Author Topic: Does your SOHC have a name? (Read 3619 times)

Hope · « **on:** May 14, 2007, 11:47:35 AM »

My '75 550K is named Cassandra. When I began working on her, I nicknamed her Sassy for short. I call her Sassy when she is a pain in the butt, testy, or tempermental. When she purrs like a kitten, and gives me an excellent ride, she is Cassandra.

She also has a middle and last name. Her middle name is SEE and her last name is ME. I commonly utter these words when car or truck drivers appear to not pay attention, are talking on the phone, or look like they are going to pull out right in front of us (Cassandra & me). It's more like a repetitive chant I say as I approach the inattentive driver: "See me, see me, see me, see me......"

Please share your SOHC's name and how the name originated. Does he/she have a middle/last name?

eldar · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2007, 12:13:27 PM »

I dont really name my bike, I call it my bike! It is my possession!!!! I do cuss at it sometimes however!

I will probably do so tonight if I find time to put on my new dyna S

Soos · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2007, 12:22:45 PM »

Daisy...
Heck, i name my bicycles too.... Ok only the ones i put a lot of time into.

I tell my wife i'm off to get intimate with daisy, and you should see the steam pour out of her ears... until she sees me walk into the garage.

I like a girl I can ride hard, and leave her to cool off outside.
And she don't mind how many times i ride her in a day, or for how long, the longer the better IMO.

l8r

nickjtc · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2007, 12:23:09 PM »

Silver Sophie, or Sophie for short. It's a long story.

DarkRider · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2007, 12:43:46 PM »

Well my CB was to be named Roadwarrior but that never occured since it has since become the donor for the drag bike. While the Interceptor has earned the name Lone Wolf. This is due to the fact i mostly ride it on solo rides and because it stands out against the group of supersports i ride with. Much like a lone wolf stalking a herd.....

clarkjh · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2007, 12:57:05 PM »

Mines "Surley"

As in Surley I'm not going to break anything else.

James

Rocking-M · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2007, 01:31:51 PM »

It's just the 750 now, but, with the 750 Ducati suppose to be getting here soon,
I may have to name one. Guess I'll call the Ducati, The Duck.

Raul CB750K1 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2007, 01:38:22 PM »

This topic came in the old greenspun forum. The one I liked more was "cebu", because somebody's daughter -I can't remember whom- said it remind her a cebu. It stuck in my mind, but I haven't named any of my vehicles.

nickjtc · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2007, 02:31:51 PM »

Quote from: Rocking-M on May 14, 2007, 01:31:51 PM

It's just the 750 now, but, with the 750 Ducati suppose to be getting here soon,
I may have to name one. Guess I'll call the Ducati, The Duck.

You could call it the Duck Hunter....

siter81 · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2007, 02:33:22 PM »

THE MONEY PIT

merc2dogs · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2007, 03:04:36 PM »

Syb.

short for screaming yellow b***

she's yellow, she screams, and she can be a real cranky B*** when she wants to be.

ken

Jv550 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2007, 03:52:26 PM »

I started calling my 550 'Keiko' after a Japanese girl I once knew. Thought it would make my wife jealous.

My wife decided to be funny though - she calls her 'Yoko'!

GroovieGhoulie · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2007, 05:29:51 PM »

'76 400F: Christine (No jokes about demonically possessed machinery!)

'76 750F: Tiffany (could be permanent, unless I find a better name that describes your stereotypical "High-Maintenance B*tch" so well that you automatically know the bearer of said name is teh hawtnezz, and likely wild in the sack, but EXTREMELY high maintenance, fussy, b*tchy and expensive. Other candidates include Candi, Heather, Fawn and Debbie.)

'75 CL360: Ramona (Fiancee named her. We're big fans of The Ramones.)

'73 Hodaka Dirt Squirt: Kaylee ('Cause she's "shiny", get it?)

Soon-to-be 750 Cafe: PJ for Pamela Jayne

ALL my bikes are female, because I'd feel kinda queer ridin' around with a dude between my legs.

james loshbaugh · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2007, 08:52:15 PM »

Mine is named the Hondasauras. It is a 1971 CB 750 k1 with an attached 250lb sidecar (really a cargo box). Jim in Denver

merc2dogs · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2007, 09:47:20 PM »

Sounds like me, my friends used to call my bikes the dino brigade I had the old 750's and older triumphs, while at the time they all rode two and three year old bikes, now mine, even Syb, are called classics by most people, and theirs are just old bikes.

ken.

mrblasty · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2007, 10:31:06 PM »

I named my 750 Carl, from Slingblade. My garage resembled the shed Carl lived in as a child. I call my bike and my son "little feller" all the time.

TwoTired · « **Reply #16 on:** May 15, 2007, 02:25:41 AM »

A running collection requires names. So, you can quickly relay what bike you are going to ride to those who don't understand the differences in models.

Let's see, there is ol' Brownie. (The sun has bleached all the red out of the maroon paint.)
Then there is Ol' Bluie,
Orangie,
Blackie, and
Blorange (It still has the original orange side covers and a blue tank at this time, though I have a pristine Blue Tank and side covers destined for it.) It may become Effie Blue (Cb550 F)

I have another in the works, t'will be "Wylde Chylde", as it will be a custom 550.

Cheers,
The 750's are both known as Queens, right now, as they haven't left the garage since I dragged them home. One of them is destined to be "Prissie", as it will get NOS Tank, Seat assy., and side covers.

My other bikes are Cexie, and Nightie.

Stormer · « **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2007, 06:19:28 AM »

The 400F is "the oldie".

heffay · « **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2007, 07:13:12 AM »

if you can't figure out why i would name a 350f "baby", well, you might want to study up on the runt of the sohc4 litter

hopterfixer · « **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2007, 08:30:55 AM »

I refer to mine as the Dinosaur, as it is green and older than I am

heffay · « **Reply #20 on:** May 15, 2007, 09:42:45 AM »

Quote from: hopterfixer on May 15, 2007, 08:30:55 AM

and older than I am

mine too!

Dusthawk · « **Reply #21 on:** May 15, 2007, 12:51:19 PM »

Most of the members here know Rita. They helped save her from getting sold many months ago. I almost always name my bikes but the day I bought her she was Rita, I love this bike and anthropomorphise her a bit much, but why not, she has a personality too, at least to me she does, lolol

Peace and Long Rides,

Jeff

ofreen · « **Reply #22 on:** May 15, 2007, 09:26:36 PM »

I call my 750F the "seven-fifty."

Dawdlin Dog · « **Reply #23 on:** May 16, 2007, 05:17:37 AM »

I call my 550 Nikki, short for Nikita.
The 400 I had was called Tanya

SD750F · « **Reply #24 on:** May 16, 2007, 05:29:31 AM »

My 750 is called Sage... And I am having a milled aluminum Egyptian Hieroglyph made saying same for the tank emblems.

Scott

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