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/

[staceysue]

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/

That cracks me up!

[Norse]

I call my main road bike "Black Beauty" and all three bikes are sometimes referred to as "she."

I DO talk to my bikes! I frequently praise Black Beauty and if I have neglected her as I see her sitting in the basement waiting I promise her that we will go out soon. If I take a different bike out I may tell BB "Don't worry, you're still no. 1 and I'll take you next time."

Ok, I am crazy.

[Cataboo]

I talk to the bike & my legs up really hard hills.

Or I cuss out the bf who is usually the person who talked me into going up them.

It makes the hills go by faster.

[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".

[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

[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.