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Do you give your motorcycles names?

One of my friends names all his bikes. I believe there was Holly the Harley and and the others followed in the same vein. So maybe Frank the Fizz?
 
Honey.

I live in Portland and I walk by her every time I leave the house. Consequently, I often touch her left mirror and say, "Sorry Honey, it's raining terribly hard, but we'll ride someday soon."
 
If I ever get a boat, I may have to name it. Cars and motorcycles don't get names.

So I call mine "the KTM" and "the XR". Not too original. :p
 
The love boat. :teeth

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my (now sold) r100rs was "Moby" the white whale.
My current zzr600 is "hoover"
 
Have had a few that earned the POS moniker. :party
 
OldBlade said:
We shouldn't anthropomorphize our motorcycles - they don't like it.
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Naming is not necessarily anthropomorphizing. Can you imagine if ships, boats were nameless?

"the horror"

It's not like doing something like
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By the way, there was a time when some of us had bikes that were frequently referred to as "that motherfucker", "goddam thing"... and other colorful names.
 
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OldBlade said:
We shouldn't anthropomorphize our motorcycles - they don't like it.
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Damn! I gotta go to the dictionary!

greggargubby said:
Honey.
I live in Portland and I walk by her every time I leave the house. Consequently, I often touch her left mirror and say, "Sorry Honey, it's raining terribly hard, but we'll ride someday soon."
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That is about all I have ever called any of my inanimate possessions. And spoken to them in the same manner. :laughing

Breaking Daniel said:
You shouldn't use that kind of language, mister. You know good and well I have no clue what that means :x
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I 'll post the definition when I find it. I have an idea, but being a quasi-Grammar Nazi, my curiosity is piqued. :afm199

Here we go! Oldblade might have a kinky side, just saying...:laughing

an·thro·po·mor·phize verb \-ˌfīz\
an·thro·po·mor·phizedan·thro·po·mor·phiz·ing

Definition of ANTHROPOMORPHIZE

transitive verb
: to attribute human form or personality to
intransitive verb
: to attribute human form or personality to things not human
— an·thro·po·mor·phi·za·tion noun
First Known Use of ANTHROPOMORPHIZE

1845
Other Psychology Terms

fetish, hypochondria, intelligence, mania, narcissism, neurosis, pathological, psychosis, schadenfreude, subliminal
 
No bike names for me. It feels a bit weird to name an object. The only time I've felt the need for names (other than just "the bike") is when I have multiple bikes, and I need to refer to one bike vs. another in conversation, but then it's just "the Suzuki" or "the black bike" and "the Ducati" or "the red bike".

I do see motorcycles as male, not female. But that might have something to do with the fact that my first language, unlike English, has gendered nouns, and "motorcycle" in that language has a male gender.
 
Uh, NO. After 40 something bikes, i'd either be repeating names or running out of them. Got a KX250 a couple weeks ago. Going to go ride the "dirt bike".
 
ScottRNelson said:
If I ever get a boat, I may have to name it. Cars and motorcycles don't get names.

So I call mine "the KTM" and "the XR". Not too original. :p
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If I ever get a boat I'll call it the Sand Witch. :laughing

Only named one bike. The only bike I ever purchased new and sold long ago. The current bike, the BMW is simply the F650. The other is the DR.
 
My last bike was named the 'Yellow Bomber', and the current bike is also yellow, so it would follow that it would inherit the same name. And it did, for about a month.

Then the personality of the K12R exposed itself, and it is the Hornet, a bee (yellow) on meth and steroids. :teeth
 
ilikefood said:
I do see motorcycles as male, not female. But that might have something to do with the fact that my first language, unlike English, has gendered nouns, and "motorcycle" in that language has a male gender.
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Must not have been Spanish.

In Mexico it would be Una motocicleta, which generally gets shortened to una moto, even though words ending in "o" usually are masculine and you would use "un" or "el".

Maybe if I ever go ride Baja, whichever bike I take might get called "La Moto".

Where's the Sombrero smiley?
 
revnort said:
They are DRZ's...Dr. Zoiberg Dr. Zaius. :laughing

I guess you could also say they are small and cut through the city like a surgeon. Nah, it is really just the Dr. Z thing.
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I'd be more concerned if one of them was sleeping with Number Six. Hey, what's that blinding flash...
 
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