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Who really is/was the greatest?

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  • March 1, 2014 at 10:13 am #20833
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    The other night in the pub (where else?) a very heated discussion started about who exactly “Was or is the greatest cyclist ever?” After the imbibing of much ‘falling down water’ some sort of consensus emerged.

    Here are the results of the ‘HP Lovecraft Holiday Funclub’ Jury.
    Greatest Rider of all time (either sex) – Beryl Burton
    Greatest Female Rider – 1st Beryl Burton, 2nd Marianne Vos
    Greatest Male Rider – Eddie Merckx, 2nd No Consensus

    What do you think? 😕

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  • March 2, 2014 at 2:15 pm #777827
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    felixcat

    Reg Harris?
    Reg Harris?

    March 2, 2014 at 2:07 pm #777825
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    Flying Scot

    I don’t know how anyone could
    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!

    March 2, 2014 at 1:11 pm #777823
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    Lost faith in the brand

    lance armstrong <3
    lance armstrong <3

    March 1, 2014 at 11:08 pm #777821
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    Stumps

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

    March 1, 2014 at 9:06 pm #777819
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    Gkam84

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

    March 1, 2014 at 7:34 pm #777817
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    Welsh boy

    Greatest ever:
    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 =))

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