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So who names their bikes and/or cars?
I don't - but my Mrs thinks I'm odd for not doing that.
Apparently her family have always named their cars etc. and I only found out the other day that she names her wheelchairs (only been together 13 years - every day's a school day lol).
She's named my new bike 'The Angry Wasp' - Yellow/black and a really buzzy freehub!
When we were kids in the 80's my mate called his 'racer' Bess after Dick Turpin's horse (who remembers the TV series?).
So what do you call yours?
The little Mazda is called Heathcliffe, the campervan is called Clive.
The bike's don't have names.
I had a Big Hit that I called the Big Shit, as it was very heavy and I came to dislike it.
Other than that, not really.
Not normally, but a girl I fancied (and who didn't ride bikes) was very amused by the "Judy" emblazoned on the Rock Shox forks of my old Giant, so that was called Judy.
my 1966 mk1 mini cooper s was call muhammad (it was coined by someone else though). Other than that no.
Not in recent years but when my son was very young he used to name them based on the reg number......
ULC = Uncle
NPE = Nippy (appropriate as it was a Golf GTI)
Recently got a new car and was devastated when the wife pointed out it said "knob" so had to go for a private plate 🙁
No other than my Elise which eldest daughter named Brum Brum way back when I used to take her to nursery in it.
I don't, of course - why would I?
My youngest daughter likes to come up with names as a game, she doesn't really use them. We decided on Ian for the Hyundai, because it sort of sounds like it, and she was rather pleased to learn that Mercedes is actually a girl's name anyway and predates the car manufacturer.
Had a mini which was called Chuck (C160 HUK). Occasionally I refer to our Berlingo as The Donkey because it's old, smells, and is a bit of a mess but it still keeps on going.
does '5hitbox' count ?
I've not named cars, but some bikes have acquired names
Blue Stanton Slackline = Blue Steel
Metallic beige Davinci Dixon = Goldmember
Genesis road bike = Phil [Collins]
Haven't named my Orbea xc or NS enduro bikes yet
I don’t, of course – why would I?
Because it's vaguely whimsical and bikes and cars have their own character and resonance in your life I guess. No-one's saying you have to, but if it gives someone pleasure, then that seems fair enough.
My road bike is called Mog, partly because it's a fast kitty and partly because it dates back to a particular point in my life and reminds me of someone.
I guess personalisation of inanimate objects, maybe non-living objects, is slightly illogical, but it's maybe a reflection of the emotions they stir in you. Or maybe it's just shorthand to identify one of several bikes. But basically, why not?
All our cars have had names - current cars...
Ford Kuga = 'John'
Ford Fiesta = 'Fred'
Type R = 'Gimp Mobile' (this is what my 19yr old daughter calls my car!)
Never named a bike though
I dont. My wife does generally. Eric the Escort when we met, Nigel 940 (Volvo), Flappy-flappy (Alfa 147 with a flappy gearbox), and then Herr-Flappy (A3 with a DSG gearbox)...
I do name household items such as a hand blender Braun MR555 = Mr 555, Douglig is the Ikea bathmat
Bikes - nope.
Cars - generally nope; the exception being our Citroen C3 Picasso which was named 'The Shitroen'. Because it was.....shit.
Never, ever. Unless you count calling my 15 yr old Mazda 3 'a shitbox' as naming it.
No but my Eufy robotic vacuum cleaner is always called "Geufy" pronounced "Goofy". My wife thinks I'm weird for talking to the vacuum cleaner, can't think why.
Naming things isn't really my bag. A mate had a black Orange hardtail (02?)he named Diane Abbott, along with a bright pink Orange 5 called uhhh baby p.
It depends. A while back I had a battered old diesel Clio that was called Eugene by the kids. It seems constantly on the verge of just expiring, but always managed to pull through We had plenty of adventures in it, and it remains a fond memory, but since than they've been a bit bland really (too reliable) so they don't have names
Nope.
Our son came up with 'Yoda' for our small clever car (Nissan Leaf) and 'Chewie' for the bigger stupid old ICE estate car. But we don't really use the names.
