Favorite Cyclist's Names?

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Sonarrat said:

After starting such a heavy thread as the Black Riders
discussion, I thought I'd throw out something a bit
more fun (and a bit inane) to balance it out. What's
your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track, amateur,
fatty master's, whatever? I'm partial to Gorka
Gerrikagoitia, myself.

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Sonarrat said:

After starting such a heavy thread as the Black Riders
discussion, I thought I'd throw out something a bit
more fun (and a bit inane) to balance it out. What's
your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track, amateur,
fatty master's, whatever? I'm partial to Gorka
Gerrikagoitia, myself.

Mine is Frank van den Abbele

I like how riders here give names to their kids. It would be
nice if something good became of Francesco Planckaert. Also
look forward to maybe see 'Gianni Museeuw' or 'Eddy De
Vlaeminck' in the peloton one day.

Van Hoorebeeck Bart said:

I like how riders here give names to their kids. It would
be nice if something good became of Francesco Planckaert.
Also look forward to maybe see 'Gianni Museeuw' or 'Eddy
De Vlaeminck' in the peloton one day.

There's already Eddy Mazzoleni of course, but I don't know
of any other Italian riders named after cycling legends.

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Quoted message said:

After starting such a heavy thread as the Black Riders
discussion, I thought I'd throw out something a bit
more fun (and a bit inane) to balance it out. What's
your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track, amateur,
fatty master's, whatever? I'm partial to Gorka
Gerrikagoitia, myself.

-Sonarrat.

Flecha

Axel

Dario Frigo

Yon Bru

Jeff

Sonarrat said:

After starting such a heavy thread as the Black Riders
discussion, I thought I'd throw out something a bit
more fun (and a bit inane) to balance it out. What's
your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track, amateur,
fatty master's, whatever? I'm partial to Gorka
Gerrikagoitia, myself.

-Sonarrat.

Wim van Est

Sonarrat said:

After starting such a heavy thread as the Black Riders
discussion, I thought I'd throw out something a bit
more fun (and a bit inane) to balance it out. What's
your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track, amateur,
fatty master's, whatever? I'm partial to Gorka
Gerrikagoitia, myself.

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Quoted post said:

Originally posted by Jeff Jones
Yon Bru

Jeff

Gianni Bugno.
Jesper Skibby (I have a friend who named his cat after ol' Jesper).

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I'm partial to Gorka Gerrikagoitia, myself.

Fausto

Ludo

Zabel

Beloki

Lance Armstrong -- sounds like a cartoon character or a
[censored] actor

I love the sound of the Italian names: Mario Cippolini Fabio
Baldato Pietro Caucchioli Andrea Tafi Graziano Gasparre
Fabian Cancellara Alessandro Petacchi Guido Trenti (that
famous American) Gianluca Bortolami Marco Pantani (whom I
will miss) Gilberto Simoni Stefano Garzelli

...and those are just present day riders.

Claudio Chiappucci Gianni Bugno Fausto Coppi Gino Bartali
Alfredo Binda Guido Bontempi

But, of course, no name matches "Eddy Merckx" for the depth
of connection to cycling.

Colin Campbell said:

I love the sound of the Italian names: Mario Cippolini

Get the spelling correct, prior to the sound.

Sergio Pisa

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Quoted message said:

Jeff Jones said:

Yon Bru Jeff

Gianni Bugno. Jesper Skibby (I have a friend who named his
cat after ol' Jesper).

Isn't Jesper the one who got run over by a race official
during one of the classics?

Quoted message said:

What's your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track,

Too easy. Joop Zoetemelk.

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Gorka Gerrikagoitia

Leave it to the Basks or Belgians to come up with some
unspellable names. I like "Ludo Diercxkxsxens".

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

Too easy. Joop Zoetemelk.

Did you know it's pronounced (somewhat like) Yowp Zootemelk?

Sonarrat said:

After starting such a heavy thread as the Black Riders
discussion, I thought I'd throw out something a bit
more fun (and a bit inane) to balance it out. What's
your favorite cyclist name - MTB, road, track, amateur,
fatty master's, whatever? I'm partial to Gorka
Gerrikagoitia, myself.

-Sonarrat.

Jan Hruska. When my first son was 4 months old, and I was
watching the Giro on TV, I'd lift him above me and whoop,
"Jan Hruska!" He loved it.

The funniest thing about a cyclist's name I ever heard of
was about five years ago when Cipollini said he'd bought a
parrot one summer and that all it would do was watch TV and
say "Jalabert! Jalabert!"

JT

Ewoud Dronkert said:

Mike Jacoubowsky said:

Too easy. Joop Zoetemelk.

Did you know it's pronounced (somewhat like) Yowp
Zootemelk?

Yup.