Have you named your bike / bikes?

[Meifesto]

Never understood the need to anthropomorphise machines.

I don't think giving it a name anthropomorphise a machine. It is more of a way to keep it apart or make it your own

When people start handing out emotions or feelings to their bike, then yes, that is pushing it into anthropomorphise
Same goes for pets btw, my pet peeve is people anthropomorphise their animals xD

 

[Gemini]

I don't think giving it a name anthropomorphise a machine. It is more of a way to keep it apart or make it your own

When people start handing out emotions or feelings to their bike, then yes, that is pushing it into anthropomorphise
Same goes for pets btw, my pet peeve is people anthropomorphise their animals xD

By definition if you give it a human name technically you are anthropomorphizing it, but I get what you mean, you're not going further. Some people go crazy with giving human traits to things, although I can't say much because I have a pet rock that has is own bedroom and I tuck it in at night. His name is Dwayne

 

[SighBored]

Personally I don't name my bikes. I find it really cringe-y when I'm in a conversation and the person refers to their bike with a name. i.e. while chatting the guy says I haven't ridden Stella for a while, and I will be feeling like WTF that sounds weird.

Somehow though my bikes got named, ironic but unintentional. Example would be I like to say I riding slow like a turtle and somehow the bike gets the name Turtle. The other one makes brap noises and got called Brapster. But I did not intend to give them any names.

 

[LoneWally]

The Donkey. I can't take credit for the idea. Though It dosen't take much imagination since its small, slow but keeps going

 

[KrustyBoot]

The Donkey. I can't take credit for the idea. Though It dosen't take much imagination since its small, slow but keeps going

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Thats a rebadged Suzuki GN125 if ever I seen one!

 

[TBRD]

I have named a lot of my cars and bikes in the past and have been thinking of a name for my new bike. I might just call "her" B as she is a BMW. Strangely I have thought of all my vehicles as females...no clue why.

 

[motosera]

Normally mine is only named when it's misbehaving. There are then mulitple....

t&£t
c$^t
w*(^*r
t&*%$r

Otherwise, just "the bike"

 

[KapGranite]

Normally just call it Bike or The XBOX

 

[TMackie]

A buddy named mine Black Widow because of her shapely ass end.

 

[MickFist]

Current bike is dubbed 'Mistress'. Even had a slot in my best mans speech.

Prior to this was a lexmoto XTRS 125 called 'Duchess'

I treat it as more of a codename than any sentimentality.

 

[WEB]

The Harley is called "The Harley" and the Triumph is called "The Bonneville"

The Bonneville is a Thruxton, but it's called the Bonneville because it's a Bonneville with some factory tweaks, if I go "Triumph Thruxton" all the old people think I ride a Street Triple etc.

 

[Daryl]

Yep. A subscriber actually named my first named bike 'My little Pony'. I thought it hilarious. 100 vlogs at least later, I bought a H2. Named it the Donkey. Then I bought my dream bike, a zx14-R. The Stallion.

My shed is the Barn.

 

[Ponkster]

My bike was named because I was told it must have a name to enter it into a competion at a rally - so it got called Rattus Rattus which is latin for black rat !

 

[Daryl]

Rattus which is latin for black rat ! View attachment 5255

MY CHILDHOOD NOW MAKES MORE SENSE.

 

[YBGuy]

My Moto Guzzi V7 is called "Lord Vader"

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Wow, now that's a name with the customization to back it. Nice!

 

[YBGuy]

My CBR1000 is named Iris because she is an Inline4 (engine layout), so I for I. My RC51 is named Violet because she is a V-Twin. Plus I like those names.

In the past, I have liked naming cars since the first day I owned one but did not start naming my bikes until I started using apps on my phone to track various bike data and the apps asked for names to keep track of the different bikes. So there you go.

 

[Teh Purp]

i nammed mine more for a laugh and a joke initialy, then it kinda became a thing,

iv got GlaDos refered to as DoS, (gladius, go figure)
Crowbar (nc700, used as a tool)
And potato, or crow, havnt fully desided....(the pitbike project, sometimes the p gets turned into sh....)

bonus points to anyone who can get the vague theme.

 

[motosera]

I've only ever named one bike, my Buell chop is called Black Rose.

 

[CVentures]

Ive called my bike MANY names, mostly when i dump it

 

[YBGuy]

My post with Photos to go with the names:

My CBR1000 is named Iris because she is an Inline4 (engine layout), so I for I.

My RC51 is named Violet because she is a V-Twin. Plus I like those names.