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Road Animals - World Wildlife Funds WT Team- SHIRT & SPONSOR REVEALED
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| RadInconsistent |
Posted on 27-08-2017 16:20
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The year is 2016.
Climate change is starting to be felt, but the mightiest nation on earth elects a denier. Animals are going extinct at an alarming rate. It's time for Nature to fight back. To go on an offensive. And what's a better PR Offensive than sponsoring a Pro Cycling Team?
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Welcome to the WWF Cycling Team. We've got a short month of planning in front of us for some heavy administrative duties. First, WWF is about 7 Mil. short for their WT or PCT team. We will need a co-sponsor. Please reply with your vote:
Scenario 1: WWF-PUMA 
Famous sports brand PUMA has sponsored football, golf and athletics, but it's been a long time since they've been a major player in cycling. This is the moment to change this. PUMA will be WWF's clothing supplier regardless, but will they step up to co-sponsor?
Scenario 2: Caterpillar-WWF 
Machinery and banking, the American industrial giant has got funds to spare and an European market to conquer. Will the WWF team be the way?
Scenario 3: Tiger-WWF 
Danish warehouse is slowly conquering Europe, but slow isn't what this team is after. Seeing the succes of other consumer-focused brands such as Jumbo and Lidl taking up cycling sponsorship, the Tiger will jump at this opportunity.
Scenario 4: WWF-Stork 
Heavy industry, heavy power. The Dutch-British-American corporation can use a greener image to open up new routes after breaking with their airplane building branch known for the JSF.
Scenario 5: Gazelle-WWF 
Similar to the first scenario, Gazelle will deliver the team's bikes: a brand new range of high level racing bikes from the Dutch brand of classic commuter bikes. However, will the manufacturer also deliver the cash to keep the team running?
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The second step is the riders. Sponsor demands are strict, if slightly unusual. With a world wide focus, there's no geographical preference. However, the sponsor is adamant about one thing: all riders have to have animal or nature related names, in any language. Who does my squad need? These four are in, please reply with extra suggestions!
Jacob "Birdsong" Fuglsang
 Michael Woods
 Loic "the Fly" Vliegen
 Nathan "the Hare" Haas
Edited by RadInconsistent on 03-09-2017 14:28
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| Shonak |
Posted on 27-08-2017 16:24
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Gazelle & Woods 
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
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| RadInconsistent |
Posted on 27-08-2017 16:25
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Thanks! Any suggestions for more riders with animal names? |
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| Selwink |
Posted on 27-08-2017 16:30
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You should at least consider Tjallingii for the staff. He's a vegetarian for environmental convictions
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| DavidCorperial |
Posted on 27-08-2017 17:02
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Caterpillar and Woods |
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| canojuancho |
Posted on 27-08-2017 18:35
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Teams:
Team Jaguar - Lacoste
Team Linux - Firefox
John Deere Cycling Team
Riders:
Darwin "El Puma" Atapuma
Tony "The Rooster" Gallopin |
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| RadInconsistent |
Posted on 27-08-2017 18:45
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canojuancho wrote:
Teams:
Team Jaguar - Lacoste
Team Linux - Firefox
John Deere Cycling Team
Riders:
Darwin "El Puma" Atapuma
Tony "The Rooster" Gallopin
Thanks, there's some sponsors I hadn't considered yet! Atapuma is in. I'll consider riders whose actual name is an animal first, perhaps Gallopin makes a chance if I don't find enough.
Alberto Contador Velasco - Velasco means Blackbird |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 27-08-2017 19:12
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Hinault the Badger could be your team manager  |
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| Mistermoane4 |
Posted on 28-08-2017 13:44
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Mathieu Van Der Poel / Wout Poels ---- Poel ~ a Pond (water)
Yoeri Havik ~ a Hawk
Bauke Mollema ~ 'mol' is a mole in english
Serge Pauwels ~ pauw is a peacock in english |
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| zjoere |
Posted on 28-08-2017 14:42
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You could Dirk Demol a place in the team.
For riders:
Lars Boom (Boom = tree)
if you're willing to look at nicknames: Nibali, the shark of the strait
edit, found some more:
Roosen Timo (roosen= roses)
Groenewegen Dylan (green roads)
Diego Rosa (rose)
Cataford Alexander
Duijn (dune) Huib
De Pauw (peacock) Moreno
Edited by zjoere on 29-08-2017 08:22
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| murao22 |
Posted on 28-08-2017 15:11
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Some Polish riders:
Marcin Białobłocki - his name means something like "Whitemudman"
Michał Kwiatkowski - I guess everyone know, his name means "Flowerman".
