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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2016, 01:07:15 pm »
...and how long til someone else swears they knew her... ;-)
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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2016, 02:09:03 pm »
I don't have a name for it so occasionally have to apologise or clarify whilst riding if I swear or curse someone, "sorry not you, the idiot over there".
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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #17 on: August 01, 2016, 12:41:37 pm »
I call mine The Bike, now many years ago I had a girlfriend with the same nickname but that's a whole different story which I won't go into  ;D

Maybe something is coming across your mind when you jump and ride it!  :o ;D
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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #18 on: August 01, 2016, 05:58:21 pm »
My sentiments exactly
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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #19 on: September 11, 2018, 07:19:26 pm »
My Number plate has KFC in it so obviously he's called The Colonel😁

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #20 on: September 11, 2018, 07:36:55 pm »
If it is running sweetly then I'm too busy to think of a name...

If it is having a hot-start hissy fit you'll have to ask Richard what I called it the last time it did it, he was the only one within earshot...

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #21 on: September 11, 2018, 07:51:45 pm »
I must be down on the humanity spectrum. I have never named cars or bikes, they are all sexless 'its'.

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #22 on: September 11, 2018, 08:35:57 pm »
My Number plate has KFC in it so obviously he's called The Colonel😁

As my name is Sanders and i have a reputation at work of not suffering fools gladly or otherwise, I am known to many as The Colonel....

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #23 on: September 11, 2018, 08:42:34 pm »
You are doing better than me Martin I don't suffer fools at all  :o

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #24 on: September 13, 2018, 04:56:23 pm »
The Panzer for my 13R :-)
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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #25 on: October 03, 2018, 09:14:04 am »
A friend just found a name for mine this weekend: "Tangerine Extravaganza" (it's the lava orange K1300R model). I love the excessive number of syllables, just like the excessive torque and HP on the bike.

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2018, 01:18:10 pm »
mines, stealth bomber

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2018, 09:58:36 pm »
Ok i know its silly but i always refere to my 13r as THE BEAST and my bmw car as THE LADY keep it clean and not when you have grazed your knuckles or burnt your arm on the exhaust what do you call yours   ;D

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2018, 10:14:55 pm »
 :D :D :D :D

That might need a little explanation for some of our non-British cousins Steve  :D

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Re: I call my bike THE BEAST what do you call yours
« Reply #29 on: November 13, 2018, 01:58:11 pm »
I refer to mine, if ever, as my "little motorcycle." I have to avoid putting on a very bad Gruber accent, but that's the reference I assume nobody ever gets!
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