Story behind your user name?

[SnowMouse]

So what's the story behind your user name?

I used the same one I use on another discussion forum that's about snowsports, and the mouse bit comes from what my boyfriend calls me. I don't squeek, really!

[MightyMitre]

My name comes from my cycling club. I belong to Brighton Mitre - so named because when the club was formed 110 years ago they used to meet up in a pub called The Mitre ( as in the bishops hat!)

I added the Mighty because it reminds me that if I train hard I'll get stronger and better.

Also a bit of local pride in there - there's a few other cycling clubs in Brighton and obviously The Mitre is the best!!!

Check out our website www.brightonmitre.com. It's still in it's infancy but we're getting there...


PS my real name is actually Liz.

[Veronica]

Well if I had been born a boy my mother was going to name me Hershal Sterling Huff. Not a good name to have in the early 70s in rural Maine. I can just imagine the teasing.

Veronica

[fultzie]

I had a very sexist driver's ed teacher in high school, who called all of the girls "sweetheart" or "honey" and all of the guys by some variation of their last name. somehow, perhaps by the look i gave him , he realized that it would be a BAD idea to call me "sweetie" and called me fultzie (my last name + "ie") instead. i didn't mind so much... at least he wasn't calling me "honey"! ew!

then my friends started calling me fultzie, and it stuck. i actually just got a birthday card (birthday yesterday!) from a high school friend of mine labeled "Fultzie"

[ragbrai40]

I was having one of those unfortunate mid-life crisis things last year, turning 40 and all that and decided that I needed to do something to reclaim my....youth? Or something like that.

I been riding for 8 years, nothing too serious, around town a few out of town rides and RAGBRAI (Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa) was ending in the town I grew up in so I decided that this was the year I was meant to be on the ride. It was an omen - turning 40, RAGBRAI ending in home town - I had to do it.

So I did. I got a road bike, put a bunch of training miles in, went on this 475 mi week long ride and wondered why I hadn't done it sooner! So to remind myself of the accomplishment and at the time for inspiriation, ragbrai40 came into play.

And the best thing I'm still riding - more than ever and in better shape than I've ever been in! What a great bday present to me that lasted for a whole year!

I just celebrated my 41st birthday and am already signed up for RAGBRAI #2!

[Cdalekat]

Cdale = Cannondale (my bike)
"kat" is twofold:
1. I love my fuzzy kitty
2. kat can be slang for a person (think "cool cat")

I mostly lurk here since I'm new to this and pick up the hints that I can.

[jobob]

I would have used jo for my ID but I the system wouldn't let me have an ID with only 2 letters.

Jobob comes from the time when my husband and I were into kitemaking. We used to attend a kitemakers' workshop every year in middle-of-nowhere Texas (Junction, to be exact). Getting into the spirit of the place, our friends started giving out Texas-style nicknames - my husband Lee was LeeBob, our friends were EddieBob, BonnieBob, and ScottyBob, and I was JoBob.

( Coincidentally, I lurk the iBob list, which is a spinoff of the old Bridgestone Owners' Bunch, which is loosely organized around the retro grouch/old school philosphy of newer-is-not-necessarily-better. Bobs tend to favor lugged steel bikes with leather saddles and moustache bars and friction shifters, and endlessly debate things like the relative merits of 8-cog cassettes But my name has no relation to the Bob list. )

- Jo.

Cdalekat, for what it's worth, I used to lurk here too; then I found things to say and you can't shut me up now

[grannydea]

Mine is from the fact that I am a first time grandmother (granny) and love it, the dea is part of my frist name. I am my grandsons "granny dea".
Dea

[Irulan]

I take my aliases from books. Irulan... Princess Irulan Corrino, Dune...

Penny

[Shimpie]

I've got lots of nick names. Shimpie is an old one from highschool. My real name is Weena, which immediately brings to mind the words "weenie" and "weiner". One day, my friend heard a rather funny Volvo commercial on his drive into school. The commercial compared Car X to the numerous safety features of a Volvo. When the sales person was asked about airbags in Car X, he replied, "Car X doesn't have one, but it comes with Shimpie the inflatable weiner dog!" Of course, my name was revised to Shimpie from there on out.

-Shimpie

[paintgirl]

I use paintgirl04 on other forums, hotmail, etc., I am a folk artist, and my one daughter would always say "what are you painting girl?" so I got paintgirl, the 04 is 4 kids, and also my # on my ball, broomball uniforms, after #4 Bobby Orr, my hockey hero.

Lori

[pedalfaster]

"pedalfaster" is what spectators yelled at me when I raced.

Good advice, huh?

[snapdragen]

Nothing exciting - a million years ago when I first went online, I wanted Snapdragon - my favorite flower, and I collect dragons. Snapdragon was taken, so I changed it to Snapdragen. Ever since I've tried to think up some brilliant, funny, awe inspiring handle, but I always come back to old reliable.

[KTeach]

Obviously... I teach kindergarten!

[trekchic]

"trekchic" does it need an explaination? ok, I just like to talk about it, so here goes.........

I, too, have been having some difficult times in life that cycling brought me out of! I had a "guy" friend that rides and talked about it nonstop, then when he wasn't my "guy" friend anymore... I decided the funniest thing would be for me to beat the pants off him in a race or something, so when I found a girlfriend that was an avid cyclist, I rode with her one day and you know what.........I loved it! I was instantly hooked!

So, I went to the LBS, ordered a TREK 1500 and, as they say... the rest is history!!!

Chic...........self explanatory.........my kids (I have 3- ages 16,14 and 8) call me "biker-chic" and I couldn't live with that, so I changed it to trekchic!

It's funny to hear everyone's stories, huh?

"Y'all can call me Kim, if'n trekchic bothers ya, now, SUGA"!

Kim from TN!