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The Soul-Taming Power of Motorcycle Names

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Names aren’t just labels; they’re commitments. We opened with The Little Prince and the fox’s lesson on “taming," the slow craft of building ties, and used it as a lens to ask why we name bikes, boats, and the objects that shape our lives. From there, we dove into how ritual, patience, and attention turn a mass‑produced machine into a companion with character.

To ground the philosophy, we toured three fresh builds from the shop. A Phoenix 250 in deep green with gold primary and copper secondary striping showed how color can carry personality. A fully dressed vintage‑red Halcyon 450 wore skirted fenders, polished stainless, a headlight visor, and brown leather that felt timeless. A frame‑matched Halcyon 250 with double gold pinstripes balanced elegance and restraint. Each choice, pinstripe width, leather tone, lighting, demonstrated how customization becomes a rider’s signature. You don’t just ride these bikes; you recognize them at a glance, like a friend’s stride in a crowd.

The live chat pushed us further: is naming about power, control, or respect? Are we honoring what’s essential or imposing order so we can understand and care for it? We compared boats and christenings, first cars and quirks, and the way a well‑worn seat seems to “remember” its rider. The consensus landed near responsibility: once you name it, you owe it, regular maintenance, honest use, and stories worth telling.

We also shared updates and plans. Our WeFunder campaign continues to grow, and even a simple follow helps us reach new riders and builders. We’re heading to winter Motocamp with a Rivian partnership to explore the conversation between carbureted two wheels and electric four, and we’re co‑producing the Rye'd or Die custom motorcycle show at Journeyman Distillery in Valparaiso. Expect craft, community, and machines with soul.

If this resonates, ride along with us: follow the show, share it with a friend who names their machines, and leave a quick review to help more riders find the ramble. Got a great bike name and the story behind it? Drop it in the comments, we want to hear it.

SPEAKER_00

Hello everyone. Welcome to the Ramble Stream Podcast. I'm Richard. And I'm Jansen. Each week we sit down for rambling conversations about motorcycles, the experience of riding, design, and whatever else catches our fancy. Bring a beverage of your choice or stories, and we'll see where this takes us.

Hosts, Studio, And Bourbon

SPEAKER_03

If you're interested in thoughtful conversations, friendly and informative banter with fellow riders, and the latest dispatches from Janus Motorcycles headquarters, you're in the right place. Let's get started. My name is Richard. Um I'm broadcasting from downtown Goshen, Indiana at the Goshen at the Janus headquarters. Um, and I am sipping on a fine bourbon E.H. Taylor gifted by Jansen.

SPEAKER_01

Jansen. To myself. And to Richard. There's a bit of feedback Amy is saying. My name is Jansen. I am also coming to you live from the Ramble Stream studio here in Goshen. Uh I ramble in a Ford Lightning and soon to be rambling on a uh Phoenix 450. I'm also sipping on some beautiful, delicious, yummy E.H. Taylor. Small batch. Wonderful. There was a barrel batch or a barrel or a cask strength uh uh bottle, but that was almost four hundred dollars. Well, there you go. So I said no. Why didn't you get that? Uh because I don't want to spend$400 on a bottle of bourbon.

SPEAKER_03

Um just if you're joining the stream now, there may be some audio or video issues. We are uh we had to make some compromises to make it work.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, in reality, it's the exact same setup that we have had over the last few weeks. I'm not sure where the feedback is coming from because I'm not hearing that in my ears, but there definitely is a chance that it's happening out there.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, well, there we go. So let us know if you have any issues. Um but we have a good program this evening for y'all. Um I mean I'm actually quite excited about it. Uh we got build, what do we call it? We're calling it featured builds. So we're gonna be returning to um some actual builds from the shop, uh, not doing um config the as fun as they were, the configurator builds. So I'm excited to share some of those. We'll have more much more of those in the coming weeks. Um we are building a lot of bikes.

Community Roll Call And Weather

SPEAKER_01

Mitch sent me a very large list. Did he? So fantastic. I mean, we are we are firing all on all cylinders here. Uh, but I think it's really important that we go up to the first comment.

SPEAKER_02

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

At 1209 p.m. Richard, this is all you.

SPEAKER_03

This is David Walker. See you on the replay from the UK. All right. You know, great. We'll catch you, we'll catch you in the morning.

SPEAKER_01

Hi, David. Glad you're uh watching the replay. Uh, you luckily will not get to experience the technical difficulties that we just did because that'll be cut out. So it's good to see you. Nice. Up next, we've got Straw Dog. Hello, folks. He said, I think Straw Dog, you're not normally that early. That was that was pretty early. Halcyon 2VD number 769 in Wisconsin, a land of the cold.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, Scott, our um VP of supply chain um was telling us that he had a his temperature was negative eight degrees earlier in the day. Uh I thought it was cold here, it was eight degrees here.

SPEAKER_01

What what is that in uh Celsius? Do you know? I don't care either. Very cold. Hey, David cares. I'm trying to relate to our viewers here. He probably knows it's fair and he probably does. He probably does. We've got uh Speed Racer95, naming things is a form of power. It allows for definition, control, and creation, enabling us to categorize the world, shape perception, and build understanding. Well, that's the stream, guys. Yeah, that's it. I'm so glad you guys tuned into the show.

SPEAKER_03

Mama always told me life's like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. I do. I know what I'm gonna get.

SPEAKER_01

And it is Orange Crush. Hi, Kelly. We've got uh John Gover, new owner of Halcyon 450 number 119, currently with some snow remaining on the ground in central North Carolina. How are you doing, John? Congratulations on your new to Halcyon. Of course, we've got John here with Halcyon 250, number 1148, Casmere and sunny Rancho Cucumonga. Uh, I'm gonna go for a ride and I'll see y'all later. Uh I'm I'm assuming we're seeing you now, John. Since he was on the pre-ramble. He was on the pre-ramble. Yeah, who's already there?

SPEAKER_03

Eric Green up in Vancouver drinking Dutch Brothers Mocha with a 2022 Halcyon 250.

SPEAKER_01

Janice McRyder, my favorite viewer. Halcyon 450, number 331, Halcyon 250, number 569 from the northern Michigan, Michigana range. Sorry, how dare I? Where the wind chills are bone snapping. Oh boy, do we have more cold weather coming? Do we? We do. It's supposed to be pretty bad.

SPEAKER_03

All you Osborough Clipper, names and power. Tonight's stream will be positively biblical. Nice. Yes, it can't it might it might range a little bit that way.

