Looked thru the standard avatars. Liked this one.
Goes with my main lj name. (My lj cycling journal has the same name as here.)

um...yeah, tried my nickname - "high risk" and "highrisk" which returned, in no particular order,

politicians
body guard courses
health and safety notices
rubber gloves
bad movies
straight jackets

so I don't think I'll use that idea

Hey, it's got 2 wheels, brakes, handlebar, multiple gears, goes really fast, and gets over 38mpg!

By "nickname" I meant the user name, the forum member name. So, you should have searched for markhr. I did that and found a nice blue bike with funny cranks in roadbikereview.com. Is it yours? Anyway, because of your particular member name, I don't think this method of finding a useful avatar will be of help in your case.

By the way, are you known by your relatives and friends as "high risk"?

me with a winter beard, 6 months old and totally unruly. every man should try that once.
the sick face i'm making goes nicely with how ridiculous i looked with that thing.
but damn, did that keep me warm in the new england winter!

most of the time i look nothing like that photo!

With a chainwheel like this...you have to make it your avatar.

Actually, there is plenty of research on using avatars in online communities being conducted in different scholarly circles. There's meaning there...

luckily no - just to a select few ski instructors who usually end up following along to pick up the yard sale - lol .

Wow, nice beard! I tried growing one when I was six months old, but it just wouldn't fill in. I WAS very unruly, though.

Mine's just a favorite cartoon character - nothing really to do with biking. Except that, like cycling, it makes me feel like a kid again.

Mine is a good shot of the beast I took down on my last hunting trip.
I now have it stuffed and sitting in my foyer along side my other magnificent specimens.

Just kidding. Bet I made a few feathers ruffle with that one. Actually I have great respect for all living things.

Truthfully it is an indication of my desire to give my best to the sport of cycling, as do the creatures of nature give their full concentration on the task at hand. ( As in pursuit of game ). It is not how I view myself but how I wish to be. Sleek and robust, just looking at it you know there lies the shear intensity of the power behind the condition.

Picture of my, with a little MSPaint edit. Its just a "Shirt Tales"-esque reference to what some people think is always on my mind.

mine is a crop of a frame grab from the animated short "Ah Pook is Here" , by Phillip Hunt. The words are from a short story/spoken word bit by William S Burroughs, who I sort of idolize (though to a lesser degree now than at times past)

If you want to watch the video, it's here: https://zed.cbc.ca/go?c=contentPage&CONTENT_ID=18034

Since I'm mending a fracture from a crash, seems appropriate.

Slvoid's avatar reminds me of the character Doctor Nikolas Van Helsing played by Jack Elam in Cannonball Run II.

[QUOTE=ahpook]mine is a crop of a frame grab from the animated short "Ah Pook is Here" , by Phillip Hunt. The words are from a short story/spoken word bit by William S Burroughs, who I sort of idolize (though to a lesser degree now than at times past)

coincidence, but I'm reading Burroughs' "Junky" right now. It's pretty interesting. Do you thinhk it is his best work even though it was his first? What is that bay you wrote about?

That explains the helmet hair:-) My avatar was designed by my wife, who is a professional artist and teacher of Art.

Well you done real good with that one! She's a cutie

She did an outstanding job on your avatar.

I think his best work is the Western Lands trilogy: Cities of the Red Night, The Western Lands, and The Place of Dead Roads. The earlier stuff like Junky and Exterminator is all kind of a lead-up to Naked Lunch, which is wonderful. Post N.L. are a few interesting but not particularly readable cut-up experiments (Nova Express, Ticket that Exploded).

'bay'? do you mean my Location tag 'the souf bay'? its just the South (San Francisco) Bay Area, spoken with a lisp

this was a nasty gash in my forhead I received during my first year of commuting by bike. a cager threw a bottle at me... that bastard. I am sure I will get over it in a few more years....

I chose mine because I have the well deserved reputation of saying "Dude". A lot. And I'm not even from CA. And also, I "try" to stay in Zen mode during my commutes...

[QUOTE=ahpook]I think his best work is the Western Lands trilogy: Cities of the Red Night, The Western Lands, and The Place of Dead Roads.QUOTE]

Thanks AHPOOK. I'll have to give them a whirl.

I'm taking off the studs today everyone!

[QUOTE=ahpook]I think his best work is the Western Lands trilogy: Cities of the Red Night, The Western Lands, and The Place of Dead Roads.QUOTE]

Thanks AHPOOK. I'll have to give them a whirl.

I'm taking off the studs today everyone!

Hey, I'm not the only one. Some kids in a Civic yelled something at me and chucked a beer bottle which cracked me in the forearm. Managed to hit the bone then shot in front of my bike, smashed on the pavement in many pieces which I then chose to run over since it happened too fast to do anything about it. Front tire popped and I went from 18mph to 0 in 10 feet. Wife had to pick me up. Damn kids.

<= This reminds me of my carefree youth.

Koffee, you had one of my favorite avatars. It looked like a Dorothy Dandridge in a publicity photo.

Slvoid's creeps me out too.

Mine's purely about privacy. I use it wherever I don't need to be my real self online. It first happened when I was filling out some web form and was thinking "Don't you wish" when they asked me for my personal info. That became 'Don Chuwish' and an email address of donchu@writeme.com - "Don't you write me". It stuck.

-Don (well, not really)


(EDIT: Talking about my nickname obviously since I don't even have an avatar. But now, oddly, I'm thinking I need to pick one out!)