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I wanted a german name for my BCR, that's also known in Sweden. It had to start with a B.
She's called Barbara.

My Suzuki's called Beata. I bought her 25 years ago, so don't remember where the name came from.

The car (E 430) is Frau Müller.

The K100 doesn't have a name. She does everything that's asked from her, and does it brilliantly, but she doesn't have a personality. So no name.

I've heard that males tend to give their vehicles (or boats or whatever) female names, and the opposite when females name their vehicles. is that so?

It's ok, we're fairly broadminded here but Im sure medication will help

Yep, the 1200 is called Daisy may, the first two letters of the registration number.

My car is Molly (the Mazda) my wife's car is Tommi the Toyota, our old Citroen was called Bobby (as in Bobby Berlingo) the tractor is called Ron (it's a Pasquali) but his full name is 'Ron the reluctant' as it never wants to start!

All my mountain bikes have names and back when I was a 'boy trucker' all my trucks had names, two of my favourites were Doris (Scania 113) and Charlize (Volvo F10)...

Men in white coats to the address below!

Ty

Tapio wrote:I wanted a german name for my BCR, that's also known in Sweden. It had to start with a B.
She's called Barbara.

My Suzuki's called Beata. I bought her 25 years ago, so don't remember where the name came from.

The car (E 430) is Frau Müller.

The K100 doesn't have a name. She does everything that's asked from her, and does it brilliantly, but she doesn't have a personality. So no name.

I've heard that males tend to give their vehicles (or boats or whatever) female names, and the opposite when females name their vehicles. is that so?

mine also begins with B .... I call it bike

when my daughter was 10 she used to call my KRS ... KRiS .... thank God I didn't have a KLT

slparry wrote:


when my daughter was 10 she used to call my KRS ... KRiS .... thank God I didn't have a KLT

Now I know we are all different but I have never understood this nonsense of naming bikes (or cars for that matter). It is an it, a thing, an inanimate object, a machine, not a her. And when 'it' does not do what 'it' is supposed to do 'it' is a 'f#cking thing'!

Mine are simply called the BCR (or the Cup) and the Hp2, simply to differentiate about which one I am referring to, but always 'the', not 'she'. I have never felt the urge to call either Helga or Beatrice or Dotty.

Always makes me heave when I read an advertisement for a bike saying " I have had her for 2 years and she has ran like a dream. She always starts first time and she uses no oil". 'I would like her to go to a good home, etc". Give me strength

Call your bike what the hell you want to in your own head but for heavens sake don't broadcast the fact that you do it to rest of the world!

DT

+1 to that DT.

Al.

I think only the most pretentious people give names to their vehicles.........

I call my bike Rocinante!

Steve

I'll be a "no" on that score............

I forgot to add "bike naming" on my list of bike-hates.......

(rideouts, stable, steed etc)

A

(anyway - I don't have time for all this - I have to re-catalog my toe-nail clipping collection.)

Dog Tyred wrote:Now I know we are all different but I have never understood this nonsense of naming bikes (or cars for that matter). It is an it, a thing, an inanimate object, a machine, not a her. And when 'it' does not do what 'it' is supposed to do 'it' is a 'f#cking thing'!

Mine are simply called the BCR (or the Cup) and the Hp2, simply to differentiate about which one I am referring to, but always 'the', not 'she'. I have never felt the urge to call either Helga or Beatrice or Dotty.

Always makes me heave when I read an advertisement for a bike saying " I have had her for 2 years and she has ran like a dream. She always starts first time and she uses no oil". 'I would like her to go to a good home, etc". Give me strength

Call your bike what the hell you want to in your own head but for heavens sake don't broadcast the fact that you do it to rest of the world!

DT

Indeed, we all move to the beat of a different drum; TE Lawrence named all his bikes and refered to them by name, he was fatally injured riding the bike he called George V, Boanerges (son of thunder) was another. Aircrew often named their aircraft, Micky Martin of Dambusters fame called his lancaster 'Popsie', Joe Mc Carthy named his 'uncle chuckchuck'.

and to call a motorcycle inanimate, not sure you can call a bike inanimate, ''Not having the qualities associated with active, living organisms''. Ok, it's not alive,or is it? certainly feels alive when you're on it.. ''Not animated or energetic; dull''. speaks for itself, if you ride your bike and have one of those moments of pure joy, getting your favourite corner right, a sunrise in the summer at the start of a journey, feeling connected with the bike so it almost feels like you're one and the same, if you've never had one of those moments, never felt that the bike was 'alive' beneath you, then as I said at the begining, we all move to the beat of a different drum.

Dog Tyred wrote:Now I know we are all different but I have never understood this nonsense of naming bikes (or cars for that matter). It is an it, a thing, an inanimate object, a machine, not a her. And when 'it' does not do what 'it' is supposed to do 'it' is a 'f#cking thing'!

Mine are simply called the BCR (or the Cup) and the Hp2, simply to differentiate about which one I am referring to, but always 'the', not 'she'. I have never felt the urge to call either Helga or Beatrice or Dotty.

Always makes me heave when I read an advertisement for a bike saying " I have had her for 2 years and she has ran like a dream. She always starts first time and she uses no oil". 'I would like her to go to a good home, etc". Give me strength

Call your bike what the hell you want to in your own head but for heavens sake don't broadcast the fact that you do it to rest of the world!

DT

So, I was a bit bored on a Sunday morning, and put out this question. It wasn't meant to start a serious discussion, but more a little small talk.
And then comes this rant! WTF?
How can you take this so seriously? I for one don't.
If I were you and saw this thread, I would have just read it and then click on the X in the upper right corner. At the most I might have mustered up a big yawn.
Why did it upset you so much?
Did it bring back some traumatic memories from your childhood? Or was it just low blood sugar conc.? PMS? Trolling? What?

Boxered wrote:I think only the most pretentious people give names to their vehicles.........

I call my bike Rocinante!

Steve

Is that after Don Quixote's horse, or Jim Holden's Corvette Class fast-attack light frigate?

Merecat wrote:

Boxered wrote:I think only the most pretentious people give names to their vehicles.........

I call my bike Rocinante!

Steve

Is that after Don Quixote's horse, or Jim Holden's Corvette Class fast-attack light frigate?

I recall the name rocinante from a song by the canadian rock band Rush. Wasn't it in their theme album 2112?

Merecat wrote:

Boxered wrote:I think only the most pretentious people give names to their vehicles.........

I call my bike Rocinante!

Steve

Is that after Don Quixote's horse, or Jim Holden's Corvette Class fast-attack light frigate?

Tapio wrote: I recall the name rocinante from a song by the canadian rock band Rush. Wasn't it in their theme album 2112?

Ha, it is indeed from Miguel de Cervantes novel................with a little help from Neil Peart

pretentious?......Moi?

Steve

Although the family has a history of naming its vehicles I've never given a bike a name. I do talk to them though, more so when there's a full moon... The machine of the moment is simply "bike" with whatever qualifier seems most appropriate.

The family is sadly uninterested in motorcycles, so to keep it simple the RS and the GS are respectively the Black Bike and the Blue Bike.

Similarly, I'm not sure about bikes being male or female. Either way there seem to be a number of Freudian insinuations I'd rather steer clear of.

That said, it doesn't stop me being fond of them. The GS in particular, which I bought pretty much on a whim and was prepared to hate, seems to get better and better. If only it was as reliable as the RS!