How Do You Choose Your Name?

[JScrambler]

I know it seems like a stupid question. Just pick what you want right?

Once you pick a name you most likely have to stick with it for branding. Don't want to pick something like "R6 rider" for example and end up riding a Honda Grom later as your only ride.

Do you pick one randomly, something catchy, base on bike you ride, etc?

I was just trying to figure something out. I suck at naming stuff. I'm not vlogging yet, but when I do I will be riding a 1973 Honda CL350 and later after that get a 1975 CB750. For now it's Jscrambler, but i can't really say scrambler since the CB750 isn't a scrambler. it would feel out of place.

So how did you fellow riders pick your vlogging name?

 

[lupin]

It's been with me for about 20 years. Is my old cs name actually.

 

[R-Rated]

Depends and which name. On YouTube, it is my actual name and on here and some other forums, the name of my side business.

 

[BlakShadow]

Right before I started I considered going by Black Shadow (hence my username here), but heeded the advice to not limit myself to one model of motorcycle. Instead I went with where I'm from and live - Massachusetts. I haven't seen many (any?) other motovloggers from here, and the Masshole name is a funny (and true!) reflection on what crappy drivers most people here are. Everything else, like my logo and such, came out of that.

 

[JoshAFJ]

I basically hate most names that I have ever come up with...so this time I chose my actual name and threw AFJ after it because the group that I ride with is called the Assfault Junkies. They use the radioactive symbol a lot in their designs, shirts, stickers, etc so that is why I adopted it within my logo for my channel as well.

 

[TriumfAnt]

How about just shortening your name to Scram or JScram?

 

[Shifty]

It was a nick name given to me 26 years ago

 

[SighBored]

The grammar Nazi in me got so amused by how my friend spelled signboard wrongly that I decided to use it as an email address. The rest is history.

 

[DFG]

I'm foreign lol. Plus couldn't think of anything else. Haha

 

[burlyjack]

Everyone says I look like a burly lumberjack or a sasquatch. I thought Burlyjack had a better ring to it than sasquatch or squatch lol.

It has nothing do to with my real name, which is what some people think. It's just a mashup of "burly" and "lumberjack".

 

[Hippo-Drones]

I have 2 YouTube channels, my other (and original) being Hippo247 which I use for PC gaming and airsoft videos. Hippo-Drones kinda stemmed from that and I think works with the pun as well as me "droning" on and my love for supermotos and the sound they make, it all just fits for me!

 

[AdydasNZ]

It's been with me for about 20 years. Is my old cs name actually.

IRC name for me, i used to use ADIDAS but with 500 other people also using it i changed the spelling up and 20 years later its still stuck with me.

 

[JScrambler]

Nice. Looks I need to be more creative haha.

 

[burlyjack]

Nice. Looks I need to be more creative haha.

I think JScrambler has a good ring to it. It's also easy to remember. What made you pick that?

 

[JScrambler]

I think JScrambler has a good ring to it. It's also easy to remember. What made you pick that?

My first name starts with a "J" and the bike I have now is a Scrambler.

 

[AdydasNZ]

Dont think CR1 or CYamaha would have as good of a ring to it haha; but in your case it works well.. until you sell said Scrambler though..

 

[JScrambler]

Since I like vintage Hondas I was playing round with the name J.V.HONDA for "Jarrett-Vintage-Honda" simce it has my name in it and says what I like.

 

[Waffles]

Well it was torn between: Chickenstrips and Waffles.Wheelies. I had always gone by "Chicken" and every variation available since I was a teen. Recently though since I got my stunt bike ( and working for the Waffle House ) I would find myself in my uniform straight from work checking out the stunt riders at the lot. And they started calling me "Waffles" and I liked the alliteration of "Waffles.Wheelies" It's more of my Show is "Waffles Wheelies" starring ya boy "Waffles"

 

[aa000]

Urban is actually my last name and I threw BeRiding right after it. I feel like it's a pretty decent name especially since my last name is incorporated into my brand.

 

[Reize]

This is pretty interesting.

My YT name comes from my online handle that I've used since the 90's. I used to be fascinated with this SNES game called Seiken Densetsu 3, and one of my favourite protagonists was Riesz the Amazon Princess. I re-arranged it to keep the pronunciation but changed the letters to Reize and had it ever since.

The Primus portion of it comes from how "Reize" itself was a pretty common German surname and it would get used in plenty of places. So I just used the Latin word for "First", "Primus" and stuck it at the end to make the username legit on plenty of websites that had Reize alone used.