Introducing Tonight’s Theme: Naming

SPEAKER_01

It might. It might not. Who did Adam name? I don't know. Uh I think it's a bit cold for baseball tonight, unless you live in Arizona or something. Or it's not too cold for football. Word on the street is uh there's a big game happening right now. I see uh a single comment. I'm not sure how many of you all are are football people, um, but I feel like this is important. Go ahead. That's all I have to say. I feel like it's important we support fellow fellow Hoosiers as Hooster yourself. No matter what activities they're involved in. Yeah, that's right. So, Richard, we we spoke a little bit about it and from the thumbnail and the title. Uh, we're talking a little bit about names and where they come from. Or what give us a little give us a little sneak peek.

SPEAKER_03

Give us a little Well, we were talking it started in during a ramble either last week or the week before. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_01

I think it was last.

SPEAKER_03

Talking about the naming of your rambling vehicle and talking about like boats and how they're named, and um whether or not our JNSs have names. Um mine all 68. All 68. Um but that got me thinking, and and Jansen thinking about the significance of names and why we name things. And so I thought that there's quite a lot to be covered in that topic. So we'll talk a little bit about why you might name something. And then also I I kind of might sidetrack us a little bit um more on that topic.

Membership Perks And Pre‑Ramble

SPEAKER_01

I'm here for it. But that's not for a little bit. We've got a couple things to go through first. First things first, I think I don't know if it's necessarily the first thing, but uh you guys see that little join button down uh under uh the video here next to Janice Motorcycle's name. You can uh hit join, and for$6.99 a month, you can have access to the pre-ramble stream, which is about 30 minutes of Richmond and I getting ready, uh not experiencing technical technical difficulties, believe it or not, having a grand old time. Uh I was actually going fine. It was great talking about uh uh sometimes it's the the current episode we're about to do, or maybe the next one, uh, as well as just some other shenanigans. That's it's been a lot of fun. I've had it I've really enjoyed that pre-ramble time.

SPEAKER_03

And in addition to that, you get early access one week ahead to all of our videos. So for those of you who are not members, the first Janice video uh done by it's Jansen.

The Little Prince Reading

SPEAKER_01

It's been out for almost an entire week now. Will come out tomorrow. So you guys, for everyone who's not a member will see it uh tomorrow for the first time, and everyone who is a member will see a new video tomorrow. Um, so yeah, that that's uh one of the two of the perks, and then the last perk uh which we have yet to execute on, but I've got a good idea behind uh is uh you guys get access to some short videos that no one else gets to see ever, ever, ever, unless they become a member. So those are just some perks. Uh again,$6.99 a month, and that goes toward uh making improvements here, like maybe an overhead cam one day. I don't know. We'll see. Uh but I think I feel like now's a good time to get into a poem, don't you, Richard? I think it'd be great.

SPEAKER_03

So we're not gonna be reading technically a poem. Right, right, right. Um, and you'll have to uh permit me to go a little longer than usual. Uh but this ties in directly with I still well not directly, indirectly to our ramble. Overhead cam engine, Mark asks. Yes, we got one exactly um overhead camera. Um ties into our ramble and incidentally our thing. Um, because it all it all has to loop together. But I'm I'm afraid that I have a much better edition of this book. Um this is a little prince um who that I'm sh I'm sure some of you all must be familiar with. But this is a really cheap paper copy that I have here. I have just completed a move of my house and family, and all my books are still in boxes. So I couldn't find the old so you so you have like an old open of this book. Really nice. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's still the same book. Um this is The Little Prince by Antoine de Sand Exupere. Um, and if you don't know about him, he was a pretty pretty interesting character in his own right. I won't you you should look him up, but he did um he disappeared uh in his airplane, um some somewhere over the Mediterranean. And the belief is that he was shot down by a German fighter plane in World War II. Um they this the the German pilot who shot him down uh thinks he knows that he did, and he's very sad about it. He was very sad upset about it.

SPEAKER_01

He told me he was like heartbroken when he found out that there was a chance that he shot this guy down.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. Anyway, this is an absolutely wonderful book. I think it was it's at least written as a children's book, but um it bears many, many readings. And this is chapter twenty-one, so you'll have to just catch right into the story, and if you don't know where you are, go back and read the book. It was then that the fox appeared. Good morning, said the fox. Good morning. The little prince responded politely. Although when he turned around he saw nothing. I'm right here, the voice said, under the apple tree. Who are you? asked the little prince, and added, You are very pretty to look at. I'm a fox, the fox said. Come and play with me, proposed the little prince. I'm so unhappy. I cannot play with you, the fox said. I am not tamed. Ah, please excuse me, said the little prince. But after some thought he added, What does that mean, tame? You do not live here, said the fox. What is it that you are looking for? I'm looking for men, said the little prince. What does that mean? Tame? Men, said the fox, they have guns and they hunt, and is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. These are their only interests. Are you looking for chickens? No, said the little prince. I am looking for friends. What does that mean tame? It is an act too often neglected, said the fox. It means to establish ties. Just that, said the fox. Um To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys, and I have no need of you. And you on your part have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world. I am beginning to understand, said the little prince. There is a flower. I think that she has tamed me. It is possible, said the fox. On Earth one sees all sorts of things. Oh, but this is not on the earth, said the little prince. The fox seemed perplexed and very curious. On another planet? Yes. Are there hunters on that planet? No. Ah, that is interesting. Are there chickens? No. Nothing is perfect, said the fox. But he came back to his idea. My life is very monotonous, he said. I hunt chickens, men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike and all the men are just alike. And in the consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps will send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me like music out of my burrow. And then look, you see the grain field down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me, and that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me. The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you, and I shall love to listen to the wind and the wheat. The fox gazed at the little prince for a long time. Please tame me, he said. I want you very much, the little prince replied, but I have no I have not much time. I have friends to discover and a great many things to understand. One only understands the things that one tames, said the fox. Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things already made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and some men have no friends anymore. If you want a friend, tame me. What must I do to tame you? asked the little prince. You must be very patient, replied the fox. First, you will sit down at a little distance from me, like that in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me every day. The next day the little prince came back. It would have been better to come back at the same hour, said the fox. If, for example, you came at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be unhappy. Or I shall begin to be happy. I shall see happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o'clock I shall be already worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am. But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you. One must observe the proper rites. What is a right? asked the little prince. Those are also actions too often neglected, said the fox. They are what makes one day different from other days, one hour from other hours. There is a rite, for example, among my among my hunters. Every Thursday they dance the vill they dance with the village girls. So Thursday is a wonderful day for me. I can take a walk as far as the vineyards. But if the hunters dance at just any time, every day would be like every other day, and I should never have any vacation at all. So the little prince tamed the fox. When the hour of his departure drew near, ah, said the fox, I shall cry. It is your own fault, said the little prince. I never wished any you any sort of harm, but you wanted me to tame you. Yes, that is so, said the fox. But now you're going to cry, said the little prince. Yes, that is so, said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all. It has done me good, said the fox, because of the color of the wheat fields. And then he added, Go and look again at the roses. You will understand now that yours is unique in all the world. Then come back to say goodbye to me, and I will make a present of a secret. The little prince went away to look again at the roses. You are not at all like my rose, he said. As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes, but I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world. And the roses were very much embarrassed. You are beautiful, but you are empty, he went on. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you, the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone, she is more important than all the hundreds of other roses, because it is she that I have watered, because it is she that I have put under the glass globe, because it is she that I've sheltered behind the screen, because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars, except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies. Because it because it is she that I have listened to when she grumbled or boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing, because she is my rose. And he went back to the fox. Goodbye, he said. Goodbye, said the fox, and now here is my secret a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. What is invisible what is essential is invisible to the eye, the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember. It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. It is the time I have wasted for my rose, said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember. Men have forgotten this truth, said the fox, but you must not forget it. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. I am responsible for my rose, the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.

