Your Favourite Cyclist

[Rockn Robin]

Carol.

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I can see why. Girlfriend, wife? Very pretty.

 

[Drago]

I wish she was! Shes a uk tv celebrity whom I have a teensy weensy crush on.

 

[Ian H]

Well... Eddie Merckx won more grand tours than anyone else (even if you don't disqualify Armstrong), won all the jerseys in the TDF one year, and overall won more than anyone else.
But Fausto Coppi was cycling poetry, whose career was interrupted by the war; Sean Kelly was a ferocious hard-rider and still managed to be a nice, generous bloke. Pantani could almost be the Coppi of his generation.

Andy Wilkinson, Lynne Biddulph and Gethin Butler have carved out their own niches in domestic long-distance competition. Alf Engers cocked a snook at authority in the shorter distances.

I could mention loads more.

 

[Milzy]

David Miller. Pure style and the only doper to ever find true complete redemption.

 

[Rockn Robin]

Well... Eddie Merckx won more grand tours than anyone else (even if you don't disqualify Armstrong), won all the jerseys in the TDF one year, and overall won more than anyone else.
But Fausto Coppi was cycling poetry, whose career was interrupted by the war; Sean Kelly was a ferocious hard-rider and still managed to be a nice, generous bloke. Pantani could almost be the Coppi of his generation.

Andy Wilkinson, Lynne Biddulph and Gethin Butler have carved out their own niches in domestic long-distance competition. Alf Engers cocked a snook at authority in the shorter distances.

I could mention loads more.

For sure, as the list is long. So I take it EM is your fav. He was, without a doubt, an awesome rider.

I agree, Pantani could have been the Coppi of his time, but wasn’t he, at least, on the team that bared Coppi’s name at one point in his early career.

 

[MikeG]

Peter Sagan. He can park a bike like no other.

 

[sheddy]

Vicky P
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/llansley/vicky/

 

[slowmotion]

Mario Cipollini. A certain swagger.

 

[Rockn Robin]

Peter Sagan. He can park a bike like other.

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

 

[Rockn Robin]

Mario Cipollini. A certain swagger.

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Smoking while riding?

 

[slowmotion]

Smoking while riding?

Yes.

 

[Drago]

I'm also a fan of Sid..

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

 

[gavroche]

Jacques Anquetil. He was the first to win five Tour de France.

 

[slowmotion]

Full marks to this lot. They knew how to party while rehydrating.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Nicole Cooke

Britains answer, to Marianne Vos

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

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Eg;
2001
1st World Junior Road Race Championships
1st World Junior Time Trial Championships,
1st World Junior Cross Country MTB Championships
1st National Road Race Championships
1st National Mountainbike Championships
1st National Cyclo-cross Championships

2003
1st National Road Race Championships
1st 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