201+ Cycling Team Names (Funny, Racing & Bike Clubs)

201+ cycling team names: funny picks, puns, racing teams, mountain bike crews, bike clubs, charity rides, women and kids.

A cycling team name ends up everywhere. It goes on the charity ride registration, onto the club jersey, into the race results next to every finisher and onto the segment leaderboard where your group ride shows up every Saturday.

Below are 201+ ideas sorted by what kind of riding you do: funny names and puns, racing team names in Tour de France style, mountain bike and gravel crews, bike clubs and group rides, charity and work teams, women and kids, plus a few cheeky ones that still look fine on a jersey.

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• Best Cycling Team Names
• Funny Cycling Team Names
• Cycling Team Names with Puns
• Cycling Racing Team Names (Tour de France Style)
• Mountain Bike and Gravel Cycling Team Names
• Cycling Team Names for Bike Clubs and Group Rides
• Cycling Team Names for Charity Rides and Work
• Women’s Cycling Team Names
• Cycling Team Names for Kids
• Cheeky Cycling Team Names (Still Jersey Safe)
• Cycling Words Behind the Puns

Best Cycling Team Names

The classics, each built on a cycling word that every rider in the bunch understands.

1. Tour de Force
2. Chain Gang
3. The Spin Doctors
4. Pedal Pushers
5. Sprocket Scientists
6. Cadence Crew
7. Gear Heads
8. Peloton Posse
9. Breakaway Brigade
10. KOM Hunters
11. Slipstream Society
12. Echelon Crew
13. Crank It Up
14. Big Ring Brigade
15. Tailwind Club
16. Cogs and Chains
17. Spoke Folks
18. Two Wheel Tribe
19. Hill Climb Heroes
20. Chain Reaction
21. Fixie Fanatics
22. Velodrome Vipers
23. Freewheelers
24. Roadies Unite

Funny Cycling Team Names

For riders who take the coffee stop more seriously than the climb.

1. Spoke Too Soon
2. Tour de Farce
3. Cyclepaths
4. Bikey McBikeface
5. Over the Handlebars
6. Geared for Beer
7. Frequent Flat Fixers
8. Spandex Snobs
9. Confused Cleats
10. Draft Dodgers
11. Wheelie Good Time
12. Saddle Sore Society
13. Tire-d and Tested
14. Two Tired
15. Watt the Hill
16. Spoke and Mirrors
17. Bonked Again
18. The MAMILs
19. Pothole Dodgers
20. Tan Line Society
21. Clipped In, Fell Over
22. Lycra Louts
23. Shift Happens
24. Jersey Pocket Snacks
25. Lost the Wheel
26. Our Bikes Cost More Than Our Cars

Cycling Team Names with Puns

Song titles, movies and sayings with one word swapped for pedal, spoke, gear, chain or watt.

1. Veloci-raptors
2. Chain of Jesters
3. Wheels of Fortune
4. Pedal to the Medal
5. Spoke-tacular Squad
6. Brake Free
7. Gear Pressure
8. Cranks a Lot
9. Chainge Makers
10. Derailleur Daredevils
11. Wheel Talk
12. Pedal Power Rangers
13. Cog Almighty
14. Watt Ever
15. Spoke Signals
16. Gluteus Bikestus
17. Spin City
18. Rim Shots

Cycling Racing Team Names (Tour de France Style)

Names that sound fast enough for a crit, a time trial or a team kit with sponsor logos you have not found yet.

1. Velo Vanguard
2. Crit Kings
3. Leadout Train
4. Attack Mode Racing
5. Pain Train
6. Gradient Gladiators
7. Time Trial Terminators
8. Sprint Finish Syndicate
9. Podium Hunters
10. Prime Time Racers
11. Carbon Crusaders
12. Aero Advantage
13. Full Gas Racing
14. Watt Factory
15. Domestique Duty
16. Bunch Sprint Bandits
17. Uphill Unstoppables
18. Summit Finish Squad
19. The Chase Group
20. Lanterne Rouge Racing
21. Hors Categorie Heroes
22. Final Kilometer Club

Mountain Bike and Gravel Cycling Team Names

For trail crews, gravel grinders and anyone who comes home with mud up to the helmet.

1. Gravel Grinders
2. Trail Shredders
3. Dirt Bags
4. Rock Garden Rebels
5. Berm Burners
6. Singletrack Minds
7. Root Rattlers
8. Mud Slingers
9. Send It Squad
10. Full Suss Crew
11. Switchback Shredders
12. Flow Riders
13. Drop In Crew
14. Gravel Travel Club
15. Dusty Pedals
16. Brake Late Crew
17. Knobby Tire Tribe
18. The Rad Pack
19. Shred Heads
20. Dirt Jumpers

Cycling Team Names for Bike Clubs and Group Rides

For the Saturday group ride, the no-drop social spin and the club that plans every route around a bakery.