SPEAKER_01

What is the tie from that story to you said there was a tie to this from that story to the thing the ramble and the ramble.

SPEAKER_03

Well What do you think it is?

SPEAKER_01

I'm not just asking that to my question, maybe. I wish I could really answer. I I was inundated with a technical difficulty. Did did people get to hear the whole thing? Yeah, that everyone could hear. Um but uh there was no video for well I think the the the reason I thought that would be a good one is that what I what I always say about motorcycles is that motorcycles customize themselves.

SPEAKER_03

And it is not the fact that you can't buy I mean you can buy a custom motorcycle, but you can't really buy a custom motorcycle. Right. You have to customize a motorcycle yourself, right? Or be involved in the process. Right. And it is through that process that you are able to customize it. Like it's that it it customi they they customize themselves and a lot of times, like we say, that the customization is just the act of you doing things with it's the length of the relationship with that eye or the intensity. And And I think that one could say the same thing about anything. Right? Anything. Thing.

SPEAKER_04

Yes.

SPEAKER_03

That it is something that you have tamed.

SPEAKER_01

Does that make sense? Once you tame it, I feel like then you can name it. Perhaps. Right?

SPEAKER_03

Like think through that process, right? Well, I don't want to get too far into the ramble, but I just I didn't want to answer that question because maybe that that that was a bit of a stretch for some people. I don't think it was a stretch.

SPEAKER_01

I I do remember hearing a little bit of it as you read it uh to me last week, uh, or at least an excerpt of it last week, and I thought it fit well.

SPEAKER_03

But that that book and that passage, I think, are very they help eliminate elimin eliminate our understanding of things and the fact that one of the things we were talking about is the naming of things and why that's important. Yeah. Like like a boat. Why do you name a boat? Why is it bad luck to not name your boat?

Featured Build: Phoenix 250

SPEAKER_01

I've got a question. I feel like we gotta we gotta wait. We gotta wait until the ramble, but I've got a question about about the naming of boats in particular. Because it seems like it goes against what we've been saying. If you if i if there's a uh relationship required, whether that's intensity or time, with an object or a thing before you can name it, how are you supposed to name a boat? If you haven't sailed it. Well, I don't I don't know if I fully agree that and and I'm not trying to Hokholm.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, no, no, that makes sense. I well, I mean who who what's who's to say that you haven't spent time with a boat by the time you name it? If you build it, absolutely. Or if it is built.

SPEAKER_01

So does Okay, we're getting too deep into the rain, but we have we have a show.

SPEAKER_03

Well, I want to see I want to see the comments as well on this, and I want to engage with them. Yeah. But I hope that that that is not something that just c passes across like some sort of long bit of text and that we try and parse it a little bit because it's it's an interesting thought and one that has influenced a lot of my thinking. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know. I I um the the more we're talking about naming things, the more I'm realizing like it and I and I think I'm getting a little woo-ey, but like it's really important.

SPEAKER_03

It's very important. No, and it's interesting that he's just the fox. Right. It's not like he doesn't have a name. But his name is at least in this, it's the fox. And uh, and you and you get the you you do understand that to know something is another version of when you you like a naming is is knowing. It could be argued that it's knowing, yeah. That there's a similarity there. So I that was a bit much. I like to just read the the bit and just let people make their own sense of it. Yeah, what that was a bit over-explained, but it will help as we dig out the ramble.

SPEAKER_01

I'm curious to hear uh some of y'all have chimed in already with your thoughts around um some of the uh correlations between that that chapter there in that book uh to the ramble. So I I'm uh we'll just we'll read we'll read a couple. We've got time. We're we're a little late because of technical difficulties, so we'll read a couple. A rose is a rose, is a famous phrase Gertrude Stein's in Gertrude Stein's 1913 poem, Sacred Emily, signifying that things are what they are, emphasizing an object's inherent essence beyond names or metaphors.

SPEAKER_03

Y'all are smart. Well let's let's just not write that off as uh being smart. No, I emphasizing an object's inherent essence beyond names or metaphors. Like, what is a thing's inherent essence, is as I think what we're talking about. But but I don't I don't I think a and I I do recognize that that Stein reference, but it's a very yeah, a rose is a rose has become a saying almost.

SPEAKER_01

I I think that naming it identifies its essence in a way. I don't think there's a a beyond that. I think that is that. Possibly, yeah.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

I'm feeling very philosophical uh this evening. Well you're in the right place, Jansen.

SPEAKER_01

What's up, old school? Glad to see you here. There's another one that I that I saw that I I wanted to uh true friend is awesome. Yes. Absolutely, Kevin. Very true. There's nothing better than a true friend, I will say. Well, let's get to um our audience's favorite segment. Is it brought to us by Mitch McLean? This is featured. It feels it feels wrong for now. We'll get used to it. It's it's featured builds time. Uh it's where we showcase some some of the builds that have come off of uh our our stands here uh this week and now weeks previous, uh, since we had a little hiatus here. Um, but first off, and I think he's here in the stream. Who is this? This is Jason's Phoenix 250. All right, nice. This is uh Phoenix 104. Roger Roger, I hear you good buddy, is the full name, I think.

