Naming your ride

[Ready to Ride]

SLVR Bonnie speaks for herself

Being a Bonneville and silver the name seemed obvious.

 

[167mph]

I'll call my Silverado "Truck" and I call my Yamaha R1 "R1". This seems to work great for me and it sticks. The funny thing is that people seem to know their names without me having to tell them.

 

[deekyoo]

Wrecks.
Fizz.
Titter.
GS (not everything is condusive to a cute name).

Why not GuS?

 

[Sane_Man]

I named my first bike "Knuckles", after the loan shark who loaned me the money to buy it.

I renamed it "Brokeback" after Knuckles, took it away after I missed a payment.

 

[Blacknblue]

Did you have a "Mountain" of debt?

 

[Redfox]

Is it just me, or is it just a little blasphemous to ride/drive a nameless vehicle? Also, I always thought that these things (car, moto, boat, etc.) were automatically female (i.e. "she's a beaut!"), but a friend just told me that's because the only riders I know are men , and that in fact the thing should be assigned the opposite sex from your own.

Now, I'm in the market for a name for my new baby. Instincts tell me that standard decorum calls for girlish nomenclature, so I'm leaning toward Delilah. Thoughts?

I think its funny too, its usualy a common occurance for vehicles to be attached with the female gender. You should throw up a snapshot of the new bike. by the way congratulations!!!! arty

Im excited for your new bike and new riding adventures.
PS: my bike is a "she". of course, and I too, had a hard time naming it...I like delilah but if you dont love it wait till something comes.

Im a very visual type of person so lets see your bike!

Missfox, meet BlackMagik

 

[Redfox]

If you ride the bike for awhile an appropriate name may be "revealed" to you.

couldn't agree more

I named my first bike "Knuckles", after the loan shark who loaned me the money to buy it.

I renamed it "Brokeback" after Knuckles, took it away after I missed a payment.

hahahaha you sure you didnt name it "brokeback "after watching your favorite gay film of 07?

just sayin....

 

[Miss Fox]

Im a very visual type of person so lets see your bike!

Missfox, meet BlackMagik

[/QUOTE]
Ooh, BlackMagik- good one! This is my girl:

We haven't spent much quality time together, so it's hard to do her justice name-wise. You'll just have to meet her!

 

[Disco]

Now that I think about it. I call her 2face. The reason why is because I usually ride with one side fairing and the all side street fighter.

 

[moto-rama]

ahaha my friend calls his civic Gunther

it was pretty much ghetto modded and use to kick it a lot...ahaha good times

Ah yes, a rare German Civic!

 

[moto-rama]

Are you sure there wasn't a big German guy hiding in your closet that she was yelling at?

Victorian flats have little bitty closets, but I will admit that I saw an old bratwurst thrown out on the sidewalk in Cole Valley once.
But that was about two years earlier, on New Years Day.

Does that count, even if it was three blocks from our place, right around Carl and Cole?

 

[Mike T]

Ah yes, a rare German Civic!

ahahaha

 

[Bikerx260]

I call my 900ss/cr "Ruptured Duc" because the primary gear let go at 18k miles in honor of the B-25 that participated in Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo at the beginning of WW2.

 

[Caddywumpus]

As a sailor, I am in full agreement. Names are something I take very seriously. Look up what the names you are considering mean, and choose carefully, because the name you choose just might turn out to be true, and that can be both a boon and a bane.

Ever hear of the WWII carrier Enterprise? Most decorated ship in U.S. Navy history. Is it any coincidence that it is named after the spirit of industriousness and getting shit done? Even the modern CVN-65 is a highly-decorated ship in its own right.

How about the USS Intrepid? Torpedoed, kamikazed, ran aground, yet it kept going. Name a ship after the trait of fearlessness, and it forgets to fear.

And the USS Constitution. The oldest commissioned warship in the world still afloat is named after the quality of toughness and durability.

what about the
USS Strong (DD-467) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese destroyer off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 5 July 1943.
or

USS Rich (DE-695) sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 8 June 1944.
ironicly the runner went missing


USS Runner (SS-275) missing off the Kuril Islands, 26 June 1943.


yes, those ships had a lot of history, enterprise, intrepid. but they were the lucky ones. Theres a lot of great ships that simply were crushed by the gears of war.

 

[Blind_Io]

My VF750C2 was named "Maggie" and the Interceptor is "Vickie"

 

[Dr. Evil]

what about the
USS Strong (DD-467) sunk after being torpedoed by Japanese destroyer off New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 5 July 1943.
or

USS Rich (DE-695) sunk by a mine off Normandy, France, 8 June 1944.
ironicly the runner went missing


USS Runner (SS-275) missing off the Kuril Islands, 26 June 1943.


yes, those ships had a lot of history, enterprise, intrepid. but they were the lucky ones. Theres a lot of great ships that simply were crushed by the gears of war.

Those first two were named for people, not qualities or virtues. It's dangerous to name anything after an entire unmitigated virtue or quality. The Runner was a sub. VERY dangerous job.

 

[bchalk22]

I got a 07 Gixxer and she is Gizelle. My Silverado is named Silvia.

 

[SabreSarah]

My Sabre is named "Big Earl" (after a HUGE fish at the Monterey Bay Aquarium). my first cruiser was "Little Earl" it was only a 450. I kept the Earl tradition, but 1100 is worthy of "Big Earl"

I tell people my bike is a boy, "cuz I don't ride women."

 

[ThumperX]

Thus Adam and Bert
but riding Lulu is pretty great except that little foray into beastiality...

 

[Kiki]

Well, the yellow Ninja got named "Tigger" while the cage, a yellow beetle, is named (formally) "Bumblebee"...but when I'm mad at it, "Bugger."