Do you talk to your bike?

[BrumJim]

I apologised to my bike last night for not riding it this morning.

Then immediately realised what I had done.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

more when it needs a fettling and has just made me ram my knuckles into the gears or jabbed muself on the brake cable's snapped and protruding wire. Always its fault of course, never the numpty trying to fix it

 

[biggs682]

i even trump on mine to make them feel wanted !

 

[EltonFrog]

i even trump on mine to make them feel wanted !

Do you hold it under the duvet too, to get the full effect?

 

[EltonFrog]

I've said this before and I'll say it again, I never ever anthropomorphize inanimate objects, they really don't like it.

 

[fossyant]

This place is full of crazies !

 

[phil_hg_uk]

This place is full of crazies !

Must be why you feel at home

 

[biggs682]

Do you hold it under the duvet too, to get the full effect?

with 5 rideable bikes plus a tandem that would be one big duvet for full dutch oven effect

 

[PaulSecteur]

I dont talk to my bike, but Im sure I can hear what its thinking. Usually along the lines of...

"Other Roubaix`s get Tom Boonan and get to go fast, for distance in nice parts of the world. Why did I end up with this fat bloke going round Wolverhampton? Stupid git even keeps checking to make sure the brakes arent sticking... HELLO! Youre just slow. Oh look, here gomes a gradient, whatch him flick the small left lever a few times... Im a compact, I dont have a great-great-granny ring."

...and so on.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I'm too shy to even ask the bikes what they're called. I don't think I could handle being blanked because I take rejection very badly.

 

[martint235]

It's so long since Lelly has actually been on a road that I dread to think of the things she'll say.

 

[Ern1e]

Well mine do!

And mine also, yes I talk to her (all machines are female thanks )

 

[Chris S]

Somebody on another forum said that she kissed her bike. Her reasoning was that doing so was no more intimate than putting it between her legs. At least she didn't ride it with the saddle off.

 

[Psyclist]

Never have thought about talking to my bikes, but sometimes I pat (or patted) the saddle to compliment the bike for it reliability and being an awesome machine!

I have a new bike on the way though, so no doubt I'll give it a name, and the same treatment, haha.

 

[adamclipper]

Nope not to the bike, although I call it Red.
I speak to the weather though when it's particularly windy!