SPEAKER_03

10-4 means that this is the 10th anniversary phoenix. Correct. And it's the fourth 10th anniversary phoenix. Now so obviously this is a soft tail 250. This is a phoenix. If you're familiar, so this could either be, if we didn't know, it could either be a griffin or a phoenix, but most definitely not a house gun. This is a phoenix. This is a phoenix.

SPEAKER_01

So we got a black, gloss black, and chassis. I am going to guess American blue.

SPEAKER_03

That's a good guess. I'm gonna guess, because it's anniversary edition, I'm gonna guess primary color is super chrome. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01

Green, Confania X says green. Okay. Let's see. Moment of truth. We got we got some frame pictures to go through. I feel like we gotta do the whole thing with. I'm sorry, we gotta do the whole thing. We haven't done this in a bit. This is oh, we haven't seen a picture like this before. Right clons prepped and ready.

SPEAKER_03

Forks. Swing arms. We got the front end assembled.

SPEAKER_01

Look at those tie-downs. What a great addition.

SPEAKER_03

Coming together. Ooh. So these are the our our sport or M bars. These are the lowest bars we make for the Phoenix. These ones will make your wrist hurt.

SPEAKER_01

We can go faster too. In the best kind of way. As most sports bikes.

SPEAKER_03

This is when we're waiting on shock absorber. So this is this has been a little while since this picture was taken.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

Oh.

SPEAKER_03

Green. Oh, I should have known. RG. It was Jason. Uh-huh. I knew it was this one. I was thinking it was a different Jason. Okay. This is Foxy. This is Foxy. Is he in the chat? I think he's here. He's usually in the race. Okay. It's it. Well, this is a great looking bike. Actually, this bike was under the lights for a while and I was admiring it. It's.

SPEAKER_01

I love the Phoenix. I just the seeing them around the shop again makes my heart happy. It's got uh looks like is that a copper and gold?

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, it's copper primary and sorry, gold primary and copper secondary.

SPEAKER_01

That looks super sharp. That big old speedo. I love how the the pinstripe tapers off on the hold on, we gotta go back to that. Green wheel pinstripe. That looks super sharp. Look at that. Big fan of that. A little LED headlight action.

SPEAKER_03

And this is the 10th anniversary logo, which we didn't have a Phoenix logo, so we had a beautiful Griffin one. So we came up with this over the summer. And a matching one for the um 10th anniversary Halcyon. That looks super sharp. Very nice. That looks really good. Copper highlights on the Janus logo. Very nice. It's a beautiful bike.

SPEAKER_01

That looks super good. Oh, with the brown. Oh, it is this uh the the side plates there. What what do you call these?

SPEAKER_03

Side covers.

SPEAKER_01

The side covers. Are those normally that's normal? Okay.

SPEAKER_03

I mean, sometimes you could get those like polished. Brushed or polished. I think they come brushed, yeah. Beautiful. LED light. Great looking. Great work, great work, Jason. I mean, look at that. That was sitting up there under the lights for a while and I was just admiring it. It's a good looking motorcycle. Great like a bike.

Featured Build: Halcyon 450

SPEAKER_01

Okay, up next, we've got Will with his Houseyon 450 number 420. I believe Will is also a viewer of the stream. Good. Good. I think that name uh rings a bell.

SPEAKER_03

So we can uh go ahead and take I'm just gonna take a wild stab here. You're gonna take a wild stab at the color? Vintage red. You're gonna say vintage red. I'm gonna have to say probably is. This is a frame matched motorcycle. So probably um I mean doesn't have to be, but there is to be vintage red.

SPEAKER_01

Alright, let's go. Let's let's see. Molar truth. I know that there's a uh picture. There it is. Oil tank on there? Beautiful. Well, you want to go back to it? Are you good?

SPEAKER_03

No, we're good. We just keep moving. Swing your arm. The rear suspension.

SPEAKER_01

I love the fork. I love the copper colored bushings there at the bottom.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and that's almost like it's like when you see a bin of them, it's like treasure. Uh-huh. It's like I love it. Treasure chest.

SPEAKER_01

Look at those. Look at those tie-outs. That's a fun picture.

SPEAKER_03

Fenders. We got a lot of fun fenders in the shop.

SPEAKER_02

We do.

SPEAKER_03

Headlight bucket. Yeah, and it's starting to go together. We got headlight visor on there.

SPEAKER_00

I remember this one. This has been a little while. I didn't predict that.

SPEAKER_03

That looks so these are the skirted fenders, and this has never been done, but a metallic skirt on a gloss frame. So this is metallic gold. And instead of doing like gloss, like a vintage red side skirt with a gold pinstripe, he inverted it.

SPEAKER_01

Look how really nice. Look how that comes together, though. I don't think I've ever seen it that close. Yeah. That is hand done right there.

SPEAKER_03

That's our own fender bender, Brent Lehman, does the skirts and they're and they're individually fitted perfectly. Gosh, it is a great job.

SPEAKER_02

And then number plate on there. Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03

Saddle brown leather. Got the the brown gold. Double gold. Double gold pinstripe. Double gold. So you got double gold pinstripe on the tank and double vintage red matching on the fenders.

SPEAKER_01

That feels right.

SPEAKER_03

This is a red on the wheels. This is a loaded. Yeah, it's pretty loaded. There's another bike coming up that's also loaded. Yeah. And it's like they're both just gorgeous. These 450s when you load them up with the skirted fenders. Look at that. That's book rack. Polished stainless steel exhaust with uh fishtails, uh headlight visor, brown grips with bar end weights, double mirrors, said skirted fenders. We got a tool roll. Wow. And yeah, this is uh this is a really well-kitted out bike.

SPEAKER_01

No chasing, no tie-downs for me. Not a fan. Not a fan of the look or the practicality. I mean, you tell me. Maybe he's salty's team was dope. Come on.

SPEAKER_03

Texas Rebel Tracy says very handsome machine. I agree.

SPEAKER_01

All right. Next up, last one, last featured build here. We've got Spencer's House John 250. This is number 10, 2. Oh, we got another frame match. So let's just go ahead and say it's probably vintage red. I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna take a another wild guess and say it's vintage red.

