Naming your bike

Oh no you didn't..

aghast I swear I even UTFS.

Amazing thread time span in only two pages..

The shit bike, The machine,The dirty merckx and sadly The Guv'nor..

I am often asked how many bikes do you have? To which the answer is I do not know or I am not sure or is important? But the ones I do know of have names usually after the places I visit most often on the so they are

Victoria - the Blue Carlton I am most often seen on
Linz - A yucky brown Mongoose which is very light and packs in a suitcase so I took it to Linz.
Queensway - A big sit up and beg which I kept at work and used to cycle to Queensway when I was working on that station.
Zebra bike - Names fairly self explanatory
Memphis - A red Strutt folding bike I cycle from Memphis to Baltimore on. With the naming rules it should be Baltimore but I think Memphis is a more cool name but in real life Baltimore is far far more cool then Memphis.
Dutch bike - For obvious reasons though I now have two so it is bit confusing

Beater is called Venom because it's a Venom frame, but it's a good name. The Orange Guerciotti got called Curious Orange Bike or Cob because it's easier to say that Guerciotti (and write), my old Charge Plug racer got nicknamed 'The Silver Fox' (not by me). My oldest bike, an Orange Gringo, is called Ol' Blue because it's old and blue, and lastly a bike I built for a friend got called Lil' Blue because it is small and blue.

And no, I'm not proud of any of that

First proper bike was called Gearless Joe (a friend came up with the name). The one I've just finished building is called Black Moll, after a character that appears briefly in the opening scene of John Gay's 'Beggars' Opera'. The crappy old mountain bike that I rode from Edinburgh to Brighton (and is now rusting somewhere on the University of Sussex campus) was called the Bognor Belle.
The act of putting inanimate components together to form a bicycle is a process of magic. The machine is imbued with life and becomes part of its owner, which is justification enough for a name, I think. Anyone who is unsure on this point should refer to 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O' Brien, and the scientific works of de Selby.

^ Well said

The Nago, Vicky [the viking], the shopper of death, foldything, the fekker.

pics or it didnt etc...

This thread just made me think of WC The Gangster, The Killa, and The Dope Dealer.

Mine is called trigger, after triggers broom. Because it was one bike and through a process of upgrading everything, it has become another with nothing original on it.

Ah philosofical conundrum

gara
rourke
beater

not very imaginitive!