Author Topic: Does your Guzzi have a name? (Read 32205 times)

MGKrebs · « **on:** June 13, 2012, 01:08:52 PM »

If you do name a Guzzi, does it have to be a girls name?
I want to name mine Guido, but I am told it must be a girls name. ??

BigRooster · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:12:35 PM »

Quote from: MGKrebs on June 13, 2012, 01:08:52 PM

If you do name a Guzzi, does it have to be a girls name?
I want to name mine Guido, but I am told it must be a girls name. ??

Dont you think Guido may be a little too "on the nose" for an Italian bike? Girls names work because then you can talk of wrapping your legs around those big Italian jugs! ~;

MGKrebs · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:16:51 PM »

Quote from: Muschi on June 13, 2012, 01:13:50 PM

there was a thread about this subject lately as I recall,
I refer to my bikes as "baby", they respond pretty well.

;) :BEER:

That's why new guys shouldn't start topics!

sbaker · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:28:22 PM »

White bike!

Ad B · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:30:39 PM »

Hi,

the name of my Griso 1200 is "Griesje"...
It's from the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel",
"Hans en Grietje" in Dutch.
With me it's "Ad en Griesje". ;D

Ad B

Muley · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:44:06 PM »

Since this forum has several members of the "fairer sex" not to mention overly sensitive individuals, I cannot disclose the names I've called my beloved HD&M. ::)

Mountain Bob · « **Reply #6 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:50:36 PM »

Quote from: BigRooster on June 13, 2012, 01:12:35 PM

... Girls names work because then you can talk of wrapping your legs around those big Italian jugs! ~;

Hard to visualize -- thankfully.
Harder yet to imagine how that could have worked well for you, with any Guzzi or girl I've met . . . :-\ :wife:

--mb

MGKrebs · « **Reply #7 on:** June 13, 2012, 01:56:49 PM »

Springsteen was probably more poetic:

Just wrap your legs round these velvet rims
And strap your hands across my engines

Not sure it makes any sense, but if you say it with enough gusto...

ccoli · « **Reply #8 on:** June 13, 2012, 02:15:19 PM »

I name mine for cartoon characters. Don't matter if they are male, female or androgenous.
Yes, this thread has surfaced b4

blackbuell · « **Reply #9 on:** June 13, 2012, 02:25:03 PM »

My Norge has a name, but it is gender-neutral: "the Fridge". It is NOT a reference to a certain former Chicago Bear.

Jon

lti_57 · « **Reply #10 on:** June 13, 2012, 02:34:42 PM »

Black bike and white bike.
The wife is coming up with a name for hers but she has to ride it a bit more to see what name is appropriate I do know it is a male name

MGKrebs · « **Reply #11 on:** June 13, 2012, 02:37:01 PM »

I think "Guido" means "guide", so I thought it was a nice double entendre.

muzak · « **Reply #12 on:** June 13, 2012, 02:44:33 PM »

V7C named Giada ;D

Adan · « **Reply #13 on:** June 13, 2012, 03:02:15 PM »

My red V7 Classic is named Ruby, after a certain stripper who works in San Francisco. No one knows why.

Mountain Bob · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2012, 03:15:00 PM »

Quote from: lti_57 on June 13, 2012, 02:34:42 PM

Black bike and white bike.
The wife is coming up with a name for hers but she has to ride it a bit more to see what name is appropriate I do know it is a male name

She starts calling it "Fat White Guy of the North" -- we gonna have a talk! :D

--mb

Mountain Bob · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2012, 03:30:15 PM »

Quote from: MGKrebs on June 13, 2012, 02:37:01 PM

I think "Guido" means "guide", so I thought it was a nice double entendre.

Call it whatever you want. Different names, different days? No problem. It's a Guzzi: lots of different faces and personalities.

When I first got my Jackal -- my last previous bike had been a dirt bike -- it felt really huge for me, especially before I got the ergonomics sorted out. It was big, it was heavy, it had lots of torquey power, and it growled when provoked. "Oso" seemed appropriate at the time, and still fits well.

I ain't sayin' that's female, I ain't sayin' that's male -- but I've scorched my knees often enough to know not to wrap my legs around the jugs, y'know?

--mb

jackson · « **Reply #16 on:** June 13, 2012, 03:57:48 PM »

When they're running well, I call them names associated with beautiful women. When they're NOT running well, I call them "shithead".

steven c · « **Reply #17 on:** June 13, 2012, 04:33:57 PM »

Well mine says LeMans on the side cover so that is what I call it.

garp · « **Reply #18 on:** June 13, 2012, 04:37:36 PM »

Bella

Chuck in Indiana · « **Reply #19 on:** June 13, 2012, 04:49:16 PM »

Rosie is the *only* motorcycle that's ever told me her name. Every airplane has.. <shrug>

Sportsterleroy · « **Reply #20 on:** June 13, 2012, 05:26:48 PM »

My T-3 looked like such a piece of crap when I got it, Named it Da Turd.

Leroy

dilligaf · « **Reply #21 on:** June 13, 2012, 06:06:45 PM »

No, not only no but, hell no. ::( :BEER:
Matt

Sheepdog · « **Reply #22 on:** June 13, 2012, 06:23:07 PM »

As they are non-sentient, my motorcycles don't have names per se. I just call them "the Guzzi" and "the Bonnie".

Gnigma · « **Reply #23 on:** June 13, 2012, 06:35:50 PM »

Not necessarily, but if they name themselves... Mine chose "Brandy."

JJ · « **Reply #24 on:** June 13, 2012, 06:39:15 PM »

Not a female name, but I used to call my '83 850 LM-III - "The Racing Rhino!"

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #25 on:** June 13, 2012, 06:41:47 PM »

Quote from: MGKrebs on June 13, 2012, 01:08:52 PM

, but I am told it must be a girls name. ??

says who? it's your bike..

MGKrebs · « **Reply #26 on:** June 13, 2012, 07:02:57 PM »

Well I've never named any of my bikes before, but this one does seem to have a personality. Besides, the GF rides her own and wants mine to have a name to, so I feel like I better name it something I like before she names it something like Lyle or Dwight.

CalVin2007 · « **Reply #27 on:** June 13, 2012, 07:09:56 PM »

My buddy named my Cal Vintage "Gina" as in Gina Lollobrigida.

guzzi4me · « **Reply #28 on:** June 13, 2012, 07:24:26 PM »

Yes. See below.....
:BEER:

Joe A. · « **Reply #29 on:** June 13, 2012, 08:55:30 PM »

Don't name my bikes, but if pushed, Iuse a name someone on this board shared many years ago.

Basso Profundo.

Just seems to fit and sounds cool :bike

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