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inopinatus • today at 12:44 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Real pro cycling teams:

    SmartStop-Mountain Khakis p/b Jittery Joe's

    Bodysol EuroMillions Pôle Continental Wallon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_WorldTeam#2026 for this year's crop of linoleum manufacturers, insurance firms, and sportswashing petro-states.

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tokai • today at 2:56 PM

Those two teams are/were not professional. Not that you are wrong about naming conventions.

noitpmeder • today at 1:08 PM

I mean F1 teams are literally named directly after their corporate owners too (who are not necessarily the ones designing the engines/...) and people seem to love that.

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