Many of us who ride with groups and/or who race will attract a nickname or two.

One bud is known as either Rocket Boy due to his need for speed or Dr. Pain due to his ability to inflict said on folks who try to hold his wheel (he's also a pain management specialist). Another, an engineer, is known as either Retro Rocket due to his affinity for "vintage" equipment, or Metronome for his clockwork cadence on his fixed gear. Yet another is known as Coach because of his multi sport background and his ability to lift the group with his Rocknesque sermons on the ride.

As for me, some have called me Big Ring cuz I've never met a hill I couldn't grind up and have failed to master the left hand shift.

Yours?

Unfortunately.....Crash.

We have one we call "Hey Hey" cause as he points out holes or if someone comes over on him he says just that... constantly.

We had another nicknamed "Dumbass" He went away after a while and there was much rejoicing.

It is funny how people develop names for others in a group, I often wonder what those I don't know call me... Of course there a the good nicknames for your friends, but the ones for those you don't know seem to be more fun.

... I rode with a new group last summer and one guy was introduced as "The Magician"...

On the ride, I saw "The Magician" slowly slide off the back but since no one else seemed concerned, I stayed with the pack. Later, upon arrival at our first stop, there was "The Magician" whereupon his nickname became clearer. He knew how to find those magic shortcuts.

People I ride with started calling me "The Spaniard."

I am not Spanish. At all.

You got me.

I used to be called "The beagle" because if anyone broke away I'd chase them. Not entirely successfully mind you.

Yours?

I never have had a cycling nickname that stuck -- at least one that people said to my face. Given my slow speed and crashes, I would not be surprised if I have a nickname or two about which I do not know.

Among the guys with whom I ride regularly, there are various nicknames that are not used for a particular person, but are used to describe someone's performance or actions during the ride. For example, there is a scene in the Hell on Wheels video where Erik Zabel's soigneur is handing Zabel a pair of shorts with what looks like a whole jar of chamois cream on them. Zabel was whining throughout the video. I was (and am) a great fan of Erik Zabel. If someone complains that the ride is too hot, or too long, or the like, or that they are not feeling up to par, invariably, someone will yell: "Hey Ete (Zabel's nickname in the video), do you need another jar of chamois cream in your shorts?"

I have named myself "Il Pirata".

Sometimes for no apparent reason at the front of the line, I prefer to just hammer it and stretch out the line a bit...I have since been dubbed the Hebrew Hammer by a few friends...

We have a few in our group too. I'm called "Senator" because of my gray hair and "advanced" age of 56 relative to most of the other riders; then we have "Soccer John", a professional soccer coach, and his pal "Little John" who is about 5' 2" and the fastest guy we ride with; "Google Pete"... who worked for Google until he set up his own company, "Tinman", an aluminum siding contractor, "Tugboat Billy", a professional boat captain, "Asphalt Jeff", an engineer with a paving company, "Dr. Death", an ER physician who crashes from time to time, and the list goes on.

Doogie - 23 year old in his last year of med school
The Velvet Hammer (TVH) - 60 year old guy who is nothing if not top shelf
IL Professore - 60 year old college professor
Der Kaiser - our resident Austrian
Big Gay Ken - explains itself
NID - New, Improved Doug...he lost 30 pounds and found some speed
Osama Bin Ridin - A grad student who hasn't shaved in like 6 months

tempete on the road.

"Hoss" I'm a clyde & the guys LOVE to sit on my wheel going into a stiff headwind.

Squirt - our resident world-class triathlete
C-Dub - Her husband....
Frecks/Redhead/Riblet - another triathlete/marathoner
Silky Johnson - her husband...

D-Lo/Tyrese/Delicious/The pimp known as Beautiful - my buddy Geoff....

I go by Flash/The Wolf/Tron/Linestepper/BMF...

There's a lot of time to kill on those base rides.....

Mine is Brown Lance

Routemaster
Achillies
Bugno
Stimpy
Herbalizer
Yoda
Barney
Captain Surly

A board poster here is known as the "Surgin' General" for his propensity to go to the front at random times and surge the pace up an extra 7MPH. Thank you sir, may I have another. . .

Another teammate is known as the Rubberband Man, as when he converted from Tri he had a huge base, but no anaerobic capacity. When the hammer would get dropped, off the back he would go, but as soon as the pace moderated, right back he would come to the first group and right to the front and start pulling. Boing!

Ooohhhh noooooo Mr. Bill...
The little Play-Doh guy probably pre-dates a lot of people here, and in fact SNL was doing that little skit way before I was seriously cycling, but my MTB club hung that one on me back in the late 80's. Seems I was always the guy who wound up hanging in a bush with my feet still clipped to the bike, or crashing in the middle of a downhill and getting run over by everyone behind me.

Mine is "Nitemare"!!

Got it for giving people nightmares by handing out sore legs when going got tough!!

Others in our group are Sausage Neck, Captain , The Beast,Sit for a p*ss, The Bull and Solid to name but a few!!

Have fun,

Nitemare :thumbsup:

The gang nicknamed me the IceMan. We had ridden in the Christmas parade. Snow was everywhere. It was cold and blowing. We went to breakfast. Someone commented on the weather. I said, "This is nothing. I've gone ice fishing in 50 degree below wind chills. But my hole kept freezing up."

It was one of those moments that you want to grab those words back and stuff them into your throat. I hoped no one would seize the opportunity. No such luck.

I heard the words, "Which hole?" Followed by, "He's the IceMan."

I'm glad it stuck. I like it.

I don't really have one, but the hubby is Crash. For good reason.

