Bike names – fact or fiction?
Bike names – fact or fiction?
Which of these curiously named bikes is made up and which is the real deal?
Which of these curiously named bikes is made up and which is the real deal?
Japanese manufacturers have form when it comes to choosing strange names for their bikes, so we kick off with a whimsically-named model from Honda, but which horse-based name is more than mythical?
One of these is a moped, produced by Guzzi between 1963 and 1976, and one isn’t, but which one?
This is an air-cooled 250cc parallel twin with the CB250 designation. If you were Honda, which bird-related name would you choose – Nighthawk or SeaGULL?
Picture the scene: you work for Harley’s product development department, you’re about to launch a new cruiser and you’ve whittled the possible names down to these two. There’s only one clear option, right?
Abingdon was in business at the start of the 20th century and was a British manufacturer of single and twin-cylinder bikes, with manly names, it seems…
An ocelot is a real animal, a bit like a small leopard. That sounds like a good potential name for a bike, but ‘Elefant’? We’re not so sure…
‘Rage’ and ‘Fury’ are both so toe curlingly clichéd potential names for motorcycles that it’s hard to tell which might be real.
Like we said at the start, the Japanese are good at coming up with odd names for bikes.
Coming from anyone else but Suzuki, these could both be made up names, but this is the manufacturer that gave us the ‘Bandit’, so one of these is definitely a real bike.
One of these is a proper motorcycle and one’s made up, although they both sound like they could be on sale at Ann Summers.