Favorite cyclists names

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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Can anyone else not hear Christophe Lemevel's name without singing it to the tune of you can ring my bell? I know I can't and now neither can my wife 8)
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  • Rhods
    Rhods Posts: 400
    Vladimir Karpets every time!

    And Mark Cavendish, if it's shouted out at the end of a sprint victory by an Italian commentator!
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Christian Poos 8)
  • victorponf
    victorponf Posts: 1,187
    Leon Van Bon
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  • Sea_Green_Incorruptible
    Sea_Green_Incorruptible Posts: 431
    My only disappointment with Vladimir Karpets is that he doesn't have Franco Pellizotti's hair. :cry: He would be THE true all-rounder if he did..
  • attica
    attica Posts: 2,362
    Wendy Houvenaghel is always quite a mouthful
    "Impressive break"

    "Thanks...

    ...I can taste blood"
  • 1flahute
    1flahute Posts: 32
    Sergei Soukouroutchenkov saw this in a milk race programme.Some name.

    Eddy Merckx great name and just had to be a great cyclist

    Roger de Vlaeminck another classic name.


    Jakob Fugslang alang slang alang just for bay city roller fans :roll: :roll:
  • The complaining tadpole
    The complaining tadpole Posts: 56
    Just been watching some footage of the 1986 Tdf & Claude Criquelion popped up - Id almost forgotten him, great name!
  • huggy
    huggy Posts: 242
    Patxi Vila of Lampre is interesting
  • chriskempton
    chriskempton Posts: 1,245
    The Flemish ones are the best really:

    Bert Oosterbosch
    Adri Van Der Poel
    Eric Vanderaerden

    but Thierry Claveyrolat rolls off the tongue nicely as well. Just saying it makes me want a pastis.
  • mr_hippo
    mr_hippo Posts: 1,051
    Possibly the first cycling hippo - Hippolyte Aucouturier
    Joop Zoetemelk
    Was it Duffield or Ligett that uttered the immortal phrase "It's curtains for Karpets"?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    chriskempton wrote:
    The Flemish ones are the best really:

    Bert Oosterbosch
    Adri Van Der Poel
    Eric Vanderaerden

    but Thierry Claveyrolat rolls off the tongue nicely as well. Just saying it makes me want a pastis.

    Dutch rather than Flemish Jean-Paul van Poppel.

    Hopefully we'll soon see more of his son, the brilliantly named - Boy van Poppel
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  • drenkrom
    drenkrom Posts: 1,062
    While I like all of the above, I'd have to go into Downhill MTB for my current favorite: Nick Beer.

    The puns are simply endless.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    Has anyone mentioned Pavel Brutt yet?
  • Obelix
    Obelix Posts: 18
    Eros Poli ... and i loved his ventoux ride in '94!
  • boz64
    boz64 Posts: 81
    I love the French names....
    Sandy Casar
    Laurent Lefevre
    Samuel Dumoulin
    Bernard Hinault
    Laurent Fignon

    plus a couple of Dutch/Flemish...
    Ludo Dierckxsens
    Gert-Jan Theunisse

    and a couple of Spaniards to complete the team...
    Luis Pasamontes
    Raul Alcala
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  • andyrac
    andyrac Posts: 1,174
    Ah, when I was younger, for some reason I always mistook Raul Alcala and Rolf Aldag - don't ask me why..... :oops:
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  • timdanaher
    timdanaher Posts: 120
    And let's not forget the late Wanderley Magalhães
    Cheers,

    Tim

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  • Rhods
    Rhods Posts: 400
    A whole host of fantastic names on the Clasica San Sebastian start list, current favourite being:

    Staf SCHEIRLINCKX.

    Also, a rare Finnish name in the Peleton, held the polka dot for a while this year: Jussi Veikkanen!
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    speed and simplicity:
    Peter Post
    Jan Raas

    But then..
    Hubert Hutsebaut
    Martin Kokkelkoren

    I remember an interview with Marino lejaretta, where he said that when he was a kid he thought he would never succeed, because 'cyclists just aren't called Lejaretta', cyclists are called Bahamontes or Ocana. Didn't hold him back in the end though...

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