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thinline

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03/11/2014 08:15 PM
Well, as many of you know I have a new Seven. In the past my bikes have ended up with names, usually thanks to a friend that has since moved to Colorado that would name them. For example, she named my Klein . . . Calvin. What would be a good name for my new Seven? So far, all I can think of is Lady Ti. Suggestions welcome.
Cosmic Kid

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03/11/2014 08:41 PM
It is a Seven, right? Easy....Gwyneth.
Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
longslowdistance

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03/11/2014 08:50 PM
Love the pun. No name suggestions - given how you came to get that bike it might touch a raw nerve.

Thread diversion: By all means name your bike if you like. But can someone explain to me why give a bicycle a name? Yes we spend a lot of time with them, including some times of ecstatic joy and some times of pure misery, than can rival (in many ways) our relationship with our spouses. And some bikes even have a bit of soul. But they're not people or dogs. So why the impulse to project (as the shrinks would say) a personality by way of a name onto an inanimate object?
thinline

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03/11/2014 09:00 PM
For me it's just a bit of fun. Nothing deep involved. In this instance I figure how many average American guys say they get to ride the crap out of female royalty on a regular basis!
79pmooney

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03/11/2014 09:12 PM
Only a few of my bikes have every had names. Only one did I "think up"; Jessica J, the 2nd Jessica. It was inspired by the first. Jessica/Team Dumpster was the most fun bike I had ever ridden, but I knew was destined to not last a long time. So I ordered a replacement in nicer metal, ti vs steel with tweaks to make it the fixie I always wanted. Took me a bit to think of Jessica J. I knew it was to be another Jessica, but Jessica 2 sounded dumb. Well, my last initial is J so that decided it.

My first bike to have a name was my old Peter Mooney. At around two years, I was riding it when I suddenly realized the bike's name was Pete. I have no idea why; it just was. All the Peters I have every known including my brother, uncle and the builder were "Peter", not "Pete".

Jessica was inspired by a woman I heard talk soon after I started riding that bike. She was talking of her journey of recovery from multiple addictions and a wreck of a life to a responsible citizen, good mom and wife. When she talked of expecting to be found in a dumpster, my first thought was "Team Dumpster's name is Jessica. (That the bike belongs to "Team Dumpster" isn't really a joke. I paid $20 at an "as is"sale for a bare frame that had been hit hard by an SUV, had a trashed fork, dented top tube and both chainstays were about to break. It was obvious no one else would take that frame; that if I didn't plunk my $20 down, that night it would be in the dumpster reserved for recycled steel. My tape measure said it should fit me so I bought it.)

My first ti bike, the good bike, has no name. Neither have any of my winter/city fix gears nor the bike I raced.

Ben
pabiker

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03/11/2014 09:39 PM
Spear of Seven?

Crisp & Clean. (no Caffiene as in 7-up)
longslowdistance

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03/11/2014 09:44 PM
As a lover of ti bikes, they ride great and are easy to live with but I gotta say they don't have as much soul as a great steel bike.
Pin0Q0

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03/12/2014 08:48 AM
7 ate 9
Keith Richards

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03/12/2014 08:59 AM
I named my first good road bike "The Wife" which was fine until I got married.
----- It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong.
THE SKINNY

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03/12/2014 10:12 AM
i don't get naming bikes but if i did name a bike it would be 'Poopy Head Tomato Nose'
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Poopy%20Face%20Tomato%20Nose
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
zootracer

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03/12/2014 11:17 AM
I only have a name for my Colnago Master X-Light, which I don't ride that often, "Huckleberry". I guess because I forget how nice it rides and I say "your my Huckleberry"....I dunno, it is normal to talk to your bike? Come to think of it, have your ever met a "normal" cyclist?
thinline

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03/12/2014 12:30 PM
Oh my, I didn't even think of the "7" connection! I am mortified in my investment now!!!! Perhaps it shall be known as *
Keith Richards

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03/12/2014 01:33 PM
How about "Ananda"...sanskrit for "bliss" as a name?
----- It is his word versus ours. We like our word. We like where we stand and we like our credibility."--Lance Armstrong.
Cosmic Kid

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03/12/2014 02:57 PM
Oh c'mon....I can't believe I'm not getting more love for the "Gwyneth" name idea.




Just say "NO!" to WCP!!!!
RobertMitchum

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03/12/2014 03:08 PM
"The Magnificent" Seven. Dump, dump, de, dump...dump de, de, de, dump.
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