One early season I got a particularly bad saddle sore. I went to lunch and was lamenting the pain to a riding partner. Just so happens the next week I sprained my ankle pretty bad. It was swollen and all different colors. I was at lunch with another riding partner and showed him the ankle. That weekend the three of us went for a ride. At some point the first guy asked how my saddle sore was. The second guy overheard and thought he was talking about my ankle and said something like "Oh dude. I was looking at that thing during lunch the other day and it was NASTY!" Of course first guy comes back with "WTF were you doing looking at his saddle sore during lunch?!" Then we laughed and laughed and laughed.

From that moment on second guy has been known as Saddle Sore. I still LOL!

First guy is sometimes called White Chicks because he loved that stupid movie. I can't quite figure that one out.

My name is Frank, and I have been called, at various times, Franklin, Frankel Henny, Henman (from the Hen in Frankel Henny), Farm Animal (because a hen is a...), Wonk, Wonkingham Bonkingham (from Wonk), and others I can't think of now. These nicknames were coined by pothead mountain bikers, not roadies.

We have a girl who rides with us on our road rides who is five feet tall and of Czech descent, so we call her The Five Foot Czech (as opposed to ten foot pole).

One early season I got a particularly bad saddle sore. I went to lunch and was lamenting the pain to a riding partner. Just so happens the next week I sprained my ankle pretty bad. It was swollen and all different colors. I was at lunch with another riding partner and showed him the ankle. That weekend the three of us went for a ride. At some point the first guy asked how my saddle sore was. The second guy overheard and thought he was talking about my ankle and said something like "Oh dude. I was looking at that thing during lunch the other day and it was NASTY!" Of course first guy comes back with "WTF were you doing looking at his saddle sore during lunch?!" Then we laughed and laughed and laughed.



That is frickn funny!

Our group has,
The Midget (short guy)
Twiggy (slightly taller wiry guy)
Connan (blonde muscle bound tri-man)
Crystal (after his ability to make cranks and bb shatter like)
Sheep dog (always hanging around the back of the pack)
Team Arnup ( two brothers who always do the turns and attempt stuff)
and me what they say to my face is the big red train (like to wear red and usually dragging somebody along)

Kick Stand.

I rode with a guy we commonly called "Wheels" but that's cause his last name is Wheeler.
Thru most of the mechanic duties I've pulled for some buddy's I got called SPROCKET and it kinda stuck... So I adopted it. Whatever, I can never be called FASTEST DUDE ON A BIKE cause that just ain't me... But since I'm the one that also schedules our group rides, I get called COACH about twice a week by about 2 or 3 folks.

Most of my group rides are with my mountain bike club. Some local nicknames:

C-Bu or Bucksneezy - from his name
Churtle - her name added to turtle (she races pro)
Chief - the organizer of most of the group rides
Stumphumper - don't ask
Uncle Don
Joeltrain
Re-Todd

Freight Train: 6'9", 260 pound very strong rider. A joy to draft behind.
Tony Testosterone: High strung, Type A Italian. Tony is his first name. Great guy...

MY group of friends doesnt have any riding nicknames for each other except one...
My buddy calls me "shitbag" because I got a much nicer mountain bike than his for much less than he paid.

I mostly get called,"Georgia" after I won the Ms Gerogia bodybuilding championship. The guys yell,"pump it" & "pose down" to get me going faster.

One guy in our group is called 'Sherpa' because he carries a pantry full of food, gels, bars, etc in his pockets. It looks like he has lumpy coconuts in his shirt pockets.

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a nickname. It's how we are first introduced to eachother. Inevitably, after introduction the reaction is "Oh, you're that guy?"

Except The Waterboy. No one calls him that. We just call him Soups.

BT

I mostly get called,"Georgia" after I won the Ms Gerogia bodybuilding championship. The guys yell,"pump it" & "pose down" to get me going faster.

Pictures, please?

In our club we have:
Viking, due to his heritage
Diesel, he can go to the front and pull all of us along at a great pace for miles
Rocket, our speedster who jumps everyone for town lines - great sprinter
Crash, for obvious reasons
and myself, Johnny Smooth for a steady, smooth cadence

.....is Der Organ.

Awarded for being the fella that always organizes the group rides. One of the girls on our racing team is called the Speed Queen.

Pictures, please?
Side tricep pose at the NPC Nationals.

My friend Kaas calls me de bij ("the bee"-Dutch) because my last name is de Bie and he is Dutch.

My wife calls me de abeja ("of bee"-Spanish) because she is Mexican....do we see a pattern?

My "cycling" nickname or closest thing to it is "Greco-Morman Wrestler" because I answered the door wearing my bibs having not yet put on my jersey and my friend is well, an idiot.

I am 6'2" and 220# and my name is Bill. Not a tough one.

At work I was known as "staples" for a while. My road bike has an EASY BUTTON headset cap and when I busted my head, I had many visible staples holding my scalp together. I am definately not a shaved head look candidate.

I ride with a bunch of Jamaicans on the road and they nicknamed me The Hulk. I'm 5'5" and 205lbs. Would love to find a Hulk jersey in XL, hard item to find right now.Then my old mtn biking buddies called me the goat for always trying to pass them going up a climb.

Fignon

I got Lasik a couple of years ago though.

We call my buddy "Indurain", cause he's tall, likes the big ring and attacks all the time.

A friend of mine always carries Double Caffeine Gel Packs. Whenever someone is in need of a Pick-me -up the "Gel Man" is always there!!

Not much originality here, but I ride with a guy who's 6'10" and occasionally with his brother, who's 6'9" and has bright blond hair. The first guy is Stork and the bro is Big Bird.

Micycle... Mike.. bicycle... I stuttered once while making a phone call... Name kinda stuck.

haha...

or... Cruz. Go figure.