naming

[Mrs M]

The Mean Machine, hubs bike is Big Helga.
Our cars always have names too.
Current car is Wee Jimmy, reg tag starts with WJ.
Just a bit of fun

 

[Mrs M]

Pat meet Murphy lol

Murphy is very handsome

 

[ChrisEyles]

Nothing wrong with giving your bike a silly name Talking to them is perfectly "normal" too! At least I like to think so.... maybe I need to get a dog or something instead!

Mine are Walter ('cos he's a Raleigh), Marius (Italian bike but also old and therefore got lumbered with a latin name), and Harold (galumphing big roadster needed a galumphing big name), and the wife's is Prunella (don't know how this one came about!).

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Nope, they are referred to by make or model. Unusually for us I don't think we even shorten/cutsie up those either. The cars and motorbikes used to get names, but we kind of grew out of it in our early 20's.

 

[Cyclist33]

Bullet and Tron

"America, **** yeah!"

 

[Cyclist33]

no, no, no and for the fourth time no* It's very silly.

(*I have 4 bikes)

Yes and we couldn't admit to a bit of silliness us grown-ups now could we?

 

[Cyclist33]

My bikes are called Bret, Yasmin and Snotty-Water. I have named all bikes I've had as an adult...

The Silver Sparrow
Lev
Ava
Bob
Vanessa (She was a Felt Z!)
Maggie

and now the ones I've got as above.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Winter bike, summer bike, carbon bike, old bike. I don't talk to them either.

 

[I like Skol]

I'm with the blue guy here. No names for the bikes or cars, and I have over the years had several cars both everyday and hobby cars as I am a bit of an enthusiast. It is simply 'the hybrid' or 'the mountain bike' or 'the Land Rover' or 'the Passat'. The names we give them are simply a label of what they are. If I only had one bike and one car it would then be even simpler, 'the bike' or 'the car'. Owning a few of each means I need to differentiate between them, that is all.

 

[Hacienda71]

My latest bike is called Lucifer

 

[SpokeyDokey]

...the bike...

@slowmotion

Oi - you stole my bike's name! Scoundrel!

 

[Spinyadas]

Love it opinions divided can of worms opened. Made me laugh thanks everyone

 

[ChrisEyles]

Snotty-Water

??!! There must be a story behind that one!

Lucifer

Or Lucy for short?

 

[Cyclist33]

??!! There must be a story behind that one!

Or Lucy for short?

My six year old lad insisted because of its colour scheme. I was hoping for something more cool, funky and trail-shredding, like Jake, or Marlon Kopec or something, but Charlie was not to be moved on the topic!

 

[ChrisEyles]

@Cyclist33 - Love it!