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Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 5:28 pm
by Anotherbikerbabe
Any thoughts on this? Most guys refer to their baby as a girl, therefore my Q to you guys (& gals?) is this: If you were to think of a suitable name for your bike, what on earth would it be?
My Honda that I sold to fund the Storm purchase, was actually called Storm as I had huffed and chuffed over Storm or Shadow as my Honda was Black and quite new 08 plate, so I can hardly call my Storm 'Storm'! 
So now I'm stuck and banana doesn't do it for me, so back to square1 now trying to think of another name and it doesn't feel right keep calling it 'my bike' so have to get my thinking cap on again. So do you have a name for yours? or you not that bothered and it's just another bike and not meant to have a name 
ABB
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:08 pm
by benny hedges
i'd call mine 'the bike with no name' like the clint character - which i always thought was pretty stupid, seeing as his name was 'the man with no name'
they called him Tmwnn for short, which is probably the reason he was often mistaken for a welsh pot noodle miner.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 8:28 pm
by tony.mon
I quite liked "square1", that's original.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2010 9:11 pm
by sirch345
Tracy, I'm not one for naming my bikes normally, but a good many years ago I had a Triton 750 that was yellow. My mates always referred to it as the "Yellow Peril"
Chris.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:02 am
by Phil-VTwin
Ahhhh my bike was called Holly - dunno if pikeman will rename her now.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:24 am
by MacV2
''Ole Red'' in a southern redneck drawl.
''You Barstard'' in a very shouty voice when it wont start.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 2:38 pm
by Anotherbikerbabe
MacV2 wrote:''Ole Red'' in a southern redneck drawl. That's good, but 'ole yellow' sounds more like a coward lol and just wouldn't do lol.
''You Barstard'' in a very shouty voice when it wont start.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:29 pm
by cliveyandrews
The Storm is just 'Stormy
The GT550 is Aunt Selma (She smokes a lot)
My ZX7R was Denise (Denise Van Outen, tarty, good ride)
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:24 pm
by benny hedges
Timbo wrote:
Once had a Beetle called Nelly Nelly Mary, reg was NNM999, it was ooooold
ahahah lol!!! i hax a suzuki x1 50 called jek.
jek249v ah i loved that little bike and took it over 80k!
once got nicked syphoning petrol on it cos i'd put tape over the J to make a U, and there was no such reg as UEK249V. doh
wasnt actually caught in the act, just got nicked with a rolled up piece of garden hose and my bud got caught with a jerry can!
he got off cos he started crying lol - he still rides tho and has quite a stable atm including a vtr250, 1200 bandit & a obscure duke 600 with wire wheels!
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:24 am
by BarryH
Never named any of the bikes I've had, though the VTR is being called a few expletives lately! Only thing that ever got named was a Range Rover I had. It was called Grunt for obviuos reasons.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:56 pm
by vtrmann
mines called vtfr as its a half breed of a vtr and a vfr800.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 8:00 pm
by tony.mon
BarryH wrote:Never named any of the bikes I've had, though the VTR is being called a few expletives lately! Only thing that ever got named was a Range Rover I had. It was called Grunt for obviuos reasons.
A fart was quicker?
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:41 am
by headgear
Call mine piles, cos it's a pain in/on the butt.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:51 pm
by LotusSevenMan
The VTR is just that, VTR but the Royal Enfield is always known as "Harry" (as in the comedian!!!!).
The 916 is AKA The Red Barron.
Re: Names for your bike? Do/would you bother?
Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 9:47 pm
by MacV2
LotusSevenMan wrote:The VTR is just that, VTR but the Royal Enfield is always known as "Harry" (as in the comedian!!!!).
The 916 is AKA The Red Barron.
And the scooter is called ........?
LSM, I thought I may have seen you the other day, sunny Sunday the 4th, on me way round to mr Mons, other side of the A20 heading towards London. A 1000 mirors, a furry tail thing on a springy arial & a parker....was that you?