1. Coffee Ride Crew
2. Cafe Stop Club
3. Sunday Social Spin
4. No Drop Zone
5. Saturday Morning Peloton
6. Spin and Grin
7. Donut Ride Club
8. Century Seekers
9. Bikepacking Buddies
10. Mile Munchers
11. Two Wheels Good
12. Puncture Repair Society
13. Brunch Ride Bunch
14. Hammer Time Club
15. Fat Tire Friends
16. Bike Lane Brigade
17. Sweet Spot Society
18. Wheel Sitters Club
19. The Pace Line
20. Gran Fondo Gang
21. Headwind Heroes
22. Saddle Social

Cycling Team Names for Charity Rides and Work

Charity rides and bike to work challenges need a name that looks good on a fundraising page.

1. Pedaling for a Cure
2. Spokes for Hope
3. Cranking for a Cause
4. Gears of Hope
5. Tour de Office
6. Cubicle Cruisers
7. Commute Crew
8. Bike to Work Brigade
9. Spin for Change
10. Wheels in Motion
11. Miles for Smiles
12. Chain of Hope
13. Rolling for Research
14. Cycle of Giving
15. Two Wheels, One Cause
16. Breakaway for a Cause

Women’s Cycling Team Names

For women’s racing teams, ladies’ group rides and girls who drop the guys on the climb.

1. Pedal Princesses
2. Cadence Queens
3. Gear Goddesses
4. Saddle Sorority
5. Breakaway Babes
6. Cleat Chicks
7. Belle de Bike
8. Bicyc-Elles
9. Wheel Women
10. Lady Chain Links
11. Petal Pushers
12. QOM Club
13. Ponytail Peloton
14. Lipstick and Lycra
15. Helmet Hair, Don’t Care
16. Spin Sisters
17. Spoke Sisters
18. Women on Wheels
19. Chain Gang Girls
20. Wonder Wheels

Cycling Team Names for Kids

Clean and fun for kids’ bike clubs, school bike days and family rides.

1. Training Wheel Toppers
2. Pint-Sized Peloton
3. Little Rollers
4. Biking Buddies
5. Mini Mountain Bikers
6. Tiny Tour Riders
7. Kickstand Kids
8. Bell Ringers
9. Playground Pedalers
10. Tricyclosaurs
11. Streamer Squad
12. Balance Bike Brigade
13. Little Gear Shifters
14. Young Yellow Jerseys
15. Pedal Pups
16. Speedy Spokes
17. Pedal Pals
18. Little Lightning

Cheeky Cycling Team Names (Still Jersey Safe)

A little naughty, but every double meaning comes from real cycling: padded shorts, chamois cream and riders who sit on your wheel.

1. Shift-Faced
2. Wheel Suckers
3. Padded Shorts Society
4. Chamois Cream Team
5. Breaking Wind
6. Hard Tail Club
7. Ride It Like You Stole It
8. Tight Lycra Crew
9. Big Ring Energy
10. Shaved Legs Society
11. Huck Yeah
12. Chain Lube Crew
13. Nice Spokes
14. Pump It Up
15. Butt Butter Brigade

The Cycling Words Behind the Puns

Most good cycling team names swap one bike word into a phrase everyone knows. These are the words behind the jokes.

Word	What it means
Peloton	The main group of riders in a road race.
Breakaway	A small group of riders who attack and ride away from the peloton.
Drafting	Riding close behind another rider to stay out of the wind and save energy. A rider who drafts and never takes a turn at the front is called a wheel sucker.
Cadence	How fast you pedal, measured in revolutions per minute.
Derailleur	The part that moves the chain from one gear to the next.
Domestique	A rider who works for the team leader: chasing down attacks, blocking the wind and fetching water bottles.
KOM and QOM	King and Queen of the Mountains. In stage races it is the best climber’s title. On ride tracking apps it means the fastest time up a climb.
Lanterne rouge	French for red lantern: the rider in last place overall in the Tour de France.
Criterium	A short race of many laps on a closed loop, often in a town center. Riders call it a crit.
Chamois	The padding sewn into bike shorts. Chamois cream keeps it from rubbing.
Bonk	Running out of energy on a long ride because you did not eat enough.
Hors catégorie	French for beyond category: the label for the hardest climbs in a race.

How to Pick a Cycling Team Name

• Check the field length. Race and charity ride registrations often cut team names off after 20 to 30 characters.
• Picture it on a jersey. Short names print bigger across the back and stay readable in a photo of the bunch.
• Match the name to the riding: a no-drop social ride can own a coffee joke, a racing team can pick something with attack, watt or podium in it.
• If kids ride in the same event, save the cheeky names for adult rides.
• Start from the cycling words above: take a song, movie or saying you like and swap in spoke, pedal, chain, gear or watt.

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