Cycling Art

[winkybiker]

Well... seeing as I can Draw a cannonball (and already did) but not a missile, I'll stick with Cannonball



Anyway; any other funny nicknames?

Seriously, you can't draw a missile?

 

[RedheadDane]

Seriously, you can't draw a missile?

Maybe I could... but I heard the 'Cannonball' one most frequently, and that's the one I'm going with!
Also, apparently Hushovd is nicknamed 'Bull' too... but he'll be represented by a little guy holding a hammer!

 

[laziali]

Dragging this one up Again.

See, I'm curently working on a little "art project". I am drawing as many riders as I can based on their nicknames.
However, I kinda need you guys' help, since I can't remember all of said nicknames. I'm only going for something that tangible (after all; how do you draw a "Wiggo"?, and I'm sticking to currently active riders on World Tour Teams.

So far I've got:

Cannonball = Cavendish
Tank (Panzerwagen) = T. Martin
Tornado = Boonen
Shark = Nibali
Cigar (That is was 'El Purito' means, right?) = Rodriguez
Pistol (El Pistolero) = Contador
Little Prince (Il Piccolo Principe) = Cunego

As well as some where I know the nickname but needs to figure out how to represent them:

Honey Badger = Navardauskas
Bull = Hoogerland
Ox = Chris Anker
(The last two is simply a matter of 'how to tell them apart?')

Did that make sense?

You do know how insensitive Panzerwagen (and the follow-on nickname previously put on the forum) is said to be?? I don't really care, taking the Stephen Fry view on these things, but others got pretty uptight IIRC.

 

[laziali]

Does Flecha not mean arrow? As in a bow and arrow?

FroomeDog
Ian Stannard is Yogi (as in yogi bear)
Cuddles for cadel evans

Cuddles, of course, being ironic. Coined by Rupert Guiness after a particularly frosty Cadel moment

 

[RedheadDane]

You do know how insensitive Panzerwagen (and the follow-on nickname previously put on the forum) is said to be?? I don't really care, taking the Stephen Fry view on these things, but others got pretty uptight IIRC.

Well... I know that the 'Panzerwagen' one was one he (Martin) was given during the old HTC days...

 

[laziali]

Well... I know that the 'Panzerwagen' one was one he (Martin) was given during the old HTC days...

No RHD, you missed the point. Google is your friend ...

 

[winkybiker]

.....but I heard the 'Cannonball' one most frequently, and that's the one I'm going with!

I've never heard Cav referred to as "Cannonball". You clearly move in different circles than I.

 

[Pandora]

Do sculptures count?

Vasko Lipovac, Cyclus

EDIT: Details here: http://www.googleartproject.com/col...us-yellow-shirt-vasko-lipovac/554176/details/

 

[TheDude]

I just got a Thule 2-bike rack. Best art in the living room are the his and hers road bikes.

I have a couple of classic posters (1950s Raleigh sales photo and 1920s Worlds) in my office from Amazon.com - I should find a couple of nails and actually put them up.

 

[fmk_RoI]

Is this thread really cycling art?

Let's see. This is Luxembourg's second Tour de France winner, Nicolas Frantz (1927 and 1928, when the race was run as mostly team trials and Alcyon (incl its Armor, Labor and Tomann subsidiaries, all four 'teams' riding as one) steamrollered the oppo, filling the first five on GC at the end both times). The painting is by Joseph Kutter , also from Luxembourg (there's more about the painter and painting if you click the link).

 

[laarsland]

 

[fmk_RoI]

The rainbows are cute. All it's missing is a couple of unicorns. And a fish.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

The rainbows are cute. All it's missing is a couple of unicorns. And a fish.

And a puppy!

If you look closely enough it is a bit kitschy (kitsch can be an artform of its own if well executed), but at first glance I just enjoy the general spirit of it all. (Especially the apparent Moses-like parting of the seas... there's just so much to unpack here.)

 

[fmk_RoI]

And a puppy!

If you look closely enough it is a bit kitschy (kitsch can be an artform of its own if well executed), but at first glance I just enjoy the general spirit of it all. (Especially the apparent Moses-like parting of the seas... there's just so much to unpack here.)

It can only be kitsch if it's aiming not to be kitsch and that looks like it's aiming for kitsch via Hokusai, even if it did forget the unicorns.