giving bikes names.

[to v or not to v]

i find it frigging weird. its bad enough when people refer to them as she/he, but on some of the videos i watch, theyve given their bikes actual names and refer to them like people .

fess up, how many weirdos on here actually name their bikes?
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[Nobby the Bastard]

In my defence, only the one....
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[Bhud]

Don't think anyone would admit to that here.

[struan80]

I call my girlfriend it and my bike her. Bike is a better ride.

[WD Forte]

I often called mine 'You bastard'
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[Prawny]

It is a bit odd, I can kid of understand it though, most motorbike model names don’t exactly trip off the tongue, my Mrs hates bikes so she’s going to go completely blank if I refer to a bike by the model name that sounds like something IT would give you as a temporary password.

She’s have no idea what I was talking about if I referred to an R1250GS, if I said big BMW she’d know exactly what I was taking about. She doesn’t know about RTs yet.
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[Polarbear]

[blurredman]

Always thought the practice was silly, cars too.
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Past: 1991 Honda CG125BR-J, 1992 (1980) Honda XL125S, 1996 Kawasaki GPZ500S, 1979 MZ TS150.
Current: 1973 MZ ES250/2 - 18k, 1979 Suzuki TS185ER - 10k, 1981 Honda CX500B - 91k, 1987 MZ ETZ250 (295cc) - 40k, 1989 MZ ETZ251 - 51k.

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

[Easy-X]

[Freddyfruitba...]

[Keithy]

Not named anything, cars or bikes. I think they need something to prompt it, be it the reg number hinting at a name, the name of the car like Morris the Marina, or a quirk/look to it.

Mum always had names for ‘em, Bessie the Morris Traveller, ‘Muck bucket’ the russet brown Maxi, amarinth for the Cadbury purple rover 214.

Can’t see anything that would distinguish one of tens of thousands of flat white A3 Audis that would earn it a name.

[Nobby the Bastard]

Two names my bikes have been given, but stricty they were descriptions.

Exup Valdes (FZR1000)
Strumpet (Triumph ST - triumphs were called trumpets back in the 60s)
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Triumph Sprint ST 1050

[tatters]

The only bike I named was my 1992 BMW R100GSPD "Bucephalus" with the name on a small decal on the back fender just above the tail light which turned out to be a bad omen.

It was a mostly black bike/My name is Alexander/l traveled into Asia with it/the bike was wrote off after being hit by a Pakistani mini-cab.....

https://www.bikechatforums.com/files/334534_10150863817825224_1308814816_o.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus
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[jeffyjeff]

My wife would often refer to my '98 Honda Pacific Coast as "the Concubine". I'd sometimes come in from the garage and my wife would ask, "did you have a good time out in the garage with that little red bitch whore?"

Standard reply was, "you bet, but there's plenty left in the tank for you, come here!"

Rode that bike 107,000 miles in my eight years of ownership. Selling it was a mistake.

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[Bloggsy]

My Yamaha MT-09 was called Top Dog when i bought it 5 years ago

My 2007 Yamaha MT-03 was called Old Dog as it was the hack and only got washed for its MOT
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