Anyone name their bike?

[Jackalope]

I came up with hurricane one day on a transAm tour.. got to the Green River in Mammoth Cave NP, and the one day that year the ferry shut down was the day we needed to cross the river.  So I decided nothing short of a hurricane would stop me and I decided to swim over with my bike :p

[brad]

my bike's name is not fit to print in a family publication...of course it usually only hears it's name on some exceptionally cruel uphill or when something is broke!

[TwoWheeledExplorer]

Moose. Actually, Moose 1 and 2. Where I ride, the wiley ungulates are fairly common, and I am always worried that a typically nearsighted Bullwinkle is going to think me and my mountain bike, with it's wide bars and bar ends, are a competitor with it's head lowered as a challenge.

I guess you have to be in Minnesota.

Ride safe,
Hans

Hans Erdman, WEMT
Backcountry Trail Patrol
www.trailpatrol.org

[gdandy]

Mighty Glory!  I named her on my Solo X-Country trip last summer.  I hooked up some mini speakers to my handlebars and brought 8 cds along with me.  I must of listened to them a thousand times.  But everytime the Jerry Garcia Band song "The Mighty Glory" came on, I kicked things up another notch.  She's a pretty one.  

This message was edited by gdandy on 5-21-04 @ 3:19 PM

[jimmcw]

As two of us were sitting on a curb in somewhere South
Dakota mid-way through a cross country trip a few years ago,
watching the flags on the poles in front of a convenience
store indicate the headwind was continuing, and sipping a
cold coke in the 100 degree heat, an elderly gent
approached, did a sidelong look at the two touring rigs
leaning up against the building in the shade, voiced the
usual "boy what a load comments" and annoited the two
beasts the "Wire Donkeys".

[RayHull]

Hillary -- in honor of our first woman president.

[don quixote]

Rocinante, the name of Don Quixote's horse.  My wife had name decals made for the bike just before my cross country trip this summer.  I took a few pictures of the bike in front of wind farm generators at 2 or 3 spots along the route. Told me something about the area I was in!
George from San Diego

[TwoWheeledExplorer]

Changed "Moose 2" to "Silver Wolf" because of all the WTB modifications on my Trek 4600. I suppose that would make me "WolfRider"!

Hans Erdman
www.trailpatrol.org

This message was edited by Trailpatrol on 8-30-04 @ 10:58 PM

[burleyrider]

I did.

Mine is a Burley Canto recumbent. My first weekend out, I collided with
a reckless BMXer on the local multi-use trail. Being as my bike in SWB
mode looks like a rhinocerous with the derailleur and front-most head
tube, I named my bike "Rhino"

Derek

[hoogie]

My Trek 520 is named 'Elway', after I bought it in Colorado and my mate reckoned it was a nice shade of 'Bronco Blue'

My Thorn Nomad has loosely been dubbed 'WAP' ... 'wing and a prayer'

My Giant tourer is unnamed as yet other than being called 'bl**dy thing' now and again ...

cheers,
hoogie
timaru/oamaru,new zealand
my webpages

[MikeJuvrud]

"Bessy" for my touring bike and "Bertha" for my classic one-speed.

[TheDaltonBoys]

Based on simple affection for one who does so much with me, and for me....."Baby", or "Honey" and that goes for either the mountain bike, or the road bike. Mark of the Dalton Boys...Austin, TX.

[SP]

My offroad tourer "The Black Death", all black parts and the cost is killing me.

SP

[TwoWheeledExplorer]

The new Marin has earned (already!)the name "Testimony" because of what we went through to buy it and then actually ride it.

Ride safe,
Hans


Hans Erdman, WEMT
Backcountry Trail Patrol-MN
www.trailpatrol.org

[pamelaw]

Hi-
Tell me about mini speakers, how much do they weigh and can an MP3 player be plugged in.
Thanx,
Pam