UTMC

Many of the UTMC have usernames that are pretty self-explanatory. Bandit12, for example, rode a Bandit1200. SBBandita is also a Bandit rider in Santa Barbara. For the rest of you, what's the story behind your username??? Or, if you have a nickname (ahem, Fluffy!). Share the story!

Many of you may have noticed I finally updated my avatar to correctly reflect a rhinoviper. Always having been a big herp (reptile/amphibian) fan, the rhinoceros viper has, for many years, been a personal favorite of mine. Several of you may have even seen the rhinoviper I have tattooed on my person (which I think earns me some bragging rights for the 42 hours of needle time hand-coloring each scale!).

I'm Dewey because I expend all my (admittedly limited) creative energy developing pretty PowerPoint presentations for corporate America and couldn't come up with anything clever.

It was a dark and windy night, in the cold November of '98.....less of riches but much of bravado, my peers and myself were disturbing the peace in the generally accepted manner. Ale and spirits flowed aplenty as we revelled where in the warmer months the town's alehouses put their tables, but in the cold months of winter, it was but our territory then.
Overjoyed for our youth, the liqour loosening our lips and limbs, we would spend many a weekend's night there, indulging strange passers by with our isnights into the nature of things.
It was but then when the fiery headed one, a student of the dark arts and wicked musics, himself a master of the devil's instrument that be beaten by a stick to produce it's sinfull heartbeat, stepped forward and proclaimed what would now and forever become my name unknowable. He whirled forth, his hair a fiery halo around his face as off an angel fallen, in pure euphoria he proclaimed and deemed:

Der Guido ist der Golgo!

The die were cast, as the iron snake thundered beneath our feet and the stars hid their grimace from the velvet heavens, the world but stopped for a moment and twisted, as to hide behind a songbird, but it was the season of Fenrir, and the creatures that were neither of the earth nor the water nor the fire had secluded themselves and not shelter was to be found of them. And bold the world stepped out again, turning widdershins for a spider's breath and things settled into what would be what was to be - the uneffable had been effed and the forces underlying were to be butted no butts on the matter!
Thus christened I ventured forth into the underworld of the sould we call the internet, and wherever I ventured forth, my name was known and would be passed on in hushed tones on windy nights when nay a child's ear was abound to behold, for my name is DerGolgo and there is nothing thou can do about it.

Wyckedsin is a combination of 2 of my very longtime screen names, Wyckedflesh and Sinsual. Both are based on nicknames as well as a penchent for writing erotica since JR Highschool.

When I started reading and posting on here I was very into my ratbike, that was also my first bike, and most likely the one I've spent the most time wrenching on. Guess what color it is, yep flat black. My dirt bike is pretty ratty too, no gloss left in the plasic, safety wire old plasic together and on... so I guess it fit...

umm, perhaps a change of name may be in order given the relative "luck" characters with the name Goose have

Goose-Could this be the "key" to "rectifying" your problems?

As for the "Photo" handle - 2 reasons: When I moved to the Denver area over 6 years ago, I couldn't understand why the same white van parked at different spots on the same stretch of freeway kept 'flashing' at me as I sped past in my car. About 2-3 weeks later, I found out that Denver (and some sections of Boulder) employed "photo-radar". Being a bumpkin from speed-limit-free Montana, I had never seen such a sleazy, revenue-generating device. The multiple fines were a bit high for only 10mph over the limit ($40 each), but the good news was that I didn't collect any points on my record if I paid all 13 of them promptly. I have since collected 3 more speeding tickets the "old fashioned way", so I try to keep my lead foot out of my cage whenever possible. I've only gotten one speeding ticket on a bike so far, and I hope it stays that way.

I was also a TV news photographer for 13 years before coming to live in the Denver metro area, so there ya' go.

Thumper: Pre-natal moniker set forth by my sisters who grew up when Disney's Bambi was a large influence in their lives and I was trying to kick my way out of the womb. That's what my sisters and eventually entire family called me before I was born. Maybe that's why I still have bouts of "sewing machine leg"............hmmm.

Not much of a story, but here it is:

When I was a bit younger, I got into the habit of wearing all black (I cannot for the life of me remember why).

After a couple of years of wearing all black almost every day to Jr and Sr high school in Texas, the local rednecks decided I was into black magic and started calling me "Merlin" - the only wizard's name they could think of. I thought it was kinda cool and adopted it. 17 years later or so, my mother calls me Merlin more often than not, and lots of people don't know my real name.

Michael David Graves
AKA: Merlin

Hmmmm....
Vance...
It's my last name, but its what most people call me thinking its my first name therefore its my serrogate first name therefore... ah hell, I'm just Vance.

My Avatar is Grendel Prime - Matt Wagner character extraordinaire and my all time favorite comic character. The same eyes are found on the back of my full leather riding jacket, and also is my online gaming name since the very first multiplayer FPS games were out and I was out there with them.

Back when I first started riding, many of the riders in Denver were known by their bike make/model/style. This was especially true of the guys who rode BMW's (not sure why that was the case).

This way you wouldn't get Chopper Dave and Beemer Dave confused in a conversation. Beemer Dave could (and still can now that he's R1 Dave) be seen scraping his engine/footpegs/pipes taking hard corners in the city hammering through rush hour traffic. If you told someone this, and they thought is was Chopper Dave, they would surely think that Chopper Dave was drinking again and therefore needed another intervention.

