What's in a name?
Some people have suggested to me that it's an odd (and not particuularly good!) name for a project bike, so why il Bastardo'?
(If you've followed the link to Gavin-the-engineer's blog, you'll be up to speed on this already).
So... I was advised at an early stage that every project worth its salt needs a name, and I think that's right.
From the first moment I understood the meaning of the iconic bike brand Metisse, I really liked it. If you're as much in the dark as I was, the firm that created fantastic racing/off road hybrids by building their own frames and dropping Matchless, Triumph and other engines in, adopted the name Metisse because it's French for 'mongrel'.
So, as my bike is a mongrel too, but an Italian one, I figured that whatever the Italian word for mongrel was, that would be its name.
I was a bit disappointed at first - not quite oozing with Umrbian style, is it? But in fact I've come to like it, so it's there to stay.
Viva il Bastardo!
Some people have suggested to me that it's an odd (and not particuularly good!) name for a project bike, so why il Bastardo'?
(If you've followed the link to Gavin-the-engineer's blog, you'll be up to speed on this already).
So... I was advised at an early stage that every project worth its salt needs a name, and I think that's right.
From the first moment I understood the meaning of the iconic bike brand Metisse, I really liked it. If you're as much in the dark as I was, the firm that created fantastic racing/off road hybrids by building their own frames and dropping Matchless, Triumph and other engines in, adopted the name Metisse because it's French for 'mongrel'.
So, as my bike is a mongrel too, but an Italian one, I figured that whatever the Italian word for mongrel was, that would be its name.
I was a bit disappointed at first - not quite oozing with Umrbian style, is it? But in fact I've come to like it, so it's there to stay.
Viva il Bastardo!
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