How did you get your "Handle/Nickname"?????

[LaMonster]

Tell us how your handle came about.
As most all of you know a "Handle or Nickname" is rarely chosen by the owner of the handle, rather a handle is usually given to you by someone else. Let us know how you got your handle and post a picture with it if you have one. Thanks :wink:

I'll give you mine the best I can remember.
My handle started out as "Packman" because I was the first one that I know of to modify the Valkyrie exhaust by installing glasspacks to the stock pipes. After a while people called me "Packman" but that never really took and then Mark T took my mod and started doing his own version of the "Glasspack Mod" and selling them. At that point he was doing way more than I had done and he became the glasspack king and that's when I knew I needed a new handle. :(
At the time I was working with Gale (oZ) at the VRCC and he started calling me LaMonster. Not sure why but I liked the sound of it and decided one day that I was no longer "Packman", I was the "LaMonster" :D
http://lamonster.com/who/MVC-498S.JPG

Okay, your turn :D

[sarge]

My handle actually came from work "sarge", I was so used to everyone calling me that, it just stuck :lol:

Hope Everyone has a Good One 8)

http://www.kdfi27.com/images/cops%202.jpg


http://www.thehallofmaat.com/maat/images/forum/avatar/105.gif sarge

All Ride Safe

[Jack G]

My handle is the result of a conversation I had on the phone with a sales rep from a meat company. I called his office one day and he was busy so I left a message on his recorder. He couldn't for the life of him figure out who Jack Guenther was so when he called back he said"Oh, Jack in New Orleans". I had to laugh. I hadn't realized I had never told him my last name. Anyway, I have been using that online since I got my own pc. Last names aren't important online but folks seem to want to know where you are located. Not mc related but convenient.

[Cruisin Dave]

Mine came from Chet at Rattlebars after I wrote the instructions for installing the Audiovox cruise control on the Valk.

[solo1]

I've only had my handle since I joined the VRCC/BBR.

I came up with the Solo1 because no matter how much I tried to persuade my wife, she never would get on a motorcycle even when I had two Gold Wings.

Now the name is even more appropriate since my wife passed away.

[Mosa]

what handle?
I gots handlebars... not a handlebar moustache...

what nickname?

Mosa

[R J]

When I was a kid with kinda Reddish hair, and since my name was Russell, which I hated, my friends called me Rusty.

Went in the service and Rusty stuck with me for many many years. Joined the CHiP and was still known as Rusty. When I got assigned to my last location as a CHiP, there was already another Rusty there and he had BRIGHT RED hair.

Someone started calling me Rusty #2, didn't like that so we took a poll in the barracks for a new name for me. Someone chose my initials, R J, they stuck and that has been it ever since.......

My SO if B J from her initials and I'm still known as R J to this day.

If I call someone and give my real name they say WHO.

So till we meet on the road again, take care. We finally got our first snow of the season last night and right now I'm kinda waiting for it to melt off.

B J will probably have a different take on this when she gets up, so till that happens, I'm waiting for Mother nature to take away what she brought last night. LOL :snow1: :twisted:

[Rescueroy]

I was a fire fighter and worked on a rescue squad. The front of my helmet said Rescue. I put my name under the Rescue and now you have Rescueroy. Name has stuck for 20 years.

[REELAY]

ALWAYS had a Football,or Some kind of GAMING(I call it, not GAMBLING) Board going around. And after 50 some odd GIs :capwin: sorta got BUSTED :cus: with their NAMES in Black n White, We ALL came up with Code Names, :idea: to countinue OUR past time HABITS. :D So I resorted to what we called PIG LATIN, my name being LEE (RAY) was what I was called...It would now be :new: REELAY..... NEVER to get BUSTED again, :clap2: because the PROVE had to be in Black N White :chat1: ....and after 26 years now the "NAME remains the SAME"..... :pepper1:

[Valkcabbie]

Waddaya mean someone gotta give it to ya??? I chose my own handle cause it's kool 8) . The handle that was given to me by a 3 year old little girl named ,Dande was MTD, which stood for Michael the Drummer. There were so many Michaels around that's how she identified with me. I used that until I joined the VRCC in 1999 where I thought a Valk related nickname would be more appropriate. Since I'm a born again Cabbie in San Francisco I thought the combination Valk and Cabbie had a certain ring to it. The rest is history :roll: tongue planted firmly in cheek ...vc

[Capt. Morgan]

Mine was given to me by 1 of my Fire Chiefs, As I like to keep informed with different things going on in the fire service. Sometimes I look at things I shouldn't, so he started calling me Condor because I swoop down on info. When I got my first Valk and started joining the different boards I couldn't think of anything else to use so I joined as Condor. Now that I have a 2nd Valk and it is all Black I also use Condor (Back in Black) on some boards. Now I waiting on a possible promotion and I may change to "Capt. Morgan" as that would be my rank with my last name.

