Does your bike have a name?

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RhadamYgg · Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:44 pm

I haven't been in to naming my bikes. Maybe I need to own a bike for more than a year to get to the point of knowing it well enough to name it.

RhadamYgg

RockBottom · Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:08 pm

RhadamYgg wrote:I haven't been in to naming my bikes. Maybe I need to own a bike for more than a year to get to the point of knowing it well enough to name it.

RhadamYgg

In some African tribes they don't name a kid until they're two. The infant mortality rate is so high that they don't want to become emotionally invested until there's a decent chance of the kid living. Maybe that holds for your bike!

#13 Unread post by **dr_bar** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:26 am

My last Yamaha was named, "Virago", My Honda is named, "Valkyrie", and my newest Yamaha is named, "Royal Star Venture".

JDawg117 · #14 Unread post by **JDawg117** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:42 am

dr_bar wrote:My last Yamaha was named, "Virago", My Honda is named, "Valkyrie", and my newest Yamaha is named, "Royal Star Venture".

How creative!

Brackstone · Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:40 am

Kal wrote:I live with a woman...

Both cars, the trike and all of the bikes have names.

Breathe in and...

Pandora, Larry, Elby, Saffron, Scoobie, Bounce and Donner

Your wife's name is Larry?

luis_alberto · Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:44 am

My bike doesn't has a name... she has a nickname... it's "muneca" it's in Spanish and translated would be something like little doll. My car also has a nickname... it's "the pink panther"... it used to be red... but with time it has lost some of its color intensity. My wife's car also has a nickname, it's the "crazy egg"... is one of those little compact cars.

Although, I do play guitar, and the four of them do have names.

I hadn't realized how intimate it becomes when you name things.

RhadamYgg · Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:44 pm

RockBottom wrote:
RhadamYgg wrote:I haven't been in to naming my bikes. Maybe I need to own a bike for more than a year to get to the point of knowing it well enough to name it.

RhadamYgg
In some African tribes they don't name a kid until they're two. The infant mortality rate is so high that they don't want to become emotionally invested until there's a decent chance of the kid living. Maybe that holds for your bike!

That could well be. I think they also have coming of age rituals where the teenager goes out to become a man and picks a new name.

RhadamYgg

#18 Unread post by **Kal** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:58 am

Brackstone wrote:Your wife's name is Larry?

Nah, Larry is the '72 1303

The Misses' has other names depending on the state of our marital bliss...

RockBottom · Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:45 pm

RhadamYgg wrote:
RockBottom wrote:
RhadamYgg wrote:I haven't been in to naming my bikes. Maybe I need to own a bike for more than a year to get to the point of knowing it well enough to name it.

RhadamYgg
In some African tribes they don't name a kid until they're two. The infant mortality rate is so high that they don't want to become emotionally invested until there's a decent chance of the kid living. Maybe that holds for your bike!
That could well be. I think they also have coming of age rituals where the teenager goes out to become a man and picks a new name.

RhadamYgg

Yea but those rituals also involve a very personal act and a dull knife.

Brackstone · Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:35 pm

Kal wrote:
Brackstone wrote:Your wife's name is Larry?
Nah, Larry is the '72 1303

The Misses' has other names depending on the state of our marital bliss...

lol, nice