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| teebird | | Set |  | | Reg. Date | : | 25/07/2009 | | Posts | : | 293 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 15:58 Post title : whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? | | | burbler? THis from the poem jabberwock with eyes of flame, burbling as it came....
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 20:17 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | Mine is called "Mister T" because its big, black, mean and I pity the fool who messes with it.
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| mat1600 | | Thunderbird | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 8,596 | | Location | : | Bridlington, Democratic Independant State of Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 20:36 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | No name - just in case I call it out in my sleep.
| My first natural instinct is to breathe. My second is to evade tax's.
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| RedBird2010 | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 11/10/2010 | | Posts | : | 666 | | Location | : | Spokane Valley, Washington, United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 20:38 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | Good question. I never really thought of naming it, I usually refer to it as "the bike" or "my t-bird"
I'm interested to see what everyone else calls theirs.
| Rick 
2010 Thunderbird SE 1600
"Harley-Davidson; the worlds' most efficient method of turning gasoline into noise without the harmful side effect of horsepower."
"The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask"
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| daz | | Zeus | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 12/05/2009 | | Posts | : | 7,731 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 21:51 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | Mine is "Brutus". I'd have to say popeye was my fav cartoon as i kid, but i don't see the name popeye as being particularly cool.  And now that he's BB'ed the name is even more appropriate. Of course it's all moot unless i get him back from the shop, which at this point isn't likely to happen before i die of old age. 
| 2010 Blue/White Thunderbird, "Brutus". 1700 kit, short tors, gutted cat, UNI filter, filter seal off, custom tune. Brutus in his native habitat: Link
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| mat1600 | | Thunderbird | | | | Reg. Date | : | 06/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 8,596 | | Location | : | Bridlington, Democratic Independant State of Yorkshire, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 22:16 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: daz) | | |
daz wrote:
Mine is "Brutus". I'd have to say popeye was my fav cartoon as i kid, but i don't see the name popeye as being particularly cool. And now that he's BB'ed the name is even more appropriate. Of course it's all moot unless i get him back from the shop, which at this point isn't likely to happen before i die of old age. |
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Well i'm waiting to see what you think when you get you ride back.
| My first natural instinct is to breathe. My second is to evade tax's.
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| daz | | Zeus | | | | Reg. Date | : | 12/05/2009 | | Posts | : | 7,731 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 21 Nov 2010 - 23:07 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: mat1600) | | | Well you know me....a post of no less than 10000 words can probably be expected. Of course i should probably wait till after break in........SHOULD.....
| 2010 Blue/White Thunderbird, "Brutus". 1700 kit, short tors, gutted cat, UNI filter, filter seal off, custom tune. Brutus in his native habitat: Link
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| teebird | | Set | | | Reg. Date | : | 25/07/2009 | | Posts | : | 293 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 00:05 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: daz) | | | Daz: not to tweak you, but just back from two rides this weekend on my 1700 Bluebird Burbler (BB) with the SHORTY pipes: up Mt Lemmon, dragging pegs.
then to and from inlaws: roast lamb shanks, red wine, and no police on sunday evening.
wore a new Vanson.
and a new Lunar/Davida full face helmet with flip up face and windshield.
all excellent.
sure glad I was not fidgeting at home watching football teams lose....
Teebird
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| Birdy68 | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/07/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,352 | | Location | : | Bad Zurzach, Aargau, Switzerland |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 06:28 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: mat1600) | | | mat1600 wrote:
No name - just in case I call it out in my sleep. |
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Well I have my 'Bird and my Tiger!
Nothing exciting there really
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| Loubird | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 09/12/2009 | | Posts | : | 105 | | Location | : | Campbelltown, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 06:31 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | |
'Thunderbird Two'
Virgil and his big green machine with the big dual pipes racing to an international rescue was my favourite as a boy.
My number plate in green says TB02.....i should have got it to read ' FAB' 
| Love my TBird
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| fab | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 12/10/2009 | | Posts | : | 2,515 | | Location | : | wyong, nsw, Australia |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 06:36 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Loubird) | | | My number plate in green says TB02.....i should have got it to read ' FAB'
hey no pinching my nick name Lou
I was going to get that number plate but i didn't think anyone would click to it.
