Mine was a vague reference to "Funky Monks" of Red Hot Chili Peppers fame. I think this is one of the few places I still have that username. I've moved on, so to speak...
Mine is from a house tune that I absolutely rinsed when I was DJing in the early 00’s. Played only last month. Chosen at the time for several forums etc and it has stuck ever since.
I used to be quick on a bike,particularly on anticlockwise tracks.
I am also a Scot,and it's a well known fact that Haggis are only fast in one direction.
I was told I was like my motor bike . Noisy
Another one here with no imagination. It's my surname.
The server that managed the LAN and the broadband connection (this was all pre-wi fi) was called wonderland and we all took handles from characters in the book.
Back in the old days of LAN over Coax we had a small network at work. The server was "Magic Roundabout" so you can imagine what the workstations were called.
Just an unimaginative abbreviation of my first name, which is Muhammadmitrichardavernontthew.
I think I was trying to find a user name for Ebay about 20 years ago and my real name had gone and I didn't want to be xyz_2 so I just picked the name of the then GF's large duck shaped teddy bear, who was called 'footflaps' as he had large orange feet...
I work with young people, and last millennium one young man was having a moment and said , f#ckoff von diesel.....von stuck.
Dally coz I own Dalmatians.
Boobs init. Seemed like a funny thing to do when I was 20. 25 years later not so!
Seriously unimaginative, and ‘Ally’ was already taken. Or, my parents wanted to be even more awkward with the spelling of my name and were ahead of the curve substituting number 1s for the letter Ls.
Believe whichever version you prefer.
I used to play lead guitar in rock/metal/punk bands. I used to have a Gibson Explorer and it was cool.
Soma - as in drug from Brave New World : Aldous Huxley, one of my fav books.
Soma - also name of a mates record label
Somafunk - as in I’m in a bit of a somafunk today, one of my Sunday afternoon sayings after an abusive Friday/Sat night clubbing session at SubClub, I’m in a somafunk running on serotonin fumes till my body and mind recover. .
What it says on the tin.
@eddiebaby How many sheds do you have?
Are you confusing Sir Edward Ross with Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson?
Ah.........
Bugger.
Cat Power song:
Metal heart, you're not hiding
Metal heart, you're not worth a thing
Says it all really…
(I originally tried deathtoeveryone but for some reason that never registered…🤷🏻♀️)
Mine could be taken in one of two ways
1) I used to ride a fat bike (still miss it and hanker for another) and a love coffee
or if I don't ride enough
2) I am fat, bike and love coffee.
Both work for me at times 🙂
probably the 792nd username I picked after hundreds of bannings on bikemagic, started with something to do with selling some Mavic Ceramic Rim and then especially on 9/11,
I've worked on a lot of my own cars over the years and I always had trouble removing suspension drop links. It became a bit of a running joke which turned into the phrase "Dammit, I've been drop-linked again!"
Nothing to do with Cotic suspension unfortunately but I would love one.
I signed up for another forum and was riding a Ducati 748 at the time.
It says I chose a name related to the fact that used to ride a cheap and cheerful ,Green(ish) Giant XTC when I joined this forum.
Mine is more about what it doesn’t say
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
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.
