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Who is the greatest TTist of all time?
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 08-09-2015 03:27
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Strydz wrote:
Also what the hell is with the tsunami of polls that crashed over the forum in the last few hours?
Waking up to this was very weird I agree 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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Posted on 08-09-2015 05:28
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Whats with the English lunatic making all these polls? |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 08-09-2015 05:48
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I see many Italian, a German, one sarcastic and definitely not serious English, and two I don't know.
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| hanspetter61 |
Posted on 08-09-2015 05:59
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I see you havent included Knut Knudsen even do Udoi poined it out. It must be because you dont know anything about him.
He was chosen the world's best time trial cyclist by two biggest sporting magazines from 1979 to 1981. Thats 3 years best in the world. He also have Olympic gold in Track, Pursuit, Elite in 72 and world champ in 73 amateur, wc silver elite in 75, 77 Track, Pursuit and bronze 76.
There was noone like Knut Knutsen thoose years. But was he the best of all time, maybe not but one off the best all time for sure.
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 08-09-2015 06:28
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Where?
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 08-09-2015 06:29
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hanspetter61 wrote:
I see you havent included Knut Knudsen even do Udoi poined it out. It must be because you dont know anything about him.
He was chosen the world's best time trial cyclist by two biggest sporting magazines from 1979 to 1981. Thats 3 years best in the world. He also have Olympic gold in Track, Pursuit, Elite in 72 and world champ in 73 amateur, wc silver elite in 75, 77 Track, Pursuit and bronze 76.
There was noone like Knut Knutsen thoose years. But was he the best of all time, maybe not but one off the best all time for sure.
I didn't include him because I went to bed...
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 08-09-2015 07:19
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Yeah, Anquetil here no doubt. 
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 08-09-2015 08:16
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It would be Anquetil, but for sympathy I voted Tony Martin  Just for his dedication and style alone. |
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 08-09-2015 08:18
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Ian Butler wrote:
It would be Anquetil, but for sympathy I voted Tony Martin Just for his dedication and style alone.
Thats the best choice you could make. I'll award you 25 points in the rFactor league.
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 08-09-2015 08:20
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Paul23 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
It would be Anquetil, but for sympathy I voted Tony Martin Just for his dedication and style alone.
Thats the best choice you could make. I'll award you 25 points in the rFactor league.
So how many crashes would liking Tony Martin make up for?
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| udoi |
Posted on 17-09-2015 01:21
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bravo hanspetter61@ explain to know who was Knut Knudsen. It seems to me that the cyclist of a few years ago are not so popular
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| Paul23 |
Posted on 17-09-2015 01:22
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trekbmc wrote:
Paul23 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
It would be Anquetil, but for sympathy I voted Tony Martin Just for his dedication and style alone.
Thats the best choice you could make. I'll award you 25 points in the rFactor league.
So how many crashes would liking Tony Martin make up for?
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| udoi |
Posted on 17-09-2015 01:39
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 Knut Knudsen
KNUDSEN LEVANGER Knut was born in October 12, 1950, a runner's high, powerful, complete with formidable skills on the pitch, and a natural predisposition towards racing time trial and stage races, shorter than long. Knut was born a stone's throw from the fjords, Levanger, Norway, 12 October 1950. A "Viking" kind since childhood that to race in cycling, was forced to many sacrifices logistics.
Arrived among amateurs, he began to dictate not only among countrymen (repeatedly won national titles on the road, track and time trial), but the presence of the strongest in Europe. In '72, on the road, he won the Tour of Norway and the championships of Scandinavia. On the track, he won the Gold Medal at the Olympics in Monaco in pursuit, dominating, as it were of another category. The following year, in the same specialty, he graduated world champion, once again mocking opponents.
He passed professional in 1974, in Italy, in the ranks of Jollyceramica Giovanni Battaglin. It is now expected to treble on track, however, did not arrive. It was a finalist in the World Cup pursuit in '75, when he was beaten by Schuiten and in '77, when it was surpassed by Gregor Braun. He finished third in '76, behind Francesco Moser and, yet, Roy Schuiten. But if on the velodrome did not go as expected, cleared road, thanks to beautiful and important victories and countless placings fine, starting, or almost always, from the role of gregarious, some luxury, but still lieutenant.
In '75 he won in Fiorano the first stage of the Giro and wore the pink jersey for two days. The following year he won the Cronostaffetta. He returned to roar at the Giro in '77, triumphing in the time trial stage of Pisa, where he inflicted significant gaps in Moser and Michel Pollentier. In '78 he won the Giro di Sardegna (had already ended 3rd in '75), the Trofeo Laigueglia, the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria, the Trofeo Baracchi paired with Schuiten.
Great and unfortunate his '79 season. First he won the Tirreno-Adriatico (had already come 2nd in '74, '75 and '78!), Then the Giro del Trentino, demonstrating a tangible improvement in the long climbs. The Tour of Italy, after winning with a prodigious solo stage of Portovenere, while fighting for the win with Saronni (they were separated by a few seconds and still had to run the final time trial in Milan), was forced to retire for a disastrous fall just three days dall'epilogo.
In 1980, he triumphed again in Cronostaffetta and won, in Brussels, the Grand Prix Merckx. In 1981, he returned forcefully protagonist in the Tour of Italy by winning the prologue of Trieste (the "enemies" of the track and Braun Moser) and other stopwatch Montecatini and Verona. Triumphed in the Golden Wheel and, again, in G.P. Merckx. After a season so full of satisfaction and relevance, later this year decided to hang the bike on the nail. Many tried to convince him to continue, but he would not hear. After all, the insistence was legitimate: the world no one was worth in the role of lieutenant or real gregarious, not only for quality but also for the honesty that has always distinguished.
Thus, thirty-one when he could still play important pages, Knut, the man of the fjords and the sympathy that you can not forget, put an end to his distinguished career.
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| udoi |
Posted on 17-09-2015 01:43
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I remember it was very nice when they interviewed him during the Giro. |
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| trekbmc |
Posted on 17-09-2015 01:46
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Paul23 wrote:
trekbmc wrote:
Paul23 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
It would be Anquetil, but for sympathy I voted Tony Martin Just for his dedication and style alone.
Thats the best choice you could make. I'll award you 25 points in the rFactor league.
So how many crashes would liking Tony Martin make up for?
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Already over that. 
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| udoi |
Posted on 17-09-2015 19:58
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knut excellent riders |
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| udoi |
Posted on 17-09-2015 20:04
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Few know cyclists from other eras |
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| udoi |
Posted on 17-09-2015 20:10
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They know almost exclusively cyclists of our times |
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| sutty68 |
Posted on 17-09-2015 21:15
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Greg Lemond was pretty good in his day. |
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| Scatmaster111 |
Posted on 18-09-2015 02:08
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Tough choice for me but Boardman comes through.
By the way, Peter Kennaugh but no Vasil Kiryienka?
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