Best and worst professional team names

[citoyen]

What about Quickstep? 
Got a bit of impetus but maybe a double edged sword which too easily leads commentators towards 'those dancing on the pedals...' lines.

Quickstep is fine as a team name, has a nice ring to it, as you say, but Omega Pharma-Quickstep is a bit of a mouthful.

d.

[mzjo]

Euskatel Euskadi
<whatever> Big Mat (on a side note, aren't these lot the ones who used to sponsor a team and the team strip looked like a pair of dungarees?)

Both good ones, but on the downside, any team where there are more than 2 main sponsors, and thus more than two names in the team name is just wrong, even Team Node4 Giordana seems too long winded for my liking

Big Mat were originally Big Mat Aubervilliers 93 (IIRC, someone will correct me if Aubervilliers is not dept 93), they were the Aubervilliers branch of a builders merchants chain, thus explaining the strip. They actually had very close links with their local community clubs and amateur teams, sponsoring a sportive where all the team members would accompany the various groups.

[eck]

Euskatel Euskadi
<whatever> Big Mat (on a side note, aren't these lot the ones who used to sponsor a team and the team strip looked like a pair of dungarees?)

Castorama?

[tiermat]

Euskatel Euskadi
<whatever> Big Mat (on a side note, aren't these lot the ones who used to sponsor a team and the team strip looked like a pair of dungarees?)

Castorama?

That's the one, I remember reading about it in Laurent's book but couldn't remember the sponsor's name...

[Exit Stage Left]

Euskatel Euskadi
<whatever> Big Mat (on a side note, aren't these lot the ones who used to sponsor a team and the team strip looked like a pair of dungarees?)

Castorama?

Sponsored by a DIY superstore named for a hard working animal. The English equivalent would be 'Beaverama', which could be a special aspect ratio for US films of an adult nature.

[citoyen]

I've always wondered if "Euskaltel-Euskadi" is some kind of idiomatic translation of a certain Beatles song. </earworm>

d.

[Oaky]

Motorpoint Marshall's Pasta.

Can't decide whether it belongs in "best" or "worst"... I do smile whenever I hear it though - a name combining car sellers I hadn't heard of before and food makers I hadn't heard of before, so I'd probably lean towards the "best" category.

[fuzzy]

Simple single word names are good-

Saeco, Lampre, Motrola etc.

I also liked Tommy V's old team Brioches la Boulangere as it conjoured up visions of riding in France and stopping for a pastry and coffee.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Motorpoint Marshall's Pasta.

Can't decide whether it belongs in "best" or "worst"... I do smile whenever I hear it though - a name combining car sellers I hadn't heard of before and food makers I hadn't heard of before, so I'd probably lean towards the "best" category.

"I'm Motorpoint Marshall and don't you eat my pasta."

[Bledlow]

Team Chicky world

Hmmm. I guess I have to play:
Team Davids Salon

Except that they're not professionals.

Here's their PBP finisher just after crossing the line.


And just after getting her brevet card stamped.

[Auntie Helen]

Saxo Bank Tinkoff Bank

Two banks, one that sounds like a tinkle!