Story behind your user name?

[bentforlife]

I've been reading this forums for a while and have found it helpful. I've started cycling again after 20+ years. At first it was to get my doctor to shut up about me exercising ,now I really enjoy it. Gives me time to think when alone and time with my 14 yo daughter when she rides with me.

My name comes from the fact that I ride a long wheel base recumbent, RANS Stratus XL( Yes, I have a long inseam). I tore a rotator cuff in a fall. After surgery and months of rehab I tried to get back on a regular bike but it killed my shoulder. A friend, who rides a recumbent, let me borrow his and I was converted for life, hence the name.

What is most annoying is all the questions you get about this strange looking bike. It is long!! 71 inch wheelbase. Can also be tricky in tight turns, no falls yet.

Hope I can share with other women recumbent riders here as well.

Keeping sharing ladies. It's great to see so many women riding.

[doctorfrau]

My Nic is actually the name of a book that helped inspire me to go back to school.

The book was written as a sort of memoir, by Dr. Grace Keiser, a female physician who practiced for many years in the Amish Country of Pennsylvania. The title of the book is "Doctor Frau", because in the German dialect spoken by the Amish, "frau" is the word for "mature woman", or "old married housewife", or "Mrs".

I thought that might be a fitting handle for an older divorced, somewhat frumpy woman who is attending medical school!!!!

[Trek420]

"So what's the story behind your user name?"

Simple; make and model of my ol' bike...but you can call me Dita

[Surlygirl]

Surly is my bike, not my demeanor.
I'm 44 next month and have always ridden by myself or with a friend. Tomorrow group rides start and I'm trying to psyche myself up to try it. They are C rides so it is suppose to be easy but I'm nervous. Any advise?

[Crash]

Unfortunately mine is self expanatory. I have a reputation for tipping over at stop signs (even after using clip-in pedals for sometime), spreadeagling on pick-up trucks (no you're not at a different web site. I was hit head-on and landed on the trucks hood). Turning around to check on my riding partners and going down. I guess Grace could be another alias.
You know what...I still absolutely love biking, roadie and mtb.
Crash

[Barb]

I didn't give it much thought and used my name. On other sites I am "slowspoke" mostly because I am! This is my second year of riding and the first of my Midlife Crisis Years! So far I have backpacked on the A.T., I am going white water rafting in June and have begun training for the Michigander. I p[lan to do that next summer. (DOH, did I say that out loud?!!!)

Happy trails

[wavedancer]

I am fairly new to biking. Started road riding some last year and just started mtb this spring. My main activity for the past few years has been seakayaking, which I still do every weekend, if possible. So wavedancer speaks to my love of dancing on water...and now I am finding the joys of dancing on dirt!

[kimba]

My name is Kim- the Kimba came from a nickname I picked up while working in the animation industry.

I liked it- and it stuck.

There was a kid's show called Kimba the White Lion- I suppose that was where it came from....


Kimba

[kimba]

Simple; make and model of my ol' bike...

Did you ever find it- or get it back??


Kimba

[Trek420]

"Simple; make and model of my ol' bike..."

"Did you ever find it- or get it back??"

nope, if you see it being ridden with the handlebars turned upside down by some drug addled dope dealer who paid $10.00 for it at the flea market in the East Bay please stick your frame pump in their spokes as you breeze by ;-)

to all those following the saga of my new bike (although this should be in another topic)

* the Mondonico frame arrived at my LBS on Friday-it's beeeeeaauuuutiful! Subtle lavendar metalic
* I go to the shop tonight to pick shiny stuff to be put on it
* In the meantime I've been riding a loaner from the shop, a red Della Santa which I've enjoyed.

[Susan126]

Hi everyone!

I usually do not post (I'm a lurker . . . I love to read the posts in this forum. Great advice, great stories, great cyclists, friendly friendly friendly . . . . learned a bunch of things just browsing) but anyway, how did I get my nic?! My mom gave it to me! and the 126? . . . a lucky number!

Sue

[missliz]

Mine has been a nickname all my life; it's a Southern thing to call all the ladies Miz first name. And missliz rhymes... People just call me that.

And it's my name all over the net- can't remember more than one.

Lizzy

[Hillhugger]

Well, mine is pretty self explanatory - when I started out last fall, I had a hard time getting up hills. So one day my son laughed and said: "Mom, you're not supposed to hug those hills, just get over them!" That stuck with me.

I am still not the fastest when it comes to hills, but I'm getting better...

[kate]

My Nic is pretty obvious since my real name is Kathleen but I am known as Casey.

My daughter goes by Kate but she doesn't ride.

Kate

[kate]

I forgot to say that I am also a lurker, I just don't have much to say. Just got back from a cruise and had to catch up on all the good info.

Thanks gals, this forum is great, lots of great talk.

Kate