List of Sportspeople By Nickname - Cycling

Cycling

  • "Afro-Bob" = Robert de Wilde, BMX racing rider
  • "Alice B. Toeclips" = Jacquie Phelan, downhill racing rider
  • "Amtrak" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing rider
  • "L'aigle de Tolède" (French for "The Toledo Eagle") = Federico Bahamontes, road racing rider
  • "The Avalanche" = Richie Anderson, BMX racing rider
  • "BF" = Brian Foster, BMX racing rider (abbreviation of Blue Falcon)
  • "Bigfoot" = Andy Patterson, BMX racing rider (due to his shoe size being size 13)
  • "Big Chuck" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing rider
  • "Big Daddy" = Eric Rupe, BMX racing rider
  • "Big Mig" = Miguel Indurain, road racing rider
  • "Big George" = George Hincapie, road racing rider
  • "Le blaireau" (French for "The Badger") = Bernard Hinault, road racing rider
  • "Blue Falcon" = Brian Foster, BMX racing rider
  • "Boom Boom" = Scott Beaumont, BMX racing and downhill racing rider
  • "The Businessman" = Gregory Hill, BMX racing rider
  • "Butcher"= Joe Kowalski, freestyle BMX rider
  • "Butter" = Kyle Bennett, BMX racing rider
  • "Black Magic" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing rider (which he had stenciled on the back of his racing pants in 1985)
  • "The Blue Falcon" = Brian Foster, BMX racing rider
  • "The Boss" = Lance Armstrong, road racing rider
  • "Bubba" = Burlin Harris III, BMX racing rider
  • "The Bulldozer" = Scotty Cranmer, freestyle BMX rider
  • "Il Campionissimo" (Italian for "The Champion of Champions") = Fausto Coppi, road racing rider
  • "The Cannibal" = Eddy Merckx, road racing rider
  • "Chasemainian Devil" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing rider
  • "Choo-Choo Charlie" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing rider
  • "Coca-Cola Cowboy" = Toby Henderson, BMX Racer
  • "The Commandant" = Mark Feher, Road Racing Rider
  • "The Condor" = Mat Hoffman, freestyle BMX rider
  • "Crazy Eric" = Eric Steele, freestyle BMX rider
  • "Crazy Ronnie" = Ronnie Anderson, BMX Racer
  • "Deadly Nedly" = Ned Overend, Cross-country rider
  • "Dirt" = Brian Foster, BMX racing rider
  • "Dizz" = John Hicks, BMX Freestyle Rider
  • "Dizzy" = David Zabriskie, road racing rider
  • "dR" = Donald Robinson, BMX racing rider
  • "DZ" = David Zabriskie, road racing rider
  • "Earthquake" = Clarence Perry, BMX Racer
  • "The Earthquake" = Eric Carter, BMX and downhill racing rider
  • "EC" = Eric Carter, BMX and downhill rider
  • "Elefantino" (Italian for "Little Elephant") = Marco Pantani, road racing rider (despised by Pantani)
  • "Farmer John" = John Tomac, BMX, Cross-country and road racing rider
  • "The Fleein' Korean" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing rider
  • "The Flying Dutchman" = Robert de Wilde, BMX racing rider
  • "The Flying Scotsman" = Graeme Obree, track racing rider
  • "Gee" = George Atherton, 4X and downhill rider
  • "Gino the Pious" = Gino Bartali, road racing rider
  • "The Golden Child" = Eric Carter, BMX and downhill racing rider
  • "The Green Hornet" = David Zabriskie, road racing rider
  • "H-Ball" = Greg Herbold, downhill racing rider
  • "His Royal Hoyness" = Chris Hoy, track racing rider
  • "Hollifield Flash" = David Juarez, BMX, Cross-country and road racing rider
  • "Hoycules" = Chris Hoy, track racing rider
  • "The Human Dragster" = Tommy Brackens, BMX racing rider
  • "Jack" = John Prince, cyclist (and board track racing pioneer)
  • "The Jackal" = John Purse, BMX Racer
  • "Jake the Snake" = Jacob Heilbron, Cyclo-cross rider
  • "Johnny T" = John Tomac, BMX, Cross-country and road racing rider
  • "Kamakazi" = Jamie Hildebrandt, BMX racing
  • "King Edward" = Eddy King, BMX Racer
  • "King of Skateparks" = Eddie Fiola, freestyle BMX rider
  • "L'intello" (French for "The Egghead") = Laurent Fignon, road racing rider
