specialized Allez Comp. It's got all the goodies that I wanted plus a snappy paintjob but since it was last years I got about $300 off the purchase price.

It is more than my current skill requires but, assuming I don't crash it out, it will service my needs through my re-start of racing and onward for a few years.

P.S. my dream bike was the Klein Quantum Pro... don't know why, I just loved it.

[Veronica]

Just for you Spazzdog.




I was surfing the Specialized site, thinking about a new mountain bike and stumbled across this.

V.

[spazzdog]

Veronica, you are a crazy grrl!

Close your eyes and visualize this... a tall skinny grrl with short white hair on a zebra bike wearing that outfit.... riding in front of you for mile after mile after mile.

OK.... are you sick yet?

Plus I live far to close to New Hampshire where they love to hunt. Some idiot with an Uzi might mistake me for big game.

[Trek420]

spazzdog sez: "visualize this... a tall skinny grrl with short white hair on a zebra bike wearing that outfit.... "

Ooh, ooh, you *have* to die the hair with zebra stipes to match the bike and jersey! what a statement!

"Plus I live far to close to New Hampshire where they love to hunt. Some idiot with an Uzi might mistake me for big game."

this is the off-season outfit?

[kimba]

Okay-
you've got the bike...you've got the skinsuit- or jersey-
now here's the helmet-
to keep you safe. granted, it'll cover up that wicked white and black hair...

http://www.primalwear.com/2004site/HELMETS.html
(epok - tribal)

Kimba

[spazzdog]

And now entering the stadium the optical illusion known as Spazzdog..... ta da!

You gals are too much

[Maine-iac]

I'll supply the 3-d glasses!

[spazzdog]

... to my very own website. It's not done quite let, so excuse the blank spots and graphics that aren't quite there... I'm still working on it. The site is: http://www.spazzdog.com (yeah, I got my own domain name... couldn't resist)

To see only Epesi go to http://www.spazzdog.com/images/image311.jpg

Enjoy... it's kind a goofy. Be forwarned. It's my first "website design experience".

[Trek420]

spazzdog

nice work! thus inspired I added a links page to my homepage and you are there, your 15 minutes of cyber fame begins ;-)

I've already got "Tandemhearts" site linked to mine (on the cindy page, gals) and will put Irulan's there too if that's ok. good job!

I look forward to seeing updates. Mine too is a work in progress, constantly tweaking it, no one probably looks at it, just nice to have.

TREK

[Maine-iac]

Look'n snazzy....or should I say Spazzy????

[fasteryet]

Spazz-nice site.
Maine- love the new signature.

[Pedal Wench]

It took a while, and I knew I would just have to wait for their names to come to me.

To refresh (it's been a while since I posted here) I have two Cannondale R1000's. Both are black with hot-pink flames. Both are gorgeous. Both are very skinny-tired road bikes! One lives in Miami and one with me here in Atlanta.

So, my beautiful identical twins are MaryKate and Ashley. MaryKate in Miami, Ashley in Atlanta! It makes it so much easier when my BF and I are talking about them to be able to distiguish between the two with a single name.

Yup - I've buying up every black and pink-flamed items I can get my hands on!

[Trek420]

Audio-A wrote "I have two Cannondale R1000's....Both are very skinny-tired road bikes! ... So, my beautiful identical twins are MaryKate and Ashley. MaryKate in Miami, Ashley in Atlanta! "

so which one has the eating dissorder?