SPEAKER_03

So we're gonna see basically this is fun. We get to see it's it's the it's the same bike in some sense in terms of the the uh color and pinstripe, but a 250 version this time. But then this one does not have the uh alternating gold. And now we get a get a good look at the um 10th anniversary logo for the halcyon, which has Alcyone weeping and turning into a Kingfisher. Each of the shields is a different shape, too. That's I I've been enjoying seeing the and the halcyon shield is the same as the Route 66 side.

SPEAKER_01

Coincidence? Highway sign. Oh, hold on. One sec. We gotta go back. Tie downs. Great addition. You really like those bones. I just think they're so nice. Beautiful. As uh a previous service technician at Janice Motorcycles, I always appreciated loading up customers' bikes that had the tie-downs. There's that logo again, that house sale logo uh on the bike. Gosh, it's sharp. Got the oxblood uh C2.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, oxblood with red. Look at that. Man. Sat tool bag. Very nice. That's and wheel pin stripe. That looks super good. And polished exhaust, but without fishtail.

SPEAKER_01

Well done. Well done, Spencer. Those are all some great bikes. Some great motorcycles coming out. Uh, that's one of the featured builds, you know? They're the the the staff favorites.

SPEAKER_03

All the logo art is beautiful. Are those Richard Worsham originals? I wish I could claim all the credit. The Griffin Shield logo is Grant, and he really just did a phenomenal job on it. The Phoenix and Halcyon logos, the idea was mine, but my lovely wife finished this. You gotta take a little bit of it. Just a little bit of it. I came up with the idea. The rough idea. But um, when it comes to actual execution, uh I'll leave it to the experts.

SPEAKER_01

That that's that's fair. That's fair. Uh Janus McGrider says, I've got special straps, no tie-downs. It's okay. It's okay. Uh we forgive you, Janice McGrider. Well, shall we shift on to a thing? Let's let's see since everything is connected today, what your connected thing is.

SPEAKER_03

We haven't done we've done fabric textiles, we've done metal, we've done all kinds of stuff, but we haven't done this is a first. Well, we actually have done crockery. We did the Roman I don't count that. That was broken. This is a plate.

SPEAKER_01

But I thought it was really good because it is the little prince. Which where's the where's your copy of the book?

Featured Build: Halcyon 250

SPEAKER_03

Right here. The book, this is his planet where he comes from. Um and the petit pants is the um, but he comes from a little planet, asteroid B216. I have not read the book, so don't anyway. This is a plate that I spotted, and this is just kind of wonderful because it ties together in a store in Rome. Nice. And so it's in Italian, it's not in French or in English. Like the book was really originally written in French.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Um, but um I will do a I'll attempt to read this. Quando si ha finito oli la valsi al matino bisogno fare con cura la polizia del plan pianeta, which roughly translates to when you have finished washing up in the morning, it's important to make beautiful the planet. So, anyway, it's the little prints on there. I bought this for my wife for a Christmas present. Uh 15 years ago. Wow. Something like that. But I had to I had to get it in my baggage home from Rome, and I was afraid of I was like the whole time. I'm like, don't get broken. It's terrible. This hangs, this is hung on our wall in our house for a whole time. And so um obviously the little prince is uh is a feature.

SPEAKER_01

A fan favorite. It's uh asteroid B612, says Jordan. B612. There we go. Marty Drew. I see. I knew I had some people in there that knew what I was talking about. We we're getting some tie-down hate in the chat here.

SPEAKER_03

Well, that's okay. It's it's it's they're the ones that are gonna suffer. I mean, I I guess that is fair. I'm just taking you don't want a tie down, you don't have to have a I'm taking it a little personally, you know. It was it honestly, we did not come up with the idea. Customers came up with the idea. I was supposed to say, where did that come from? A customer's uh one customer, I wish I remembered his name, came up with the um do you want more? Just a little bit. This this is gonna be done. We said we said maybe one more. Nope.

SPEAKER_01

This is it.

SPEAKER_03

Um customer came up with the idea and then we stole the idea. Which is a lot of a lot of the upgrades we come up with are customer ideas.

SPEAKER_01

So yeah. That's uh I I think that's a feature, not a bug for sure, of Janice taking uh customer recommendations actually to heart. Be like, okay, like how can we improve what's going on?

SPEAKER_03

So if you want us tie downs, you can have them. If you don't want them, then you know what we should do, Richard. You have many options here at Janice Motor.

SPEAKER_01

At the end of this, at the end of the stream, should we give away some tie downs? Sure. Okay. Oh, we're gonna give away some tie downs at the end of this here. Just as a Jason can't have any though. No, no, yeah. Jason and and Janice McGrider can't have any. They're not allowed to enter. But just as a as an apology for the technical difficulties, we'll give away some tie-downs. But I think uh uh we're ready for some news, and there's only uh a few things.

SPEAKER_03

Oh yeah, we have some yeah, it's good stuff though.

SPEAKER_01

We kind of skipped it last week. We skipped it last week because it just went by so fast. Uh first thing, WeFunder.

SPEAKER_03

WeFunder um is progressing well. We're excited, we keep putting up uh updates. We are just shy of 400,000, and we are right now our focus is getting to outside of the Janus family, spreading the word to more people on the WeFunder camp, on the WeFunder platform and beyond. So I guess the only request we have. Have is if you even if you're not interested in um if you if you have invested already or even if you're not get on there and give us a follow yeah and check out the updates. We do good updates and then we're trying to do is just more followers we get on the platform, um, the more it helps us.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Yeah. So it it's the first link in the description, anywhere you're watching, whether it's on YouTube, Facebook, or Twitch, um, or in or uh LinkedIn, excuse me. Um you guys can follow that that first link and just give us a follow. I think that goes a lot further than what you all would think. Um just so we can reach more people outside of the the Janus community. Uh second thing is uh we're excited to go to this is not necessarily like a come with us thing, but it's we're going to to winter motocamp.

SPEAKER_03

That's right. That will be in uh less than two weeks now. Um we're gonna go up to Michigan and we're gonna go camping and ripping around in the snow, and we're gonna be getting a ton of video and photographs to share with all of you all. With a special with go ahead, a special little twist.

