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Barrus said:In this forum:
Gesink: Softy, crybaby
ak-zaaf said:bitossi: the crazy heart
Echoes said:Poulidor is the eternal second? He finished 3rd more often than 2nd.
Echoes said:Some oldies:
Francesco Moser : The Sheriff
Fiorenzo Magni: The Colossus of Monza (renamed The Tuscan of Flanders after his hattrick)
Cancellara = Spartacus
Thoughtforfood said:Ciapucci called himself El Diablo, but he had another one from the peloton and I cannot seem to find it on the interwebs or access that ROM in my brain. It was a negative reference for the idiotic way he attacked just about anywhere...speed bumps, feed zones, neutralized starts, you name it.
Anyone remember?
Michele said:As you guys seems to like to write in the homecountry nicks;
42x16ss said:2nd in the Tour behind Merckx, third in the classics behind Merckx and De Vlaeminck
Alpe d'Huez said:Mine Spanish isn't great, but I think "El Chaba" is a slang term that means something akin to some sort of wild cat, or animal, or "wild one". Can anyone help?
Since we always a have a nickname for everything down under im suprised more Aussies havent been mentioned TBHKennf1 said:Phil Anderson = kangaroo
RedheadDane said:Tony Martin: Panzerwagen Tony!
spotted leopard what the.......?Nearly said:speaking of Aussies - 6 pages in and as yet no:
pocket rocket - Robbie McEwen
dodger - Mick Rogers
skippy - Phil Anderson (Kennf1 had the hide to call him "kangaroo"!)
stuey/one lap wonder/freckles/spotted leopard - O'Grady
mind you it took 6 pages to get der Kaiser and Ete up so perhaps the German fans are really deserting cycling - and we haven't got to beloved patriot Greipel yet!
Roland Rat said:That is cool.. "The Panzerwagen"... nice.
Continuing the war theme, The Messerschmitt and The Spitfire would also be good. I vote Peter Kennaugh as The Spitfire. Any good, young, and ideally tall/strong Germans coming through who can be Das Messerschmitt? A young Ullrich would have been ideal.
sportzchick said:spotted leopard what the.......?
Nearly said:speaking of Aussies - 6 pages in and as yet no:
pocket rocket - Robbie McEwen
dodger - Mick Rogers
skippy - Phil Anderson (Kennf1 had the hide to call him "kangaroo"!)
stuey/one lap wonder/freckles/spotted leopard - O'Grady
mind you it took 6 pages to get der Kaiser and Ete up so perhaps the German fans are really deserting cycling - and we haven't got to beloved patriot Greipel yet!
Roland Rat said:That is cool.. "The Panzerwagen"... nice.
Continuing the war theme, The Messerschmitt and The Spitfire would also be good. I vote Peter Kennaugh as The Spitfire. Any good, young, and ideally tall/strong Germans coming through who can be Das Messerschmitt? A young Ullrich would have been ideal.