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to give my bicycle a name?

69 replies

HookedOnHooking · 29/05/2015 20:13

Bike

My bicycle has a name. It suits her.

I am Sad because my sister's Bike doesn't. Would it be terribly unreasonable to name her?

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Velvetbee · 29/05/2015 20:19

Mine was called the Dawn Treader like the boat in Narnia, because I was a cleaner at the hospital and had to leave home at stupid-o'clock in the morning.

HookedOnHooking · 29/05/2015 20:22

Bunty

to give my bicycle a name?
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pegwin · 29/05/2015 20:24

Mine is called pfb

HarryLimeFoxtrot · 29/05/2015 20:26

I don't have a bike anymore. I had one when I lived in Oxford - it was called 'Otto' and a different one when I lived in Cambridge - called 'Claude'

Gabilan · 29/05/2015 20:41

I name my bikes. This is reasonable. Sometimes I talk to them. I'm not so sure how reasonable that is.

HookedOnHooking · 29/05/2015 20:44

Completely Gab i hope

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WinterOfOurDiscountTents15 · 29/05/2015 20:48

My bike is called Nellie. She's a dutch immigrant and I love her very much. Grin

Dr0pThePirate · 29/05/2015 20:50

Anathema Device called her bike Phaeton...

SonceyD0g · 29/05/2015 20:51

I have hazel. I talk to her, she doesn't say much back! She is going into semi retirement soon as well past her past. I will miss her terribly ??

SonceyD0g · 29/05/2015 20:52

Past her best! Grrrrr

bikeandrun · 29/05/2015 20:57

My beautiful new bike is yet unnamed, she is a planet x carbon road bike. I have never loved an inanimate object so much. She lives in the spare room, ( in my bedroom if I could get away with it) not the nasty damp shed where a robber might get her. She is black , fast and stealth like, what is her name, a bike naming thread?

ShiftingSandsofSamarkand · 29/05/2015 21:06

Bunty is very pretty, OP. She really suits her name Smile

My bike is called Shadowfax.

bikeandrun · 29/05/2015 21:11

My beautiful new bike is yet unnamed, she is a planet x carbon road bike. I have never loved an inanimate object so much. She lives in the spare room, ( in my bedroom if I could get away with it) not the nasty damp shed where a robber might get her. She is black , fast and stealth like, what is her name, a bike naming thread?

SonceyD0g · 29/05/2015 21:12

Jet?

Gabilan · 29/05/2015 21:20

"She is black , fast and stealth like, what is her name, a bike naming thread?"

Ebony? Or maybe Black Beauty.

Gabilan · 29/05/2015 21:21

Or Cancara after the Lloyds bank horse. I ran out of non-horse names.

RackofPeas · 29/05/2015 21:22

Marchant

TheWintersmith · 29/05/2015 21:25

My road bike is called frank, after the cheep who built it

I don't know what my mountain bike is called though.

TheWintersmith · 29/05/2015 21:25

chap

Gabilan · 29/05/2015 21:28

Or if you want to go classical, Erebus. There was also a ship of that name. There is a black planet called TrES2b but that's not all that catchy.

HookedOnHooking · 29/05/2015 21:29

bikeandrun I feel we need a photo. Is it male or female?

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AdeleDazeem · 29/05/2015 21:30

Name your bike.
Don't name your sisters bike.

And whatever you do don't tell anyone a name you have picked out for any future bikes in case they steal your bikename.

OTheHugeManatee · 29/05/2015 21:30

YANBU to name your own bikes. Not sure it's on to name someone else's though.

Mine is a fixie, called Titus. The Brompron has no name, as it's functional and generic.

HookedOnHooking · 29/05/2015 21:31

I'd be deeply insulted flattered if someone stole shared my Bike name

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Gabilan · 29/05/2015 21:31

My Dawes hybrid was called Dobbin. He was steady and reliable.

Name your sisters bike. It's cruel not to name a bike.