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- Sun Feb 02, 2014 9:41 am
#32965
Come to think of it although The Enfield is just The Enfield it is sometimes referred to as a 
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 6:42 pm
#32969
My 500 Bullet is called Ellie, when I think about it all my bikes have been given girls names. The Ducati is called Darla and my Lemans is called
Leona.My wife has even called her Guzzi Flo. I did have a Gus once but I sold him.
Leona.My wife has even called her Guzzi Flo. I did have a Gus once but I sold him.
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:39 pm
#32973
None of my bikes have a name, they are not people after all. However they call me MadMike............I have no idea why.
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 6:03 pm
#32978
My 500 Bullet when wheeled out of the garage and starts with the first kick is called Black Beauty. After returning into the house to kit up with leathers, boots, helmet go to the bike which then refuses to start after a good few sweating kick overs is immediately re-named the Black Bastard. Normally no name applies I just love it. It would appear I am not alone.
Roll on the summer and hope to get back to Barra and Harris for a week. I stay at great B&B run by a motorcycle couple in Castle Bay address and phone number if anyone is going up there.
Roll on the summer and hope to get back to Barra and Harris for a week. I stay at great B&B run by a motorcycle couple in Castle Bay address and phone number if anyone is going up there.
- Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:27 pm
#32979
Dennis yes heading there on woodsman in april/may via skye. Back via. Stornoway and ullapool to revisit same trip 30 years ago on a t90
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:09 am
#32986
I have 2 classic 500s-----------SODDOM & GOMORRAH ----------- you can work it out yourself !!
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 1:19 pm
#32989
A friend of mine from some years back was a very good mechanic.
Although sadly long gone now, he once told me a marvellous story of his old motorcycle.
It was the mid-1930s that he bought the Sunbeam, a long stroke single. Initially it kept going wrong, it would cough and then stop leaving him stranded, unable to start it. Although he was a excellent mechanic he could not find the problem for sometime until he swapped some parts out.
He told me that they finally found out that one piece of metal which is usually as strong as hell, had a manufacturing fault, giving it a weak point which allowed it to flex. This was causing the problem.
After that, with his old school care, She ran faultlessly for many years until he sold her, but it was already too late to change the name he had given her in those first few weeks.
She was called "Walker".
Why???
Well, in those first few weeks when she would break down, he would have to either walk 'er to work or walk 'er back home.
And that is how she got her name!
A friend of mine from some years back was a very good mechanic.
Although sadly long gone now, he once told me a marvellous story of his old motorcycle.
It was the mid-1930s that he bought the Sunbeam, a long stroke single. Initially it kept going wrong, it would cough and then stop leaving him stranded, unable to start it. Although he was a excellent mechanic he could not find the problem for sometime until he swapped some parts out.
He told me that they finally found out that one piece of metal which is usually as strong as hell, had a manufacturing fault, giving it a weak point which allowed it to flex. This was causing the problem.
After that, with his old school care, She ran faultlessly for many years until he sold her, but it was already too late to change the name he had given her in those first few weeks.
She was called "Walker".
Why???
Well, in those first few weeks when she would break down, he would have to either walk 'er to work or walk 'er back home.
And that is how she got her name!
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