Łukasz Wiśniowski - "wiśnia" is "cherry" in English, so we can translate his name as "Cherryman"
Kamil Gradek - "gradek" is something like "small hail" |
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| RadInconsistent |
Posted on 30-08-2017 09:29
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zjoere wrote:
You could Dirk Demol a place in the team.
For riders:
Lars Boom (Boom = tree)
if you're willing to look at nicknames: Nibali, the shark of the strait
edit, found some more:
Roosen Timo (roosen= roses)
Groenewegen Dylan (green roads)
Diego Rosa (rose)
Cataford Alexander
Duijn (dune) Huib
De Pauw (peacock) Moreno
Thanks! If we're looking at nicknames, there's plenty of choice (and nibbles would top the list). Cataford and de Pauw are great suggestions. I need some domestiques and flat road baroudeurs, so they fit in well. I'm noticing I prefer animal names over plant names, except for Woodsy  |
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| zjoere |
Posted on 30-08-2017 11:37
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Dario Cataldo als has cat in there.
If you want to go for a world tour team I think you'll need every rider with an animal name, otherwise it would be a quite empty team.
Or you could start a pro-continental team. |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 30-08-2017 12:26
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Maybe the team could ride Pinarello DOGma bikes  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 30-08-2017 14:18
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Too bad Boonen is retired.
'boon' is a bean in Dutch. So it's Tom Beans |
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| vlama |
Posted on 30-08-2017 15:37
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great idea  i like it
i dont know what level are you aiming for (CT, PCT, WT) but i would pick Gazelle and here are some active Slovak riders:
Martin Haring (Herring)
Martin Vlčák (wolfdog, mixture of wolf and dog, or any wolflike dog in general - german shepherd for example, or czechoslovakian wolfdog (ceskoslovensky vlcak))
Juraj Karas (Goldfish)
Johann Schwabik (little cockroach)
and trees:
Matej Vyšňa (sour cherry)
Marián Hruška(pear)
I'm looking for professional slovak team. Haven't you seen any?
"Maybe if we don't do rest day, we can finish one day before." |
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| cio93 |
Posted on 30-08-2017 15:42
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RadInconsistent wrote:
Scenario 1: WWF-PUMA
Famous sports brand PUMA has sponsored football, golf and athletics, but it's been a long time since they've been a major player in cycling. This is the moment to change this.
*cough*
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| Croatia14 |
Posted on 30-08-2017 15:54
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Gazelle sounds great! Great to have you back with a story RI!
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| vlama |
Posted on 30-08-2017 19:07
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my knowledge of foreign languages is very limited, but browsed cyclists which scored at least 1 uci point this season and found these:
GBR - ross lamb
USA - Ben Wolfe
POL - Adrian Kurek (Cock)
POL - Mateusz Komar (Mosquito)
HUN - János PelikÁn (Pelican)
SLO - Kristijan Koren (Root)
RUS - Artem Ovechkin (somehow related to sheeps)
RUS - Aleksey Rybalkin (somehow related to fish/fishing, if its fishing its not your rider i guess )
ESP - Sebastián Mora (mora is night butterfly here in slovakia - mora gama = silver Y in english)
Is Fabio Felline somehow related to cats? i cant speak italian ...
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HNK - Ching Ying Mow - but he is realted to nothing but my avatar ...
and what about oscar gatto (as a cat ) ? (but he has too many "t" in name)
Edited by vlama on 31-08-2017 17:37
I'm looking for professional slovak team. Haven't you seen any?
"Maybe if we don't do rest day, we can finish one day before." |
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| RadInconsistent |
Posted on 01-09-2017 21:48
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murao22 wrote:
Some Polish riders:
Marcin Białobłocki - his name means something like "Whitemudman"
Michał Kwiatkowski - I guess everyone know, his name means "Flowerman".
Łukasz Wiśniowski - "wiśnia" is "cherry" in English, so we can translate his name as "Cherryman"
Kamil Gradek - "gradek" is something like "small hail"
Thanks, this is great info to have. These riders would be high on my list! |
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