Bike Gender

[Sniper]

Just had an idea from another thread.

What do you guys all call your bikes? I prefer to call mine a guy as the girlfriend hates me riding other girls.

Your thoughts?

[vifferman]

Your thoughts?

My thoughts was in the other thread.

No, not that one - the other other thread.

[Motoracer]

Neither really. I don't think of my bike as someone or something else. It think it is a part of me, when I ride it. I use it when I ride, just like how I'd use my legs when I run or how I'd use my hand when I write or draw.

[Lucyloo]

My baby bike is definately a girl.....but my next one is going to be big, black and all boy!!! ;-)

[**R1**]

mine's a bitch(when i have issues with it)

its a bitch when its not fast enough

its a bitch when i fuck up and it duznt compensate

and at the mo its a bitch coz i crashed it

is this the sort of thing you were meaning?

[jrandom]

My bike is just a lump of steel, aluminium and plastic. I don't personalise it. I like it *because* it's a machine, not as some sort of anthropomorphic friend or ego extension.

[Wolf]

Cold mornings when the engine is making that sick sound but not yet firing and you can hear the starter starting to slow down...

It's always "Come on, girl." in reassuring tones or "Start, ya Bitch!" if I'm running late/caffeine-deprived.

[Marmoot]

No way am I going to genderize my bike!!!

I always refer to my bike as 'it'. I like stradling and riding it because im better person. It's by bitch.

(...now, where's my latex suit and whip?)

[Wolf]

My bike is just a lump of steel, aluminium and plastic. I don't personalise it. I like it *because* it's a machine, not as some sort of anthropomorphic friend or ego extension.

I'm a geek, so I tend to anthropomorphise machinery - it's a cultural thing (or an inate weirdness in geeks, your guess is as good as mine)

[muzz]

It's a girl. Not into riding guys. Riding queen charlotte dr is like dancing.We merge to become one she becomes an extenion of me and we ride hard and fast. Gets the blood racing. And if the misses is jelous too bad.

[Marmoot]

...big, black and all boy!!! ;-)

ugh.....reminds me of one KB-er's 12" black rubber c*ck

[crashe]

my baby is a girl..
in fact all my wheels have been girls...

If ya speak nicely to them, they just purr like a pussy.

[Waylander]

Androdgenous(sp) No gender for mine, it's just another entity that I merge with at times that we act when we are in tune with each other and find those perfect lines around a corner or weaving in the lane on straights. And yes I am being serious about this.

[Lucyloo]

ugh.....reminds me of one KB-er's 12" black rubber c*ck

Hmmm......I was actually thinking of the Suzuki Boulevard C50......but hey, I can be adaptable

[Motu]

I'm with jrandom - oh,bikes are entities in their own right,with personalities,emotions,jealousy...like cats they love your input,care and attention,but will bite if you tickle in the wrong place.I treat my bikes like they are a living being - but they are genderless.