Bike Names

**Motu** · 9th May 2006, 21:38

And in the early TS bikes,S was for street,M was for motocross....like TS400 and TM400.I liked the Suzuki names better - TS250...Savage,TS400...Apache,TS125...Duster - and there were Stingers and Wolfs and Honchos and Hustlers,Titan....and unfortunatly the customer named Waterbus/bucket/buffalo.

**Jantar** · 9th May 2006, 21:45

from memory the GT750 was the LeMans, the GT380 was the Sebring, but I just can't think what the GT550 was called.

**Motu** · 9th May 2006, 21:49

BSA names were the best - Silver Stars,Gold Stars,Thunderbolts and Lightnings (very very frightning) Galileo,Galileo Figaro magnifico....oopps,sorry,got kinda carried away there....Hornets,Spitfires,Goldflash and Super Rockets.Hot damn,don't they sound good?!! Then how come the B31 was just a B31?

**Edbear** · 9th May 2006, 21:52

Originally Posted by Jantar

from memory the GT750 was the LeMans, the GT380 was the Sebring, but I just can't think what the GT550 was called.

The GT550 was called the "Indy". The names were mainly for the US market. I had a T500 and loved it.

**Edbear** · 9th May 2006, 21:54

Originally Posted by Motu

BSA names were the best - Silver Stars,Gold Stars,Thunderbolts and Lightnings (very very frightning) Galileo,Galileo Figaro magnifico....oopps,sorry,got kinda carried away there....Hornets,Spitfires,Goldflash and Super Rockets.Hot damn,don't they sound good?!! Then how come the B31 was just a B31?

My B31 had a few choice names...!

**Ixion** · 9th May 2006, 21:56

Originally Posted by Jantar

from memory the GT750 was the LeMans, the GT380 was the Sebring, but I just can't think what the GT550 was called.

The Gt550 was officially the Indianapolis, but almost always Indy. All racetracks, but the names were only commonly used in the US.

Velocette had two good ones, Velo Venom and Velo Viper.

**Edbear** · 9th May 2006, 21:57

Originally Posted by Motu

And in the early TS bikes,S was for street,M was for motocross....like TS400 and TM400.I liked the Suzuki names better - TS250...Savage,TS400...Apache,TS125...Duster - and there were Stingers and Wolfs and Honchos and Hustlers,Titan....and unfortunatly the customer named Waterbus/bucket/buffalo.

Always lusted after a TS400 Apache! Wanted to turn one into a street bike! If I had it would have been an early supermoto, eh? Ah, the '70's...!

**N4CR** · 9th May 2006, 23:11

ZXR - zebra extreme racing?

Hrrm.. I'll just stick to calling mine 'THE BLACK FLAME'. Cool.

**Pwalo** · 10th May 2006, 08:14

Originally Posted by Motu

And in the early TS bikes,S was for street,M was for motocross....like TS400 and TM400.I liked the Suzuki names better - TS250...Savage,TS400...Apache,TS125...Duster - and there were Stingers and Wolfs and Honchos and Hustlers,Titan....and unfortunatly the customer named Waterbus/bucket/buffalo.

Aaah yes. My first bike was a Stinger. T125, two stroke twin. Damned clever in some ways. With the engine hanging off the bottom of the frame and the cylinders almost parallel to the ground cooling was reasonable, and decokes, etc were a breeze.

Was a damn sight quicker than my mates SL125 too!

**WINJA** · 10th May 2006, 17:26

Originally Posted by SpeedMedic

But the TL's were V configuration?
I suppose it is a "L" the way it sat in the frame.

LOOK AT IT THIS WAY IT WAS MARKETED AS THE TL1000R , TWIN LITRE 1000 IS THE SAME INFO TWICE , TWIN 'L' 1000 ISNT

**NordieBoy** · 10th May 2006, 18:29

For cool product names you can't go past Crumpler bags

http://www.crumplerbags.com/home.php

The Bundle
Million Dollar Home
The Sinking Barge
The Customary Barge
The Keystone
The Whickey And Cox
The Karachi Outpost
School Hymn
The Breakfast Buffet
The Luncheon
The Skivvy
The Moderate Embarrassment
The Considerable Embarrassment
The Dreadful Embarrassment
The Hee-Goer
The Part and Parcel
The Horseman
The Cashmere Blazer
The Salary Sacrifice
The King Single
The Beer Back
The Soupansalad Son-O
The Quarfie
The Maurice
The Soupansalad
The Barney Rustle Blanket
The Western Lawn
The Status Belly
The Soupansalad
The Complete Seed
The Fux Deluxe
The Bee's Knees

**paturoa** · 10th May 2006, 18:49

Originally Posted by NordieBoy

For cool product names you can't go past Crumpler bags

....The Fux Deluxe ...

lol

but Datsun must get the prize for the dorkiest vehicle names ever.

Cedric
Fairlady
Cherry
Dont think they had a Dorris but should have

Read somewhere once that Toyota were going to name the starlet the Toyolet