Does your Bike have a Name?

[MurphyPeoples]

Reading posts on the forums I often find that postings off handedly include a "name" for the bike in question. Examples include names for bikes like "Ruby" for a Red AirHead, "Black Beauty" - for obvious reasons, and numerous others.

Does your bike have a name? After working for 3 straight months on my 1980 R100T and re-skinning it into a R100S, I've thought about it a bit. Does this make me weird? I don't know. But I can tell you what I felt this past Tuesday when I got to take her out for her first trip in over 90 days..... "Serenity". Man... it just felt so good. Like a million pounds of weight off my shoulders riding on my old gal. Uh!

Love to hear from you.
Murphy

 

[Rod Sheridan]

My previous BMW was called "Klunker", anyone who rides an airhead knows why.

My present airhead is called "Ferrous" because she's red in colour, and, well, you see she had a fair amount of rust on her when I bought her. (Now she just has dirt and a lot more miles).

Regards, Rod.

 

[Rapid_Roy]

My RT is Ol' reliable, my R100/7 is the Deerpuncher, and my R50 is Ol' Paint.

 

[MurphyPeoples]

My previous BMW was called "Klunker", anyone who rides an airhead knows why.

My present airhead is called "Ferrous" because she's red in colour, and, well, you see she had a fair amount of rust on her when I bought her. (Now she just has dirt and a lot more miles).

Regards, Rod.

"Ferrous!"-
Gawd.... I couldn't stop laughing! That was a classic one.
Murph

 

[PAGoldsby]

My previous BMW was called "Klunker", anyone who rides an airhead knows why.

My present airhead is called "Ferrous" because she's red in colour, and, well, you see she had a fair amount of rust on her when I bought her. (Now she just has dirt and a lot more miles).

Regards, Rod.

Ferrous? Shouldn't it be a Buell? (Err ...)

My /7 was named "The Blue Devil" by the girlfriend, but I prefer the Teutonic twist: "Blaue Teufel".

 

[screwtop]

My '94 RS was "Frauline Boxer" and my '02 GS is "Gooney-Bird"

 

[testinglogin]

My /7 has no official name. I've considered "Renovatio", considering how things have changed since I purchased it (my first bike).

... but I think "The Island" kind of ruined the name, since "it's been done".

 

[SCUMSHINE]

Tshunke-Witke

 

[Threeteas]

Mosquito

My GS only gets named when I get a service bill from the Dealers.
Mozi.

 

[oldhway]

The RT is "Tatonka" (the White (silver) Buffalo) and I had a Kawasaki once named "Not Again Dammit".

 

[Zagando]

I've already dubbed my just acquired humongus black and silver R100GS/PD "Negrito" (the little black one).

Previous Beemers: Petrovska, (R60/2), Elektra (R75/5) but for some reason I never got around to naming my red K100RS. Now I'll have to ponder why...

I've named most of my cars, too, including our current Bimmer Z3 "Bluto."

 

[beemokat]

I'm sure we've done this before,

but I'm too lazy to find the previous thread in the archives. Anyway, mine are
Manfred & Max.

 

[Holly]

Freedom

I never got around to posting in the previous thread, so here goes.

My late, lamented BMW was called Frejuvagn, Icelandic for Freya's chariot.
My current ride is Frelsi, Icelandic for Freedom.

Holly

 

[bmwdean]

Just about all of them do. There's Scarlett, Iowa, Lucille, Weiss, Rocket, Big Blue, and Dominican.

 

[Antaeas]

Artie

My R1200RT is named Artie, a masculine name. I don't think of my motorcycle as a living being, but English doesn't allow gendered things. This machine has male characteristics (to avoid boring anyone, I'll not list them here).

More about the name: I had a pony named Artie, a willful, stubborn gelding. My father's first name and my middle name are both Arthur, a kingly name, associated with "leadershsip and bear-like ferocity." Finally, "Artie" implies art, a nod to BMW's unique aesthetics.

 

[torinokuchi]

bike names

My wife named my 2004 GSA "Torinokuchi"

short for "tori no kuchibashi (鳥の嘴)

in Japanese = bird beak.

 

[chasman]

Both do...Einstein and Max.

 

[newstar]

I don't believe you can name a bike (or anything else). You have to wait until it reveals its name to you.

My bike is called the B. I think it got its name partly because it's the little B in the garage (my F650 GS) as compared to the big B (1150 RT). It is also yellow, referring to a bee.

Weird? Maybe. But that's how it happened for me.

 

[2beers]

Bad, Naughty Zoot!

You got to be a Monty Python fan to get it. It always gets me into trouble. And a little bit of peril is healthy.



Spankings.....?

 

[gstom]

Shamu the Killer Whale

Its a natural for the R1100RT-P bikes. Here's mine:

Shamu