I do name household items such as a hand blender Braun MR555 = Mr 555, Douglig is the Ikea bathmat
Our electric whisk is called Sammy after a rat called Sammy Whiskers (Peter Rabbit). My wife rolls her eyes. HARD.
my 1966 mk1 mini cooper s was call muhammad
it wouldn't go to the mountain?
I forget people's names as it is without having to remember Bikey McBikeface of whatever as well.
I have only named a couple of my bikes and only on Strava because I was new to Strava and not sure it was a good idea to give actual details. So,
Slack Alice is a Nicolai Ion GPI (Geometron with a gearbox) named because back in 2016 it’s geometry was considered ridiculously slack.
Foxy is my Sick Wulfbaron named after Citizen Smith who wanted to be known as Wolfie but was always called Foxy by his girlfriend’s mum.
Cars no, bikes yes.
Mason Definition = Perry
Thorn Audax = Tracy
Pinnacle Arkose = Rocky
Not officially. We did refer to the C4 Grand Picasso as 'the bus' cos it was huge. I also referred more recently to a Vaux Insignia 4x4 estate as 'the heap of sh1t' after it ate its own engine 1 week after buying it.
But nothing ever has a proper name like Bob
Not a car but I know a keyboard player called Ian. He has a Roland piano and he's gaffer taped over the Ro and the d.
no it sounds stupid.
Those that do name them, do you smash a bottle of champagne of over it on the maiden ride/drive to give you good luck? 🤣
wifes car is SPxx ORS or "spors"
Spors being literal "fun" in scots gaelic
our last berlingo came to us from a friend whos kids had always called it bob.... as we had two berlingos at the time it became bob so we could differentiate ....
My first car was a red Citroen BX which I named the Red Barron
Never named a car or bike since then however
Naming a bike would mean it’s harder to get rid of when I inevitably want to upgrade after 12 months
No, but Mrs SSS calls her Merida 'Merry'
A few bikes and cars get named here:
Camper van was "Lizzie" cant remember why.
Shitty Volvo 440 was called "Chitty", made the oddest noises but never failed.
A metallic gold Fiat Strada had a rather inappropriate name that should stay in the depths of time.
The only bike I can think had a name was a MTB/Gravel frankenbike called "Frankie".
So from that list it seems only the really quirky ones get a name.
EDIT: The Irobot mop is affectionately named "molly". She is part of the family although the dog would rather she was not.
Bikes - no.
Cars - no
Campervan - yes. I've named ours Fanny, as in Fanny the Vanny. It has provided seconds of amusement on Facebook as I get to post stuff like "Fanny was a bit moist today" or "Out for a bit of Fanny action this weekend".
The kids do, I don't, but I go along with their ideas or they don't know what I'm talking about.
I'd just go with manufacturer names, I.e. "The Golf" or "The Mini". The only exception might be one of those cars where the name is so cringeworthy that I would HAVE to rename it, like that Kia Dad-Wagon "The Stinger". That would have to be renamed (and de-badged with pliers).
no it sounds stupid.
Those that do name them, do you smash a bottle of champagne of over it on the maiden ride/drive to give you good luck? 🤣
Of course it's stupid. Is everything you do sensible?
When we were kids, my aunt and uncle had 2 cars, both Ford Fiestas that apart from the number plate and a fractionally different shade of beige were identical.
The end letters were NTY and NCE so it was either the naughty car or the nice car. To us, as small children, this was hilarious.
My Transit is called Rt. Hon. Clem Vandango III
I’d just go with manufacturer names, I.e. “The Golf” or “The Mini”.
For some reason I feel like a knob referring to 'the Merc' so we tend to go with black car and white car, or big car/little car; and sometimes fast car/slow car as a reference to the Italian Job.
The daily driver doesn't have a name but anything I have for fun does get one eventually.
The Mini is called Georgie thanks to the number plate G61 = GGI = Georgie.
The Cotic Rocket is called Louise as it's one hell of a ride but can get me into serious trouble for my skillset without any difficulty.
The Canyon Neuron is called Gill after a girl I fancied back in school as it's sort of plain but looks better and better the more you look at it.