[sarge]

hmmmm, I'm a little slow but :lol:

http://www.bargizmos.co.uk/bargizmos/images/images/smcm.jpg


http://www.thehallofmaat.com/maat/images/forum/avatar/105.gif sarge

All Ride Safe

[Capt. Morgan]

Yep, thats the other reason

[Valkrocket]

Nicknamed "the Rocket" by my college hockey team cause I was pretty darn quick on skates and approx. the same height as "Maurice Richard" of the Monteal Canadians, stuck through my adulthood and was enhanced when I played an 18 hole round of golf carrying my clubs in 78 minutes at Plymouth Country Club. I originally signed on the VRCC as Rocket #401, but later found a member from Texas with a lower# (somewhere in the 200's) posting under the same handle, so to clear up any confusion and respecting his lower VRCC # I changed my handle to Valkrocket. However, back home, I'm still known as "the Rocket" :D

[Whiz]

Welllllll, here is the story of the Whiz: Since my last name is Broome, my Mother was a real comic and when she found out she was pregnant with me she call and told every one that she and my dad had "Swept Together" :oops: to make a little Whisk Broome!! :lol: So, everyone called me Whissy, Whizzy and finally just Whiz all my life!! :twisted: And those that know how I like to drive, like TNT and PIBIT, know I Whiz around on my bikes!! :cop2: Yehaaaaaa!!! Blessings, The Whizzzzzzz
:biker:

[Hollywood]

Let's see now... my first nickname was Charlie Brown shortened to CB. Thanks Mom. She still calls me that sometimes. :roll:

Then in high school and college nearly everyone called me "Wildman" even people who met me for the first time usually ended up calling me Wildman by the end of the day. :pepper1:

Then toward the end of my college days, I joined the Christian Motorcyclists Association. I started hosting Biker Sunday events at my church. Now those of you who have seen my dress code and watched me ride should not have any difficulty understanding why one Biker Sunday the pastor, while asking me to join him on the platform, asked the simple question,"Where is Hollywood anyway?" 8) It stuck! And has continued to stick with me for years... some don't care for the name due to the trash that comes from the entertainment industry, but I've been there a couple of times and kinda like the town... And I like the name! Hey, I ride with some hard core guys! My name coulda been a WHOLE LOT WORSE!!! :wink:

One of my many cousins was sitting next to my Mom that fateful Biker Sunday. He turned to Mom and said, "Hollywood! Why didn't I think of that!"

Now when I meet people for the first time and they ask, "Why do they call you Hollywood?", my friends all chime in and say, "Oh just wait! You'll see!"

'Til next time... I'm in the wind with bugs in my teeth, flyin' by the seat of my pants with my hair on fire! :pepper1: :a13:

[Hammer]

I got my nickname while play ball and later in life some said I was always Hammered. What every, today Hammer has stuck. Hammer

[houndog]

I was given mine by a friend when we were trying to locate some people at an apartment complex. (Monday nite church visitation of all things)
The address system they used on the apartments did not make much sense but I was able to find the apartment after no one else could. My friend Frank said, "well Bob, you're just like a houndog" When we would play softball, the guys on the bench would bark at me. Want it or not, the name stuck. :roll:
houndog

[Valker]

When I joined VOA (#1252) the VRCC (#810), I decided I needed a 'handle'. As my Valk is the 34th motorcycle I've owned, and my all time favorite-my friends got tired of me talking about the bike all the time..hence "Valker". I am big, like to ride far and fast, and I hate maintenance ;-) Valkyrie is the One!

