Missing Legends.

[iandg]

Check out 'Cycling Hall of Fame'

http://www.cyclinghalloffame.com/riders/alltime100.asp

 

[Velominati]

Reg Harris.

Wiki claims that Reg was as well known as Sterling Moss and Stanley Matthews.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Tom Simpson
Robert Millar
Pedro Delgado
Richard Virenque (though heavily tainted)
Sean Yates
Erik Zabel
Stephen Roche
Djamolidine Abdoujaparov

 

[Hacienda71]

Wiki claims that Reg was as well known as Sterling Moss and Stanley Matthews.

He stares down at you every time you ride the boards in Manchester. I also quite often cycle past his old house on my commute to Macclesfield.

 

[Sharky]

Wiki claims that Reg was as well known as Sterling Moss and Stanley Matthews.

He was .....
Google search .....
The first Sportsman of the Year award was introduced by my old paper the Daily Express, and it was a cyclist who was the inaugural winner back in the London Olympic year of 1948. Reg Harris, silver medallist in the sprint, pedalled to first place.

 

[Velominati]

What about Mountain Bike Legend, Kelly McGarry. Now he was fearless. Mountain biking took his life, very sad.

 

[Racing roadkill]

Jeff Bridges.

 

[classic33]

Mick "Iron Man" Murphy

 

[matiz]

John Atkins 12 times national cyclocross champion,
Djamolidine Abdoujaporov (the tashkent terror) a super quick road sprinter who took no prisoners.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

Here http://www.ttlegends.org/men-cyclists/?mid=1344

and here http://www.ttlegends.org/mens-30-miles/?mile=30&gen=gh&p_id=310

Total respect to Ian Gilbert

 

[Smokin Joe]

Hubert Opperman -

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-hubert-opperman-1306513.html

 

[dellzeqq]

Roger De Vlaeminck The Mr Cool of cycling

Francesco Moser was cooler. And Hugo Koblet was the coolest.

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

Ned Overend

 

[iandg]

Francesco Moser was cooler. And Hugo Koblet was the coolest.

Agreed, they never wore the Brooklyn jersey tho'

 

[johnnyb47]

And not forgetting the great Barry Hoban . I used to talk to him on a regular basis here in mid Wales.