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| tomzk111 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:27
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So, guys, who do you reckon the best pro cyclist is/was?
Merckx, Anquetil, Coppi, Armstrong etc....??
For me its got to be Merckx as he won so much in his day, what do the rest of you think? |
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| Wiggo |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:30
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Talarbadon.
Edited by Wiggo on 21-09-2008 18:30
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| tomzk111 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:31
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Maggot wrote:
Talarbadon.
lol, i knew that was coming  |
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| Wiggo |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:32
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Breschel and Kaggersted are up there too. |
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:36
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Longo she has been on top for 20 years and has more victories than Merckx.
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| Wiggo |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:38
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schleck93 wrote:
Longo she has been on top for 20 years and has more victories than Merckx.
Yeah but she's fascist. |
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| ponka00 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:39
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Mercx - The all time greatest cyclist
Armstrong - The all time greatest Tour de France cyclist
Edited by ponka00 on 21-09-2008 18:40
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| schleck93 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:42
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Maggot wrote:
schleck93 wrote:
Longo she has been on top for 20 years and has more victories than Merckx.
Yeah but she's fascist.
Politics shall not decide what ever you're a good cyclist or not.
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| dave92 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:43
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ponka00 wrote:
Mercx - The all time greatest cyclist
Armstrong - The all time greatest Tour de France cyclist
agreed
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| ruben |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:46
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Thomas Dekker, because I am a fanboy. |
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| Deadpool |
Posted on 21-09-2008 18:54
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My view:
1. Merckx
2. Coppi
3. Kelly |
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| CrueTrue |
Posted on 21-09-2008 19:05
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Well, the more interesting question is how we will look at Contador in the future. He's young, and he's already won them all. That's not exactly a bad "start" |
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| Wiggo |
Posted on 21-09-2008 19:14
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But you don't know how others will develop, Gesink in particular. |
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| mesq |
Posted on 21-09-2008 19:51
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Merckx is surely the greatest ever...the only rider in history who could really do everything.
Lance Armstrong is a solid second, Indurain was an once-in-a-lifetime timetrialist, but otherwise I don't think he truly measures up to Lance and Merckx. I believe that within a few years Contador will rate much higher than Miguelon.
btw: does anyone else hate Bernard Hinault with a passion? |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 21-09-2008 19:52
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IndurĂ¡in won far more than Armstrong, so that's debatable.
I'm torn between Coppi and Merckx. As some important figure whose name escapes me said: "Merckx beat the champions, but Coppi beat the super-champions"
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| doddy13 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 19:55
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problem with Lance was it was the tour, and only the tour.
With Merckx we wanted to win anything and everything.
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Posted on 21-09-2008 20:07
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Marco Pantani, I think he did the races funny to watch, I like he's racing style  |
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| mesq |
Posted on 21-09-2008 20:08
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Don't get me wrong...Indurain was truly a class act. But I've always seen him as a timetrial specialist, rather than a complete all-round rider. He wasn't much of a climber, for instance. |
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| issoisso |
Posted on 21-09-2008 20:11
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mesq wrote:
Don't get me wrong...Indurain was truly a class act. But I've always seen him as a timetrial specialist, rather than a complete all-round rider. He wasn't much of a climber, for instance.
Because he came to the Tour dead tired from winning the Giro, so he limited his losses in the mountains. Saying he wasn't much of a climber in those years would be strange considering only Pantani and a couple others could drop him, and even then only because he decided not to try to follow, and they never won more than a few seconds per mountain stage.
After that, he stopped doing the Giro to win and went full-out for the Tour.
The result was that he regularly dropped Pantani, Riis and all the other climbers.
He was a fantastic climber
Edited by issoisso on 21-09-2008 20:16
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| tomzk111 |
Posted on 21-09-2008 20:13
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F_Schleck wrote:
Marco Pantani, I think he did the races funny to watch, I like he's racing style
Apart from the fact he was a freak of medicine
IMO Pantani was the most exciting to watch- who cares if he was doping- everyone around then was anyway. Whilst I said Merckx was the best ever, Pantani is my fave  |
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