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The subject of "what did you name your bike" gets brought up once in a while. I usually post "The" as in "The Bike" or "The Speedy". My car has the same name, "The". I just got my latest issue of Automobile magazine in the mail the other day. It is funny because Jamie Kitman has a short column about that very subject, naming your vehicles. It is kind of funny because he and think along the same lines, that you shouldn't give a vehicle a name. Here are a couple quotes from his article: Quote:
Naming cars is a character defect, like thinking your thirteen cats believe you're their parent
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Name, rank and serial number are all the Geneve convention requires; make, model year and generic body type do it for me.
"This is my 1963 Ford Falcon Ranchero" beats "Say hello to Brian!" every time... "Chauncy is not feeling well" is deeply unacceptable.
Its funny and good column and one I whole heartily agree with.
BTW... he does mention that owners of British vehicles are the worst offenders
Soren
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I'm not big on naming vehicles, but "the bike" is named The Phantom. Just because it is. 
Kevin - Luceo Non Uro
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I don't name my vehicles.
I do, however, name the drivers of other vehicles.
Contra todo mal, mezcal; contra todo bien, también
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Fe Butt
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BTW... he does mention that owners of British vehicles are the worst offenders
Well, of course Soren! That's because British vehicles have always had the most character.
(and in the Old Days that "character" was often amply supplied to 'em by the likes of Mr. Joe Lucas ...as in: "I wonder if Clive The Car or Mary The Motorcycle is feeling well enough this morning to get me all the way to work and back today?!") 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Well, of course Soren! That's because British vehicles have always had the most character.
That is definitely very true!
Soren
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"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - Robert Heinlein
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i think brits name there bikes cos we get them as R1 us calls them GENISIS gPZ900r us calls them NINJAS CBR900R US CALLS THEM BARBAQUE WHOOPS SORRY ERRR FIREBLADE i've had three triumphs i've always called them trumpets t90 a 955i speed triple and the bonnie 
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and in the Old Days that "character" was often amply supplied to 'em by the likes of Mr. Joe Lucas
Why do the British like warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators.
He was fun while he lasted.
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Name them if you want, don't if you don't. Certainly no big deal one way or the other. That this guy gets so worked up about it says a lot more about him than it does about those who name their vehicles, or those who don't.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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Just confirms that we are humans . She kinda looked like a Lola to me . I have a cactus named Buddy . Why be normal ? Life is to be LIVED and not MOLDED . Goodnite .  
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Don't see a problem with naming vehicles, might be daft but who cares, nice to add a bit of human character to what essentially is machine... Incidently, my ride was named after the mare the famous highwayman, Dick Turpin. A bit of local history, he lived up this way for a while before he was rumbled and imprisoned in York dungeons, he finally met his fate at the gallows on York racecourse... So there you go, Black Bess, my iron horse  (Don't condone what Turpin did for a living BTW! ) Dick Turpin
Sometimes it takes a whole tank full of fuel before you think straight
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All my bikes have names....except the 3HW, but then I haven't riden that one yet. When I do, then the name will come. At the minute it's just 'the old one'.
Gina
03 America - Pretty stock - except the TBS wheel... 
06 America - missing, presumed in bits. With it's TBS wheel... 
09 America - It's very blue....
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we should do this every weekend!
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And what have you named that bottle sittin' in front of ya right now, Yota??? 
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Called 1st. Norton - "Norvil"
2nd Norton - "Thor"
BMW K100RS - "Bess"
Trump America "The Argonaut"
gotta know which one to move so that the good wife can hang the cloths out under the house
Hoffo
2x Norton Commando Roadsters
08 Triumph America
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I think I will call it "empty" now.
we should do this every weekend!
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I think I will call it "empty" now.
hahahahah I dont believe you. your spelling goes down dramatically when your drinking.
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well...ummm.. it was just a beer.
we should do this every weekend!
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but to be on topic my bike is called my dirty black witch ((not racial for all the people looking to pick a fight its a black bike)( you can change the letteres im sure) i ride it when i wana ride it, neglect it when I wana neglect it, beat it to the rev limiter, and best of all it doesnt get jealous when I ride something else.
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my rev limiter called it quits on my. I guess I wore it out.
we should do this every weekend!
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keep your sex life outa this. were talking about bikes in the lounge
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I am bro. you know how I like to rough her up a little.
we should do this every weekend!
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It's a rev limiter?
I thought it was a shift indicater!
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UC- have you been drinking too?
we should do this every weekend!
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yeah im just fininishign my first too. 
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yep just 1, i cant drinmk on a school night.
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we should do this every weekend!
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ummmm sparks. besides genesee, i dont think there is any better...
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we should do this every weekend!
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I just drank my last bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale (the one and only). Too late to go out and buy more. It's all Phils fault!! He turned me on to the stuff in Ga. and now I can't stop. Oh, and I think it is stupid to name cars, but not motorcycles or trucks.
if life gives you lemons keep them because hey,free lemons.
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