What's In A Name That We Shall Call A Primrose.

"Yep. The Pelican is here."

Nickname: a familiar or humorous name given to a person or thing instead of or as well as the real name

Florian Stork came a credible seventh yesterday on the 3rd stage of the UAE Tour but as far as I know, he's yet to be given a PdC nickname. Personally I'd go with Marg but then if you're unaware that Stork is a brand of margarine, it might begat bewilderment. It doesn't help that Thymen Arensman is already known as the Pelican from Deil or that Ilnur Zakarin is the Stork of Tartarsan. Anyway. According to his DSM page, his nickname is Storky. With that level of wit he could ride for Ineos or Team Bike Exchange and it's not a name that's going to have you scratching your heads as to who Kirby is referring to. (Quick aside: Dave Dekker. Really Carlton?) Not that possible confusion has stopped a profusion in the production of sobriquets over the years at the Cafe but according to Andrew at least, it's high time we had something to refer to and this folks is my attempt. One that will rely heavily on participation in the comments. Yes Fausto. I'm looking at you.

It Started With A Kiss

Etymology Schmology

I'm not sure I want to start an argument has to who came up with what when. I may have been privy to the inception of many during a live thread and I may have even put forward a few myself but my memory is not what it used to be. All of which means again, the comments folks. Feel free to add any missed or any you think we should actually be using. I mean Poggy... Come on people!

Moniker Chronicler

Primož Roglič - Primrose/Rogla

Tadej Pogacar - Pog/Poggy

Mathieu van der Poel - MvdP/The Flying Dutchman

Wout Van Aert - Wout/WvA

Julian Alaphilippe - Loulou/Ala/JuJu

Remco Evenepoel - Remco...

Peter Sagan - Sagz

Filippo Ganna - Top Ganna

Arnaud Demare - Nono

Richard Carapaz - Shell

Alexander Vlasov - The General

Alexander Kristoff - Toff/Barge Arse (I may have just made that up...) Special K? Was that ever a thing when he was with the Tushies?

Greg van Avermaet - GvA/Golden Greg

Egan Bernal -

Joao Almedia -

Jakob Fuglsang - Birdsong/Fugly

Guillaume Martin - GMart

Marc Hirschi - Kisses

Tao Geoghegan Hart - Giggles

Sam Bennett - Sammy B

Pascal Ackermann- Ackers

Caleb Ewan - Pocket Rocket (over here down under at least...)

Simon Yates - Right

Adam Yates - Wrong

Matteo Trentin -

Stefan Kung - King Kung

Max Schachmann- Chessman (If he wins two monuments or one and the Olympics he can call himself Grand Master Schach for all I care.)

Kasper Asgreen -

Michael Matthews - Bling

Jai Hindley - Why hasn't he been called Myra yet?

Hugh Carthy -

Geraint Thomas - G

Thibaut Pinot - Tibo/Pinot Noir

Yves Lampaert - Lampy

Tiesj Benoot - Benoooot!

Alejandro Valverde - AV/Valve/The Old Man (plus random malicious monikers mainly supplied by Jens.)

David Gaudu - Godot

Oliver Naesen - Oli

Tim Wellens - Timmeh/Timmy

Rohan Dennis -

Diego Ulissi - Ulysses

George Bennett -

Michal Kwiatkowski - Flower/Kwiato

Daniel Martin - DMart

Jasper Philipsen -

Jasper Stuyven -

Remi Cavagna -

Romain Bardet -

Alexey Lutsenko - Lutsy

Elia Viviani - Viv/Il Veggente

Emanual Buchmann - Manny/Bookman (He should probably be The Librarian)

Right. That's all the 12 point plus guys. All 51 one of them. Now for some honourable mentions though not including really obvious ones like Higgy for Higuita or Nizz for Nizzolo.

Vincenzo Nibali - Shark/Shark of Messina/Nibs/His Nibs

Miguel Angel Lopez - Superman/MAL

Bob Jungles - Bo Jangles

Warren Barguil - Wawa/Baggy

Gianni Moscon - Il Tractor

Tim Declercq - El Tractor

Mike Teunissen - Tuna

Steven Kruijswijk - The Coat Hanger/Cruise

Davide Ballerini - Dancers

Dylan Teuns - Loony (The original and not Theuns...)

Benoit Cosnefroy - Penfold (I still get mixed up and I might be again...!)

Thomas De Gendt - Crazy

Michael Woods - Rusty

Jack Haig - The General (The original one before Vlasov took off)

Tom Dumoulin - Doom

Jens Keukeleire - Kooky

Ivan Garcia Cortina - Ford

Mikel Nieve - Frosty

Quinn Simmons - Mighty Quinn - (Maybe Manfred would be better...)

Niccolo Bonifazio - Bonyface

Attila Valter - The Hun

Fabio Aru - Wallace

Toms Skujins - Tommy Squeeze

Edward Theuns - Fast Eddy

Lilian Calmejane - Tarzan

Aurelien Paret-Peintre - Parrot Painter

Max Kanter - Nothing but if he starts winning easily he's got to be Ina.

Loius Meintjes - Minkies

Alexis Gougeard - The Beast

For MOUA

Hugo Hofstetter - Huugo!

Bert Van Lerberghe - Bert!

I'm sure there's loads more. I just know I've forgotten some obvious ones. Talking of obvious. As I said, the Durbo's and Bramble's and Swifty's of the cycling world should be exactly that, obvious, but feel free to go to the comments and add away anyway.

"They call me Jane." "So not Tarzan then?"

Thanks for reading.