Does your bike have a name?

[flecc]

Does your bike have a name?

Only when something goes wrong far from home, and I couldn't repeat it in here.
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[VictoryV]

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What do you call yours and why?

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My bike is called Armaggeddon - With 21 gears nothing can stop me so you will hear me say when the "Last Trump" sounds "Armaggeddon out of here"

 

[Mac_user82]

Mine is called "The Iron Horse" which i very much depend on i use it for everything i will never have a car

i have two batteries with my bike so i can get to anywhere i want get too with ease


if i needed to go any real distance anywhere then i would just get on the train

 

[D C]

I'm already regretting my decision. I don't really want to say that I've just come back from a long ride on Sergeant Esterhaus.

If I remember rightly Estherhaus died riding his Grace.

 

[Tugwell Gibson]

If I remember rightly Estherhaus died riding his Grace.

I'm.sure your correct. But I don't remember. Great series. Especially for back then.

 

[flecc]

If I remember rightly Estherhaus died riding his Grace.

It was storyline cover for his actual death due to urethral cancer at age 48.
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[D8ve]

Bikey mcbikeface

She has a battered shell but runs super fast on a solid frame Best six mile run so far at average of 16.9mph And no assist

 

[brightonebikes]

As of just now I'm going with 'Seabiscuit'.
Every time I approach it I shall announce to it "I want to ride you like Seabiscuit".

 

[soundwave]

convert that to 2017 and its called fkn expensive

 

[grldtnr]

Bikey mcbikeface
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She has a battered shell but runs super fast on a solid frame Best six mile run so far at average of 16.9mph And no assist

Whoa D!
You got a Quest Velomobile? Way to go ,looks a bit unloved,did someone lose interest in it? Can't be on it ,well can it?
Would love to ride one, maybe the new Sinclair jobby will make it to market.

 

[grldtnr]

Its not unusual Pingy?
Roisiean F.W .Evans ,my first ever proper bike,coz it was a beautiful emerald green colour.
Boonshanker my first recumbent trike, you feel every pothole, hence bone shaker!
Lucifer, coz it had a wonky bottom bkt ,fixed it by putting a expensive sealed unit in. I had a 70" fixed gear, not much fun in hilly country.
Lazerlilu, coz I'd been playing scrabble!
Swampthing ,my off roading bike self-explanatory that one.
White charger, my first ever Pedelec,
The second Pedelec, Brown Boris, a Kalkhoff wossiname, the one with the impulse motor, not the impulse 2.
I have had other bikes,which have passed on,to a better place, I now have quorum of 4 , one can have too many bikes.

I am shamed! I forgot about 'Boromir ' , the only bike that died under me when I got struck by a car out of control when the driver clipped a hedge,you should have seen the mess i made of the car,maybe i was lucky to survive,was in hospital for a month, the driver got of lightly ,12 points on his licence,a small fine of £150,and a slap on the wrist! Metaphorically!
That's the reason i am riding Pedalers now, Rust in Peace , 'Boromir' the Dawes Super Galaxy, I still have the mangaled frame hanging in my shed to remind me of the good times I had with it, named after a character in the 'Lord of the rings' trilogy, read the book , seen the film.

 

[LeighPing]

Every time I approach it I shall announce to it "I want to ride you like Seabiscuit".

SeaBiscuit would have jumped that car you ploughed into. You'd best find yourself a carthorse name like I did.

 

[brightonebikes]

SeaBiscuit would have jumped that car you ploughed into. You'd best find yourself a carthorse name like I did.

Chuckling is I. Very good, I like it!

 

[LeighPing]

Chuckling is I. Very good, I like it!

Haha, me too.

'Samson' is my bigger bike. But 'Hercules' hasn't been taken yet. Although, you'd have to wear a skirt.

I call my bike 'Delilah'. Named after Steptoe's horse. Which was initially named 'Hercules', until they found out that it was pregnant, later having a foal named 'Samson'.

 

[brightonebikes]

Who says I don't already ride side saddle in a skirt?
The name immediately brings this track to mind.

 

[grldtnr]

SeaBiscuit would have jumped that car you ploughed into. You'd best find yourself a carthorse name like I did.

That is as maybe?
But , I don't laugh about what happened on that day, I did not plough into the car, that car crashed into us, I wasn't the only person to be hospitalised in the collision,a further 5 cyclist were.
The driver responsible lived locally,knew the road, and must thought,that it was ok to speed down said lane, whilst the police presented data to show that he wasn't speeding for that section of road, he was driving to fast for conditions allowed by the nature of the lane,narrow, twisty, and enclosed by high hedges,where caution dictated ,he should have taken more care ,but alack, with only 6 months since he passed his test, he was driving with his balls!
I, on the other hand was off work for 6 months, lost a pastime that I loved and miss, i.e. club cycling, and suffer from consequences of injury of that day.

Yes, I am embittered about it ,but I am here.
Rant over, I do hope you understand my feelings.

 

[D8ve]

Grltdnr
It happens to everyone except flecc.
Mine drove onto the cyclepath without checking if there were any bikes on it first.
We have our own arthritis now to remember by.

 

[flecc]

Grltdnr
It happens to everyone except flecc.

Possibly true, but i witnessed a Grltdnr event some while ago.

Riding in a high hedged twisty narrow lane not far from home a Rover overtook in a hurry. Then with it just beyond me I could see the top of a fast moving box body truck beyond the next bend over the top of hedges.

Sitting a bit lower than me clearly the car driver hadn't seen it and the trucky was blind to the car.

All I could do is brake and watch the inevitable.

Neither driver was physically badly hurt, just very shocked, so I squeezed past the wrecks and went on my way. I returned on a different route since it would have taken a while to recover them both from that narrow location.
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[georgehenry]

I called mine a eff--- bi--- when the chain came off on an unlit B road on my way home last night.

 

[John_S]

My bike is named Grizzly.

p.s. it is a very Big Bear indeed