[RayO]

Those are some real interesting stories, but this one will really get ya :D
My handle came from the fact there are other people on the boards named Ray, so since my last name started with an "O", I decided to put the "O" after Ray, and became RayO. Now how's that for a story?!?! I've had a few other "Handles" but decided to drop them a few years back and just be myself... SORRY!! :lol:

[mamasue]

Tnt & JDuby always called me mamasue.So you can blame my name on them.HaHa :P

[Fe_Dragon]

My handle came about from one of my rides - a Black '98 Valkyrie Standard. As most know, the Valkyrie is often called the Dragon. Since I feel it is somewhat indestructible, the name Iron Dragon evolved. I know, there isn't much iron on the Valk, but cut me some slack. It's one tough machine. Iron Dragon also evolved to Fe_Dragon, Fe being the atomic symbol for Iron on the periodic chart of elements.

Ride Safe.

[hotglue]

Some years back in the beginings of the VOA, I was e-mailing Packman....He asked me what I did .... Told him I was a welder down in Texas.... hotglued metal pieces together.

[Frank D. Banta]

"Skonk"
When I went to my first Hond Hoot, my helmet was a black full face. It was really hot, and I sweat profusely anyway. It didn't take long for my helmet to get really gnarly. Waiting in line for the next demo ride, it was hard to hide how "ripe" it was. One of my buddy's stuck me with Skunk-head (you don't need too many friends like that).

Skunk-head was shortened to Skonk.

[Big Tom]

6'1" 250 lbs Kinda self explanatory. I used to use Odinjunior but I got tired of explaining it. No one could understand how my Dad got the nickname Odin. I was Valk related before Honda ever built one.
Big Tom

[Crazy Al]

You're kidding, right !?!

[Spitwad]

I was given the call sign "Spitwad" by my Commander (I'm in the Air Force) this last fall. I guess it has something to do with me being our unit's "class clown." Everyone I work with says it descibes me perfectly... :pepper1:

[Red Rider]

I've been called Red all my life (had red/darn near orange hair as a kid). Somewhere around high school one of by buddies started calling me Big Red and it just stuck with me.

[laborman]

....it's what I do in my job......."you know, the laborman".........

Other nicknames....well, you can put a lot together with Jack :lol: ....but, none of those seem to work, nor did many stick since they were used as single expletives during conversation :? . My mother always called me "jackie" :wink: , I've been called "little Red" :twisted: ....long story not worth tellling, been called "tennis shoe cowboy" (CB handle) :shock: , "haircut" since I was the only one who had a flat-top haircut when I was in high school and college in the late 60"s :roll: , and various others. But, laborman wasn't taken by anyone when I joined the VRCC, so I used it. :D

[ensign]

about 11 years ago. We worked at the same place and I did computer tech support in the field. My boss and I only saw each other about 4-5 time a month and one day my buddy said that he wondered if my boss even knew I worked there. He said I was like Ensign Pulver, the character in the movie "Mr. Roberts". If you haven't seen the movie, rent it and you will understand.

[Highlander]

I will try to remember, probably the VRCC members here will remember better than I. I had two or three nicknames on the VRCC board, but I did not like them. One day, I was riding my CBR 1100X home from the gas station and . . . I don't remember. What I do remember is, my hand was no longer attached to my arm, and my kneecap was shattered into eight pieces. 13 hours of surgery later, I woke up in the recovery room, my right hand reattached, and my left knee in a cast. As I came out of the fog, my friend, Patti, said, "Connor Macleod of the clan Macleod. Ye live yet, they dinna take your head." I laughed and it hurt. When I told my riding friends and fellow MSF instructors, they agreed and the name stuck. The MSF crowd had been calling me "Sparky" because when I would corner with their sports bikes (when riding my Kawasaki Vulcan Classic), my pegs would drag and throw sparks. :)
Six months later, right -- just out of the fixator and cast, just finishing the final bit of rehab, and with the Doctors permission to ride, I was in Daytona (Bike Week) with my friends on the VRCC board on my new Valkyrie. I trailored to Daytona because I was not sure I could ride just yet.
I finally got on the Valk, rode down to the Sunset Mall where Hal waited with chrome. Lamont, Dragbars, Smilin' Jack, Earthdog Valkcabby, and a host of others were awesome, putting chrome, "trigger wheels," etc. on my Valkyrie for me since my right hand still did not work very well. . . . and after the work on the bike -- we raced down the highway toward the motel (somebody posted I was zipping in and out of traffic at 120 MPH, just as good as new, but I plead the fifth) . . . and when I got home, the locals, who had read the post, were not amused. Guess they thought I would take it easy. :shock: I am beginning to believe this Highlander thing must be true -- they must have to take my head -- because I had another accident after Daytona (no injuries, but I was unconscious for four hours), and then they discovered it was hypoglycemia causing the accidents. My blood sugar plummets and I pass out keeping the bike upright until some object, stops in front of me. Fortunately, I now have it under control, but this past year I hit a deer that ran onto the highway in front of me, and I did not go down. Either they must have to take my head to kill me -- or my head is so hard it won't break. :lol:

[Speedie Gonzales]

After my accident when the drunk hit me at Lamonts barn raising and I got back to the farm, Dragbars was stnading around with Lemont and looked at me and Quote ( Speedie ****** Gonzales ). Lemont told me that he would have expected one of to hit a deer in this area, not get hit by a drunk mexican...So here is Speedie

[hotdog]

Some handles are obvious, some are not.

You might think that "hotdog" would be the result of how I ride or do any number of other things, alas it's nothing so interesting. About 5 years ago I was on the atkins diet and for more than a year I would bring two hotdogs to work every single day for lunch. One of my co-workers called me "hotdog" one day as I walked by with my hotdogs enroute to the office kitchen to cook them in the toaster oven. Would have been a better story if I had been given the name as the result of a 100 foot stoppie on the Valkyrie.

-hotdog

[Fudgie]

I've been in Emergency Medical Services for 6-7 yrs now. We are a very close 'family'. And everyone has a nickname. I also do constuction on my days off. Well one of those days a concrete worker called another one 'sweetlips'. We all laughed. Well the next day or so at the hospital I called my partner 'sweetlips' after he was cracking on me. Well he inturn called me a fudgepacker. :oops: Which is not true, been married to a wonderfull women for 6 years. :D Well they thought it was funny and shortened it to Fudgie. Been that way ever since. Half the people don't know my real name! :twisted:

[TJ]

Daaa, Don't remember or know why. It's always been TJ.......
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Terry Jeter
Okeechobee,Fl :lol:

[sirwin]

Back in the old day "before CB radios" I was called "Smoky", I whish I could say it was because I smoked, but Capt. Cosmo, Cousin Brucie, and a few others said I was slower than smoke off of Sh*t. :oops: Later in life I had everyone call me "Beffy Stew" :roll: Since I lost some of that weight and with all of the Email address, I started using sirwin. One day someone came up and asked how I came up with "Sir Win" as my handel? :? I never even looked at it that way. So now I'm Sirwin :wink:

[PapaJon]

my son and I both worked at the same company. and as people called in on the phohe and asked for one of us it caused a lot of confusion. so I became PapaJon and he is BigJon

[Caretaker]

Was BLT, my initials, but when I joined the SCRC, they dubbed me "the Caretaker". May have something to do with my Yellow/Creme valk matching the colors of a Cub Cadet and them wanting their lawn mowed with it. Great group of people in the SCRC.

[Road Runner]

A handle huh? Well, mine was a result of the CB craze of the 60's and '70s. I was on the road a lot with the company. Our company had CB radios for communication from my vehicle to other vehicles and the plant. Back then you had to use call signs before FCC relaxed it's rules due to the amount of CB radios that were being manufactured and sold.

Truckers got into the act and claimed channel 19 and then there was no more call signs as I recall, just "handles." I had to pick a "handle" and putting in the time I was on the road (and off) I picked "mud runner" which I soon found out was something that Caterpillar was using in promotion of their service department.

I switched to "Road Runner" and it has stuck for 35 years. I have had the cartoon character "Road Runner" painted on my bikes for years. Now I am running down the road on my Illusion Blue GL 1800. Love it!

I do have a CB on the bike and again ... Road Runner is on the road with the CB.