Show-And-Tell: Little Prince Plate

SPEAKER_01

That Jansen's really excited about so excited about. This is near and dear to my heart. We're we're having some fun with some Rivians. Uh we're partnering with Rivian, a Rivian dealership out of Chicago, uh, who reached out to us, gosh, a a few months ago now. Um, and we're doing an uh some fun uh uh activation with them there. And uh so we're gonna be ripping around in some electric pickup trucks. Thank God trucks. Thank God we're gonna be ripping around in some electric things, you know. So we'll be comparing carbureted versus two-wheeled machines with electric four-wheeled because they machines they directly correlate. So there's lots of things that can get lost in translation between the two. No, it's gonna be really fun to see how they work together, I think. Um, and I'm excited to uh to to compare my lightning to Rivian to be exciting to get Rivian owners to learn more about Janus.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and Janus owners to learn a little bit more about these little trucks. Absolutely. It'll be fun.

SPEAKER_01

But that's uh that's pretty much all that's coming up.

SPEAKER_03

Um gosh, how could I forget? One more thing we can't forget is can't forget. We're putting on a motorcycle show, custom motorcycle show. Um, we're gonna be partnering with the good people at Journeyman Distillery in Valparaiso, Indiana. We highly encourage all of you all, whether you're in Indiana or not, to take your lovely significant other on a date. Because it's Valentine's Day. Danny and I will be there. Valentine's Day 2026. Uh, there's a motor vintage motorcycle, well, it's a motorcycle show. It's a custom bike show and at the Valparaiso um uh Journeyman distillery. It's called Ride or Die. We are doing all the motorcycle part and they're doing all the hosting and putting on the event part. So we're really excited about we have um uh quite a number of custom builders already signed up if you have customized your motorcycle, whether it's a Janice or not. I have a link. Keep going. You should consider applying to put your bike in the show.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03

And Jansen's gonna post a link. Post this link. Or you can go to the um Journeyman story website and they have a link for this as well.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

But I'm really excited. They did some great work with the art. Ride or die.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it looks super sharp. Uh I saw Gary asked, uh, is ride or die something that's going to be I think Amy already answered it, but I want to bring attention to it as well. Uh is Ride or Die going to be uh in their big warehouse or uh something outside?

SPEAKER_03

And Amy did answer that. It's in the American factory. They have an incredible venue. So um even if your supposed is not into motorcycles, they can be into good food and and good drinks, good drinks, and a good time. So it's gonna be everything. I think there's gonna be live music uh there there as well, which is gonna be fun. And we hope if it's a success, because you all come out and see it, that we're gonna be doing it again next year.

SPEAKER_01

And we we would love for it to be part of the the circuit. Yep. The custom bike circuit.

SPEAKER_03

Uh Indiana, we you know, you know, the the winter upper Midwest Motorcycle Circuit has some great shows. Yeah. Um Mama Tride, Garage Brood, among others. And we we feel like this is a great venue. It's close to Chicago, kind of Indianapolis. We can all get there, even Detroit. So consider uh coming out to it. Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, super fun.

SPEAKER_03

So all right.

Company Updates: WeFunder

SPEAKER_01

Now is time. Now we've all been waiting for for the ramp. And we'll we'll we'll go uh a few minutes over here uh due to previous events, but uh well what I want to go back to this boat question because I know people who and my dad. Dad, if you're watching, I I made sure that I sent him the link tonight. My dad's a sailor through and through. Uh good man. He uh and I remember changing I remember naming our boat, um, and I can't well shoot, I don't know if I can even say this. So my dad bought a uh a a Chrysler. Uh I can't remember what size it was. This is the first boat he ever had, or the first sailboat in in my in my life uh that he had any heading.

SPEAKER_03

My favorite name for a Chrysler sailboat, they made a model called the Mutineer.

SPEAKER_01

The Mutineer is phenomenal.

SPEAKER_03

Not a great name in my opinion.

SPEAKER_01

Um he bought it and then refinished it. So he had naming rights, I think, but uh I I can't remember if he named it before or after he refinished it. So my my question again is still if you have no history with a boat in particular, why is it bad luck to not name it before you voyage?

SPEAKER_03

And I'm not sure what the actual answer to that question is. I'm just curious your thoughts. I don't know. But I I mean but I mean, yeah, I don't know why. Um it's bad luck. I just know that it is a kind of accepted idea that you need to name the boat. And you do get bad luck if you don't.

SPEAKER_01

Do do when when big boats are made, yeah, do the builders name the boat or does the captain name the boat?

SPEAKER_03

I think probably the owners name the boat, or whoever has the final say, but that christening ceremony is always, you know, you've seen the videos or you've heard of the stories where they break a bottle on the bow of the boat. Um and I and and oftentimes they you know the the the the the thing is the names have a significance. Typically they're named after something or because of something or for whatever reason.

Winter Motocamp And Rivian Activation

SPEAKER_01

A boat that was posted on Reddit. I don't know if you're familiar with Reddit. Uh we started but uh that they were uh they they made a poll for naming rights for this boat. I don't remember all the details, and there were options, uh, and whichever option got the most likes uh ended up being the boat's name. And Reddit voted, I I think it was Bodie McBoat Boat, I don't remember hearing was was the name that was s selected. So I'm not sure if it was followed through on, and I'm kind of sad about it.

SPEAKER_03

Well um to talk a little bit about names though. The it it it it's obviously important when when you name something, whether it's your child, right? That's like the ones where you get to really seriously, or whether it's your dog or your bicycle, yeah, or your motorcycle or your boat, you think about it, right? You take some time to consider this thing. And that's because there's a meaning to it that's beyond it's more it's it's important, the significant. Yeah. And we we kind of were talking about like what is this why why is that important? Um and right, we are the one of the th the topics that got us started on this whole conversation was you know, yeah, why why do you need to name your motorcycle? And you know, we because I because we got old school in the chat, and he has really got a wonderful name for his bike. Althea. It's very it's it's very it's great. Nice. Yeah, old school. If you tell us, give us the full history on why you named Althea that. But there are many great names. Um whether it's a horse, like we talked about last time, with uh whether it's a but but I think what it gets to the fact of is that this is a this thing has it has a personality and it it is an entity. I remember my first car was a Volkswagen Bug, 1972 um Super Beal. And I would try to drive long distances in that thing, probably that you shouldn't have. And I would you know you get to a certain point and you're really worried or whatever, and you like you kind of pat it on the I mean I didn't even being I wasn't even being cutesy, I would be like, okay, come on. Okay, we got this. You can do it. Come on, come on, come on. And you're talking to it because this thing has a character, right? And that is what we're trying to do. I don't mean to just like bring this back to GNS, but it it helps illustrate the point. Like trying to create vehicles, or you can just say things that have a character.

