Stop trying to give yourself a road name – it makes you look like an ass. Seriously. If you come up to me and introduce yourself as Killer, or Rock, or Badass, or some similar such crap, I’m gonna raise an eyebrow and there is no way I’m gonna take you seriously. Here’s the deal – road names are given to you by your brothers and they tend to happen spontaneously due to some incident or something that happens to you, or some trait that stands out. You don’t get to give yourself a road name, and you shouldn’t be sitting around making them up for each other either.
Not everyone will have a road name either. A lot of people I know who have been riding for decades don’t have road names, even people in serious Clubs. Not to mention a lot of people don’t like nicknames, they want to go by their given name. Its always a personal and Club choice. Furthermore, Road Names have stories. It’s one of the ways you can tell who knows you well since they’ve taken the time to sit with you and learn the story behind your road name (or they were there when it happened). In many ways, it’s how we weed out the people who claim to know someone well, but don’t know shit about them. Part of building brotherhood, of becoming a member of a Club, is getting to know the men in the Club well. If you don’t know the men well enough to know the stories behind all of their Club names, you definitely are not ready for a Patch.
One other thought on road names. Some road names are Club specific. You leave a Club, you loose the road name. Others become well known by people, friends, family, outside of the Club and so it sticks with you, it’s a case by case basis really.
Just my two cents on that one.
-Ewok