Do you name your bikes?

[sonicCows]

No I do not name my whips

[Ssalmon]

I only named my commuter/ spring trainer: Base Mile Bertha, she is steel and sturdy and it felt right.

[enr1co]

Colnago= Colnago
Hampsten= Hampsten

[AJosiahK]

i dont

tend to be quite literal, calling them by model name, genre of bike or by maker.

Im like that with everything i own, cars and guitars would be other realms we could make parallels to.

it is fun though, but could never get into the habit of

[simplemind]

Yep, my C'dale Black (Synapse) is Dark Vader.

[Mzilliox]

no wonder the world isn't more fun... what a bunch of squares riding circles

[livingminimal]

Always.

Partially because I think its weird on Strava to show where you ride and have a description of some amazing $8,000 bike I'm riding. Also because it's fun and the kind of relationships I have with my bike are important and individualized to me. They're all custom, after all.

Andy is my daily workhorse. Named after a Leatherface song that changed my life.

Marie is my Pegoretti. That bike is commemorative ode to my late mother who died of cancer. It's got the Catch paint with orange in it, the color for kidney cancer. My mother's middle name was Marie.

My cross/gravel bike is Betty, after Betty Friedan. Feminist and social critic. My bike was designed and built by a woman.

[berserk87]

No I don't name my bikes, and reserve the right to gently poke fun at those that do .

[oldpotatoe]

wet weather bike and dry weather bike....

[bocobiking]

My 2005 Serotta Concours: "Zebulon Bike," after the explorer

My 1980 black Raleigh Competition: "Bike Noir"

My 2003 Serotta Legend: "L'Edge"

My 1988 Schwinn Premis: "Ignatz," after Ignatz Schwinn, the company's founder

My 1974 Schwinn Paramount: the French word for its color, "Bleu"

My 1988 Schwinn Paramount: the French word for dark blue, "Fonce"

[cnighbor1]

Yes I look at name on the down tube and that is its name

[merckx]

I have never considered naming by bicycles; however I have named my chestnuts for as long as I can remember: left and right.

[godfrey1112000]

Bike #1
Bike #2

Just like my two kids

Kid #1
Kid #2

[KJMUNC]

Yep:

Tommeke
Cipo
Ernesto
Greg

[OtayBW]

The Peg
The DeRosa
The Legend (I deviate from protocol here slightly)
The BMC

That's about it for me....