  • "Leopard Head" = Sam Pilgrim, Freerider
  • "Little Mr. Awesome" = Greg Schofield, BMX racing rider
  • "Lucien Petit-Breton" = pseudonym of Lucien Mazan, road racing rider
  • "The Lumberjack" = Gary Ellis, BMX Racer
  • "The Lung" = Ned Overend, Cross-country rider
  • "Maître Jacques" (French for "Master Jacques") = Jacques Anquetil, road racing rider
  • "Manx Missile" = Mark Cavendish, track / road racing rider
  • "Mellow Johnny" = Lance Armstrong, road racing rider (from Maillot Jaune, French for Yellow jersey)
  • "Miguelón" = Miguel Indurain, road racing rider
  • "Miracle Boy" = Dave Mirra, freestyle BMX rider
  • "Mr. Bigfoot" = Andy Patterson, BMX Racer (due to his shoe size being size 13)
  • "Mr. Prologue" = Chris Boardman, road/track racing rider
  • "Mr. Smooth" =
    • Richard Anderson, BMX Racer
    • Eric Carter, BMX and downhill racing rider
  • "Ned" = Edmund Overend, Cross-country cyclist
  • "No Way Rey" = Hans Rey, bike trials rider
  • "The Old Man" = Scot Breithaupt, BMX Racer
  • "OM" = Scot Breithaupt, BMX Racer (abbreviation of his "Old Man" nickname)
  • "Il Pirata" (Italian for "The Pirate") = Marco Pantani, road racing rider
  • "Oz" Bob Osborn, BMX Publisher, BMX Action Magazine/Freestylin' Magazine
  • "Perico" = Pedro Delgado, road racing rider
  • "The Pistol" = Pete Loncarevich, BMX racing rider
  • "Pistol Pete" = Pete Loncarevich, BMX racing rider
  • "Poupou" = Raymond Poulidor, road racing rider
  • "The Professor" = Chris Boardman, road/track racing rider
  • "Queen Vic" = Victoria Pendleton, track racing rider
  • "The Real McHoy" = Chris Hoy, track racing
  • "Richie Rich" = Richard Anderson, BMX racing
  • "Scary Harry" = Harry Leary, BMX racing
  • "Scrawny" = Donald Robinson, BMX racing
  • "Sheffield Steel" = Steve Peat, downhill racing rider
  • "Skippy" = Phil Anderson, Road racing
  • "The Snake" = Mike King, BMX racing
  • "Spartacus" = Fabian Cancellara, Road racing rider / world time trial champion 2006/2007 and 2009/2010
  • "Speed Queen" = Melanie Cline, BMX racing
  • "Speedy Readey" = Shanaze Reade, BMX racing
  • "Speeding Locomotive Charlie" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing
  • "Steam Engine Charlie" = Charles Townsend, BMX racing
  • "Stompin' Stu" = Stu Thomsen, BMX racing
  • "Stumpdog" = Randy Stumpfhauser, BMX racing
  • "Stumpy" = Randy Stumpfhauser, BMX racing
  • "Swell Mel" = Melanie Cline, BMX racing
  • "T.I." = Takashi Ito, freestyle BMX
  • "Tinker" = David Juarez, BMX, Cross-country and road racing
  • "Tomac Attack" = John Tomac, BMX racing, Cross-country and road racingr
  • "The Tome" = John Tomac, BMX, Cross-country and road racing rider
  • "Torchy" = William Peden, racing cyclist
  • "Tornado Tom" = Tom Boonen, road racing rider
  • "Tour de Lance" = Lance Armstrong, road racing (for his multiple wins in Tour de France)
  • "Tricky" = Manuel Beltrán, road racing rider
  • "Twiggo" = Bradley Wiggins, road and track rider
  • "Turbo" = Harry Leary, BMX racing
  • "VDV" = Christian Vande Velde, Road bicycle racing
  • "Wiggo" = Bradley Wiggins, road and track rider
  • "Willy" = Vilmos Radasics, BMX racing

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Famous quotes containing the word cycling:

    “If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.”
    —Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)

    “I shall not bring an automobile with me. These inventions infest France almost as much as Bloomer cycling costumes, but they make a horrid racket, and are particularly objectionable. So are the Bloomers. Nothing more abominable has ever been invented. Perhaps the automobile tricycles may succeed better, but I abjure all these works of the devil.”
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
    —Charles Darwin (1809–1882)