User names

**jrandom** · 17th June 2004, 21:16

Originally Posted by Zed

Next: what the heck is that green symbol thingy that RiB has hanging off his profile??

It's the Hunter clan badge. One would assume that RIB has a strong familial awareness.

**RiderInBlack** · 17th June 2004, 21:19

Originally Posted by Zed

Next: what the heck is that green symbol thingy that RiB has hanging off his profile??

Ooch a noow

. It's ma Clan Badge, ya heathen scum:P

**jrandom** · 17th June 2004, 21:22

Originally Posted by RiderInBlack

Ooch a noow

See?

Tole ya.

**RiderInBlack** · 17th June 2004, 21:22

Originally Posted by jrandom

It's the Hunter clan badge. One would assume that RIB has a strong familial awareness.

Aye

, give the man some of your best Scotch Zed

**dangerous** · 17th June 2004, 21:29

Originally Posted by RiderInBlack

Aye

, give the man some of your best Scotch Zed

Ohhh..... I'm in Ill bring me 18yr old Glenlivet and Talisker malts

**Ghost Lemur** · 17th June 2004, 21:39

I think I've mentioned this before, but mine comes from William S. Burroughs last book "The Ghost of Chance". Set in Madagascar. the main character is befriended by a Lemur he names Ghost. Ghost Lemur (Lemur by the way mean Ghost in Madagascan) sounded call and hadn't been taken around the place so I used it.

The only other nic I've had was i_morpheus, which related to a short piece written by a French writer who's name I can't recall. It was a piece about drugs and had huge amounts of symbolism in it. I really liked it and the name, with the Greek/Roman mythological significance too. Then of course The Matrx came along, and all of a sudden every man and his dog was Morpheus so I decided I'd better move on.

**Motoracer** · 17th June 2004, 21:48

I feel truely alive during racing conditions.

I decided to choose the name "Moto Racer" from the game because it felt the most appropriate.

Although I have a hell of a lot of work to do to become a real racer yet.

**Racey Rider** · 17th June 2004, 21:58

I just wanted something I could aspire too.
before my wife came up with RR, I almost went with Podium.

Was reading the site threads for quite some time without login on as I didn't know what user name I wanted to be stuck with.

**Motu** · 17th June 2004, 22:40

Finding a user name is a pain and I think of one and forget what it was.When I joined ADVrider as the only Kiwi I wanted a name that told where I came from.Around the same time looking in a Maori dictionary for the spelling of a word I couldn't find,in the back I found a section for the names of things they didn't have names for - kinda onamatapoeia stuff...like kau,hama and poaka,I had a laugh when I saw the word for motorcycle - motupaika - say it with a Maori accent,neat eh? so I used that as my handle on the site.They soon cut it down to Motu,so I use it everywhere now,I like it and it's easy to remember.

**erik** · 17th June 2004, 22:43

Originally Posted by Racey Rider

... Was reading the site threads for quite some time without login on as I didn't know what user name I wanted to be stuck with.

That's pretty much why I just use my real name - because I think I'd probably have second thoughts about whatever alternative nickname I thought up.

**Bandito** · 17th June 2004, 22:47

Originally Posted by THE UMFAAN

Out of curiosity, why did you choose whatever you user name is?

I will start off, my name, the umfaan, means "young boy" in Zulu (ex South African).

Al

Hello my name is Bandito and I ride a bandit< I don'

t think I am an alcoholic but clearly I have no imagination when choosing names.

**Her_C4** · 17th June 2004, 22:52

Well now... boring actually!

Mine is my online name for www.clubsub.org.nz

I found this site almost by mistake as I was looking for a new bike to buy and I was taking the time to have a look around first.

Then by the time I actually bought the new bike (having been a visitor to the site for a while) I was really excited and keen to 'share' and login.

Ooops no login name - and (because at my age the gray cells die off at an alarming rate

) I have no imagination so I used the one that I used on a couple of other sites....

**bluninja** · 18th June 2004, 07:30

Mines same as the biker ones...rode a blue ZX9R C1 for 5 years...used the name all over and it stuck.

I did try using the name Black Mille after I changed, but I started getting lewd pms and posts (on other sites) from none bikies who seemed to think that it was descriptive of me and that I was a gurlie

TTFN