What will the new team be called??

[ElChingon]

Hey why doesn't CN have a team link for them?

Joe Shmoe the domestique for Team Barely Making It.

I thought they had all the teams listed

 

[53x11 in DC]

Whatever the name of the team, I will be going out in full force on a collection drive to achieve the sponsorship of the ar.se panel of the kit. I will then convert those sponsorship dollars into sublimating the screen names of all of you nuts (you know who you are, MV, Tiffy, 179MM, RVDVDVRVDRoub, BroSqueal, etc.) directly on their ar.ses in neon yellow (Livestrong yellow, perhaps!).

I can see it now. RAI, France3, Eurosport, etc., with coverage from behind the lead group on Sestrieres, Mont Ventoux, the Angliru, while Levi and Bertie simply ride away and drop all of your clean, pristine fanboy targets of undying affection. The last thing your pedaling Mother Teresas will see are your very own screen names emblazoned for them (and the global viewing audience) to see.

 

[ingsve]

To me the diffrence is

Bjarne=talked (but I'm still not a fan of him)

Lance=Omerta (Really don't like him)

 

[BroDeal]

Team Big Needle / Small Johnson

Team Contador Is Way Screwed Now

 

[krebs303]

Sir Lance-a-lots

 

[krebs303]

Amgen Test Team

 

[krebs303]

 

[pmcg76]

I understand what you are saying, but to deny there is a definite anti-Astana bias here is turning a blind eye. I don't see threads referring to Bjarne Riis and his Sixty Bank team or Patrick Lefevre and Quick Syringe (lame names I know, but those were on the fly).

I agree there probably is an anti-Astana theme but it is very hard to like this team, the NY Yankees of cycling except they win.

I think you underestimate people here, the thread is concerning Lances new team, not Astanas replacement. I think if Bjarne Riijs was starting a new team and the same question was posed, there would be a lot of smart suggestions also, imagine if Ullrich were still around with a new team, there would be lots of suggestions concerning pies, bartwurst, spare tyres etc.

Its not just an anti Lance/Astana thing although they are easy targets for a number of reasons. Dont take it so seriously.

 

[Phoenix]

QUESTION: Who Owns the UCI License for the Team Sponsored by ASTANA????

ANSWER:

Armstrong and Daddy Warbucks (from White Fish Bay, WI) own the UCI license for the cycling team that is currently sponsored by Astana.

 

[hfer07]

Anyone care to start a guessing game before July ???

"LA-UCI"

"because it wasn't about the bike or cancer awareness-its all about the Benjamins"

 

[thingswelike]

The Undetectables

 

[tifosa]

Team Teflon - now if only they could snag Dupont for that name.

 

[Sheltowee]

Ha, I even own an Astana kit. I mean, common, a Kazakh team, named after their capital city, while riders are donned in the Kazakh national colours, including the smiling sun... That's got to be retro in a couple of years...

On top of that, the anomaly of having some of the best paid riders on the roster, while the country has barely outgrown state socialism, or better, the team is/was basically funded by state owned companies, that just asks for ridicule. And IMO, even more after I saw the ToC, when lots of Americans spectators were cheering for a socialist/Kazakh team, that currently employs a number of 'popular' US riders... haha

The name game is just good old fun, so why don't you join in...

Wonder if that Socialist/Kazak state socializes corporate debt while privatizing profits such as the U.S. does? Or would that be called Fascism?

 

[Bala Verde]

Wonder if that Socialist/Kazak state socializes corporate debt while privatizing profits such as the U.S. does? Or would that be called Fascism?

As far as restructuring the economies of former USSR sattelite states, the Washington consensus, which promoted privatization and liberalization, was strictly applied. As a result, I guess Kazakh corporate ownership, as in many former state planned countries, was basically handed to the existing powerful elite or cronies, who then ran the companies to enrich themselves in the short term and without any concern for its long term viability. The result, lots of people worse off, and some extremely wealthy.

Sounds vaguely familiar to what's going on in the bank(rupting) industry, where CEOs run banks guided/pressured by short term demands of shareholders, and forget to invest in the future, after which the accumulated debt is socialized, but profits remain privatized?

What you are refering to is a kleptocracy or corporatocracy, I believe. But it could also be plain ol' capitalism...

 

[franciep10]

Team Twitter

 

[Angliru]

Lance and the Disciples.

 

[yetanothergreenworld]

Team LanceStrong Presented by Tired of Being Tired

 

[ElChingon]

Team LanceStrong Presented by Tired of Being Tired

Now that is funny and a possible team name

 

[mr. tibbs]

Team LanceStrong Presented by Tired of Being Tired

WINRAR!!!

 

[Parrot23]

Team TEEASE

Maybe it could be, depending on what might happen, "The EPO Enemas Acting Suspiciously Egain".

 

[patswana]

The Lone Star Team
Pharmstrong
Team Bloody Fast
Team Transfused

 

[Anonymous]

i give up.. i give in... if you cant beat the join them...

after years of resisting i finally admit, lance is doped up to the eyeballs as he has been for the last ten years, not just 99, and is currently riding using a strange blend of unknown drugs, daily drug transfusions, and artificial limbs. He is also admitedly the worst thing that ever happened to the sport, is intent on destroying cycling bit by bit from the inside and will not be happy until in 2030 he and JB's dream of the "lance clone racing league" happens.. he was through his greeed and fraudulent self obsessed charity work (most of which money he siphoned off into his own private account), the reason behind the entire american economic downfall, and also several plagues, famines, and the christmas tsunami.. in fact, in all likelelyhood he is in fact the anticrist... hes probably also a thief, a wife beater and a peadophile, but ive yet as only heard rumours.. oh sod it.. rumours are enough..