What does your username say about you?

Named after one of Brants creations at On-one, sadly now gone, however stuck with it now😁

Why ruin the mystique?

nuke
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Back in the 90s i thought the brand nukeproof was a cool name for a component company so, when i started using bike forums, id use it as my username. Clearly somebody else thought the same and the brand was resurrected so i shortened my username…not sure why now

Because on STW there's no pudding.

I’m a fan of funk, old school hip-hip and my name is Phill.

You probably want some hoppy IPA to go with that music.

Y'know sometimes when some random stupid thought comes floating into your mind (is it just me?)

Anyway I was minding my own business when the word ossify floated through my brain and I was idly thinking about its meaning: to turn into an 'oss (horse) 😁

So it became my username here, when my usual was already taken.

What does that say about me? Dread to think 🤪

Midland Trailquests was a mountain bike orienteering club. I thought that using the club name as my user name was a good way of publicising our events.
We eventually became part of the national club, British Mountain Bike Orienteering, and MTQ ceased to exist.

I had a Turner 5 Spot when I joined

At the time DH had Steve Peat and Steve Smith as some of the fastest racers, during a conversation a friend said it may be something in the name, I replied that I wish I was called Steve

My name is Dave and I used to have a yeti. But I am also tall and have lots of body hair so that works as well..

Mine suggests that I am a consumer of kayaks, and that I am currently on my 23rd.
However, this isn't the case.

That I’m neither great, nor bearded.
People, however, are forever telling me to ‘do-one’.

One out of three ain’t bad😂

It's the song I was listening to at the time I signed up

Mine is another rather boring one.

Combination of my nickname at school and the number of the family home.

I never actually failed anything, I just wish I had stuck with it ..... (bit late now, at 68!)

Back in the days of Freeserve chat, I used my real name and was called a ‘Twonk’ for doing so, so called myself Twonky.

Changed it to Twonks a bit later, not sure why, and it sort of stuck.

Use the same on many forums and should really change it I suppose.

Surname based nicknames, originally Hamster before the big hack and changed to Sandwich afterwards.

Like many of my generation, I'm called John. Joining Magucseaweed forum a bit over 20 years ago, I found that John had been taken, so I repeated it to be johnjohn (the great johnjohn F would then have been only 10 and yet to emerge on the world stage. I probably inspired him). I met a bunch of folks off MSW and still know a few in real life. Forum has long gone and the website is going week after next. Nostalgia prob inspiring this post...

Joining this forum, I find someone's already taken johnjohn, so I make my name John times two. I can't be accused of creativity that's for sure.

I was mark2404 until the hack; it wouldn’t allow me this on re-registering so went with a childhood nickname.

Mildred = Yootha Joyce (from George & Mildred).

When at school I wanted hair like Robert Smith or Ian Mculloch, but when I grew it I got Mildred’s bouffant. Friends are very mean & it took someone about 10 seconds to come up with that.

I cut it & kept it down a bit & was immediately nicknamed Jai (Tarzan’s little native helper in the eighties TV show). Because I tan very easily & looked fairly Asian

@dancingfool Could have been worse, you could have been listening to Jewish Princess.

@dovebiker

Are you Danny Macaskill?

Alpine in German.

I was guiding in the alps and rode a Dialled Bikes Alpine at the time.

When I was in the forces and asked what my name was I would reply ‘Smith’ to which the next response from the questioner would be ‘is that Smith with 2 f’s? So just thought why not Smithwith3fs, I use it a lot for a few forums.

Erm....

I didn't have a dog at the time, but now i do.

Not a fan of wookies any more than the next, but I've a lot of hair on my head.

Retro as I rode an old bike compared to my friends bikes.
Rick as it's my name.

Meh,its a street name I was given in a past life(fast cars/girls,drugs and Blur).

Not my outlook in life, which is actually upbeat.

Christ is short for Christian (my first name) and I am male.

That was 10 years ago. Probably would chose something different now.

I took my helmet off.

self explanatory really, and not half as exciting as how TJ sees my name (sadie spunk) 😀

although yes im an ex-punk, im neither down in the dumps nor suffer from seasonal affective disorder, the 'sad' bit is a tad colloquial i think, just means my mates thought it was a bit pathetic that i still liked it, as in 'thats a bit sad mate'. theyre wrong.

I’m a real-life Mr Darcy (yep, dined out on that…thank you Colin Firth). I farted once, was wearing a lot of denim and my mates said, “Jesus Darcy, that’s deadly…” and my close mates coined “deadlydenimdarcy.” Then scored a few goals in a Gaelic Football game between Chemists (us, class of about 35) and Business Studies (class of about 250) in a major shock result at Uni. A few people started cheering “deadly, deadly…” so the “denim” kinda got dropped and “deadlydarcy” stuck. Use it all over now.

Back in the day when it was 3 chainrings....due to my lack of fitness (even worse now lol), guess which one I couldn't have been without 🙂

What does that say about me? Dread to think 🤪

That you've never looked your name up in a dictionary?

I have a slightly more science based background than my riding peers.

I have a more evidence based, thorough, observational approach to bike maintenance than most of them and its a given name from them, the fully title being 'Scienceofficer surname'

It's reinforced by me observing things on rides such as the famous 'thats not a cloud inversion, its low fog' and the associated monologue on atmospheric adiabatics.

Stolen from Charlie Brooker’s screenwipe character (and director), the cultural commentator/taking head, freely giving his onions in an ever exasperated and irritated manner.

Seemed fitting for the forum at the time.

Blimey, I’m not sure even I can remember where roverpig comes from. It dates back to the early days of usenet news (ask your grandad) and if I remember correctly was an amalgam of the software I used (NewsRover) and a server (NewsPig) I was using at the time.

I’ve tended to use it for most online stuff (except Strava where I have a totally different made up name) as a reminder that online is not real.

When I was younger, I kept getting myself into trouble for silly things. I was also known to be fond of Marvin the Martian and Duckdodgers. After one incident, one of my friends said I was Daffy Ducked. It stuck.

If I'm honest, nettles don't really bother me much, but I couldn't think of anything else at the time. And then there was the Great Hack and the Great Rejoin, and it was quicker to type

My name is John and I play drums

My first full sus was a Boardman and now I can't change my username 'cos its a bit poo!

That you’ve never looked your name up in a dictionary?

My meaning is better.

Before the big cull/crash/refresh/whatever it was back in the day, I had the cheesy username of SingleTrackRocks. That's all

Over on Bikemagic there was something going on that resulted in me changing from using my real name to "Notoriously Bad Typist". that was always shortened to NBT and it stuck. And it's accurate

Well, one part is my actual first name, and the other bit is because I'm a bit of a Ford fanboi and I owned a Fiesta ST around the time of signing up.

I'm not a saint.

I have really hairy feet

one part is my actual first name, and the other bit is because I’m a bit of a Ford fanboi

Not gonna lie, until you clarified later in that post I thought your name was Saint and you once had a Ford Colin.

I used to do a bit of rallying and might have failed to make a few junctions in my time!

One day a fellow competitor said "look out her comes Mr Overshoot" as I walked up to him, it sort of stuck.

It is a combination of an abbreviation of my name and something memorable to me.

"I think you'll find, it's Mr Understeer."

It's an acronym.
I'll have a go at most things, but I'm not the best at any of them.

I’ll have a go at most things.

Even Morris dancing? You monster!