Why name the Norton Trixie?

The first bike I named was my F650 Dakar, which received the sobriquet Crisco, as in Fat in the Can for the bikes appearance when fitted with aluminum panniers.

Casting about for a name for the Norton, I thought of the Jackie Gleason sit com from the 1950's, the Honeymooners, and remembered Gleason's on air buddy was named Norton, but I couldn't remember the first name. A quick look up showed that Norton's name was Ed and that his wife's was Trixie and that Trixie was a former burlesque performer. Norton: "Every night I'd meet her backstage and hand her a rose ... It was her costume!" My Norton will lose some parts during its revival and it will be entertaining, so why not Trixie, the name is more interesting than Ed.

Jim