Usernames

Vélo

This has nothing to do with cycling but I was thinking, where did you all get your usernames from.

Mine's my second name. My Mother said I was named after St. Thomas Aquinas (The patron St. of Scholars) but I later found out she befriended a Nun when she was a kid in hospital.

So yes I was named after a Nun:eek:


Caroline & Gavin needn't bother respond to this.

beans

I was registering at my desk in work, eating a tin of beans and looking around for inspiration :rolleyes: Creative, no?

Esroh

Called Horse by some as we always had one but once I got on the bike I tended to go backwards off the bunch so it seemed perfect

xz

just typed in the 2 letters on bottom left of keyboard from left to right, the very first time I registered a game called Delta Force 2 back in 2000 and have used that name for everything ever since

Chips Lovell

It means 'the fool' in Spanish. I was just starting to learn Spanish when I registered. After a while I realised that more people would associate it with the Lone Ranger, which is not good. Been meaning to change it to the same nick I use on other forums, but haven't gotten around to it yet.

ednwireland

i was going to use "i am a cycling god" * in a hammond-esque voice driving a bowler wildcat but i'm ed living in nwireland and already had a hotmail address of the same name and so it came to pass i used ednwireland

* maybe an slight exaggeration

rottenhat

ba

simply my initials in lower case (Brian Attley = ba)

alfalad

It's part of my main email address and created the email address number of years back when i was getting my car! The address was only used for junk forwards and newsletters so didn't want my name in the address!

So imaginative I know!

Oh and boo hiss i own a car!!

DirkVoodoo

I always thought it was because you liked sheep

Chips Lovell

Between ba and Raam there's a lot of sheep related nicks here.

peterk19

Hotmail suggested it to me years ago and me being lazy accepted it and then i became peterk19

Hungrycol

Rattling my brain years ago trying to come up with an ebay username and my wife came up with Hungry because, you guessed it, I'm always hungry. Oh and my name is Colin! Hungrycol was born!

Lumen

A brief unhealthy obsession with bicycle lighting, currently in remission.

rottenhat

Lumen wrote: »

A brief unhealthy obsession with bicycle lighting, currently in remission.

Unhealthy to the point where you might have a spare SON lying about the place?

xz

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

I always thought it was because you liked sheep

Doesn't explain your username though :D

Jawgap

I needed a six letter word for use as a password on a work related mobile phone app - I selected JAWGAP as it is made from the first letters of six different keys on the phone - which meant it could be put in quickly without having to cycle through the other letters.......

.......now I'm thinking I should change it to anorak!

Hermy

Hermy is the lead character in The Summer of '42.

zzzzzzzz

Off Beat is the name of my company - have an email address aidan.offbeat@...

so figured i'd use the same username for everything...

Not very interesting, I know.

zzzzzzzz

Great thread by the way

Raam

Nothing to do with the Race Across America, nor with sheep.
When registering for Boards I was first "Boss", but that was rubbish so then I was listening to Lemon Jelly and went through the songs on the album and came up with "King Raam", which is just as rubbish, so I eventually shortened it to Raam.

Lumen

rottenhat wrote: »

Unhealthy to the point where you might have a spare SON lying about the place?

Haven't explored dynamos yet. Got to the point where I had a collection of torches and had started assessing whether a B&M Big Bang might be good value for money, freaked myself out, and stopped.

Caroline_ie

my 1st name ... and ie as in 'Ireland' ... I am not even irish .. meh

ROK ON

I hate my boards moniker. It sounds really folish when asked on a spin, what is your boards name, and have to answer ROK On.

Anyway, I joined the forum last year while preparing to do the Ring of Kerry cycle (ROK). (It was my first cycling event/sportif). When I had to give a username, all I could think of was ROK On.

How does one change the username?

ROK ON

Lumen wrote: »

Haven't explored dynamos yet. Got to the point where I had a collection of torches and had started assessing whether a B&M Big Bang might be good value for money, freaked myself out, and stopped.

And you have moved on to powermeters. Face it you are a techie freak.;)

You probably shuld change your name to something llike The Wattmaster

TinyExplosions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RYpCb2f9CI

Oink

el tonto wrote: »

Between ba and Raam there's a lot of sheep related nicks here.

And one pig. Or so she says anyway.

I likes pigs. Well pork really, but I don't call them that to their face. The trotters, the ribs, the ham, rasher, sausages... It's all good.

I'm hungry now.

EDIT: Oh btw, I just got a new bike, so I shall start rambling about it on the forums very soon.

DirkVoodoo

You have to subscribe.

I too feel the pain of embarrassment, I generally just use Dirk now.

Chips Lovell

ROK ON wrote: »

I hate my boards moniker. It sounds really folish when asked on a spin...

I think everyone feels that way. I know I do.

ROK ON wrote: »

How does one change the username?

You need to become a subscriber. Then you just ask in the name change forum.

SomeFool

I can be a bit of a fool.

Raam

el tonto wrote: »

I think everyone feels that way. I know I do.

I hate introducing myself using my Boards name, so cringy.

el tonto wrote: »

You need to become a subscriber. Then you just ask in the name change forum.

It used to be free, back in the day when things were free. I know I wasn't a subscriber when I had my name changes. Now they make you pay, sigh.

ROK ON

DirkVoodoo wrote: »

You have to subscribe.

I too feel the pain of embarrassment, I generally just use Dirk now.

Can't see why you are embarassed. Of all the forums that I check out, you have by far and away the best username. It's a proper internet name. Awesome.

Lumen

ROK ON wrote: »

You probably shuld change your name to something llike The Wattmaster

Picowatt would be more appropriate.

scottreynolds

el tonto wrote: »

I think everyone feels that way. I know I do.