The Voodoo Hoodoo is called Ellie as the serial number sort of spells it out.
Might as well have some fun as life's far too crap on the whole!
The Canyon Neuron is called Gill after a girl I fancied back in school as it’s sort of plain but looks better and better the more you look at it.
I really thought that sentence was going to go in a different direction.
Nope I dont, it's an inanimate object so therefore doesnt get itself a name other than 'the yellow bike' 'the ebike' 'the big van' etc. I often find myself wondering whether any of these objects have the forum/voice to be able to request gender reassignments and the like. What if daisy is more of a david?!
Not as a rule. Though a long time ago my green Renault 5 was Kermit (green frog, geddit?).
I have a 90s Harry Hall 531C road bike called, unsurprisingly, Harry.
Not really but when the kids were little we used to have a Ford Galaxy that was known as "the family fun bus" - does that count?
Also I'm just in the process of buying a camper which has very definitely been named by its current owner. It's a local sale and it turns out we have a number of mutual friends so we're bound to keep bumping into each other. I just know she's going to continue referring to it by name.
Mine had names when I bought them. Like Passat and Instinct. Seems silly to apply additional information on top. It's not like I have 2 Passats and need to tell them apart.
it wouldn’t go to the mountain?
Muhammad Mini floats like a butterfly stings like a bee.
I often find myself wondering whether any of these objects have the forum/voice to be able to request gender reassignments and the like. What if daisy is more of a david?!
You can avoid this by choosing names that are gender neutral - pro tip 🙂
I find that if you name stuff you get attached to it and then upset when it breaks, so no, I never have.
However, a couple of my friends and girlfriends have named my cars/vans.
These have been:
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The Tardis
The Rust Bucket
The Toyoya
Percy
The Hyundai
Tina
The Van
.
No bike has ever had a name
Dont have a car but bike names follow a formula.
The [distinguishing feature] one.
Not intentionally, but it just happens to some of the vehicles.
My Van ended up being called Jimmy (for various reasons) and the Passat was always "Alexa" thanks to the number plate being LXA. The new car is "Bob" because it's a Niro.
The rest have been called "the car", "the shitbox", "rusty pos", or by the mode. Actually, thos middle two were reserved for the Rover 620 I had. Such an amazingly complete shitcar. I genuinely have no idea how they made something so fundamentally bad.
I was just about to say no, I find it a bit daft - then realised that my e-bike on strava is named Evil Kenevo
I used to have names for my old cars, mk1/mk2 golf, mk2 scirocco as there was an emotional (and exorbitant expense) attachment to them but my new Tiguan is just a lump of steel used as a tool for moving my decrepit and useless carcass around
Mine are called by their names: the Stache, the Litespeed, etc.
We don't name cars, but on the number plate thing, we use TLAs so we can remember reg nos for parking machines
DHU = dirty hairy undercarraige
LMO = lubricated man organ
NFC = new fockin car
According to Strava my bikes are Bitch and Bastard.
I find that if you name stuff you get attached to it and then upset when it breaks
Bit like farmers and their pigs really.
Our car is called - The car
My Orange Patriot - Ermintrude
My Orange Four - Polly
My old Orange P7 - Victoria (all fur coat and nae knickers)
My newer P7 - Penelope
My Spesh Levo - Lemmy
My replica 1910's pathracer - Jasper
Our 1970's Pashley tandem - Sybill
Our new Dawes tandem - Enid II
Wife's Pashley Princess - Scarlett
My road bike - the road bike
Naming a car is just so weird, bunch of freaks!
C.
I called my first car Eric because I was into Monty Python (cliched student). Everything since has been called by what it is, be it a car, a bass* or a bike.
*Instrument not fish!
Zebedee and Greta.
I call my car Leon, cos that's what i says on the back
Missus has named the Toyota 'The Flying Shoebox.'
My Tesla Model 3 has a name because it makes you give it one when you add it to your phone. Mine is called "Scooty Puff Jr" (Futurama reference).
Car names? no.
Bike names? yes. Red Eddy & The Duck live together in my garage.
