Teams & Riders The Great Big Cycling Transfers, Extensions, and Rumours Thread

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Cian Uijtdebroeks signs for Bora and will join the team in 2022.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1339148370347175936

View: https://twitter.com/BORAhansgrohe/status/1339148370347175936

 

[Landeirovic]

Jan Polanc renew his contract for another year in Uae

 

[el chava]

Cian Uijtdebroeks signs for Bora and will join the team in 2022.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1339148370347175936

View: https://twitter.com/BORAhansgrohe/status/1339148370347175936

The name alone is enough to excite me

 

[Breh]

Can't wait to hear Kirby butcher his name

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Can't wait to hear Kirby butcher his name

I think you mean, that you Cian't wait

 

[Boes]

In a podcast Oliver Naesen revealed that, before he prolonged his contract with AG2R, he and his manager had contacted Patrick Lefevre trough mail and several text messages to see if he was interested in signing Oliver Naesen for the Wolf pack. Apparently Lefevre ignored both the mails and text messages.

in flemish though

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

The name alone is enough to excite me

I knew a "Piet Uijtdebroeck" which translates to "D.i.c.k Outofthepants". Not joking.
PS: why is *** censored? It's a name, short for Richard, isn't it?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I knew a "Piet Uijtdebroeck" which translates to "D.i.c.k Outofthepants". Not joking.
PS: why is *** censored? It's a name, short for Richard, isn't it?

Or a nickname for Dirk, just like *** is for someone named Cornelis.

 

[Berflamand]

I knew a "Piet Uijtdebroeck" which translates to "D.i.c.k Outofthepants". Not joking.
PS: why is *** censored? It's a name, short for Richard, isn't it?

You're not joking?

As a teenager we used to use fake names like Piet Uijtdebroeck (just like 'Peter Selie' or 'Beau Ter Ham') for fun but I guess I never realized until now there are actually people named like that.

 

[tobydawq]

I knew a "Piet Uijtdebroeck" which translates to "D.i.c.k Outofthepants". Not joking.
PS: why is *** censored? It's a name, short for Richard, isn't it?

It's a bad way to say penis.

 

[Bonimenier]

It's a bad way to say penis.

How is it a bad way to say penis? It's just another way to say it and in my opinion it's not worse.

 

[BlueRoads]

These are the kind of discussions that make people visit the cyclingnews forums.

Personally I think the word *** has become so common in everyday language that using a more neutral term does not sound neutral anymore to many people but awkward. In the end it's still the more vulgar word. But at least it's a name, and not the tail of an animal, like in German.

Poor Cian, he needs to do something memorable to make his thread more than a series of comparisons with Evenepoel and jokes about his name.

 

[SafeBet]

You're not joking?

As a teenager we used to use fake names like Piet Uijtdebroeck (just like 'Peter Selie' or 'Beau Ter Ham') for fun but I guess I never realized until now there are actually people named like that.

You gotta be a real Piet to name your son Piet Uijtdebroeck though.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

You're not joking?

As a teenager we used to use fake names like Piet Uijtdebroeck (just like 'Peter Selie' or 'Beau Ter Ham') for fun but I guess I never realized until now there are actually people named like that.

I still own a facebook account called: "Rita Gasof".

 

[Bonimenier]

I still own a facebook account called: "Rita Gasof".

Took me a while to get that

 

[RedheadDane]

You gotta be a real Piet to name your son Piet Uijtdebroeck though.

So, 'Piet' has the same meaning in Dutch as 'D.ick' has in English?

BTW, and totally off-topic (but I guess we're already heading in that direction): I remember reading somewhere that a lot of Dutch surnames have their origin from the Napoleonic times; essentially the French told the people in the area that they had to have family names - can't remember why... - but they didn't actually specify that it had to be serious names, and thus we've ended up with a bunch of people named "Outofthepants"...

 

[tobydawq]

How is it a bad way to say penis? It's just another way to say it and in my opinion it's not worse.

Oh dear.

 

[TMP402]

In a podcast Oliver Naesen revealed that, before he prolonged his contract with AG2R, he and his manager had contacted Patrick Lefevre trough mail and several text messages to see if he was interested in signing Oliver Naesen for the Wolf pack. Apparently Lefevre ignored both the mails and text messages.

in flemish though

Would love to see Lefevre's side of that. I always had a dream of Vanmarcke finally winning a monument if he moved to DQS. If Lefevre won't even take Naesen, I don't think he'll be taking SVM.

 

[BlueRoads]

In a podcast Oliver Naesen revealed that, before he prolonged his contract with AG2R, he and his manager had contacted Patrick Lefevre trough mail and several text messages to see if he was interested in signing Oliver Naesen for the Wolf pack. Apparently Lefevre ignored both the mails and text messages.

in flemish though

Well, who would have expected anything else from Lefevere?
Interesting that Naesen reveals this.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

You're not joking?

As a teenager we used to use fake names like Piet Uijtdebroeck (just like 'Peter Selie' or 'Beau Ter Ham') for fun but I guess I never realized until now there are actually people named like that.

My cousin is called Peter Celis.

 

[RedheadDane]

All this talk about Cian Outofthepants joining Bora has completely drowned out the news that Taco From the Horn will not in fact be joining BEAT cycling after all, but Wanty instead.

 

[Zinoviev Letter]

All this talk about Cian Outofthepants joining Bora has completely drowned out the news that Taco From the Horn will not in fact be joining BEAT cycling after all, but Wanty instead.

Taco has too good a name to drop out of the pro ranks. Also, to be fair, he’s too good a cyclist.

Leaving aside his amusing surname, does anyone know why that Belgian kid, Cian, has an Irish sounding first name?

 

[dick the quick]

It's a bad way to say penis.

That’s slander and calumny. Please don’t push me to take legal actions to defend my good (nick)name.

 

[Anderis]

Leaving aside his amusing surname, does anyone know why that Belgian kid, Cian, has an Irish sounding first name?

Well, the Belgae were supposedly Celtic tribes, so...

 

[Ricco']

Taco van der Hoorn to Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert.

Laurens De Vreese to Alpecin - Fenix (according to HLN)