So with Beemer Dave, Beemer Steve, Beemer Greg, Beemer Joe, Louie "Beemer" Papageorge and of course that one fella who just went by "Beemer", it was just part of the course for me to end up as Beemer Dan. Given the choice I would have rather had some crazy superhero name like HUGE FLAMING COCK, but alas, it never happened.

It was a choice between:

AssClownMathGeekSpewingRandomDistortingNoise
or
Gauss...

I chose the shorter of the two as it was easier to spell....

Ames, believe it or not, is really my name. I'd come up with a cool nickname, something utterly mind-blowing, something truly devestatingly cool, but in the end everyone goes back to "Ames." I just don't have a lot of luck getting nicknames to stick (and please don't take this as a challange to try and come up with something for me).

My avatar is a reflection of my current obsession (duh).

do you know X-or ?


I added the X to my real name when I switched bike and went from ZR to ZR-X, the very same day I became a super-hero

My first tattoo has "Prodigal Son" accross the banner. It has always been my favorite bibilcal story and at the time it reflected the relationship between my father and myself.

I still some what act like the misguided, reckless, son in the story. Never quite living up to his father's expectations, but I still hold on to the hope that I can redeem myself.

blackjoe wrote:I always wanted to be a pirate, and all the best pirates incorporated 'black' into their names to be even more threatening, so there ya have it. Blackjoe - just hearing it sends shivers down your spine, doesn't it?

Somehow "Joe," being the laid-back kinda name that it is just doesn't elicit violent shaking fear. Hmmm...

*AAAH! Somebody help me!!! Black Joe just stole my family heirlooms!*

Cartoon pirates' sons with huge flaming cocks! hahahahaha

I'm glad you explained it, I thought it was your coffee preferance...

blackjoe wrote:Hey, don't tax my gig, Blackjoe is a scary name, i'm sure of it!

I would never rain on your parade, sweetheart! It's especially threatening with a Garbage Pail Kid avatar! BAHAHAHA!

(just teasin'! *smooch*)

Squeetor, Wingnut and my sisser deemed me Schotzy after a night of drunken debauchery where my shot-pounding techniques were profoundly displayed.
I surely earned it. And the hangover...

I'm King of the Scoot Fighter Scooter Club.

Which at this point has three members and I don't even know if they know they're members.

mountain eagle- yup that's a given name. Dad picked it and mom cleared it. Figure I'm one of what three users here using a given name. . . . . . me, ames, hell there's got to more.......

Anywho... . . . . . guess when you've got a name that most people assume is a nick anyway.... why bother with another one. Hell introductions are already enough of a pain in the ass in person already.

mtne

Mountain---yeah, you know; its a bitch to visit someone in the hospital when the receptionist keeps asking what "his real name is!". Including the middle name didn't help...

mtne wrote:mountain eagle- yup that's a given name. Dad picked it and mom cleared it. Figure I'm one of what three users here using a given name. . . . . . me, ames, hell there's got to more.......
mtne

I think that's Vance. Sort of makes us the un-holy trinity, eh?

Oh shit...
No...
Wait...

That sounds like one fun ass unholy trinity to me!

Simple, my last name Bonine = Bo_9.

Given the choice I would have rather had some crazy superhero name like HUGE FLAMING COCK, but alas, it never happened.

You'll always be a huge flaming cock to me, dan!
um vespaboy. I had a 1967 vespa sprint 150 at the time, and I'm a boy. Yup, that's creativity for ya! Now I don't have a vespa, so I may have to shorten it to "boy."

DOF =
Doddering Old Fart- I'm 61.

The name Bear was given to me by two separate groups of freinds within a couple of weeks. My math geeks friends were sitting around one night, drinking, and trying to figure out what totem animal was appropriate for each of us, and nearly everyone agreed that I was a Bear. Then, two weeks later, I was working on armor with my SCA friends, discussing what character types we would be using at SCA events. My friend suggested that I should adopt a Spanish persona and have the name El Oso, the bear. At that point I decided not to fight it, and adopted Bear as my tag.

uuh . . . college boy . . . 'cuz I'm in college. Uh . . . 01 is when I graduated from HS and it was a pretty darned big transition!! 1100 miles and a lotta learnin' so it's a bit of a milestone. Also you always have to add numbers to the end of your screenname, it seems like, because the name is already taken. So I just keep it consistent.

I'm sorta like Ames in that nicknames don't stick very well. I've gotten one from friends (Chuck) that I never hear, and a couple from various crews I've worked on in the Forest Service - DM from the Range crew in 2002, for "Dirt Magnet" because I could somehow get filthy sitting in the station for 10 minutes - "Hotshot Charlie" from my Lead Crew on my engine last summer - and CA1, originally from a guy on engines last year and adopted by my engine captain this year (A CA1 is a federal accident form, I've never filled one out but my initials are CA). I got "radar" on an engine dispatch to central Cali last week because I look kinda like Radar from MASH with my beanie and glasses on, but I haven't heard the name again since. So I've had plenty of nicknames, but none of them get used.

Just Plain Charlie

vespagirl...it's pretty self-explanatory. when i registerd, it was about all i could think of.

then i got my REAL nickname, but i'm damned lazy and just haven't managed to change my id to reflect my status as that one girl. that's right, most people know me as that one girl now.

oh, and i'm dr katz to all scooterists from oklahoma.

i like that one girl best, personally.

"that one girl"...compliment or disdainful irritation?