I joined the forums to seek information on a bike I rescued from the scrap heap. I admit being a budding capitalist I wanted to know what it might be worth and how old it was...

I needed a name on the spot.

My name is Anthony, sometime in junior high there was a french class in which one of the text book characters was called uncle antoine.... Antoine, Antoinette (if you wanted to tease which kids at that age do) and eventually just Toine (which I spelt as Twan all through highschool) stuck. In highschool some people didn't even know my real name anymore nor did half the people I knew during my undergrad (when I signed up)... it's a cycling forum and cyclotoine rolled off the tongue. Anyway, I dropped the nickname when I left everything and everyone I knew behind and moved west... Starting graduate school I felt I must stop introducing myself as "Anthony, but you can call me Toine"... So now most people call me Anthony or Tony.