What's the best pro cyclists's name?

vincenzo nibali 'aint too bad!

"Made Johnny Hoogerland look soft!"

Surely the best name IS Johnny Hoogerland

Sounds like Johnny hooligan, which makes it almost onomatopoeic!

It's got to be 'The Tashkent Terror' - Djamolidine Abdoujaparov.

Not a name for the modern age, very Twitter unfriendly!
Great nickname too.

Jelle Vanendert ... makes me grin every time

tony gallopin sounds like a horse

Heinrich Haussler - got to be a ww2 ss officer with a name like that.

BOOM has to be up there. I also quite like Wilko Kelderman

In no particular order...
Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Lars Boom, Jesper Skibby, Johnny Hoogerland
My other bike is a BOOM!

Johann Tschopp is a great name. Also I'm intrigued by Boy van Poppel. Is Boy a Dutch name? Is it a nickname? Or are his parents really unimaginative and his sister is called Girl van Poppel?

Ryder Hesjedal. If I ever get round to having any kids, it's gotta be Ryder for a boy.

Peter Post - conjured up a picture of the peleton being infiltrated by Postman Pat.

An aside, listening to the final of Brain of Britain 2012 I was shocked when non of the finalists could spell 'Merckx'

NEEEEBLLEEEE (Nibali)

Surprised nobody had picked Joop Zoetemelk. I always think he'd have made a fortune selling his name as an energy drink.

Nice idea. Someone should do that. Change your surname to that of a Pro cyclist. It would be the ultimate declaration of being a pro cycling fan.

Love some of the Italian names.

A Frank Goodnight....

Francesco Bongiorno for me I just want to keep saying it.

Daniele Pietropolli (Dani peter chicken)say it fast makes me laugh...

also like the sound of:

Longho Borghini is it a fast car, a silent movie horror star or a huge truck?

Etienne de Wilde -always stuck in my mind...

Also, Dario Frigo literally translates as fridge or cold or something like that

Anglicisation of Italian names gives some great results.

Mauro Santambrogio turns into the very posh sounding Maurice St Ambrose, while you probably don't want to be drafting Francis Windy, or Francisco Ventoso to his parents.

Not a translation, but I now have the Giro winner firmly in my head as Vinny Nibbles, who really should have been running bootleg booze into Brooklyn during Prohibition

Yes, he sounds like a character straight out of Damon Runyon doesn't he.

Jacob Piil... It's such a shame he never tested positive

THOR...

Fabian Cancellara is undeniably a cool name, but I do also enjoy saying Ramunas Navardauskas. Sylvain Chavanel is also rather satisfying to say.

Winner hands down is the unbeatable Abdujaparov.

However, easy to forget that Eddy Merckx is also a pretty awesome name (and Axel too, for that matter).

Lars Boom for the win!

Does it not bug everyone how every ITV commentator prnounces every cyclist's name differently? How many different pronounciations of Sagan can you have? And dont get me started on Fuglsang...

Bob Jungels (RadioShack rider)

Bauke Mollema sounds like a new space age fabric from a dodgy petrochemical conglomorate. 'His whole suit is made of Balco Molymer.'

How about Val O. Drome?

KNEES

Because anyone who's named after a body part is a hero.