Emotional attachment to your bike

[Welsh wheels]

I have been known to talk to my bike. I sometimes praise her after a particularly hard climb. And when she's broken and needs repairing, I feel sad and it feels like something isn't quite right with the world. We've been through so much together.

 

[ianrauk]

weirdo

 

[RoubaixCube]

 

[Haitch]

It's an effing bike. That's it. Get real!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Feck, I despair.

You'll be giving it a name next...

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Mine all have names.

 

[Tim Hall]

Don't anthropomorphise bikes. They don't like it.

 

[Drago]

He'll be having sexual relations with it next.

 

[arch684]

I call all my bikes by the same name.That bike and some times i call them this bike

 

[Tim Hall]

He'll be having sexual relations with it next.

When my nearside chainstay parted with a loud bang, I knew the bike was farked. But I don't think that's what you mean.

 

[MontyVeda]

I praise it whilst I've got it and I'd be gutted if I lost it... but my emotional attachment to a machine is nothing like that in the OP.

 

[Tin Pot]

It's a tool.

As much as it's nice to have a trusty hammer I don't cry when it breaks.

 

[Spiderweb]

Billy no mates!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Do you still wave at cars?

 

[Deleted member 35268]

I talk at my bike when it breaks