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Offline HavocTurbo

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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #75 on: June 17, 2009, 01:36:56 PM »
Quote from: myhondas on June 17, 2009, 01:27:54 PM
Hey HT,
So did this DUI b!tch have insurance? If so, are they covering all your losses: bike, medical, work, etc. ??? ??? If so, are you shopping around looking to replace 'Havoc' or just going get something else instead?

I got the XS850 for $400 and ride it almost everyday. I'm only on a cane (it's embarrassing) so I can ride as long as the PT lady doesn't know I take off my sling for my arm.

My insurance company covered all my costs plus my $3600 argeed amount. They are going to handle recouping their $$. I get calls almost everyday from ambulance chasers looking to cash in. Maybe I'll take them up on their offers. I have 90 days to do so.

I'd love to have the turbo back, as I built it from nothing. It just seems that replacing it with another turbo 750 will not be enough. I'm a little too sentimental in that regard. If only I treated women that way eh?  :D

Besides I have huge plans for my CB750. That'll have a turbo for sure.  ;)
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #76 on: June 17, 2009, 01:39:43 PM »
I had a red '84 Honda Ascott 500, my first bike, that I called "Tetsuo".
My Dad's mothballed '76 CB750F, which sat in the garage for years has now become mine, and it is called "Kaneda".
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #77 on: June 17, 2009, 01:46:12 PM »
i don't ever refer to a vehicle as her/she , and am usually against naming them
 
but the "Phoenix" just kinda named it's self ... there was no fighting it .. the first time somone said it ,i was thinkin .....    "that's perfect !"
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #78 on: June 17, 2009, 02:10:57 PM »
I call my orange 74 "The Flying Pumpkin"
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #79 on: June 17, 2009, 03:51:59 PM »
"The Other Woman" -- Because she doesn't care if I ride someone else.  She only cares when I ride her.

My other bike is called "Nine Lives" -- named after my builder, fabricator, mechanical guru and friend, Chris Redpath.
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #80 on: June 17, 2009, 04:46:39 PM »
#$%*heap, the blue/black/silver monstrosity all depending on what color it is.
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #81 on: June 17, 2009, 05:27:32 PM »
71 BSA Lightning- Dawg, cause it marks it's territory when I park it.
72 CB 750-Yellow Jaundice, the color and condition it was in when I bought it.
66 CB77- Dad's bike, self explanatory.
The previous 3 Honda's, 2 Harley's and a BSA had no names.
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #82 on: June 17, 2009, 06:21:23 PM »
Sometimes I think of my '77 750 F2 as Black Beauty, but usually only in my head. I don't really say it out loud  :)

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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #83 on: June 17, 2009, 06:25:35 PM »
I call mine CB...
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #84 on: June 17, 2009, 11:02:23 PM »
We Went Out Shootin'.....

...... my wife & I with our revolvers.  Out in the boondocks, about 70 miles north of Phoenix in the desert, area called Badger Springs.  A creek called Aqua Fria meanders amongst some pretty tall rock cliffs.  The cliffs have Indian petroglyphs on them........ including carvings in the rocks of Indians on horses.  My wife was very impressed with the carvings in the rock walls showing the Indians on horses especially.

After we wasted a bunch of old cans with our revolvers, wife says, "Let's get back to our pony and ride him."

When we came around the final bend in Badger Springs and got our first clear look at our 750 K4, we could see our two helmets sitting on the seat of the bike.  My wife and I looked at each other, and then I said,..... thinking of the Indians carved in rock on their ponies,..... "Look, there's our Two Noggin Pony!"

The name has stuck.  Two Noggin Pony is her official name between my wife and I.  I always break the rules..... when I talk to the bike, I always just call her Sweet Heart....

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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #85 on: June 18, 2009, 12:00:29 AM »
Apparently the moderators of this site won't allow me to post what I call my bike when it wont work! ;D
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #86 on: June 18, 2009, 12:04:04 AM »
when i had my cb450 i called it the brown b#%ch
and my cb650 is the burgandy beauty
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #87 on: June 18, 2009, 01:16:13 AM »
NIKE-A-GO-GO for three reasons
1. Little bastard was already screwed (james dean's 550)
2. nike is a out-dated missile that never got used (cold war)
3. Any name worth having is worth stealing from a misfits song
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #88 on: June 18, 2009, 06:50:34 AM »
After I painted it green my friend Super Sarah dubbed it the Aphid.

It stuck...
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #89 on: June 18, 2009, 08:00:12 AM »
I used to call my VF1000 Interceptor (RIP) my "whisper bike" because it would always whisper at me to "go faster".
Funny thing was I crashed it doing the speed limit (bikes don't hydroplane well at all)

1979 XS400 is just "the rat" name says it all....

I don't have a name for my current ride, 1973 750 K, but I am thinking about "winter nose" cause no matter what, it is always running

And I do have a propensity to give my bike a pat on the seat or whisper a quiet "thanks for the ride" after a day out.

If we don't appreciate them, who will? Isn't that what this whole forum is about?

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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #90 on: June 18, 2009, 10:54:43 AM »
Quote from: Operator on June 18, 2009, 08:00:12 AM
I used to call my VF1000 Interceptor (RIP) my "whisper bike" because it would always whisper at me to "go faster".
Funny thing was I crashed it doing the speed limit (bikes don't hydroplane well at all)

That's pretty good, but if you can destroy your bike at a stop light like Havoc Turbo, then you've got a story.
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #91 on: June 18, 2009, 12:12:01 PM »
I've got more....

Just this one happened recently.  :-\

Used to do speed trials, drags, road, oval, dirt, endurance. I have loads of stories.

Never hydroplaning though... so Operator wins in that dept.  ;D
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Re: What kind of names have you given your Bikes ??
« Reply #92 on: June 18, 2009, 12:58:54 PM »
Quote from: HavocTurbo on June 18, 2009, 12:12:01 PM
I've got more....

Just this one happened recently.  :-\

Used to do speed trials, drags, road, oval, dirt, endurance. I have loads of stories.

Never hydroplaning though... so Operator wins in that dept.  ;D

And you win in the yappy kid department, do you always have to appear when some one mentions your name? Jeez...   :o :D
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