Gorgeous bike and terrain! I second Drew's question: Where? My Hunqapillar is named Shadowfax, for Gandalf's horse, from whom no rider falls off once he agrees to carry you. Seemed appropriate, given I ride with constant vertigo in duo axes.
My Quickbeam is named A’ Ghaoth Airgead, Gaelic for Silver Wind. With abandon, Patrick On Sunday, July 2, 2017 at 9:02:04 AM UTC-6, Kiley DeMond wrote: > > After a relationship with someone who named his cars, I started naming my > bikes. My Dutch bike was named "Matilda", my Terry, "Angela", and I named > my Cheviot, "Heidi". As it turns out, my logic to arrive at that name was > flawed. > > I thought 'Cheviot' was goat-related; great at hills, the go anywhere > bike. The bike itself lives up to that billing, at least for me. It's a > mixte frame bike, so it's a female in my mind, and the girl I associated > with climbing hills was Heidi. (Although, now that I think of it, she was > carried up a lot of those hills; hmmm, not very auspicious.) > > When I finally looked closely at the bike, and saw a sheep in the decals, > I was puzzled. Chevre = goat in French. Okay, so that was a leap. Turns out > Cheviot is a type of sheep. Gee, that's a grazer. How did Riv come up with > that name? If the bike was masculine, it might be named Ferdinand, as at > least that is a grazer. > > I think the lesson is to return to my childhood method of naming things. > Hamster was 'Hammy'. Rabbit was 'Bunny Boo', cat was 'Minou' (kitty in > french). So, I think Heidi shall be rechristened "Bikey". Or "Bika". Or > maybe the whole naming thing has run its course. It's not like she comes > when she is called. And I no longer have multiple bikes so it is not as if > there is confusion when I simply refer to "my bike". > > Happy trails. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
