Him or Her & Names ?

[ZLFancyPaint]

Once in awhile in a post, members have referred to their bike as 'her' -
and a couple of members have the bike name in their tagline -
so here's the topic:
does your bike have a name ?
is it a him or a her ?
do all your motorcycles/cars/trucks have names, or just the special ones ?

Let's hear the names & the stories to get us through
these short winter days.

[wuputt]

I name my kids and my pets, not my bikes!
I have always referred to all my vehicles as "her" or "she". That is a habit I picked up from my Father!

I swear at my kids, pets, cars, trucks and yes at the bike. (but I always apologize to the bike) :stir: :D

[CHRIS]

my zl900 is named " ELEANOR" yes she's a girl ! let me explain why i came up with this name etc. in the marine corp we were told during bootcamp to give our rifles a womans name, & we were to treat our rifles with the same respect as we give our real life girlfriends, so that kinda stuck with me.

now the story about the name i chose the name "ELEANOR !"

i had a zl900 back in 1999. after about 6 months of ownership i fell on hard financial times & was forced to sell it. this bike had only 3000 miles on it, & i had bought it from original owner.

my heart was broken ! i really missed this bike.
it took several years for me to find another that i could afford. 7 yrs. to be exact ! i swore to myself that if i found another, i will never sell her, & one day, while watching the movie "GONE IN 60 SECONDS" ( starring nicholis cage) i really paid attention to the story, & in the movie someone mentioned about the mustang in the movie was a fable creature( a dream) for nicholis cage's character, & he called her "ELEANOR" that's how it all came into place for me ! everything is now where it should be .

now you all know the story. :D CHRIS

[lowlife]

I don't know they have always been her's and I talk to them, I don't curse at them I sweet talk them. I used to talk to crees Kart b4 races telling her to keep my baby safe out there. I know its nuts but it makes me feel better and it seems t work. Although most of my vehicles have had PMS at one time or another.

[ZLFancyPaint]

my fault on the options - they didn't turn out exactly as planned.
I realize that 2 could apply, but you can only pick 1.
I called my first zl Jet Black -
cause he was the fastest thing I owned & simply black.
regretfully, I sold him & this 2nd one doesn't have a name yet.
maybe after I get all the work done it needs & get it painted back to black
& I can actually spend some time riding it, & feel like its mine,
and call him Jet Too.
my other ride is a bmw 650, we did an honest-to-goodness
road trip last summer & I think its earned a name -
but no inspiration has come to me.

[ZLKawBoy]

Black Sunshine ...

From the White Zombie song - "Exploding like a slug from a 45 ..."

But mainly because when I return back to the barn I have a sunny disposition and am quite 'randy' ...

[acp]

Mine is a her, but doesn't have a name yet, I'm waiting until I've painted her to choose a name.

Although at the moment then top of the list are "Come on" and "Not now". At least, that's what I've been calling it a lot lately when it won't start or run properly in the cold, "Oh come ON!! Not now, please!, etc"

[Wold]

i call him "Iluminator" (ilyuminator)
it seems like illyuminator (porthole, sidelight; window) but not at all !
he is the one =)

[Kawasaki-krazy]

"It" has allways been "the Beast"

KK

[acp]

"It" has allways been "the Beast"

KK

I thought that was your other nickname KK?

[greg]

no name yet but its most deff female
good looking but temperamental and prone to throwing a strop at odd times.

[zlMark]

no name yet but its most deff female
good looking but temperamental and prone to throwing a strop at odd times.Name it Marcia,, after my ex :rotf:

[click-it]

All my bikes are a female. Why?? cause they like to act up every now and then LOL.

[K-Ray]

everything I ride are drive is female . just wouldn't seem right wrapping my lags around anything else.
and my ZL is my baby the Z is my B*tch ride her hard and she loves it. as for the Harley she is lady a lot of work to keep up and looking good

[SandstoneSmitty]

Machines are female. My ZL-900 was reciently named 'Lil Girl' by a female friend of mine. Her husband rides a 'Fat Boy' named 'Bad Girl'. She started calling the ZL 'Lil Girl'. It stuck.

[CHRIS]

my zx-7 needs a name ! any idea's ??? something good guys ! no smartass names ! CHRIS

[kawboy]

Her husband rides a 'Fat Boy' named 'Bad Girl'.

Fat Boy named Bad Girl?

Bad Boy named Fat Girl?

Fat Girl named Bad Boy?

I'm so confused . . .

[tdbabaas]

i refer to her as miss misery, my mistress in the garage

[beeZLbub]

BeeZLbub - my bike is the Devil.
And, as such, she takes on whatever form suits him.
;)

She can be an evil temptress, especially when faced with an open road and a hair-trigger throttle. He can be a hellacious beast once the aforementioned hair-trigger is pulled.

LOL

[SnakeDoctor]

So BB, is your bike a hormaphrodite or a Katoye (ladyboy)? Seems to have that HE/SHE thing going there. 555

[kawboy]

So BB, is your bike a hormaphrodite or a Katoye (ladyboy)? Seems to have that HE/SHE thing going there. 555

Hey, Snake - isn't Thailand where people go to get those he/she operations?

[SnakeDoctor]

Kawboy, Thailand is the place for that from what I hear and also the number one country for men loosing their willys and also the number one country for willy reattachment. 555 I damm sure don't want to pi$$ my ol lady off.

[Hellion]

My ZL is a male, why you ask? Because he was injured by previous owner/owners and didnt complain, leave me stranded or give me probs till I got him home then started giving me indications he was injured and I have been patching him back up since. I named him Hellion because when I first started riding him the slightest crack of the throttle made him about leap out from under me, his color, power and sheer aggressive sound made me think he was happily grinning like this -->:twisted: which in turn made me grin like that also! :twisted:.
The ZL6 is a she and I call her Lil' Pixie girl or just Lil' girl for short as she is light hearted, happy go lucky and loves to zip along the roadways and is agile as a pixie or humming bird fliting through traffic. She is faded and dirty looking in paint as of now because she was kept in a garage where alot of welding work and painting was done so her paint suffered from the over sprays and hot sparks but will be sporting new colors before too long as soon as G/F and I go over color/schemes/themes. I want to repaint Hellion also but can only afford to do so much at a time and first thing is to get him road worthy again. He reminds me of a very powerful thurobred horse that although injured now will be one hell of a powerhouse to deal with once healed!