Whats your bikes nickname.
10-21-11, 03:35 PM
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I came up with nicknames for my bikes, but I don't actually use them - I just post them in these sorts of threads.
1984 Trek 520: "The Bronze" because it is bronze coloured, and also inspired by the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer where they had a club called "The Bronze".
1990s rigid Mountain Bike" "Bix" because it's a beaterbike.
1990s Raleigh cruiser: Rubeus" because it is red and twice as heavy as a normal bike.
1984 Trek 520: "The Bronze" because it is bronze coloured, and also inspired by the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer where they had a club called "The Bronze".
1990s rigid Mountain Bike" "Bix" because it's a beaterbike.
1990s Raleigh cruiser: Rubeus" because it is red and twice as heavy as a normal bike.
10-21-11, 05:50 PM
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I can't tell you, it' a secret.
10-21-11, 06:44 PM
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Mine isn't named but I've heard it called "the spaceship", "smurf-bike" (the current blue model), "future-bike" (kids), and "whut-da-hell".
10-22-11, 07:18 AM
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I call the Nishiki that I commute on "bike". I call the Raleigh I have hanging in the garage waiting restoration "the Raleigh". I call the other Raleigh, "the Sports". I call the junior Viner in the shop, "the Viner", I call the other Nishiki in the shop awaiting restoration "the other Nishiki".
Thinking that I need to get more creative, I decided to call my commuter "Euphonia". I don't know what it means, but it sounds good.
-Gary
Thinking that I need to get more creative, I decided to call my commuter "Euphonia". I don't know what it means, but it sounds good.
-Gary
10-22-11, 07:13 PM
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The newest mountain/commuter is, unimaginatively, the “Tank”, my road Milholland is “Robin” after the robin’s egg blue lugs, and my Surly is “Peyton” because it’s all black like a friend’s Labrador retriever, Payton, in honor of Walter Payton and it upsets my friend when people call his dog Peyton, as if in honor of Peyton Manning. So, yes, I upset my friend every time I mention my bike. That’s how I roll!
10-24-11, 12:42 PM
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My Surly LHT is named Belna. It's Vulcan for sturdy maiden. Got it from an online Vulcan nickname generator using Long Haul Trucker as the name and female as the gender.
LHTs are by definition fairly sturdy, while mine carries my fat arse, so she's esp. sturdy.
LHTs are by definition fairly sturdy, while mine carries my fat arse, so she's esp. sturdy.
10-24-11, 12:46 PM
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My commuter, an old Specialized HardRock Ultra, wears the moniker of Special Ed.
My road bike, a Litespeed Classic, is "the Skinny bike"
My Full Squish All-Mountain bike, an Iron Horse Warrior is called the Horse, except when I ride with my son on his Mongoose Teocali, and then they are "Maverick and Goose"
I also have a Jamis Exile SS that I cal the BAMF.
My road bike, a Litespeed Classic, is "the Skinny bike"
My Full Squish All-Mountain bike, an Iron Horse Warrior is called the Horse, except when I ride with my son on his Mongoose Teocali, and then they are "Maverick and Goose"
I also have a Jamis Exile SS that I cal the BAMF.
10-24-11, 01:40 PM
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I call my DaHon folder "Oragami."
My fixed gear bike is a Masi, so I named it Faliero, since that was Mr. Masi's first name, even though mine is a California Masi, not Italian.
Other bikes are just named what they are, i.e. my Mercian is the Vincitore, my titanium GT is just Ti-GT, etc. Not very creative.
Rick / OCRR
My fixed gear bike is a Masi, so I named it Faliero, since that was Mr. Masi's first name, even though mine is a California Masi, not Italian.
Other bikes are just named what they are, i.e. my Mercian is the Vincitore, my titanium GT is just Ti-GT, etc. Not very creative.
Rick / OCRR
10-25-11, 07:07 AM
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The Red Menace goes for both my winter beater and my regular commuter.
10-25-11, 11:23 AM
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10-25-11, 11:33 AM
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My Raleigh super grand prix is the blue bomber, My Raleigh Capri is called Donor(long story) and my panasonic is the pan-racer-sonic(I know not very original) my litespeed is my everyday and since it seems to disappear when I am on it I won't describe that feeling nor do I want to take that experience into words so it has no name I just ride it.
10-31-11, 12:56 PM
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I recently started calling my butted steel sears road bike "the tank", not because it's heavy (although it does weigh 31 pounds), but because it's so stable and unwavering with junk loaded on the back that it's unreal. That, and with everything I put on it, it really does weigh as much as a tank when loaded.
Don't really have a name for the other bike yet. I refer to it as "the fast one" but that's not really a creative name.
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Don't really have a name for the other bike yet. I refer to it as "the fast one" but that's not really a creative name.
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10-31-11, 04:59 PM
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I thought I was the only lunatic the nicknamed by bicycles! My old 1985 Trek 520 (I still ride sometimes) is "Old Racklesnatch", a Performance M303 hardtail from about 1992 was called "Gizzfidget" and my current main squeeze, a completely urbanized 2005 Trek 4300 hardtail is called "The Rig".
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10-31-11, 05:53 PM
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I should call my bike "your mom." Picture this: Someone asks me "what did you do this weekend?" and I respond with "I rode your mom for 3 hours." :LOL:
11-01-11, 04:04 PM
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Something is moving me to consider naming one Apostrophe and the other Homonym.