London Fixed-gear and Single-speed

I havent got a name for mine yet, its been bugging me actually as it really does deserve one.

What about Fatso? Or Chubby?

:)

Surely in the time honored tradition of English piss taking "slim" would be more appropriate?

I'm a Skippy...

My missus has called my bike Fiona...

Or 'Fifi – that bitch...'

Something about me spending all my time with her - I don't know, I wasn't really listening, I was cleaning Fiona...

hahaha

Bikey (hangs head in shame)

I've got Monika, Sarah and Emily.
Katie's part built now too.

Up their with my brother calling his cat "cat"

What was the frame made of?

I have two bikes with no names and one called Kevin Rowland.

Mine gets called 'that heap of sh!t' (because it is) or 'the butchered bike' (cos every time I took it to my LBS I had taken the grinder to another braze on or brake boss, and chopped the dropouts to braze track ends in), oddly when you call it the butchered bike some old duffer in there assumes I own a pashley utility bike or similar.

Mine's called Bernhard. Well it would be if it had a name.

I saw someone on a charge plug with white rims, today 0800, Coldharbour lane to Camberwell.
flat pedals, no clips, white pisspot lid. could have been a girl.

My Pug is called Harry... Or Hal...

After Henry V... "A little touch of Harry in the night."

Again, that was on my girlfriend's insistence.

not me, i was busy cycling incredibly slowly down from Tooting to Tower Bridge stopping regularly for my workmate to catch up, bless him.

I like the idea of a mans name, i'm split between Brian and Frank at the moment, although I'm veering towards 'I'm Brian and so's my Wife'

How about something androgynous... like Hillary or Leslie?

Good to keep people guessing.

Mine are: Chloe (Bridgestone), Bob (Jackson) and Red Cheek (Raleigh/ winter beater- due to the coldness).

my bikes... don't have names.

does that make me a bad person? or a normal one?

probably normal

The Soma
The Raleigh
The Ribble
The GT
The other Raleigh
The piece of shit still in a box aka The Armstrong

Pretty friggin' creative if I do say so myself! Let's see those artistic types top that..

the soma doesn't have a name.
bmx is panzer dragoon, whole dragon motif going on, or panz for short.
ti fixed I'm calling dragoon rouge, or red for short.

Sorry can't help it, like giving things cool names. (well I think they're cool) ;-P

Though I did have an old volvo 340 for many years until I wrote it off, which I used to call Bertha, cause she was big and heavy

My bike only have descriptor names not cute affectionate ones:

Condor = Fast Bike
Steamroller = Suicide Bike
Cove = Dadmobile

what's "ti", cornelius?

"ti" is the new magical number that supersedes "pi"?

the fixed
the folder
the santacruz

the singlespeed
the 'big' bike
the fixed, the condor or the road bike

i don't give inanimate things names as it's a sign of mental frailty and bedwetting.

lol

He's just jealous cos he couldn't think of cool names for his bike...

(and it's been WEEKS since the last "incident"...)

mine's called Malibu Stacey.

when you meet her you'll understand.......

Mine is called "Toro"....

Why? It's a Charge Plug (hence why I found myself here!) and the name just came to me when I imagined spearing a wayward taxi with the horns. First fixed and first post.

Yes, it's not the lightest - but neither am I (!) but it is quick and fun - Kings Cross to Lewisham flies by - and rolls through pretty much everything that the London streets have to throw at me. I love it - my poor Bianchi Camaleonte III left sadly in the corner. That one doesn't have a name though.

yellow bike.
blue bike.

My bike doesn't have a name.

I may call it 'kunt puncher'.

Or 'bloodpoo'.

Any thoughts?

mines a longster, don't know if my current build will have a name probably "The Mistress", thats what my girlfriend considers my bike, she says i ride her too much

"the road bike"
"the track bike"

(they're both fujis).

I rode a mate's Plug the other day, just for a few minutes in the the street. It is quite heavy, but i found it very comfy to ride (much more than my fuji track). he had it set up singlespeed, which i found bloody odd... but then every time i get on my road bike it feels odd now, so yeah. so the plug: i like it. it felt solid and stable and dependable.

still glad i bought my fuji though, cos there's no doubt it's quicker.

Yeah badtmy, it is quite heavy - I will be changing the rather excessive tyres soon - but it is the comfyness that I love. And looking at the early evening gloom of London descend, it will get a good trial home in the wet tonight!

yeah i'm thinking that for winter the skittish handling and 23mm tires on the fuji might be a little unnerving... better build meself a new bike!