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Old 05-12-10 | 05:11 PM
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Well Of Course. How would you Identify the bike without a name. My bike is named "Buck". Because it is like John Cnady in "Uncle Buck", Strong and Dependable.
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Old 05-14-10 | 01:00 PM
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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."
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Old 05-17-10 | 07:03 PM
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Old 05-17-10 | 08:54 PM
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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.
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Old 05-18-10 | 05:40 PM
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My LHT is called Camion. After a horse I used to know, and it for "truck" in French.

My SO initially called his Truckacchino "Lorry", but later decided to call it "Decaf" because it makes him feel slow and lazy.
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Old 08-29-10 | 05:26 PM
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Old 08-29-10 | 05:42 PM
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I manage large marinas for a living these days. You may have heard that some people actually name their BOATS! (gasp!) Yeah, believe it or not, some people actually do name their modes of transportation. And it naturally follows to me that I should have a name for my GT Xizang titanium mountain bike that I bought new back in 1995. I'm not as creative as I used to be, so I just call her "LADY XIZANG".

I know from experience that if you get really fond of something and attached to it, that tempts the theft-gods, and someone will come along to snag it. That causes me to be somewhat paranoid and to keep a much closer eye on my Lady Xizang than I might otherwise.
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