I do agree happy wife happy life so I just call it my bike, but even that gets her going since we pay the bills together. She says it should be referred to as OUR bike. I just smile and try to dodge the claws, so I don't get " knocked the f@&K out"... LOL


Batman.

 

To each his own - but why anyone would name their bike or assign it a gender ("she") is beyond me.

My wife, my daughter, my mother - they have names & are "she's". My bike, my car, my firearms - no way.

 

It's a throwback to older times I think. These machines are reliable and you don't really need to think about them now, but that wasn't always the case.

Particularly back in some of the early days of aviation, you were really taking your life in your hands to fly one. The kind of attention required to catch any issues before they really present themselves is up there with the kind of attention you'd have for a hot girlfriend. You needed to engage all senses to know if the machine was "healhty" or "sick". There's also probably some psychological coping going on too with humanizing the machine (anthropomorphism) to help settle the fear that "she won't let you down" when you have no choice but to fly ala: world wars.

 

I haven't named any of my bikes, this one included...but one of the first things I thought when I saw the Rushmore RoadGlide "face" was BENDER!!! of Futurama . Alternatively I silently acknowledge that it's a motorcycle blackhole cuz I've been drawn into it there's just no escaping

*maybe I should name my bike "Bender the Blackhole" lol

 

lol

I actually didn't name my bike until a couple weekends ago when I was on a group ride with others and got all kinds of crap for not having a name, haha. Someone said it reminded them of Irish Creme which made me think of Bailey and I rather like that name.

 

Naming "vehicles" goes back hundreds, if not thousands of years....

Ships have traditionally been named, as have boats.

What 3 ships carried Columbus' crew?

Yeah, you knew that....


I honestly can't think of all the names I've had for bikes and autos, My Dad had one we called "The Creaker"... and old merc with worn out suspension bushings, I delivered pizza out of a beater I called the Hooptie, my '85 Ford F150 4x4 ExCab was Maude...

 

I've had a Blue Harley for me and the 'lil wife to ride since 2002.
I always refer to it as that 'Blue pile 'o junk', or "lets ride that blue
pile of junk."
Nothing personal.
I also refer to my FXDB as the Street B O O B.

 

I have never named one of my bikes. I did have a girlfriend one time that called one of them "Christine" after the movie. Every time she got off of it, she would burn her leg on the pipes. She said the bike didn't like her.

 

2nd Vivid Black Bike -- so her name is Raven

 

I had an old Dodge pickup my kids named "Otis".....
Thinking about it, the name seemed to fit, so it stuck.