Who really is/was the greatest?

Greatest Female Road: Marianne Vos
Greatest Male Road : Eddy Merckx
Greatest Track : either Hoy or Vicky Pendleton
Greatest Briton : Sadly Biggins
Greatest EVER : Eddy Merckx

I was deeply tempted to put Armstrong as greatest road... I still personally consider that he won the seven tours despite despising the methods involved. But I think Merckx beats him anyway.

Put me down with a vote for Indurain for all time. For no better reason than he was my idol when I was cycling in my formative years. That familiarity beats Merckx into second place. The shear power of the guy was formidable. Look up the metrics for heart rate, lung capacity and everything else for Indurain, it's quite amazing. He was certainly like an engine but it was a super charged V8 for sure.
Best British, well it has to be Cavendish just for the number of wins. Call him a one trick pony if you like but he has to be there at the finish to use his trick and lets face it it's a dammed good trick.
Vos gets the female podium for pretty much the same reason as Cav where level of success, though some of the UK track team are right up there in terms of profile.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha at the idea that Big Mig didn't dope. Can I say it again? Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Ha.
In fact, if we assume Merckx doped - he always maintained he was spiked or set up, which is a lot less likely than the fact he was just caught for doing the same amphetamines everyone else was doing - all he really had access to was the amphetamines, rather than the far more sophisticated EPO, steroids etc of Indurain's era.
Looking at what Merckx won, and the way he won them, even if he had a doping program like Armstrong's, you'd still have to pick him as the greatest. There's simply no one to compare his drive, desire and above all, his record. It's insane.

Brits: Brian Robinson, Tom Simpson and Robert Millar: for doing it all on their own, as much as I think Brad & Cav's success is stunning. Barry Hoban too.
Best ever: Hinault - seems to me he overcame adversity more often than Merckx, and never had quite as dedicated a team (apologies to Fignon, Madiot and LeMond). Anquetil was too calculating - 'sh*t or bust' is what makes things interesting, surely? Indurain was a robot (sorry).
Pantani for his unpredictability and heart-on-sleeve falibility. The human side of the sport, warts and all.
Best woman: Beryl Burton, Marianne Vos. Or Jeannie Longo (this last one just to start a riot, even though she allegedly/possibly has used PEDs, but has to be no more than her male counterparts).
Track rider: Surely Daniel Morelon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Morelon
Joker in the pack: Graeme Obree for being the fly in the restricive straight-jacket UCI ointment, an engineer, a sensitve thinker, a left-field genius.

Greatest ever: Merckx, this is just obvious, nobody elese even comes close to his achievments, regardless of doping or who is your favourite rider. I can't believe there is any debate on this.
Greatest woman: Vos
Greatest Brit: Beryl Burton, for me Cav is a one trick pony, same with Hoy, Froome isn't British, Wiggo would have it if he won another Tour and Boardman is great but for more reasons than sporting success.

Greatest of all time: Vos
Greatest Male: Merckx

I admit Cav isn't the best choice in the eyes of many, but he just seems to be more down to earth and sensible to me than most. In that ITV4 documentary his eyes lit up when he got a new fixie from Pinarello, alongside the hydraulic brakes he was rocking this year, you can tell he is really passionate about bikes and bike kit. That's what we need! Not riders who are solely motivated by money, but "old fashioned" ones who like to ride bikes!
Might just be me though!

I think the reason Obree isn't getting a mention and in my eyes is not up there though, yes, great rider and designed, but did nothing on the road and not a lot more on the track, more known for his records.

Greatest male....Cav? Really, he's a sprinter, maybe greatest sprinter (for just now), but not greatest male.

Why has Graeme Obree not been mentioned yet?
Designed and made his own bikes, showed the world what they could do and let them use his ideas to improve their own riding! Boardman was using "Superman" to break the hour record.

Never doped, has fought his own demons since he was a small child and bit his thumb at the UCI more than once!

Greatest of all time: Graeme Obree
Greatest Female: Beryl Burton (Vos always seems so smug!)
Greatest Male: Cav

The reason I cannot take Merckx over Indurain.

Merckx definitely doped. Indurain to my knowledge has never had anything even against him, not even in any investigations (I suspect he did dope) but he never denied it, unlike Merckx

That being the same reason I picked Anquetil as the greatest male he's been implicated in things, so could not greatest my ever.

Tom Simpson talked openly about doping, saying that riders did drugs, he never denied doing it, he said that you couldn't do it alot though. Of course, drugs would lead to his death.

I think, out of the top 10 greatest riders I would have, Indurain is the only one not classed as a doper, the only thing he ever tested positive for was salbutamol and as an asthma suffered, he was allowed to use it

Greatest of all: Merckx
Greatest male: ditto
Greatest female: Vos
Track: Hoy
Brit: Wiggins

Reg Harris?

I don't know how anyone could overlook Robert Millar to jump to Tom Simpson?

Also Eddy Merckx work rate was phenomenal, tours, world records, classics, that type of riding no longer exists and for that reason he is absolutely the greatest, not a one trick pony.

I don't understand the concept of Sprinters, so I can't plump for Cav, for me you need to put in a shift all day, not sprint for the last few hundred metres.

Why are you so down on Wiggins? The guy made the transition from the highest level at the track, is arguably our best ever Olympian and then made the transition to the Road and won the tour? I cut the guy slack for odd flat performance on the road, as where he came from, the track, he didn't ever dissapoint.

hoy obviously dominated the track in the modern era, but I suspect there are some unsung heroes from the past I don't know about,so don't have a track favourite.

Finally, like Merckx, we are highly unlikely to see anyone with as diverse and long career like that ever again, dominated several generations of riders!

lance armstrong <3

Greatest ever: Indurain
Greatest Brit: At the mo Cav, in the future Froome.
Greatest Track: Hoy
Greatest Woman: Vos

Greatest Female : Marianne Vos
Greatest Male : Jacques Anquetil
Greatest Track : Chris Hoy
Greatest Britain : Tom Simpson
Greatest EVER : Miguel Indurain

Greatest ever: Merckx
Greatest female: BB
Greatest track rider: Peter Post
Greatest British rider ever: A tie between Cav, Boardman, Ian Cammish and Alf Engers
Greatest mountain bike rider ever: Not one, a contradiction in terms