The new car is “Bob” because it’s a Niro.
I'd have gone for the Emperor as a nickname.
Well. Like many I don’t.
However Mrs CFSB does:
Our camper is apparently Wilf. Her car is Wendy.
Her two bikes are Penny and Ginny.
In her words my full suss bike is Smelly Boy Bike.
Harmless, I guess, but…..
All the time! Examples include...
Stanton Sherpa with the green/purple flip paint job - Ramona after Ramona Flowers from Scott Pilgrim.
Roadbike - Jennifer after the she Hulk as it's green and white.
First car - Leela - after Futurama because most of the time only one of the headlights worked.
Van is called Henry, because, well, he just is.
Not all are flattering - old gravel bike was called the Steel Pig, because it was hefty.
It is becoming harder with newer cars. Old cars have more of a character to them and thus easier to give names to. New cars are a bit, dare I say it, soul less. Now, if anyone has a 1992 Polo GT Coupe with one working headlight going for sale, let me know!
Actually, we once had a FIAT Stilo estate that was known as the breadwagon
My car is called Nemo - Registration is NMO. It is the first car that has ever had a name (I am 58) Only did it because the Volvo App insisted on it, but it is nice to get text messages from Nemo occasionally.
My Dad always named cars, usually based on the numberplate or the model and always female (he was in the Navy). I can't bring myself to carry on the tradition. My bikes are just known as 'the road bike', 'the gravel bike' and 'the mountain bike'. That's really boring.
Cars, nope, just tools for a job. Bikes have all been named on Strava. Current one is The Ti Bride. Last one was The Bomb (Dirtbomb), Aqua Man (Aqua coloured Cotic) with the rest having increasingly shite nicknames.
Recently got a new car and was devastated when the wife pointed out it said “knob” so had to go for a private plate 🙁
IT's ironic that by getting rid of a registration that says knob you've made yourself look a bit of a knob 😛
You should have owned it 😀
When I got my last car my nephew asked what I was going to call it.
Car
When I replaced it my nephew asked what it was going to be called
Car2d2
I made that up on the spot and was actually quite surprised and please with myself.
Have named all of my recent bikes, and the duck that rides some of them!
There will be a pattern here too 🙂
Bossnut V1 was Cali
Triple B V2 is called Eleanor (was stolen from work and recovered within 24hrs, so unstealable! haha) and the duck on the bars is Memphis.
Dark Peak is Donnie (as in Darko)
Haven't come up with one for the Sentry Pro yet, or got a duck for it....
I only name trails. But that would be a whole new thread.
My old Toyota Rav4 was referred to as Shankar, mostly by friends and I when working out which car would be used as packhorse for a trip. I sold it to another friend and the name still remains in use by him and his family.
Indeed we have a mixture. Rora the Explorer is our T2, Redshed the Mini, Kermit the Land Rover. Dale the Cannondale, front and back bottom the touring bike.
Only the Dekerf.
Samantha, because it seemed like a silly name for a bike. Samantha Dekerf. But it's more often called "the SS" or "the little green bike", mainly because Samantha is a silly name for a bike.
i dont name my bikes but was boring my wife a few years back about my latest epic adventure up the pentlands. i happened to say 'we' at some point and she asked 'i thought you were alone?' i awkwardly admitted i meant me + the bike!
I've not named either of the two cars I've owned but they've both had stuffed toy mascots that have had names - Rowlf (a dog) for my old car and Bug (a Rhino) for my current car.
Some of my bikes have technically had names but I rarely find myself calling them by their names. My Orange 5 was BOB (Big Orange Bike) and so my Clockwork Evo is technically BOB2. My Nukeproof Mega is officially Bikey McEnduroFace. Generally they just get called by their brand or model name - the Mega, the Orange, the Ibis, etc.
Flaperon wins with his scooty-puff junior 😆
Our Tesla is called Baby Shark, it’s grey with a pointy nose!
IT’s ironic that by getting rid of a registration that says knob you’ve made yourself look a bit of a knob 😛
Fortunately I already owned it so it was a painless (free) decision 🙂