Does you folding bike have a name

[bikegang]

I call this one Oldie, for obvious reason.

 

[Kell]

I hired a Brompton a while back and they're all bluey-purple, so my partner at work called it 'Dora the Explorer' because it looked like a kid's Dora bike.

Then I got my lime Green Brompton and the kid's naming thing continued and it was christened Ben 10. Not by me, but it's stuck and is what the bike's called on my Strava profile.

None of my other bikes are named though. Just seems to fit naming a Brompton.

Dora:

Ben 10:

 

[CharlieB]

The old blue/yellow S6L is called Victoria, because that's where she came from - the apple green Ti s/s pocket rocket is called Jude, and I'll leave it to y'all to work out why…

 

[SavageHoutkop]

Betty, she's black.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I call this one Oldie, for obvious reason.

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Admission of my own ignorance; I lived in Crawcrook for 10 years, did all my secondary education at Ryton Comp and lots of riding and walking through Newburn, Stella, Tyne paths up to Wylam and all that but I have never seen this monument nor heard of the battle of Newburn Ford, your avatar location and this pic made me curious if it was the Newburn I (thought I) knew. Next time I'm up visiting the family it will be explored, thank you for my little bit of learning today.

 

[T4tomo]

The Brompton is called "The Brompton" however my Bianchi is known as "The Italian Mistress" as its a better ride than....

 

[Kell]

Betty, she's black.

 

[night rider]

Flora helped me escape to Orkney last November

 

[Bill]

All of my cycles have been called JIM after my dad who was a cycle tourer pre war. The current jim is my Dahon Vitesse and I used transfers on the lower handle bar stem to say so! My family all know what I am refering to when I mention...JIM!!

 

[jefmcg]

"But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover--
But THE BIKE ITSELF KNOWS, and will never confess."

 

[velovoice]

Mine's Lucy. Named for Lucy Van Pelt from Peanuts. Don't know why.

She makes me think of summer.

 

[ufkacbln]

Depends what part of your anatomy you catch in the folding mechanism?

 

[bikegang]

This is RAF, as Royal Air Force Edition.

 

[Kell]

I do like the RAF one.

 

[annedonnelly]

Admission of my own ignorance; I lived in Crawcrook for 10 years, did all my secondary education at Ryton Comp and lots of riding and walking through Newburn, Stella, Tyne paths up to Wylam and all that but I have never seen this monument nor heard of the battle of Newburn Ford, your avatar location and this pic made me curious if it was the Newburn I (thought I) knew. Next time I'm up visiting the family it will be explored, thank you for my little bit of learning today.

I spotted it today. It's not a route I've ridden often (NCN72) but I think you can be forgiven for missing it as they seem to have had the battle in the middle of a car park. If you're anything like me you'll be so busy trying to avoid small children, dogs and people eating ice-creams as you navigate that part of the route that you won't be looking at the scenery or admiring battlefields