There ya go! -

Road Runner

My wife took this photo in east Tennessee in October somewhere near Sneedville.

http://bigbikeriders.com/photopost/data/501/875065aa-med.jpg

[Ga Mike]

Well, my name is Mike and I'm from Ga. Actually, I thought I'd better make up my own handle before someone gave me one. :lol:

Ga Mike

[Elvis (Hemicide)]

I bought a Hemi powered flatbottom boat that had two seats. Next to the passenger seat was written "Suicide" and the drivers seat had "Homicide", so I changed it a little to "Hemicide".
http://members.cox.net/hemicide/hemicide/boatshane.jpg

[Smilin Jack]

Since I usually go around with a smile on my face and fly airplanes one of my previous employers called me Smilin' Jack
I have had the opportunity to talk with Zack Mosley's daughter in Gainsville and received permission from her to use the name. So after a famous comic strip character in the 30's and 40's I was named.

http://bigbikeriders.com/photopost/data/500/67anijack.gif

so my hat is off Zack Mosley's and his character Smilin' Jack
http://bigbikeriders.com/photopost/data/500/67sjlogo1.gif

Smilin' Jack

[REDVALK]

Mine came when i tried to come up with a license plate for my 97 Red and White Valk Tourer. Someone else suggested REDVALK on the plate. I didn't like it. but i narrowed my choices down to three....and let all my friends vote. They all voted on REDVALK. So i put that on the plate....and inherited the nickname.

but i guess now that i also have a Black Rune...maybe something isn't quite right :oops:

[Krazy Kraut]

I guess that 'Kraut' part has something to do with my heritage, but I still have NO clue at all where the first part of my handle got from. :wink:

Actually, Bob Thomas, a SCOA / NGMC motorcycle buddy called me a crazy German on our ride to Ocilla in 2002, refering to my 'let's have fun' attitude. We joked around about this 'name calling' which finally led to Krazy Kraut. I liked it, so I kept it from that time on.

[TnIceman]

She has always said I am a "home sick Eskimo" hence the Iceman part... When I first posted at "Iceman" on the VRCC board, I found out that there was someone else by that name.. So just added the TN to it.
I am most comfortable when it is cold.. I figure I can always put on more layers... but when it is hot, I can only take off so much before someone complains.. LOL

[Fuzzy]

Since about age 19 I've almost always had a fuzzy beard and longer fuzzy hair.

I get a haircut once a year weather I need it or not. Been doing it that way for 30 years. By the time my April haircut comes around I pretty much look like a big ol bear. :) You gotta have hair to get through these Michigan winters if you want to spend any time outside.

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[jafo]

My nickname started a few years ago when I got my first computer. There where several web sites that you had to regester a user name to view. Well, I'm realy not the computer type or I didn't think so then I used j a f o (just another fool online) just stuck.

[RonBou]

Not an exciting way to get a nickname but back in the 70's folks called me Boomer or just Boo. Later, it graduated to RonBou (pronounced Ron Boo) as my name is Ron Bouchard. So I used it for all my logons in the motorcycle world.
8)

[Quiet Thunder]

I guess I got the handle Quiet Thunder, is when I was on I-79 in W.Va., and passed a couple of Harley riders. :D While I stopped in Sutton W.Va. :eat2: , they pulled in behind me and made the comment that they never hear me comming up behind them, but comming along side and passing, it sounded like thunder. Quiet Thunder at that. So it stuck. Quiet Thunder came into being when a MORON :twisted: on a cell phone made a left turn on a red light in front of me. :cop2:

[Bluescreen]

I work in the IT department of a large imaging company in Rochester NY (Until yesterday, but that’s another story). In my 32 years there, one of my many jobs was to make legacy (or older) programs run on the latest version of M$ (Microsoft) Windows. In the process of doing that I would trash a lot of operating systems, and then have to rebuild them and start over. Over the years, I became very good at doing that task. One day I walked into a room and saw a group of technicians huddled around a laptop, the thing had failed and the old M$ blue image was there telling them it was toast. One of the tech’s turned around, saw me and said, Bluescreen is here he can make it work. That was it, I’ve been Bluescreen ever since. In most of my 35 years riding the local MC crowd called me BFG. B for big and G for my first name Gary. The “F” was used for many different things, you’ll just have to use your imagination :D . When I joined the VRCC last year there seemed to be a few BG’s already, so I just used Bluescreen. It reminds me of all the great people I work with and..... Its very seldom used by anyone else :D

[Triker Jack]

I build trikes and I ride a trike and my name is Jack Triker Jack