Your Favourite Cyclist

[Rockn Robin]

I'm also a fan of Sid..

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Riding a Raleigh Chopper in moccasins while smoking a pipe. Only Sid was cool enough to carry that off.

Now I know of him. One of the funniest men in English comedy.

 

[Rockn Robin]

Full marks to this lot. They knew how to party while rehydrating.
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I loved the early Tour riders. They carried their own spares, and ran into pubs to get a bottle of ale. Things are sooo different now.

 

[midlife]

No contest... The Staffordshire Engine

Phil Bayton

...... And Billy Holmes

 

[Rockn Robin]

No contest... The Staffordshire Engine

Phil Bayton

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...... And Billy Holmes

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Absolutely!!!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nicole Cooke

Britains answer, to Marianne Vos

Most of her titles (UK & World) were won with little official help

EDIT @ 00:21 Saturday

Eg;
2001
1st View attachment 433782 World Junior Road Race Championships
1st View attachment 433783 World Junior Time Trial Championships,
1st View attachment 433784 World Junior Cross Country MTB Championships
1st View attachment 433785 National Road Race Championships
1st View attachment 433786 National Mountainbike Championships
1st View attachment 433787 National Cyclo-cross Championships

2003
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1st View attachment 433789 Overall UCI Women's Road World Cup
1st Amstel Gold Race (women) Amstel Gold
1st La Flèche Wallonne Féminine
World Road-Race Championships Bronze


2008
Olympic Road-Race Gold
World Road-Race Gold
National Road-Race 1st


http://nicolecooke.com/palmares/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicole_Cooke

Also have a read of her retirement statement (on her website)

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Wayne Randle...………

A 'manimal'

Try the Boggle Hole. stories, & he's a 'Vet 40' at those! (possibly a V45)
https://www.planetx.co.uk/news/events/q/date/2016/03/

 

[Rockn Robin]

Some excellent cyclist you have all included.

Has anyone heard of Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor? This guy was a rocket.

 

[cyberknight]

 

[matiz]

Raymond Poulidor "Pou Pou" despite having to cope with Anquetil and Merckz he never gave up, three seconds and five third places in the TDF the last when he was forty , still going strong at 82 and well loved by the French fans.

 

[MikeG]

That was awesome! So, who’s your fav from the past, other than Peter from the present?

Andy Wilkinson, an amateur who has held every long distance world record, still holds at least one of the Lejog records, and has only recently lost the world 24 hour record. Here he is on that record ride:

Watch at 4.20, where he can't even climb off the bike at the end.

 

[Aravis]

José Manuel Fuente:

A subjective view of course, but for sheer style no-one else has ever come close. Check out videos from the early 70s if you don't know him.

Honourable mentions to Freddy Maertens, Stephen Roche, Nicole Cooke, Cadel Evans and Laurent Fignon.

Actually my favourite when I first started watching racing was Joop Zoetemelk, but what I've read since I think I was probably wrong. I found that Hinault was far easier to appreciate once he'd gone. Will we ever see his like again?

 

[raleighnut]

Shanaze Reade

View: https://youtu.be/mfNAWrV_ZbM

 

[Cycleops]

Smoking while riding?

Ask @Smokin Joe he perfected the art.

 

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Hans Rey (former World Champion, pioneer of Trails and Freeride, Mountain Bike Hall of Famer, founder of 'wheels 4life' charity and currently mountain bike adventurer) has done probably more the shape and progress mountain biking than any other person... across all its varied disciplines.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhHKjhyTd0

 

[chappers1983]

I was always a huge fan of Djamolidine Abdujaparov - it was watching his monster crash at the end of the ‘91 (?) tour and subsequent stagger across the finish line that inspired me to get into cycling.

And for him to have the audacity to dope himself up to the eyeballs to the extent that he won a mountain stage. In for a penny and all that........