Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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?

OP posts:
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?
OP posts:
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

OP posts:
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?

OP posts:
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

OP posts:
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.