Are bikes male or female ?

Definitely male - cantankerous, high maintenance, time consumimg but respond to female pampering!
 
I supose that being a mariner it is natural for all my bikes and cars to be termed she; as are ships.

Ships have been called she for time immemorial, and are often refered to in the feminine in serious publications such as Lloyds List etc.

The use of a feminine or masculine identifier is common in languages other than english, so it is not that strange.

My own preference is to refer to anything that I have an emotional attchment to as she, purely functional items that engender no passion remain it.

I never name things, they name themselves, my BMW 320i was A941OKR and was always called Ocker. Another car was P356JEC, hence Jeck. But mostly things remain nameless in our household.
 
Re: M or F?

waterman":3hhs969h said:
le vélo, un vélo in French = Masuline.

Sorry to the guys that don't like riding a masuline thing. :)

Always thought the French were suspect. :wink:

(Runs and hides for cover... :lol: )
 
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