SPEAKER_01

I was literally thinking character.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah. That they that they that they they matter, right. And the reason one of many reasons that I like that section from the or that I read that section from The Little Prince is that a Volkswagen bug is a mass-produced vehicle. Let's just be frank, right? Right. But they still manage to have character and they still manage to be something that you would consider naming. And that is because they they allow us to single them out from a from a from many. Right?

Ride Or Die Custom Show Announcement

SPEAKER_01

They bear they bear friendship. Yeah. There's a differentiation too amongst others, right? Like, if I've never owned a a Beetle, I would imagine that there are very it's very rare when two uh act the same.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, there are differences. Right. The way that the transmission works or whatever. Right. But they're but they're pretty much the same.

SPEAKER_01

It's it's the the quirks I feel like that help um set apart. Yeah. And I and I don't I don't see I don't want people to see this as like an excuse for like, oh, the motorcycles Janice makes are quirky, and it's because we know we don't pay attention to the quality control. Quality yeah, we don't have quality control. Like, no, like I I think just inherently vehicles that don't act differently amongst one another, uh, they've if they've they've worked, they've efficiented what is the word I'm looking for? Like they've been so efficient with production that they've completely sucked the life out of the vehicles that they make. Like my Ford Lightning will act like another lightning. Would you say that it doesn't have much character? It has it has I mean the characters, whoa, I'm going fast, right? And I and I think my opinion on this is changing. Uh I still love the truck. Easy. Uh but but I understand its its place in in my life. It's a vehicle to get me from point A to point B. Right. I still desire something that I have to pat the dash. Right. Right. And I think that uh over time, I don't I don't know, we've we've lost the the life in vehicles.

SPEAKER_03

So well, I mean, I think the argument in like in even in here is that that we've lost that in not just vehicles, but in everything.

SPEAKER_01

I don't know about everything. I think there's a pendulum swing happening, and I feel like I've talked about pendulum swings a lot lately, or at least in previous episodes, uh, especially with the age of AI, there's gonna be this resurgence toward human and the ability to uh pilot a craft is very human. Yeah.

Deep Dive: The Power Of Naming

SPEAKER_03

So I I agree with you. I think that that that we we desire a kind of connection with these things that that extends beyond just like it being an appliance, right? We talk about, right? You know, the fact that it's an appliance that gets you from one place to another, it might as well be that's what my my what I say in the Rambler's companion is in some ways a Tesla. You know, set aside the fact that they're really fast. They don't feel as fast as a muscle car. Right? They don't have they don't stir your soul like a muscle car. It's different, it's a different tingle and different areas. I mean, I don't but I mean I don't even know if anyone could argue that when you accelerate from zero to sixty in whatever, what does a Tesla do? It's like insane. It's stupid. It's like two point the fastest ones are like almost it's 1.9 seconds. Right. It's faster than any Ferrari until like maybe a Formula One car. Yeah. The but if you get in a muscle car and you do like you're doing like zero to sixty in like four, five, six seconds, does it feel fast?

SPEAKER_01

And you get right because you're like fighting the tail end from kicking out and you're gonna do the the and you maybe you're a little bit worried that something's gonna break, right?

SPEAKER_03

And it has a bunch of characters. So like, yes, there's that aspect of it. The other aspect, I think, is that we're not making things that last long enough for us to have to build a connection with them. That's interesting too. I mean, things are designed to be disposable, and that maybe that Volkswagen, when it was brand new, was you know, just another Volkswagen. But over time, you know, I was probably the tenth owner of it, and it was my first car, and I was, you know, however old, and I had it was just like and I I owned this thing for like, I don't know, I forget how many years before I even had a license. I was like, bought my I bought this car. That's crazy. And then I was like, finally gonna be able to drive it. And it was deciding, and then it caught on fire and I rebuilt it. You know, there's something about that.

SPEAKER_01

Um I don't know. We just that'll be a story for another episode. It caught fire and you rebuilt it. We'll have to lock that one ready to talk about later.

SPEAKER_03

But then there's the idea that I'm trying to come we really need to allow more time for these rambles. Um we've got 10 more minutes of of naming something um in the fact in that that idea of power.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And so what where do you go with that? Naming something with the idea of power? No, like the connection between what having power and naming things. When because that could be you could you could you could uh maybe consider that to be there's some negative connotations.

SPEAKER_01

We we talked about um like referrals or suggestions um a handful of episodes ago. And um I I think that's what resonates true here for me anyway. Um when I think about um naming something or or or or knowing someone's name, um, and and not just like oh oh this is this is an acquaintance of mine, like this is a this is a friend of mine. Um my referrals and my opinions start to hold weight. Um and it becomes more uh than just words kind of out into the ether. Um so so as far as like a human-to-human naming uh uh or or friendship, I guess, uh that's where the power lies. But I also think the power lies between uh like a a motorcycle and and a rider. Um you know, okay, when I shift here into third gear, there's gonna be a weird clunk, but it's okay. Like you there's a relationship there and there's a knowledge of the machine, and there's a weird part of me that thinks the machine knows me too. And it and the seat is worn in a way that when I sit down on this thing, it knows who I am, it's it's conformed to me. Yeah. So that's what I think of when I think of like an knowing or bestowing a name has power. It's because I've spent time with this thing, I've uh I've learned this thing, and I've taken time to understand. I think there's that time allocation that's really important uh when it comes to like knowing things.

SPEAKER_03

This is and I think that yeah, I agree with you. I think that's true. There's also we talked about like there there were some comments like the biblical implications, and if there's kind of let's just not even say biblical, the mythical implific implic implications, which are I think in many ways are the same of naming, have to do with uh our definition of the world around us. And so when you put a name when we when Linnaeus categorizes the animal kingdom or whatever, you're you're there is an aspect of definition. You're defining this thing as having some sort of relationship, right, between and and and what it is and and and then you're also to get back to our to our what we were saying earlier in in the poem, you are you're taming it, right? And I I I just think that that's such an important or such a uh beautiful way of thinking about naming a a a motorcycle. Right? Because it's it could be any motorcycle. Yeah, it's any motorcycle. You buy a you buy a Harley Davidson and it's just another Harley Davidson until it's your Harley Davidson, and you know it, or your Buell, or your Ducati, or your Honda, or your Janice, and then over time, like just like 68, like I I went I talked to Tim, our service guy. You've got to get him in the last week, in the last week, and I said, Tim, I'm the one. Oh no, I was actually talking to Mark's wag. I was like, Mark, I'm gonna get Tim to rebuild 68. He needs some work. He goes, Oh, you can just have my motor because he's hopped up his motor. Like, and I was like, Mark, I don't want to put your motor in it. I want my motor. Uh I want and I want to, but I want to fix it because it's got like this like wine and fifth gear, and one, I think one of the teeth I like chipped. Uh huh. So, but I want to like take it apart, see what's wrong with it. There's not a whole lot, it runs fine, but I'm like, I just want to like give it a little and then put it back together again. And there and and and you wouldn't feel that way unless you had a connection. And in some ways, it's like you you tamed it. Like there's a there's a and the same thing goes with even with a friend.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_03

When someone tells you their name on some level today in the modern world just Hey, it's Richard. You know, anybody can know my name. But uh on another level when you really get to know somebody, and there's another one when one could say that there is even a name beyond your name. When you really know someone's name, you really know the person. When when and to reveal your name is to uh is to demonstrate a level of of um vulnerability.