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Remember, soft cocks hang around all life long, hard ones come and go
ahh f**k im deep
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| Ted | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 14/06/2010 | | Posts | : | 551 | | Location | : | March, Cambs, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 07:11 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: fab) | | | My wife & daughter are prone to giving names to inanimate objects, and there's a danger they'll call a manly thing like a motorbike "Cynthia" or "Amelia". So I get in first with something alliterative, like "Theodore Thunderbird", or "Ted".
Couldn't think of a name for the Speed triple so for a while it was called "The Man With No Name", which predictably became "Clint" (Eastwood).
Is it manly to anthropomorphise possessions? 
| NASUWT retired, GP track marshal and Patriotic Rider
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| Ninox_s | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 18/08/2010 | | Posts | : | 755 | | Location | : | Naracoorte, South Australia, Australia |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 11:00 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Ted) | | | I call my bike "Aunty Jack" after an Australian TV character of the 70's.
Aunty Jack was a Man dressed as a women, with an obvious moustache and a boxing glove permanatly on her right hand. She had some offsiders called "Flash Nick from Jindavic", Kid Eager and a rather well endowed young women called "Flange Desire". You had to be there I guess. They were possibly Australias answer to Monty Python or the Goodies.
Aunty Jack was rather aggressive, professed to be "Big, Bold and Tough" and often threatened to "Rip your bloody arms off" to anyone who treated her with disrespect.
My thunderbird, especially now it has the BB and short TORS could probably do the same if not treated with the utmost respect.
Of course it is manly to anthropomorphise material possesions, sailors have been doing it for years!
Regards Frank
| I'm Incredible! Believe Me!!
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| Ted | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 14/06/2010 | | Posts | : | 551 | | Location | : | March, Cambs, United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 12:30 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Ninox_s) | | | Are sailors manly? 
| NASUWT retired, GP track marshal and Patriotic Rider
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| Brian | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 10/06/2010 | | Posts | : | 44 | | Location | : | Herford, Germany |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 16:16 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Ted) | | | at the moment it has no name but I do have a list of names ready for when it breaks down on me.
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| zolti | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 23/03/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,127 | | Location | : | newcastle , United Kingdom |
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| | Posted : 22 Nov 2010 - 20:11 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Brian) | | |
Brian wrote:
at the moment it has no name but I do have a list of names ready for when it breaks down on me. |
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theres optimism for you
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| Loubird | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 09/12/2009 | | Posts | : | 105 | | Location | : | Campbelltown, NSW, Australia |
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| | Posted : 23 Nov 2010 - 02:34 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: fab) | | | fab wrote:
My number plate in green says TB02.....i should have got it to read ' FAB'
hey no pinching my nick name Lou
I was going to get that number plate but i didn't think anyone would click to it. |
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ha Haah...i thought you may respond Jamie.
You know, a mate of mine suggested that when I got the bike, but I thought the same as you. Maybe one of should get it before someone steals it on us. It'll cost you $170/year though ! I wonder if you can get with stops or a space...F.A.B or F A B.
| Love my TBird
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| teebird | | Set | | | Reg. Date | : | 25/07/2009 | | Posts | : | 293 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 23 Nov 2010 - 13:33 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Loubird) | | | OK I give,
what is the inside joke with FAB?
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| Brian | | Set | | | | Reg. Date | : | 10/06/2010 | | Posts | : | 44 | | Location | : | Herford, Germany |
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| | Posted : 23 Nov 2010 - 15:16 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | Thunderbirds was a tv series with puppets in the 70s (wikipedia has a lot of information) and instead of saying ok they use to say FAB. You had to have watched it to really understand.
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| snakecharmer | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/11/2009 | | Posts | : | 125 | | Location | : | biloela, qld, Australia |
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| | Posted : 26 Nov 2010 - 13:57 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | hey guys
well my riding mates have named a couple of there bikes
so when i told them that mine was a demo bike
they came up with
"SLUT"
i dont use that name infront of her either
not the nicest name
oh well
| Foran Razorbacks. aural sex for your ears. 
