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Following on from RRR's thread about Troy, who else names their bikes? And, of course, what are their names?
I currently have Minnie, Pippy, Rosie, Victoria and Pearl 🙂
*reported*
All my bikes are called Dave....in fact everything is called Dave....occasionally this leads to some mild confusion.
I knew it was going to be a mistake opening this thread - my bikes and me are intimately close friends - plenty of km's of hard down there action but I've never asked for a name or a phone number
[i]Christene [/i]- 1st MTB. Kept being regenerated.
[i]Jezebel [/i]- Mashup 531c Steel racer. Always ridden with the hospital tag on from a crash.
[i]Number 6[/i]* - Sadly stolen - curvy and somewhat ahead of it's time 26" citybike
[i]AGNIs[/i] - All the Gear No Idea steed - Thorn 26" Rohloff tourer
[i]The Pig[/i] - a Blue Pig. Who knew?
*As-in BSG "Number 6"
Mine is called Bike. It shares a shed with Bike, Bike, Bike, Bike and Broken Bike.
The green one
The white one
The road bike
no need the manufacturer did it for me and helpfully wrote it on the bike for easy recognition.
I've got 5 Whytes, 3 of them are Whyte 19's (the Silver one, the White one and the Ti one), then there's the E5 and the CX bike.
They already have names why would I want to change them?
Mine is just 'my bike'. When I had two bikes it was 'hardtail' and my FS was 'bouncy bike'. I only have one bike now (by choice 😯 )- 5 BMXs not included...
Mine have names on Strava so I can track their mileage but I'm paranoid about putting genuine details up there
no need the manufacturer did it for me and helpfully wrote it on the bike for easy recognition.
this
Extremely NSFW; contains very bad word.
(and no offence intended, name your bikes if you want, just reminded me)
They're all called Yakunt. Usually while trying to climb something steep - I like to encourage the bike with "C'mon Yakunt". I think it's a Yiddish word. 🙂
Mine are referred to as big bike (DH) and little bike (hardtail).
Preston (PRST-1)
The Bucket
The Beast
Pennywise
Reasonable Grounds for Divorce
The Imperial Inquisition (the road bike)
Heckler, Jake, 7+, Rockhopper and Chameleon.
Hodor.
It carries someone who doesn't really have the legs for it.
In no way would I ever give my bikes names.
Hardtail, CX, Canyon and fatty is more than enough.
I mostly just use the manufacturers name for them - the Blur, the Amazon etc. If it's non-cyclists I'm conversing with then I'll usually use a descriptive term.
Exceptions;
The Onion (long story and it wasn't my choice)
The Wildcat (custom Pact frame so no original name. I could just call it the Pact but what if I buy another?)
The Tonka Truck. It's an orange Transition Trans AM 29er. Last bike was Mean Green Machine (26 Bfe) yes, yes I am extremely sad
Epicyclo's winning up to now. 😆
My FS is called, 'The Orange'
The road bike is called, 'The Road Bike'.
Old steel HT is called, 'Trusty Rusty'.
I've a Genesis Longditude which I've named (Long Distance) Clara. I sometimes even make the pigeon noises when I'm really blowing on a climb
I name them on Strava and in my head but never refer to their names out loud 
Currently got:
Chloe - the big bike
Rachel - the smaller bike
The commuter's just called the Grey Commuting Machine, doesn't seem to have any personality. Which is fine, it's just a tool.
[i]"All my bikes are called Dave"[/i]
In the Downton Abbey era, apparently servants were often given the same name (eg William or Sarah).
So, with a uniform and identical hairstyle, they didn't need to be recognised as individuals.
[i]"All my bikes are called Dave"[/i]
And all George Foreman's sons are called George, all five of them 😯
Captain Scarlet (red 1995 Zaskar that just won't die)
Trans Europe Express (racer that I rode to Rome back in 2010)
The Happy Shopper (Thorn XTC with full pannierage, generally used around town these days)
Dark and Long (dark grey full suspension)
Tweedie (1983 Raleigh Record Ace, Green and Brown)
Parker (1982 Raleigh Road Ace, 5 o'clock shadow blue, goes out with 'Lady Penelope' which is mrs flap_jack's vintage pink 531c mixte)
the Guv'nor (it's a Guv'nor)
the Batmobile (Black and Orange graveller)
Mrs Plum (wife's purple shopper)
Esmerelda (wife's green hardtail)
Tigger (wife's orange and black FS rig)
Elsie (wife's 1983 Raleigh Lady Royal)
Belladonna (wife's black call-the-midwife Pashley)
Lady Penelope (wife's superlight vintage pink 531c mixte)
Rhubarb (pink Brompton)
I've got a name for anyone who names their bike(s)
MTB - t'orange
Hybrid - t'hybrid
Road Bike - racer
Pub bike - shopping bike
Used to name my Cars but then realised you get too attached to them and Cars do my head in now.
I've only named one bike and it's the one I used to cycle to the station and leave there all day. I called it Station Jim after the stuffed dog in a glass box on one of the platforms at Slough station.
Sometimes stuff of mine aquires names, sometimes not, if you have to force it then it's not its actual name. I'm open to the idea but it's never actually happened for any of my mtbs. Though sometimes just the bike name itself takes on a bit of affection, like "the soul" and "the ragley" to me are definitely more, I don't know, emotionally attached than "the remedy", frinstance
I got the poison ! I got the remedy !
[i]Obviously[/i] it has a theme tune, it just doesn't have a name 😆
(I always meant to do a video on my ragley ti, starting off with david guetta's titanium then a big needle-dragging screech NOPE, and kicking off into chatanooga choo choo for the rest of it, lynskey being from chatanooga)
Oops, wrong thread!
Stan the Stanton. Naturally.
Atomic Vomit is the bright yellow full susser.
Fugly the Felt singlespeed conversion with drop bars.
My 'ex' is the Planet X cx bike.
Totally normal me. Although as the father of two girls i do sometimes refer to Stan as 'the son I never had'.
It also makes me chuckle when i explain i keep my ex in the garage and take her out for a ride from time to time.
White one, blue one, black one and the road bike (can't remember what colour it is).
All my bikes seem to end up with names
Dr Jekyll, a Cannondale Jekyll, FS that went with a Kinesis Maxlight hardtail called Mr Hyde
Isaac Hayes, Oh My Days - Cotic Soul (my favourite bike ever). Isaac Hayes was the soul bit and oh my days was because I loved riding it so much
Kristin - A Scott cx bike, named in honour of Kristin Scott Thomas
Tony - Fat bike named after Fat Tony from The Simpsons
And Archie - Bird Aeris. My grandmother left me a bit of money when she died and I put in towards the Aeris. She lived on Archer Road.
All my bikes have names and until recently they were all lesbians. Previous names include: Loretta, Stanley and Xena. I only have two bikes now; Strawberry "Strawbs" and Arry.
guilty. my bike is called 'the jones' (its my only bike so 'the bike' would do),
my wife has caught me out once or twice for talking about various biking tales thats ive started with 'we' when it was just me and the bike!
ive a history of relating to inanimate objects, only child with a big imagination!
Xena WAS NOT a lesbian!
She was miiine!
The mountain bikes are unnamed, but the Enigma road bike with all the trimmings is called Hergen, for the man who unwittingly paid for it, shortly before he was sacked. Couldn't have happened to a nicer chap!
She went down well. Fnar.
(M.C. San Andreas)
Bonnie the Liteville
Carter the Unstoppable Cross Machine - does what it says on the can.