SPEAKER_01

When my if when my wife says my name I can hear that that version of my name a lot louder than anyone else. And I I I think it's it's interesting that you can hear knowing something. Does that make sense? You can hear knowing someone. You can there's a there's an audible difference when they actually know your name. When they actually know your name. It's like a it's a recognition, it's a respect. It's like, okay, like I've spent time with this, I I've been vulnerable with this thing, this thing has been vulnerable with me, right? And I know there's a there's a a a bridge there. It's very, very interesting. And uh I I wonder if uh there's been a negative connotation with taming.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, absolutely. I think that we see it right here. Charles McGagan says naming was originally based on fear and superstition. Most boats were originally named to honor a god, seemed to be able to provide protection. Greeks and Romans thought the gods would offer protection. So this is a a view of history that um relegates myth to a sort of um primordial ignorance.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And fear.

SPEAKER_01

Is it ignorance as much as No, I'm not saying it was, I'm saying that's what Charles is saying. No, right. No, I I I'm I'm I'm defending the uh the the uh the Greeks here. Was it ignorance as much as it was uh just an attempt to understand? I think it would both be true at once, I'm not sure. I think you have to ask what fear is. Fair. Oh, here we go. Rather Eddie Z asks, are you guys having a personal conversation? I mean, I mean, do I Eddie? I don't recognize your name. Uh no, but uh please chip in. Yes and no. Um we we need to do a better better job at referring to chat. Sometimes we get lost in the ramble. Let's see, we've got Christmas here. How are you doing, Chris? Great likes Edmund Fitzgerald Porter. My dad loves that beer. Let's go 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking. Oh, that's a great song.

SPEAKER_03

The Gales of November? Gosh, it's so good. How many miles on 68? Uh probably around 20,000. We don't know though, right? We don't know. We don't know for sure. It has too many it's had too many speedometers on it.

SPEAKER_01

What other what other comments do we got here? We're talking about RZ350s? Well I feel like there's a lot more to unpack here with Nixon.

SPEAKER_03

There's a lot more. I think we need to structure the conversation more and attack little bits. It's hard when something is so big. Yeah, it's a very big topic. But I think that there's a lot of things, a lot of ways to atta uh to approach it. And I believe that this is something that um is very relevant to understanding things into Janice motorcycles. Um to rambling.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. The giveaway. We can't forget about the giveaway. We've got a giveaway, y'all. Gonna do it? I think we have to. I think we have to. We're before we are quite running late. We are over over.

SPEAKER_02

What should the keyword be, Richard? The keyword for tie down turkey. Tie down.

SPEAKER_01

Should it just be tie down? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

One word. One word.

SPEAKER_01

Tie down. In all cap. T-I-E-D-O-W. Tie down is the We have two entries so far. Two entries. Let me go ahead and share the screen here. Tie down. We're gonna be giving away a set of tubs. Funks. Timu is not the correct is not the correct giveaway word. Uh, how do you want to wrap up our our brief conversation on names and the power of naming?

Giveaway, Wrap, And Sign‑Off

SPEAKER_03

I would say to put this in the most simplest kind in the simplest terms, if you name or if you feel compelled to name your motorcycle, let's just go be very direct here. It does allow for an even closer connection with the vehicle. Um sometimes it's just easy. You can talk about it as opposed to your other bike by just using the name, right? Um, but I think that it often signifies maybe maybe you get to know it a little better.

SPEAKER_01

Can you name a vehicle after it's been out of your possession? Uh sure. I don't know why not. I don't know why not. Or like I feel like there are rules to this thing. Like why would there be rules? I it just feels like there is a necessity. Like there's a I don't know. Like if you didn't name it while you owned it, then what? Do you have rights to the name anymore? Probably not. Probably not. So you shouldn't name it. Oh. Just a thought that came to mind. We've got 25 entries. Anyone else want to enter? Eddie is spamming it. Most boats have names. Yes, they do. Team move down. It's not that's not the that's not the keyword.

SPEAKER_03

We've got 52.

SPEAKER_01

You don't need a Janus motorcycle to have tie-downs, but they might not fit your bike. They might not. Yeah, but this will probably won't. This will be everything you need to uh to add tie downs to your Janus.

SPEAKER_03

That's true. All you gotta do, if you have a Janus now and it doesn't have tie-downs, um, we will send these with the hardware.

SPEAKER_01

Make a note of that, Jansen. With the hardware. I'm making a note to myself currently. Right. These are not the correct. Okay, I'm gonna I'm just gonna do it. Okay, you you've got three, two, one.

SPEAKER_03

Twenty-six entries isn't bad. That's not bad. Oh Lord. Well, he's got enough bikes to put one on. So hopefully Charles, you probably already have tie downs.

SPEAKER_01

Charles, if you have tie downs, you have to tell us right now. No, he doesn't. He can have an extra like a set of spares. All right, Charles, if you're in the chat, please let us know. Um you you've been in the stream a lot. You know that you know the drill. Uh if Charles, if you want to go ahead and send uh your address to We've already got his address, but Rambling at Janus Motorcycles.com. You can go ahead and do that. Um if you guys have any questions or any um suggestions about stream, not criticisms, we won't take those. Uh you can also send those to rambling at janusmotorcycles.com. They call them eye hooks at the hardware store. Don't be silly. You can't buy these at the hardware store. Don't be silly.

SPEAKER_03

These are Janice made by local blacksmiths. No, just kidding.

SPEAKER_01

They're not. They're not. All right. Thank you all so much for tuning in. We'll see you next week for episode number 114.

SPEAKER_03

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