Anonymous postings

Not that I have all that much to offer the board, good or bad, my user name reflects my first initial and last name. Combing that with my signature, shouldn't be too hard to figure out the rest (and no, '75 Roadster does not appear an an official part of my name).

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pommie john said:

I do use my real name, just not all of it :twisted:

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Me too...and you can find me if you need me.... :roll:

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ditto hense tjfisher . not sure what the big deal is kinda sounds like a witch hunt to me

Guido D'Amico. Nothing sinister there, cabeesh?

I'd rather be a little more cryptic myself. pvisseriii is too obvious. Can one change one's user name? Is this a Jerry doe thing?

What is more important to me is to know where someone is from. Information is often geographically relevant.

Peter

Not really on the subject, but in the UK a lot of vehicle owners hunt out allegedly personalised licence plate numbers for their machines (mostly cars), normally with their initials on, plus a few letters which are not choosable. I've always thought it wierd that you would want to adverstise yourself as the owner of a so equipped vehicle, some of these numbers literally go for thousands of pounds.
If I was to do it , it would be cheaper to change my name to a reg number of my bike, so I could be called MVR 653P, now that would be strange in the doctor's surgery.
sam

pvisseriii said:

I'd rather be a little more cryptic myself. pvisseriii is too obvious. Can one change one's user name? Is this a Jerry doe thing?

What is more important to me is to know where someone is from. Information is often geographically relevant.

Peter

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I asked Jerry to change mine and he did. Went from icedog880 to Bill G.
Bill Graves

Bill G said:

pvisseriii said:

I'd rather be a little more cryptic myself. pvisseriii is too obvious. Can one change one's user name? Is this a Jerry doe thing?

What is more important to me is to know where someone is from. Information is often geographically relevant.

Peter

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I asked Jerry to change mine and he did. Went from icedog880 to Bill G.
Bill Graves

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icedog880 You mean there are 879 other icedogs?

I find much more interesting when I can put your comments into context. In Australia we are aware that the Yanks have got some really fast Nortons and Triumphs going, and it is really great when people like Dog Macrae and Kenny Cummings post under the ir own names, and give away snippets of information. The magazine articles and Youtube clips also help us put their stories together. What I would really like to see happen is for classic racing to become fully globalised and grow to its full potential. I'm dismayed at way Australia and Americas have become 'de-industrialised'. Classic bikes, and development generally has been my life-long passion. My career was in defence manufacturing as a scientist before I retired. I love classic motorcycle racing, and improving my bike is what I do with my life these days. In Australia our historic racing is the only opportunity that any of us have to race in a 'constructor's class' and even that is limitted in its freedom.
I agree with the comments in this video clip, and I find them disturbing:

https://vimeo.com/20789680

I'm not competitive, have never raced, have never been fast and am getting slower. The world's not really going to be interested in my real name.

pvisseriii said:

Bill G said:

pvisseriii said:

I'd rather be a little more cryptic myself. pvisseriii is too obvious. Can one change one's user name? Is this a Jerry doe thing?

What is more important to me is to know where someone is from. Information is often geographically relevant.

Peter

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I asked Jerry to change mine and he did. Went from icedog880 to Bill G.
Bill Graves

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icedog880 You mean there are 879 other icedogs?

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Good one but no. 880 as in 880cc.
Bill G

Would using your real name on a forum be any more intimidating than finding yourself on a start grid with a few intenational riders , in front of a huge crowd and knowing you were going to be blitzed and made to look like an idiot ? We all had to start somehere, and beside people like Kenny Cummings and Doug Macrae, I feel like an imposter. I have no excuse for not doing more in my racing life.

If you google my user name you will know exactly who I am and what I have done. My family use Facebook a lot, however I use an alias. There is too much potential for misuse and malevolence in that system.

acotrel said:

Would using your real name on a forum be any more intimidating than finding yourself on a start grid with a few intenational riders , in front of a huge crowd and knowing you were going to be blitzed and made to look like an idiot ? We all had to start somehere, and beside people like Kenny Cummings and Doug Macrae, I feel like an imposter. I have no excuse for not doing more in my racing life.

If you google my user name you will know exactly who I am and what I have done. My family use Facebook a lot, however I use an alias. There is too much potential for misuse and malevolence in that system.

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Absolutely no reason whatsoever to feel like an imposter.

I think that a lot of the user name thing comes because when many of us started posting on forums, we thought that it was the thing to do, almost that it was necessary in order to belong. Generally, on forums that I've joined later, I've used my full name.