You need to become a subscriber. Then you just ask in the name change forum.

TBH, Its a peice of piss for me..... some of us aren't ashamed of who we are.

While riding with LDB and Raam (not their real names) it was suggested that everyone should have pro rider names derived from their bike components.

The tall lanky one was called "Cervelo Velo". These are not like '**** Star' names from when you were 21. It was agreed I had to buy reynolds wheels to keep up with the Scott Reynolds theme.

BostonB

Its code, and if I tell you I'll have to....

blorg

Hungrycol wrote: »

Rattling my brain years ago trying to come up with an ebay username and my wife came up with Hungry because, you guessed it, I'm always hungry. Oh and my name is Colin! Hungrycol was born!

As I mentioned to you when I first met you, I had taken it to mean you were hungry to cycle over cols

Mine is just the first thing that came into my head when I first registered for something many many years ago.

scottreynolds

Lumen wrote: »

Picowatt would be more appropriate.

You could subcribe and then change your name to reflect what you could power with you mean 1 hour power. i.e.

Light Bulb
Computer - Mac
Toaster
Television
Computer - PC
Small House
Apartment Building
Tullamore
Dublin
etc.........
etc...........

ROK ON

scottreynolds wrote: »

TBH, Its a peice of piss for me..... some of us aren't ashamed of who we are.

While riding with LDB and Raam (not their real names) it was suggested that everyone should have pro rider names derived from their bike components.

The tall lanky one was called "Cervelo Velo". These are not like '**** Star' names from when you were 21. It was agreed I had to buy reynolds wheels to keep up with the Scott Reynolds theme.

Good idea. I may change my name to Dolan Fulcrum, or Deda Ultegra, or Hercules San Marco.

scottreynolds

blorg wrote: »

Mine is just the first thing that came into my head when I first registered for something many many years ago.

Its always something from a long time ago I guess and should be consistently used across forums. My original 'monkier' from 1995 was Polemann. Why that, my brother was called 'StickMan'.

Another friend if mine saw a battery on the wall of my brothers room and the brand 'Ultrex' became his.

scottreynolds

ROK ON wrote: »

Good idea. I may change my name to Dolan Fulcrum, or Deda Ultegra, or Hercules San Marco.

Crickey that's some excellent options....

Dirk, what about you 'Tony and Guy'

ratsam

Used to play a lot of Quake 3 Arena both online and on a Lan. On the Lan end I was winning a lot and the lads named me Master... I didnt like that so reversed it to Retsam which evolved to Ratsam (because it sounded better.... how shallow...!)

Rats

Hungrycol

blorg wrote: »

As I mentioned to you when I first met you, I had taken it to mean you were hungry to cycle over cols

Yeah I remember and wish it was now. I'm going to start lying about how I came up with the name in future!

Gavin

Quake 3. So Nouveau.

Verb was my Quake moniker, which was previously --G--. It struck fear into my opponents.

It then reached a stage where, as everyone describes, introducing myself with my online name grew cringe worthy, so I took the easy option.

stopped_clock

Talk a lot of ****e, but I'm right twice a day (I think, at least). Except noone knows when. Also, my actual-name based username has already been taken by another poster on this forum.

I'm liking how my assumptions about the usernames are way off! I presumed El Tonto was cause of the Lone Ranger and Raam was from Race Across America... And yes, that Ba was a sheep thing...

I've never yet introduced myself with my username, but if I do ever make it out on a boards spin, I can't see myself keeping a straight face.

Signal_ rabbit

Mine was a hot mail suggestion, Fek knows how they came up with it. When I typed it in on here I accidentally put in a hyphen and a space, and now its stuck. I do like rabbit mind (to eat!).....mmmmmmmmmmm!

thebouldwhacker

Mine is totaly random... I'm not bold and not a whacker either.... I'm not from dublin (which the name kinda suggests) I'm from cork.

Strange how the brain works...
As for changing your tag, why bother? Its all about what your used to... also isn't life about having a laugh and if you want to be known as a computer game character on the forum you use so be it!!!

Live it love it:cool:

(gotta change my signature though)

Originally I was Ace_Rimmer. Turns out non-Red Dwarf fans thought the username meant something else. Went for Myth for no reason other than the username was free, and I did a brief stint as EduMyth which is an in-joke on another forum. Recently since I was signing my name after several of my posts on other boards anyway I thought it'd just be easier to change the username to my first name.

lukester

I wanted Lucky Luke, after a childhood comic book hero:





(in an odd bit of PC revisionism, these days his cigarette has been replaced with a piece of straw)

Anyway, some interloper got there first.

TinyExplosions

scottreynolds wrote: »

TBH, Its a peice of piss for me..... some of us aren't ashamed of who we are.

While riding with LDB and Raam (not their real names) it was suggested that everyone should have pro rider names derived from their bike components.

The tall lanky one was called "Cervelo Velo". These are not like '**** Star' names from when you were 21. It was agreed I had to buy reynolds wheels to keep up with the Scott Reynolds theme.

We have a 'Manky Bianchi' too (The Claw)....

I don't mind my username, and am happy for people to call me Tiny or Mr Explosions... my problem is that 'Al' is too short for most websites -damn them and their 3 letter minimum!

DirkVoodoo

ROK ON wrote: »

Good idea. I may change my name to Dolan Fulcrum, or Deda Ultegra, or Hercules San Marco.

Oh man, Hercules San Marco is by far the coolest name ever! Screw internet names, I'm changing my real name to that!

LDB

Mine is just my initials, terribly boring!

While riding with LDB and Raam (not their real names) it was suggested that everyone should have pro rider names derived from their bike components.

You can just call me Bianchi from now on.