Teams & Riders Coolest Names in the Peloton*

[Samu Cuenca]

You also wrote that Ed Veal would be a funny name, even though it's clearly the name of a very real person.

I'm guessing this Pogacar is at least 18.

I said EAT Veal would be a funny name.

 

[RedheadDane]

Meet Mr Appletree!

Henri Johannes Appelbaum

Henri Johannes Appelbaum (born 2004-10-30 in Gütersloh) is a road racing cyclist from Germany, currently riding for Tirol KTM Cycling Team. His best results are 9th place in GC Turul Romaniei and 10th place in stage Turul Romaniei.

www.procyclingstats.com

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Meet Mr Appletree!

Henri Johannes Appelbaum

Henri Johannes Appelbaum (born 2004-10-30 in Gütersloh) is a road racing cyclist from Germany, currently riding for Tirol KTM Cycling Team. His best results are 9th place in GC Turul Romaniei and 10th place in stage Turul Romaniei.

www.procyclingstats.com

Talking about trees https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/william-crabtree/start

 

[RedheadDane]

Talking about trees https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/william-crabtree/start

Good thing his surname is spelled with a 'b', not a 'p'...

 

[Saint Unix]

Jazilla Mwamikazi from the women's mountain bike race has a hell of a name. She does road racing as well, so she qualifies for the thread.

 

[RedheadDane]

Jazilla Mwamikazi from the women's mountain bike race has a hell of a name. She does road racing as well, so she qualifies for the thread.

Oh, this is a bit like certain rider threads; even if it's technically in the RR section, it's also fine to talk about other disciplines, as long as it involves cool names.

 

[ciranda]

GODZILLA KAMIKAZE

Hugo Scala Junior is the best name ever

 

[gunara]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Van_Aert

Our Benny finally has another thing in common with Wout, being in the olympic that is.

It seems that whenever there's a national athlete called Benny here, someone in the Netherlands got the same occupation at a different level at the same time. In the late 1980s, Benny van Breukelen was the goalkeeper for a struggling team in the country's top league when a certain Hans won the EURO.

 

[rallybanana]

German rower competing in the Olympics this morning called Julius Christ

 

[RedheadDane]

German rower competing in the Olympics this morning called Julius Christ

You are... stretching the definition of "cycling related" slightly...

 

[Samu Cuenca]

You are... stretching the definition of "cycling related" slightly...

I'd like to see Christ on a bike.

 

[RedheadDane]

I'd like to see Christ on a bike.

Sorry, gotta make do with Christ in a boat...

 

[rallybanana]

You are... stretching the definition of "cycling related" slightly...

German rowers, Slovenian ski jumpers, and Belgian footballers can be considered "cycling related"

 

[Anderis]

German rower competing in the Olympics this morning called Julius Christ

"Rower" means a bicycle in Polish and considering what kind of forum we're here, this post got me confused for a few seconds.

 

[Anderis]

From Tour de Pologne startlist:

I love how of the 3 consecutive riders on the starlist, one shares his first name and his last name with one of the other two. It would've been even better if Ben Swift was in the middle.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

And the award for the most successive consonants goes to:
GRUSZCZYNSKI Filip Stagiaire at Cofidis, probably not as hard to pronounce as it looks at first glance.

 

[Anderis]

As a Pole, I would think this is pretty difficult to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak Polish or some language with similar phonetics.

It's still no more consecutive consonants than in a typical Polish name- just 3 "ńsk". "sz" and "cz" are actually one sound each and "szcz" is actually pretty common in Polish, like the football players Błaszczykowski, Piszczek, Szczęsny or the cities of Bydgoszcz or Szczecin.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Grus-shin-ski close enough? With the sh slightly elongated?

 

[tobydawq]

As a Pole, I would think this is pretty difficult to pronounce for anyone who doesn't speak Polish or some language with similar phonetics.

It's still no more consecutive consonants than in a typical Polish name- just 3 "ńsk". "sz" and "cz" are actually one sound each and "szcz" is actually pretty common in Polish, like the football players Błaszczykowski, Piszczek, Szczęsny or the cities of Bydgoszcz or Szczecin.

I struggle a lot more with the Krz-combo like in Krzysztof.

Szcz is child's play.

 

[RedheadDane]

Having a bunch of consonants in the middle of a name, that I can deal with. The worst part is when you go Pzhfchkl at the beginning.




(I don't think that's an actual possibility.)

 

[Anderis]

Grus-shin-ski close enough? With the sh slightly elongated?

"Sz" is like English "sh" like in "show"
And "cz" is like English "ch" like in "Chile"

Notice how there's a pattern and "z" in Polish is utilised similarly to "h" in English.

About vowels, it's difficult to explain them because how English writes vowels down is all over the place.

"u" is close to "oo" like in "boom"
"i" is close to "ee" like in "bee"
"y" is close to "i" like in "rich

So I would say Grooshchinskee

 

[Anderis]

Having a bunch of consonants in the middle of a name, that I can deal with. The worst part is when you go Pzhfchkl at the beginning.




(I don't think that's an actual possibility.)

You may want to try this word:

pszczoła - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

or this town:

Pszczyna - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/bjoern-koerdt
This guy sounds like he should be Dutch, rides on a French team but is British.

 

[Anderis]

With the departure of Buchmann and Schachmann, there will be no more "manns" left at Bora. The end of an era.

 

[tobydawq]

With the departure of Buchmann and Schachmann, there will be no more "manns" left at Bora. The end of an era.

They do still have the rider with the most versatile name who can be calledl Florimann Lipomann.