How many of you have named your bike?

[amhilde]

lol well the Niklas part, he was a pretty big jerk, thats one of his names ( was Danish) but I liked Niklas so I tacked it on to the bike name. And Alessandro I thought was good from the Italian bf because its an italian form of my name which is Alexa. And i never get around to saying the whole name anyway before I get weird looks.

Hmm talking to bike, sometimes its therapy when you are on a really horrible ride- like here where it gets really windy (oh the pain!) and you just want to yell because its so frustrating to feel as though you are standing still. Or climbing up a mountain/hill. Here in town the big hill ride is to go up Geiger Grade- the town record is still held by Greg LeMond. So when i hit that false summit sometimes its nice to talk to Carsten and say something like "well cmon Carsten, we can do this, one more hill then we can go home" But obviously you dont talk TOO loud, more under the breath!

Actually once i was racing at Chico State and they had this horrible road course that went through three miles of GRAVEL ( deep gravel too) - people were flatting all over the place, some more than once. I talked to Fiets the whole way though that- "ill get you some nice grease and give you a great clean if you dont flat on me!". And he didnt. Maybe its a superstitious thing!