My partner and I call our machines different names...
Our Sportster is called 'Bogie'... after Humhrey Bogart... my girl likes Bogart and hence the name.
Our daily drive is called 'Betty' ... fits our Mitsubishi Lancer perfectly...very comfortable and smooth, bit like a comfortable lounge chair ... a year ago we shifted house and our next door neighbour who lives right next to our garage is called Betty... After some time we told our neighbour the car was called Betty and we were't talking about her ... when I would yell out that Betty's bum was sticking out (of the Garage) or things like Betty is dirty and needs a wash... our neighbour had a good laugh.
Our sports bike is called 'Sticky'... sticks to the road like glue.
Our C4 Corvette is called 'Rebel' ... well it is an American machine. Having been on Corvette forums in the USA for a while I know that Americans usually name their cars.
It would be interesting to know what name other people call their Harley and why... and other machines too.
Hope you all have a great year.
Cunt , but only when the battery is flat
Yeah, in the first 10 months I had the Sportster it would just konk out... anywhere... at the traffic lights... flying along the highway... anywhere I went... i called the bike everything you could think of... tried everything... it got so bad I joined the RAA just so I didn't have to keep pushing it everywhere I went... I couldn't really say how many times it did it but close to everytime i took it out... it was getting dangerous... I looked at everything... new battery... got the battery terminals redone later on... took it to the shop a number of times and as soon as i took off down the road it would die... the one thing was many Harley people and other bike riders would stop to help me or just try to make me feel better...
There's nothing worse than a bike stuck out in the country or stuck on a busy freeway... it happened to me countless times... finally one day I was checking the connections on the ignition coil... they felt Ok, but one seems to have a wiggle (not tightly clamped)... so I got my pliers and clapped down on the connection hard... it has never konked out since... the most simplest thing you could think of caused such crap.
I tend to keep my bikes a long time as it takes years to perfect a personal ride, so they always get a name,
few of my friend who also keep there bikes a long time name them or others give them a name.
my old Shovel that i sold to a mate that still rides it interstate is Maybelean, my old 01 Dyna i also sold to a friend that rides it a lot , is Ethel, & the tube frame carb Buell i ride now is Black Betty. but up to you love my bikes don't name cars or trucks as no sol just transport to me.
My Lowrider is called...............................Lowie or The Lowie to be precise.
My old Norton Commando was OX, had that plate on it and was the biggest slowest commando ever built, wish I still had it.
My 62 Triumph tiger Rigid Chop is..............................Trumpy.
My old Ducati monster was called...............................The Duke
My XS650 with sidecar is called..................................The outfit
A definate pattern, just lacking imagination I think.
Double Post agin, Grrrrrr
A Mustang... in the late 70s I bought a 1966 Mustang (2+2 Fastback) and sold it a few years after for 5K for the deposit on a house... a beautiful machine... a year and a half ago I went looking for a Mustang that was similar and you couldn't get one in the same condition for 60K to 80K... so I bought a 1988 Corvette instead... Great machine but still not a Mustang... would be great to see photos of your car.
I call my bike a dirty whore.
Go to harley shop just to buy oil, look at shiny crap on the shelfs, buy said shiny crap I dont need,
Get home, Fuck, I forgot the oil filter.
Just like a whore who charges you extra to swallow.
That is definitely a 'mistress'... that is the dream of many people.
Not only would it be great to drive around in but also to go out in the garage and just look at it... they don't make cars like that anymore.
My '09 cruiser ute somehow got saddled with Lulu. My TL1000R is The Twin, so the softail is going to get lumped with the name I used to call all Harleys when I raced Jap bikes years ago: Sawbench. probably shortened to The Bench.
Counting the minutes now until I bus into Mackay next Tuesday to take possession. Looking forward to the 2 hour ride home.
