Originally Posted by
khorpulent
I resisted naming my LHT for a couple years until I went touring with a friend who was much faster than me. He rode like greased lightning, I pointed out, whereas I moved like regular lightning. Seemed appropriate to dub my bike "Regular Lightning." Sometimes I call it "Ol' Reg."
I ditched my LHT last summer. I had taken to calling it "Babe the Blue Ox", before trading it for two other pretty nice bikes.
Most of my other bikes have names too, but this is the touring forum, and they aren't touring bikes.