Favorite Cyclist's Nicknames

DiabloScott <[email hidden]> wrote in news:NSQjc.4750$Qe.3190
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These nicknames really fit the riders:

Cannibal Badger Pirata/Elefantino/Featherless Bird of the Mountains
Grillo Perico BigMig El Niño

There are a few mystery nicknames too though: Tintin Gypsey

Others?

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I've always liked "The Eagle of Toledo".

Bob Schwartz
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These nicknames really fit the riders:

Cannibal Badger Pirata/Elefantino/Featherless Bird of the Mountains
Grillo Perico BigMig El Niño

There are a few mystery nicknames too though: Tintin Gypsey

Others?

I have seen a web site out there somewhere that was attempting to not only
document all known nick names but also the source. Some riders have had to
share nick names too. I will try to find it and post it here if I do.

I could only find this one, http://www.veloarchive.com/riders/nicknames.php
but not the other I was talking about. I suppose it may even be gone.

Bob Schwartz said:

I've always liked "The Eagle of Toledo".

And then there's "The Eagle of Hoogerheide" for Adri van der Poel... 🙂

Chris said:

I could only find this one, http://www.veloarchive.com/riders/nicknames.php
but not the other I was talking about. I suppose it may even be gone.

Il y a aussi http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/lexique/surnoms.php

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:22:35 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <[email hidden]>

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Chris said:

I could only find this one, http://www.veloarchive.com/riders/nicknames.php
but not the other I was talking about. I suppose it may even be gone.

Il y a aussi http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/lexique/surnoms.php

or here...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/veloarchive/riders/nicknames.htm

Regards!
Stephen

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/veloarchive/riders/nicknames.htm

That's good -- though it should be in reverse alphabetical order because
they all seem so lame after it starts off with "The Tashkent Terror"

NS

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Bob Schwartz said:

I've always liked "The Eagle of Toledo".

And then there's "The Eagle of Hoogerheide" for Adri van der Poel... 🙂

No, for Ottenbros. He thought it up himself, because he was about the worst
climber of the pack.

Benjo Maso

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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:22:35 +0200, Ewoud Dronkert <[email hidden]>

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Chris said:

I could only find this one,

http://www.veloarchive.com/riders/nicknames.php

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but not the other I was talking about. I suppose it may even be gone.

Il y a aussi http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/lexique/surnoms.php

or here...

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/veloarchive/riders/nicknames.htm

Both of them are missing "the divine baldy" (Miguel Poblet). One of my
favorites is also "the wolf of the Abruzzi", a great nickname for a small
rider (Silvestri La Cioppa).

Benjo Maso

benjo maso said:

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"The Eagle of Hoogerheide" for Adri van der Poel

No, for Ottenbros. He thought it up himself, because he was about the worst
climber of the pack.

Oh OK, aparently I keep forgetting this; I think we had the same
exchange over at frsc.

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benjo maso said:

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"The Eagle of Hoogerheide" for Adri van der Poel

No, for Ottenbros. He thought it up himself, because he was about the

worst

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climber of the pack.

Oh OK, aparently I keep forgetting this; I think we had the same
exchange over at frsc.

Perhaps we could do the same act on it.sport.ciclismo?

Benjo

benjo maso said:

Perhaps we could do the same act on it.sport.ciclismo?

It's a bit more difficult, for me at least. At first I think I know what
I want to write, but then I have to still look up every word 🙁

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These nicknames really fit the riders:

Cannibal Badger Pirata/Elefantino/Featherless Bird of the Mountains
Grillo Perico BigMig El Niño

There are a few mystery nicknames too though: Tintin Gypsey

Others?

I like Dudu (Jacky Durand) and Duduf (Laurent Dufaux). Those French...

-Sonarrat.

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benjo maso said:

Perhaps we could do the same act on it.sport.ciclismo?

It's a bit more difficult, for me at least. At first I think I know what
I want to write, but then I have to still look up every word 🙁

It's easy. "Eagle" is "aquila". The rest is about the same.:-)

Benjo

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These nicknames really fit the riders:

Cannibal Badger Pirata/Elefantino/Featherless Bird of the Mountains
Grillo Perico BigMig El Niño

There are a few mystery nicknames too though: Tintin Gypsey

Others?

Rebelins nickname of Tin Tin is after some sort of cartoon horse
character he supposedly resembles. Tin Tin the pony. Haven't checked it
out.

One Cipo nickname was Mousseulini after his older hairstyles

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These nicknames really fit the riders:

Cannibal Badger Pirata/Elefantino/Featherless Bird of the Mountains
Grillo Perico BigMig El Niño

There are a few mystery nicknames too though: Tintin Gypsey

Others?

Rebelins nickname of Tin Tin is after some sort of cartoon horse
character he supposedly resembles. Tin Tin the pony. Haven't checked it
out.

One Cipo nickname was Mousseulini after his older hairstyles

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Tin Tin the detective?

http://www.tintin.com/

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These nicknames really fit the riders:

Cannibal Badger Pirata/Elefantino/Featherless Bird of the Mountains
Grillo Perico BigMig El Niño

There are a few mystery nicknames too though: Tintin Gypsey

Others?

Rebelins nickname of Tin Tin is after some sort of cartoon horse
character he supposedly resembles. Tin Tin the pony. Haven't checked it
out.

Tintin the boy reporter ... Created by Herge in Belgium:

http://www.tintin.com/

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One Cipo nickname was Mousseulini after his older hairstyles

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Rebelins nickname of Tin Tin is after some sort of cartoon horse
character he supposedly resembles. Tin Tin the pony. Haven't checked it
out.

Do you seriously mean that you don't know who Tintin is (pronouced
tahn-tahn)? He was sort of a young (maybe 15 or so to begin with and aging
to perhaps 19?) hero of many comic book stories published, mainly I believe,
in the 1930's. Most of these were sort of like story books more than
cartoons and Tin-tin stories weren't idiotic but more for intelligent
people. Adventuresome and quite the thing for a young boy.

The author was one Herge' whom I infer was French since they seem to have
come originally from there and were originally written in French. The
stories were so involving that they were translated into some 30+ languages.
You can find them for sale on Ebay to this day. I wouldn't doubt that
they're still being published and certainly while I was in France you could
see the animated stories that stuck VERY closely to the originals from what
I saw.

Tintin had red hair with sort of a [censored] in front. His head and his face were
round and his nose was round. Rebellin looks about as much like Tintin as he
does any other comic book character short of Wonder Woman.

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One Cipo nickname was Mousseulini after his older hairstyles

I think it was meant to be "mousse-olini" from the pomade.

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I like Dudu (Jacky Durand) and Duduf (Laurent Dufaux). Those French...

-Sonarrat.

Laurent Dufaux is actually Swiss, but I don't know if he's from the
French-Swiss region...

I remember reading an article on the Paris_Roubaix that Franco Ballerini
lost by a whisker that referred to him as "Boohoo" Ballerini after he said
he'd never come back. I thought that was kind of funny, but the fact he
came bback and won the thing was a good way to dispel that nickname.

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