Author Topic: The bike you want is named after your city -- Cool, Don't Care, or Turnoff? NGC  (Read 13216 times)

Offline homebrew

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I was admiring a Victory Vegas and it occurred to me that I might feel a little goofy if I actually moved to Vegas and got that bike.  Like I was a super Vegas booster or something.  On the other hand, I'd have no problem riding a California in California.  It just seems different to me to have a biked named after a broad area as opposed to a specific one.  That said, it's never been an issue -- there's not a lot of bikes named "Baltimore."  For good reason.  :grin:

What about you?  If you lived in Daytona would you be less likely to buy a biked named that?  What if someone named a bike after your current area, like "Shenandoah" or "Philly" or whatever?

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When the Guzzi Escondido hits the market I'll look into financing. I have no use for Vegas, other than a nephew of mine lives there.
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The Moto Guzzi "Spout Spring"?

The oil-leaking jokes would never stop, so I don't think so ....

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The (insert manufacturer's name here) Altoona might reach the sales numbers of the Ducati Indiana.

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The (insert manufacturer's name here) Altoona might reach the sales numbers of the Ducati Indiana.

Hey! Don't sully the name of Indiana by putting Ducati with it.. :evil:
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I guess I'll start shopping for a Henderson.  How hard could it be to find a good deal on a one in nice shape?
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Hmmm, there is a town in northern MN named Climax.  A "Moto Guzzi Climax", who knows it might be an all time best seller!

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I was admiring a Victory Vegas and it occurred to me that I might feel a little goofy if I actually moved to Vegas and got that bike.

Don't worry - I sold the dang things here in Las Vegas, and nobody paid the slightest attention. To be honest, it's not an incredibly distinctive bike in recent years, the fancy models have all gone away.

Now thinking back to my previous homes, I can't say I ever would have been thrilled by (for example) a Winnipeg...  :boozing:
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The "Blue Ball", Victory

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 HD has the 48 , MG could name a model "Forty one" in honor of a small OK town .
 
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When I had my T3 repainted, I "created" a new model -- named after the location of my family's Italian home.  My bike is now a "Cilento." 
Check the side cover.

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« Last Edit: August 11, 2015, 10:32:16 PM by Carlo DeSantis »
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Couldn't care less as long as I didn't live someplace like Big Bone Lick, Kan-tuck-ee.

More to the OP point - I'd be more concerned about living in the place that the Victory "Vegas" is named after than riding a cycle of coincidental monikers.

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Moto Guzzi has already had a bike named after a town in Missouri, of coarse like most places in MO. it's pronounced differently here than elsewhere, It's NevAda  with a long A in the middle.

As for my hometown the MG Independence would be alright, sounds like a better name than Stone,
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Couldn't care less as long as I didn't live someplace like Big Bone Lick, Kan-tuck-ee.

More to the OP point - I'd be more concerned about living in the place that the Victory "Vegas" is named after than riding a cycle of coincidental monikers.

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Named my driveway "gas the Guzzi", don't care what the city is named. :boozing:

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Moto Guzzi has already had a bike named after a town in Missouri, of coarse like most places in MO. it's pronounced differently here than elsewhere, It's NevAda  with a long A in the middle.

As for my hometown the MG Independence would be alright, sounds like a better name than Stone,

NevAda, former home of the state hospital Whoopeee!   And the White Grill, one of the last remaining old road house hambuger joints!
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My bike is now a "Cliento." 

That's a beautiful Guzzi.  I don't mean to bearer of bad news, but the painter misspelled Cliento.   :grin:
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Hey! Don't sully the name of Indiana by putting Ducati with it.. :evil:

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Option II:

You own the motorcycle and are professionally sentenced to live in Vegas... Change the bike's model name. Some options:

The Victory Pintos.
The Victory Sodom... or, Gomorrah if one prefers.
Victor Y Victoria?

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There's an old joke about how you would never, ever find a car with a place name, in that place. And you know? They're right:
Monte Carlo, Torino, Milano, Firenze, Corsica, Monaco, Versailles, LeMans, Biarritz... All crappy American cars from the 1970s and 80s!

Of course, North American place names may be an exception (Tucson, Santa Fe, Denali come to mind).
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I'm partial to the Moto Guzzi Ingomar...

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Come to think of it, my bicycle is a Litespeed Firenze.  I had forgotten about that.
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