There is perhaps a possibility now that we own something fairly valuable that there may be security concerns about posting everything on a forum. Too much detail about long trips or bike meetings might make it easier for criminals.

MikeG » Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:59 pm
Hobot-looks like you threw yourself at the ground and hit.

Nope not at all, the Ninja 900 threw down on me in a straight snicking 4th at 14000 ~120 mph so dang balloon tire did exactly like ya see in IOM man bikes wheelie walking around wobbling chassis on crests, so when it touched down the front skipped out to low side off me then hi side on me. The R side arm less scrapped as bike mass/speed landied on my head/helmet and broke my neck as the real injury not the mere flesh wounds. This happened a few seconds after I'd blown off the head instructor by doing my phase 3 trips out throw downs around a good bend, so bad i was already a gear shift ahead in the straight before i covered brakes and turned to see he wasn't yet even coming up form the apex he'd marked by tape X. I'd didn't keep on it for a smother snick to 4th because I was afraid with instructor's VERY ANGRY ADRENALIZED state after being ordered one on one by Kieth Code to "show me why he put the X where he - Jason, did" - that he'd try to follow my rates into the next double turn chicane that he'd marked as two turns but at my Gravel Pace left only time for one sharp scary half crash hobot turn or fly right off the tract.

I learned 5 phases of handling on balloon tires not Peel but after isolastic wonder Peel I consider balloon tire bikes as corner cripples. I take my riding over limits very life/death seriously so spoof me all ya like - over powered Ms Peel is brewing so last laugh might surprise everyone.

Btw I had rented Codes leathers and after they saw what happened and how far the bike bounced and plowed out into Texas raw prairie desert Kieth and like 50 on lookers examined in great detail the leathers looking for damage to charge me repair but only found one small nick in L forarm. Code looked at me like a miracle mystery then said nothing but small patch no charge. Bike was a mess and a half though and lost deposit on that. All the impact was on helmet and L boot with crushed ankle inside. Then drove back to Arkansas staving off shock but make it. If I'd not gotten an over size helmet that twisted around on my head it would of twisted my head off but only left bursing on chest and upper back. I don't ride like other nor fit armor like others but still here pain free to pester.

'There is perhaps a possibility now that we own something fairly valuable that there may be security concerns about posting everything on a forum. Too much detail about long trips or bike meetings might make it easier for criminals.'

I suggest it is a terrible thing when a beautiful sport such classic road racing cannot reach its full potential because of paranoia about the dickheads in this world. Why would anyone have an art collection ? Criminals are a fa ct of life, but why would you let them destroy our fun ? Surely you simply make sure your security measures are adequate and watch what you say on forums ?

Yes like recent NY paper publishing the map of all registered gun owners, which then criminals know to avoid or where to get guns at when owner away as just happened to one registered owner last week.

I'm a student practitioner of not owning big stuff in my own name by using private trusts, not lawyer created statutory trusts that are not private from public viewing to find real controller user behind the scenes. I can find about anything I want on any of yoose guys free or with small fee, but ya can't find where I sleep or own that matters, just what I want world to know to contact me as a Dr. My old digi camera does not stamp GPS data on it. I rarely use or even turn on cell phone.

Didn't it all start, and become a tradition/common procedure because of security concerns? I mean, you are saying things about yourself and your property and just about any criminal could easily go and look you up and rip you off. So, a little bit of anonymity affords some protection from thieves, who generally are thieves because they are lazy, too lazy to figure out the person is behind that screen name.

Then too, at the beginning, folks may have thought that there was a freedom of expression aspect; free to say what you think as opposed to being guarded.
That is, I might not say what I really think and pull my punches, but for that screen name.

Of course, there really is no anonymity for the average poster of anything anywhere on the internet. Yeah, the criminals achieve it but they have to work at it.

Diablouph said:

I know that if I had known more about who Swooshdave was, I would have been reluctant to chastise him for not painting his tank.

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Im actually Alvis Presley . I just use this name to avoid the crowds . And my mother didnt really like motorcycles . so it gives some annonimity . :mrgreen: :wink:

Real name; Charles Ridenour. I use Saber13 because it was a call sign I used when on tour overseas. I do not use Face Book and this forum is really hanging it out for me. I am a life member of the NRA and proud to say most of my kids are trained to handle long guns and hand guns. 3 of my sons and 1 daughter know their way around a tool box, 2 sons are doing good to find there asses with both hands. I have nothing to hide, just after 27 years in the Army I like to maintain a low profile. Hanging out in the same forum with hobo is about as lowest I could find. :mrgreen: