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Coppi and Bartali come in at three and four on the Virtual Musette's list (below) their scores are very similar, and they both raced in the same era - restricting the other's chances of winning whereas all the other top riders had periods of time that they dominated. Makes you wonder what either Coppi or Bartali's rankings would have been had the other one not been around scooping up prizes at the same time?

1) Eddy Merckx, 410.5
2) Bernard Hinault, 232.5
3) Fausto Coppi, 219.5
4) Gino Bartali, 213
5) Jacques Anquetil, 184
6) Rik Van Looy, 152
7) Sean Kelly, 146.5
8) Roger De Vlaeminck, 139.5
9) Francesco Moser, 131.5
10) Felice Gimondi, 114 (higher raw score)
11) Lance Armstrong, 114*

yes it looks good on here, always had but I like the way things change. Keeps me coming back for more.

I'd like to see the conversation Menchov has with his team mechanic, that was the most amazing bit of work to get the bike off the roof and Menchov on it in about 10 seconds.

I think he deserves quite a bit of the congratulations from Rabobank.

Bah, do a whim one anyway, and just claim that your methodology is top secret. I won't let on, honest

He used to look like the office junior and now he is morphing into Paul Weller and if he carries on along the same trajectory mapped out by Mr Sock some time around mid-century he's gonna end up looking like Jimmy Saville… although nobody will know who Jimmy Saville was by then… funnily enough he was a cyclist though wasn't he?

hmm, you could have a point there. Spooky

Did the 12 hour mtb night enduro. Team was 5th, four laps down on winners.

Obree rode a single chainring on the 100km sportif. It was an enormous 62! His cassette was tiny, biggest gear was 62x11. And one climb was 25%. Said he was going for the hour record later in the year in Manchester. Will be tough but good luck to him, seemed a nice chap. Also good to Stephen Roche.

i will be, love a bit of T20 though not as much as a good old fashioned test. call me a bluff old traditionalist, cricket in pyjamas, in my day, etc and so on.

Oh, yes - you've got to tell us how that goes. Good luck!

of course it does… titanium is a wonder metal innit, you can do practically anything with it, practically. Well, you can bend it about in your bottle cage with no ill effects, so long as you don't do it all the time!

Lyndsey Hipgraves?