March 19, 2012 10:40 PM PDT
Not sure about over there...but here its a case of your Bros give you your nickname/handle for either something you are good at - or stupid for doing!!!
No-one here picks their own nickname, its always Bro's from your Brotherhood, no matter if its through Club life, or just your regular riding crowd.....
I have been around a long time but its the Bikers that came before me knew what they were doing and we picked it up from them - who are we to go against what we perceived as being a tradition.....
11 of us started riding at 9 years old...and then on the road at 11years old..... Only 2 of us are alive now...I got my nickname/handle very early during this early time.....
One of the crowd had a dad who was very accepting of the fact that we were playing with bikes, learning to fix them, do maintenance when neccesary, and take them to a grass track behind his house that was used on quite a few weekends for grass track racing...we used to go there after school and anytime we wanted, often when we didn't bother going to school.....
Anyhow, to the point...When we had started riding on the road I would ride up his driveway and kick the stand down...most of the bikes I had back in the day leaked oil, we used to strip and fix them with sealer and make our own gaskets from cereal box cardboard, it would last a week or so and then we would do it all again...good practice for later in life...EVERY time I turned up his mother would say, "Here Comes That Damn Oilslick Again", she would come out and stick a drip pan under my bike, and it became a joke, and then it stuck.....for a short while everyone called me the Oilslick but then it just got shortened to "Slick" and thats what it has been ALL my adult life...
So even though it was not actually my Bro's who named me it WAS in the company of them!!!
The Jetman bit was just simply because I am the guy with the jet trike...no rocket science there right?
March 20, 2012 1:31 PM PDT
Well I coulda sworn I had my "testimony" about my handle up here before...but thinkin' back on it, I'm gonna go with BadInfluence on this, and take the 5th. My previous post may have been a little too "graphic". So, I'mma do the right thing this time and tell ya'll, that if'n ya want the "WHOLE" story...send me a PM.
I'd be happy to tell ya the vivid details...lmao!!!
Ride Free
Tweek
March 20, 2012 6:22 PM PDT
Ninja Bandit... I have no idea why...
March 21, 2012 1:58 AM PDT
Submarines are the wolves of the sea in warfare. I served on diesel subs and later on nuclear boats. The bikers that I rode with when not underway tagged Seawolf on me during the early 70's in California. My first nuc boat assignment was on USS Seawolf SSN575 out of Vallejo.
March 21, 2012 6:07 AM PDT
Submarines are the wolves of the sea in warfare. I served on diesel subs and later on nuclear boats. The bikers that I rode with when not underway tagged Seawolf on me during the early 70's in California. My first nuc boat assignment was on USS Seawolf SSN575 out of Vallejo.
Hey Seawolf.....Did you ever know someone by the name of Steve Morgan on those Nuke ones? When he retired the US Navy he retired as "Rear Admiral Steve Morgan" US Navy Retired...he lives over here now...not far from me on the outskirts of London.....I go round his house when parties are happening there...its all so very very posh.....lol.....
But Know This..... We INSISTED he still fly his flag outside his house .... he did not want to upset any neighbours...so I said "Screw them, if they aint up for it then they can swivvel!!!" ... As his wife is English he also flies the Limey Brit flag too.....lol.....
March 21, 2012 6:48 AM PDT
One of my nicknames is Donk. The reference came from the crocodile dundee movie.
Some friends of mine were putting the cap on the back of a 1966 Toyota land cruser. They were
having a hard time putting it in place. i got frustrated and climbed inside the tailgate put the cap on my back and moved it into place. My friend said it was great having a donk around. the name stuck.
March 21, 2012 8:52 AM PDT
Submarines are the wolves of the sea in warfare. I served on diesel subs and later on nuclear boats. The bikers that I rode with when not underway tagged Seawolf on me during the early 70's in California. My first nuc boat assignment was on USS Seawolf SSN575 out of Vallejo.
Hey Seawolf.....Did you ever know someone by the name of Steve Morgan on those Nuke ones? When he retired the US Navy he retired as "Rear Admiral Steve Morgan" US Navy Retired...he lives over here now...not far from me on the outskirts of London.....I go round his house when parties are happening there...its all so very very posh.....lol.....
But Know This..... We INSISTED he still fly his flag outside his house .... he did not want to upset any neighbours...so I said "Screw them, if they aint up for it then they can swivvel!!!" ... As his wife is English he also flies the Limey Brit flag too.....lol.....
I didn't know him Jetman. I was a bit early in life for the nukes. I only served on two before I retired. The majority of my boats were diesels which I will never regret. Never a quiet day or night on those boats. I was a COB on my last three boats including the nukes. Ask the Admiral about the term COB
March 21, 2012 9:03 AM PDT
I shall do matey, I shall ask him which ones he served on as well, I know he was a Captain or Commander or whatever your ranks are there of one of the Big Nukes...he IS over 65 years young now...lol...
March 21, 2012 6:02 PM PDT
In Combat Vets we have an Army Admiral... yes he was an Army Officer who actually got his HMMV into a situation involving too much speed while maneuvering around a pond... long story short, that HMMV ended up in the water with him on top of it (Wish I had the damn picture) and is now forever known as the Admiral! Great guy, fun to hang with but he earned his name the hard way!