Does your bike have a name???

[VeloFreedom]

My green Nomad Mk.1 is called Shermy because she's built like a Sherman tank... I always imagine her human incarnation to be an indistinguishably sexed but ultimately female East German shot-putter from the eighties. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and all that...

[JWestland]

That's actually a brilliant description 

[NZPeterG]

I'm working on it.
 
After a Mountain Pass maybe??
Pete..

[NZPeterG]

This year I got very very sick in an Sudan Hospital, Got Kidnapped  out of the Hospital by the staff from Tour d'Afrique put into a plane (Kenya Flying Doctors) to Nairobi Kenya. Once in Nairobi hospital they find out wot was wrong with me and I started to get better after a few weeks. Being away from Home and not knowing anyone, My Aunt got hold of the New Zealand Consul about Me being ill in Hospital. Tom can to see me, He was Hon. Consul to New Zealand. Tom Diju Owuor went well beyond call of duty by coming to see Me two or three times a week plus Tom's Wife and Children came in to See Me to, Once I got out of Hospital and was an Out Patient (still in Nairobi) He still came around to see Me.
I was in Nairobi for over 8 week's, Tom was a Big help and became a friend.
Well last week Tom died, a sad day.
I'm going to Name My New Touring Bike after Him, TOM.
I'll be thanking of Him when I'll out cycling (Be it in NZ or Overseas)
Thanks Tom.

Pete..  

[Matt2matt2002]

I call my bike Lucky Eddie.
A pal of mine with the same brand of bike called his Hagar.
He took Hagar from UK to New Zealand. Hagar and Lucky Eddie are Dawes Sardars.

Is it right to transfer names when one changes bike? I could always go for Lucky Eddie 2 when I buy my Nomad.

Correction really.
I didn't buy a Nomad.
I bought a second hand Raven.
So I have called her "Old Bird"

I still my Dawes Sardar, Lucky Eddie. Difficult to part with a friend.

Matt

[wildrover]

My RT is named Seymour Black.  (It's an upright bike.)

[Danneaux]

Is it right to transfer names when one changes bike?

I think so, Matt. If you feel a bit uncertain about it, you could always use a close variant. For example, my last Honda Civic was Sparky. This one is Spunky. The next will likely be Spanky.

Your next bike could always be New Eddie till he's been around awhile and then he could simply be Eddie.

By coincidence, a friend of mine called his bike Eddie Eagan...or that's what I thought he said. I figured it was in honor of the 1920s-era American sportsman ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Eagan ). Turns out, it was "Eddie, Again", his second bike with that name.

My RT is named Seymour Black.

Love it, Holly! Sounds just right!

All the best,

Dan. (Call me anything except late to the dinner table...)

[JefWin]

The things we think of when we have too much time on our hands...

First bike with a name was my mid-80's Eclipse Countryman, a lovely green bike that saw me well through a couple of years of long-distance touring, and many years since then, and has recently gone into retirement. The first "foreign soil" it rolled on was Spain, and it was a great pack mule, carrying a heck of a lot of weight. So, the name Paco seemed appropriate, also inspired by the great guitarist Paco de Lucia.

My most recent addition is a black Thorn Sherpa, bought second-hand in Stockholm, which just happened to turn up when I decided I couldn't do without a new bike. At the moment, my current interest is in all things Chinese, so the new bike is called H?i B?om?, the Black treasure horse (). The name is taken from the Ferghana horses, reputedly loved and desired by the early Chinese dynasties. They were called heavenly horses, but also known as Hàn xuè b?o m? (Sweat blood treasure horses). Another fun detail is that, in China, the popular way of referring to BMW is b?o m?!

As I said, the things we get up to... 

[Danneaux]

Welcome to the Forum, Jeff, and thanks for the wonderful "naming" stories!

Congratulations on H?i B?om?, your new black Sherpa, as well! They're wonderful bikes, and it would be terrific to see more of yours in the Forum's Gallery where they are a little underrepresented at the moment.

Best,

Dan. (...who thinks "Black Treasure Horse" is a wonderful name in any language!)

[Andybg]

I have named my new Thorn Tour "The Batmobile" because it is the first name I used to decribe it when Marina (the wife) asked me which bike I was taking out. The strapline I have for the bike I use when riding through traffic and is stolen from the other cartoon bat hero Batfink and it is "my wings are like a shield of steel"

My Mk 1 Nomad is called "Brego" after the horse that Aragorn rides to the Battle of Helms Deep in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Although the horse has seen too much battle it still stands up to be a trusty companion. A bit like my trusty Nomad

As a nice aside to this tale the actor who played Aragorn actually had such a connection with the horse that after the filming he purchased the horse and took it home with him.

Cheers

Andy

[jags]

 most of the time it's
 
HONEY

and a lot of the time it's called

  AH come ON .

[RobertL]

Given the R&D links to ripio I thought it might be helpful to mention some regional names which might be appropriated: Patoruzu, Condorito, Güemes, Pampero, Zonda, Moro, Morotina, La Chacha.

My experience of ripio was on a single speed Phillips many decades ago, but not on proper Patagonian headwind fighting tours. A loaded Thorn bike, at altitude, on ripio with a headwind must be one of the supreme R&D tests - also for the tent!

Hopefully one day I will manage Bariloche to El Calafate on Ruta 40.

[Pavel]

my new red RST is going to carry the monicker " Rocinante " though in this case it is the rider that is old, broken down and beyond his abilities.  Yeah, that fits.

[alfie1952]

Hi Pavel,

My Sherpa which was a stunning black and silver steed was also named ' Rocinante ', I must admit after i built it , it did not do the tours I was hoping to do, so, may your dreams of faraway places and adventures be fulfilled.

Safe journeys.

Regards