Naming your bike

[Lone Wolf]

Has anyone named their bike or have I finally gone round the bend ?
Thinking of naming my Pashley Clubman. Any suggestions ?

 

[Reynard]

No, you've not gone round the bend.

I've got Wiggy #1, Wiggy #2 and Max the MTB.

They're a Wiggins Rouen road bike, a Wiggins Chartres hybrid and a Raleigh Max respectively. Not terribly imaginative, I know...

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Between my wife and I we have over a dozen bikes. Naming them makes it easier to know which one is being referred to.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My main bike is called the Green Hornet

 

[Gwylan]

Welcome round the bend.

Hercules2 and I have been companions for nearly 2 years.

He succeeded Hercules.
The name came from Steptoe and Son.

 

[Punkawallah]

I don’t have names for the bikes - other than their model name. As my wife is sublimely ignorant of these, the black and white one is ‘the panda’, and the black one ‘the hack’.

 

[Time Waster]

Mine has names top. There's recumbent, road bike, old road bike and Brompton. I have second names for them too. I mean I have two names plus the surname so why not my bike? They're also called SMGT, planetx London Road, Raleigh m-trax 4000 and Brompton M6R.

 

[fossyant]

No, other than the maker's name down the side.

 

[annedonnelly]

Mine all have names. So does every car I've owned. The bikes are all girls; the cars, and the camper, boys.

 

[mustang1]

Never named them.

 

[fritz katzenjammer]

I’ve named one or two cars and motorcycles in the past, those with enough character to warrant something of a bond because it was more fun than it should be. An amazingly reliable Soviet era Lada I had in college was “Olga”.

the closest my bicycles have gotten is my Gazelle… the “Dutch Truck”, and my ride to work Trek… the “Red Rocket”.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Yes, of course

 

[Gwylan]

Welcome round the bend.

Hercules2 and I have been companions for nearly 2 years.

He succeeded Hercules.
The name came from Steptoe and Son.

I still mourn Hercules 1 who was abducted in Oxford. Wonder what happened to him.
Does a bike have a soul or some unique vital force? Feel that was the case with Hercules and I let him down.

Some scroat with a pneumatic bolt cutter had him away in a van. But I had locked him electronically and he became a pile of individual components. Sadly the tracker had been drowned by earlier rain and removed awaiting a replacement.

 

[figbat]

I must be lucky because all mine came already with a name. I have ‘the Felt’, ‘the Titus’, ‘the Fuji’ and so on.

 

[Reynard]

Mine all have names. So does every car I've owned. The bikes are all girls; the cars, and the camper, boys.

My car is called Colin