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| RedBird2010 | | Chaac | | | | Reg. Date | : | 11/10/2010 | | Posts | : | 666 | | Location | : | Spokane Valley, Washington, United States |
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| | Posted : 26 Nov 2010 - 15:14 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: snakecharmer) | | | snakecharmer wrote:
hey guys
well my riding mates have named a couple of there bikes
so when i told them that mine was a demo bike
they came up with
"SLUT"
i dont use that name infront of her either
not the nicest name
oh well
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I can just imagine what your wife or girlfriend thinks when you say you're gonna go ride the "slut"
| Rick
2010 Thunderbird SE 1600
"Harley-Davidson; the worlds' most efficient method of turning gasoline into noise without the harmful side effect of horsepower."
"The wilderness holds answers to questions man has not yet learned to ask"
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| narsisco_lopez | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 09/09/2010 | | Posts | : | 2,765 | | Location | : | Golden (Showers!), Colorado, United States |
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| | Posted : 28 Dec 2010 - 20:44 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: RedBird2010) | | | "Her Majesty"... should be obvious why 
| 2012 Storm (SOLD!)
Other Bikes:
2003 Suzuki DRZ400E (plated - my dual sport/mountain trail/camping bike)
Past Bikes:
2012 K13S
2009 KTM 990 Adventure
2010 Triumph Thunderbird 1600 (the Alien Queen)
2009 Triumph Sprint ST (another great bike!)
2007 Kawasaki ZX10R
2000 Kawasaki ZRX1100
1975 Honda SB550T "Clubman"
1981 Kawasaki KZ1000J
1985 Suzuki GS550E
1978 Yamaha 650 Special
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| DizzE | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 12/07/2010 | | Posts | : | 3,141 | | Location | : | Sunnyvale, CA, United States |
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| | Posted : 29 Dec 2010 - 03:19 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: narsisco_lopez) | | | Seems silly to tell it, but, tiz true. I had a big clean up to get a space for my new crew mate and
I muttered it from time to time.
So, it's just a cheap shot garage nickname that stuck. And, bad luck to change it even if he wanted to.
Ah, those early days.
Now, of course, Mr. Bikey is a fully qualified first officer enjoying my complete confidence.
Mr. Biikey, there, let us luff up, sir. Prepare to come about. Now, Power, Bikey, Power!
Well done and Good night, Mr. Bikey.
............................. a wise Number 1, he always gives his Captain the last word.
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| fasteddy | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 16/10/2008 | | Posts | : | 963 | | Location | : | Wisconsin, United States |
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| | Posted : 29 Dec 2010 - 03:29 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: DizzE) | | | You guyz freakin kill me!
"Mine is called "Mister T" because its big, black, mean and I pity the fool who messes with it."
Me, keep it simple and obvious, not really original; Black Bird
Beatles Song and the SR-71 just because they were cool and the plane is cool...
| www.fasteddysports.com
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| Kando | | Chaac | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 08/11/2009 | | Posts | : | 780 | | Location | : | United States |
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| | Posted : 29 Dec 2010 - 03:47 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: fasteddy) | | | can we borrow....Hogslayer!
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| Thatch | | Thor | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 24/06/2009 | | Posts | : | 3,655 | | Location | : | Savannah, GA, United States |
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| | Posted : 29 Dec 2010 - 08:14 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | No name for mine. I've coined the big bore black birds (say that three times fast) as 'Ravens' but that isn't a name per say. I never use it as one at least. I guess I've never been much of a vehicle namer. The ability to put 'my' in front of what ever model I own seems like more than enough personalization to me.
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| Bugera | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 09/11/2010 | | Posts | : | 9 | | Location | : | Coral Coast, Queensland, Australia |
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| | Posted : 01 Jan 2011 - 21:47 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: teebird) | | | Sweet Sixteen
| I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
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| mightymousesr | | Set | |  | | Reg. Date | : | 31/10/2010 | | Posts | : | 14 | | Location | : | Sun City, Arizona, United States |
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| | Posted : 16 Jan 2011 - 12:45 Post title : Re: whats your favorite name for your bike? and why? (Re: Bugera) | | | Trinity, that's the name of the first test of the ATOMIC BOMB.
| Those that think "Old is Slow" have NEVER ridden a V65 MAGNA!
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