Explain Your Call Sign / Handle

Mine's easy, because I think of a 1975 Norton is a "late-model" the young whipper-snappers call me an "old fart"...guilty as charged! :lol:

Mike
 
In 1971, I was 18 and bought a new Commando. It was crazy; I really did know how to ride and I learned to ride and then to road race, in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, CA., on that brand new motorcycle. I wore that bike out in Griffith Park.

In that city park, there is an several mile long road, lots and lots of turns, now closed to the public; it is named Mount Hollywood Drive. What we called the "frontside" of that road begins on the Hollywood side, at the Observatory; from there it climbs a bit to a ridge, runs for a mile or two along the ridge, and then, just as you get near the Hollywood Sign, it drops very steeply, flattens, and drops again, and so on, way down, to the bottom of the hill, near what Johnny Carson called "beautiful downtown Burbank."

Most of the road, of Mount Hollywood Drive, was on the Burbank side, or what we called the "backside" of the hill. The road was built as a WPA, Works Progress Administration, project during the Great Depression - mainly by hand, without heavy earth moving equipment. That meant that if there was a big rock or a big tree, well then the road had to go around it. Needless to say, the road twists and turns and is very tight. A very fast rider, on a very fast bike, would have a low average speed, almost like an enduro average, even though he might touch 100 in a couple of spots; there were many turns where getting through them at 15 or 20 MPH would be flying. Most of the road surface was not really asphalt but a polished slurry coat and there were many hard to see bumps. Sand was common, there were seasonal and year round wetspots/seeps, and ever present were the leaky City of Los Angeles trash trucks hauling to a landfill.

For maybe 20 years, there was a regular group of guys who raced up that hill, before the traffic, Sundays at 8:00 am sharp.

You had to learn the road. We had a name for every corner; that way we could de-brief and swap stories about who did what where. In the late spring and summer when the days were longer, we also frequently met on weekdays at the Observatory after work/school. Fast rides, good times.

Sometimes we fell down and slid down the road. Since the road is closed, I am one of many xbacksidesliders.

My avatar is a copy of a lapel pin button that a dearly departed friend, Greg DuVall, designed and made up and which we all wore. It is a map of the "Backside."
 
Mines not to imaginative, first name Glenn, middle name Torsten, last name SUNeson. It was quick & easy and I'm basicly lazy so it worked.
 
mine doesn't mean anything. I picked it at random about 10 years ago, and I keep using it because it's easy to remember
 
My Aussie mate calls me Webby as my family name is Webb, on this forum Webby was already taken, so I slapped a 03 on the end (the same number of cylinders as my Triumph Speedtriple)
Not very exciting, but at least I can remember it!

Webby
 
Booring, but easy to remember, my initials and my favorite bike in the garage. (1974 450 Ducati single)

Graeme
 
Well, one of my bikes is a Norton, one is a Triumph, and one is a Buell ... "nortriubuell" seemed to be a user ID that nobody had taken. If I then included my Honda, my Harley, and my Yamaha; it would have been just be too freakin' looooooong, so I limited it to those three. I like most motorcycles, but especially ANYTHING from the 70's; the absolute "Golden Age of Motorcycles' ... to me. Cheers all.
 
When I was a kid I flew Estes model rockets. One model was made of Mylar and I liked it because it was so light it didn't need a parachute. My kid brother started calling me Maylar and it stuck... for the last 45 yrs or so.
 
My user name is pretty boring as I am David McKirdy it is simply my first name and surname initial. My nickname in Chinese is much more interesting it is 'Chiu Chow Gum' which I also use as my E-mail address The literal translation is a type of orange or tangerine from Chiu Chow province in China, however it is a euphemism for "ugly crater-faced son of a bitch". The fruit has a particularly wrinkled skin and it is a coloquial nickname for someone with bad acne (which I had as a teenager).

I used to race Motocross and am quite well known in motorcycling circles as I was national champion 5 times. the Chinese lads christened me when I was a youngster. I consider myself lucky as everybody had nicknames and I'm pleased that mine has no scatalogical references. Most of the Chinese guys in our classic bike community don't even know what my English name is.
 
Thanks for doing your bit anyway. (overthere) I have a relative with two weeks to go in 'The Guan'.
Wanted to get this to the top of the page again... Must be more yet.
 
My handle was given to me by my friend Craig, another Norton rider. I had a strange habit of wearing western shirts all the time and my name is Donald. So Craig just started calling me Cowboy Don one day, and it's stuck. Western shirts are pretty much retired now, no problems wearing them in Toronto, but I get the distinct feeling if I wore them in Adelaide, I might get my ass kicked.
 
back in the dim and distant past, meeting night with the Pie Eaters MCC in good ole Wigan,,,,, I got a little peed off over something small and long forgotten. Being that my name is Gregory, and everyone knew me as Greg, Angie sid I should put my other, mean, half away, and christened it Gory. Since then, some close friends have called me Gory.... and I kind of like it
 
Chose Marshal as an email handle some time ago and carried it over to all sites.
I'm a patrolman. I'd loved to have been a lawman back in the old west.
Back then a foot in the a.. meant move along
Don't know if horses came in yellow?
Thee Marshal
 
Spent about 25 years living out on the road in America, my wife and I owned and operated our 18 wheelers. Been through, and worked in, all 48 contiguous States, now we live about 50 miles from the Center of America. We go past it every year on the Sturgis ride.
Explain Your Call Sign / Handle

Last time we stopped there was a rooster living there, we named him 'Hub'
Explain Your Call Sign / Handle

Explain Your Call Sign / Handle

So here it is, X marks the spot, after millions of miles, we end up living right in the Middle.
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MIKE
 
Zombie resurrection,

I thought I had posted on this, but guess not.

My Handle is pretty easy. The first bike I bought was my 1970 Norton Commando. My name is Erich, but for some reason I ended up being called Rick by family and friends. Since most of my friends rode left shift machines, I ended up with the name right-shift rick.

RSR
 
I'm a big Kansas State University fan. Always have been. I try to go to as many basketball and football games as I can, but if I can't go and it's televised, I always tune in. If it's not on TV, I ALWAYS tune in via radio.

I used to operate a Kansas State University fan website, then I shifted more toward the site of journalistic writing for said website, but now I just sit back and lend a hand on editing articles when I'm called upon. I'm too lazy to keep up with the programming side of the website anymore. I'm still a die-hard fan, though!

Explain Your Call Sign / Handle


-Jordan

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Just realized I cracked the 1000 post mark tonight. Whoopity doo! :P
 
KSUWildcatFan said:
I'm a big Kansas State University fan. Always have been. I try to go to as many basketball and football games as I can, but if I can't go and it's televised, I always tune in. If it's not on TV, I ALWAYS tune in via radio.
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Do they even charge people to attend KSU games. :twisted:
 
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