missingfrontallobe – your justification here seems contrary to your comment on another thread this morning 😆

My surname is Rose and Rosey was taken.

So being an Essex git….

I’ve use my number plate name.

my name is thom, and before the crash i was thom; but someone said they’d never noticed it. so i changed it to thomthumb. wish i’d done thomthum though!

I’ve got quite a long surname (one that john drummer might be familiar with) so it’s just a shortened version of my name with a silent p. It’s what people have called me for 45 years or so 8)

Joined Tri club, became a coach, bought shiny new carbon race bike, had serious spinal injury, now have carbon fibre cage keeping spine in one piece… given moniker by the lads after first club run following recovery!

Second name is Donald,nickname was Ducky,I had a gay housemate years ago who changed it to Duckman so people didn’t think he was being camp,(which since he was a 6″6″ second row was unlikely)It stuck.I on occasion see somebody at parents evening who marches into my classroom with their child and uses it.

I’m irresistable to trees.

Used to be fatbob. Lost 21kg. Still trying to earn my name.

Just an initial and my surname with a couple of extra letters thrown in for good measure.

Sold about 3 years ago, the speed was too easy (and addictive)!

School nickname – simples

Nickname now somehow morphed from school nickname which was haddocks ❓

I invented the mint imperial.

Subliminal advertising.

seemed appropriate at the time I joined the forum as I’d just come back from a 6 month deployment in Afghanistan.

because:
a) my heart is made of metal*
b) I like cat power
c) I got bored of sofaboytt

*honest…

not sure I’ve got much to add to this debate

Last bit is my name, the first two was caused by having a c**p time at work which was having a big impact on my life. Work problem solved – STW name remains as a reminder not to let myself get into such a state

votchy – Member
School nickname – simples

Me too 8)

PoisonSpider Cycles is a shop in Moab.

(S’pose it was just a surreptitious way of bragging about having been there – 😳 )

I’ve got a mate called Dave.

Mine’s something to do with bikes, I think

Again, a school nickname. 😀

After Grossburger in Stircrazy, a very big man who sings well.

Because i’m ginger and the fact that we’re going to take over the world!

I ride along. Something happens. I wake up with a crowd stood around me saying ‘World Class Accident’

Peter O’Sullivan was already taken.

Ta for the link, TSY – that saves a bit of effort:

Known as “Adventure Racer” on another forum I frequent – it probably makes rather more sense on there (where various people were busy being rude about adventure racing when I registered, so it was deliberately provocative) than on here, so I shortened it.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whats-the-meaning-behind-your-user-name/page/4#post-1462340

I own a Landrover and 813 is part of my employee number

When I was born I was just a head. No arms, legs or body. They grew later.

So I was a head first.

guess what kind of bike i have……

Subliminal advertising

I thought that was proven not to work?

First name Ian, second name Barrington, which is too long for general use, so it got shortened to B. I was regularly called Mister B at Uni, but IanB is shorter and I think MrB had been taken. Not very imaginative really.

Because I get ridden by David Hasselhoff every day.

My name is toby. Most of my mates are too lazy for two whole sylables, so everyone ends up calling me Toab.

Could just as easily be Tobe I suppose…

Mine is the one on the left…

Squidlord

It relates to an old photograph of me. Buzz became my nickname.

Don is an honorific term in Spain., the rest is kinda obvious, isn’t it?

Got fed up trying to choose an original name and finding all the original ones had been taken. 😐

Thought to myself ‘duntmatter, does it?’, et voila.

I ride to work a lot of the time so work mates began calling me Sturmey Archer that was 20+ years ago and the name just stuck. Also the first real bit of bike maintenance after fitting cow horns was to rebuild a SA 3 speed hub after jumping my bike in to the canal and all the workings in the hub went rusty.