Names for our beasties, what do you call your bike?

[sunhuntin]

my baby is texas jane, from the initials on her plate [txj] tx being short for texas, and jane just cos i liked the sound.

my big girl is "drama queen" after having 3 things go wrong the day i brought her home: side cover flew off, ran out of gas and had to be rescued by my riding buddy, and then turned the lock too far, which meant the tail light was going. luckily my buddies son told me.

[MarkDv]

Mine is just My Baby, upset the wife tho, was her name

[Coyote]

The fucker
Bitch
The stupid bike
The bastard
The mistake
VFR
Bouncy castle
etc.

[Conquiztador]

The girl in my profile is Princess.

My old panhead was Sweety. A long legged one (22in over springers..)

In process of doing up a XV750. No name yet, but it will come to me.

[McJim]

The term 'Duke' has been overutilised (and given to a range by KTM) and besides, my Ducati is a petite little thing hence it is referred to in our houshold as 'The Duchess'.

The RG150 owned by my wife is an agressive little bastard and goes "A ringdingdingdingding ding ding" so we've called it (rather predictably) Crazy Frog.

[Jinx3d]

My kids are into bob the builder, so I called my truck "rumble" just to be in on the btb theme.

My mate now relentlessly takes teh piss out of me by calling my bike "thunder"

"Did you bring thunder today?"

[Matt Bleck]

the K3 .

[Monsterbishi]

The Yamaha, The YZF, The Bike...

Yep, that's about all of them.

[Trudes]

My bike is "My Bike" that's original eh!

[ManDownUnder]

Call her "kwaka" when the engines off. Usually gets called "holy shit" and "stop ya big fat bitch" while moving... ...even invented a few new swear words on my fav stretch of road

And this is from one of the very very few I know with a piece of road actually named after them...

"Disco corner"

[nodrog:Me]

i call my bike "prune juice", cos everytime i ride it i shit myself.

[pritch]

In the past I haven't bothered with names but more recently had a "guest namer".

I was assured that all bikes are female (which would explain a lot ).
Although T E Lawrence, a fellow of some considerable erudition, seems unaware of this. He had his Boanerges, "sons of thunder", which was certainly not inappropriate for a 1000cc V Twin.

Both names of my current steeds are of Romanian origin.
Domnitza means a young Lady. As in a young female member of the nobility.

Surioara (which I need to practice before I can pronounce it properly) refers to a little sister. It was a toss up between that and "teina" which has a similar meaning in maori, but consistency won the day.

[avgas]

Tanya the TS
Red Sonja the Killer-Quail RG
Betty the GB425
Mercedes the second (GB400 no. 2) - she had the clap, hence the name

Currently riding
Jessica, the psycho FZ1

Those are the ones i named

[nadroj]

In the past I haven't bothered with names but more recently had a "guest namer".

I was assured that all bikes are female (which would explain a lot ).
Although T E Lawrence, a fellow of some considerable erudition, seems unaware of this. He had his Boanerges, "sons of thunder", which was certainly not inappropriate for a 1000cc V Twin.

Both names of my current steeds are of Romanian origin.
Domnitza means a young Lady. As in a young female member of the nobility.

Surioara (which I need to practice before I can pronounce it properly) refers to a little sister. It was a toss up between that and "teina" which has a similar meaning in maori, but consistency won the day.

Just out of interest what do your bikes call you? _itch?

[Monamie]

...mine is the `Black Pearl' and my cage has the number plate `VNOMIS' (venomous....it is for my Dodge Viper when I win lotto)...actually an old nickname of mine