Top 10 active cyclists

[Azabael]

Riders who are mentioned but don't belong in the top 10:

In the first place, are we talking about their palmares or how good they are the last, say, 2 years? Cause if the last is the case, Freire doesn't belong there either.

- Wiggins
- Gerrans
- Leipheimer
- Greipel
- Spilak

I mostly agree with FF'Wilco's list.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Bizarrely enough you forgot the best(or second best) Italian cyclist of the moment.

yea michele.....

 

[The Hitch]

If as Pistolet told me in velorooms its about all careers


1 The Great One
2 Freire
3 Spartacus
4 Tommeke
5 Damiano
6 Valverde
7 Cudles
8 The Pope
9 Ivan
10 Rebellin

 

[The Hitch]

Not much love for Cunego? Dude is a 3 time monument winner and a GT winner and was world number 1 in 2004.

 

[El Pistolero]

yea michele.....

Yup.

No love for the clown by the way?

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

If as Pistolet told me in velorooms its about all careers


1 The Great One
2 Freire
3 Spartacus
4 Tommeke
5 Damiano
6 Valverde
7 Cudles
8 The Pope
9 Ivan
10 Rebellin

No love for the awesome one ey?

 

[FF'Wilco]

1. Contador (multiple GT winner)
2. Freire (3x World Champion RR, multiple Monument winner)
4. Cancellara (multiple Monument winner, 4x World Champion ITT)
3. Boonen (multiple Monument winner, World Champion RR)
5. Cavendish (multiple GT stage winner, Monument winner, World Champion)
6. Valverde (multiple Monument winner, GT winner)
7. Gilbert (multiple Monument winner)
8. Menchov (3x GT winner)
9. Evans (GT winner, World Champion)
10. Petacchi (multiple GT stage winner, Monument winner)

top10 was very easy for me, so why not try top20...

11. Cunego (multiple Monument winner, GT winner)
12. Basso (2x GT winner)
13. Vinokourov (2x Monument winner, GT winner)
14. Di Luca (Monument winner, GT winner)
15. Ballan (World Champion, Monument winner)
16. Nibali (GT winner, GT top3, Monument top3)
17. S. Sanchez (Olympic Champion, Monument top3, GT top3)
18. J. Rodriguez (multiple GT stage winner, Monument top3, World Champion medalist)
19. A. Schleck (Monument winner, GT top3)
20. Hushovd (multiple GT stage winner, World Champion, Monument top3)

 

[Vino attacks everyone]

top10 was very easy for me, so why not try top20...

11. Cunego (multiple Monument winner, GT winner)
12. Basso (2x GT winner)
13. Vinokourov (2x Monument winner, GT winner)
14. Di Luca (Monument winner, GT winner)
15. Ballan (World Champion, Monument winner)
16. Nibali (GT winner, GT top3, Monument top3)
17. S. Sanchez (Olympic Champion, Monument top3, GT top3)
18. J. Rodriguez (multiple GT stage winner, Monument top3, World Champion medalist)
19. A. Schleck (Monument winner, GT top3)
20. Hushovd (multiple GT stage winner, World Champion, Monument top3)

Really Cunego over Vino?

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1999)
Paris-Nice (2002, 2003)
Tour de Suisse (2003)
Deutschland Tour (2001)
Amstel Gold Race (2003)

just to show something of what Vino has done

 

[The Hitch]

1. Contador (multiple GT winner)
2. Freire (3x World Champion RR, multiple Monument winner)
4. Cancellara (multiple Monument winner, 4x World Champion ITT)
3. Boonen (multiple Monument winner, World Champion RR)
5. Cavendish (multiple GT stage winner, Monument winner, World Champion)
6. Valverde (multiple Monument winner, GT winner)
7. Gilbert (multiple Monument winner)
8. Menchov (3x GT winner)
9. Evans (GT winner, World Champion)
10. Petacchi (multiple GT stage winner, Monument winner)

Cav above Valverde Evans Gilbert and Menchov????

 

[ccyclo]

those guys? seriously? they are top riders but wiggins is nowhere near the top 3 and the 3 shouldn't even be in the top 10 imo mostly bottle and gerrans

I based my list on who've done well so far this year.

The greatest riders in the peloton- list is:

1. Gilbert
2. Contador
3. Evans
4. Cancellara
5. Boonen
6. Andy
7. Freire
8. Nibali
9. Hushovd
10 S Sanchez

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

I'm still confused, are we meant to judge riders on their entire career or just on current form?

 

[FF'Wilco]

Really Cunego over Vino?

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1999)
Paris-Nice (2002, 2003)
Tour de Suisse (2003)
Deutschland Tour (2001)
Amstel Gold Race (2003)

just to show something of what Vino has done

Well if we are talking about top of the top then i wouldnt really count short stage races no matter how prestigious they are. Classics like Amstel yes, but that wont change much. So i rate higher winning 3x Monument over 2x Monument and some stage races. But on the other hand Vino was 3rd in TdF and have two WC medals and Cunego only one. All in all i can agree that Vino could be placed higher then Cunego

 

[will10]

Really Cunego over Vino?

Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1999)
Paris-Nice (2002, 2003)
Tour de Suisse (2003)
Deutschland Tour (2001)
Amstel Gold Race (2003)

just to show something of what Vino has done

Cunego's palmares trumps Vino's IMO. 1 x Giro, 3 x Lombardia, 1 x AGR, TdF white jersey, years of podiums in the Classics, worlds medals etc....

 

[Tyler'sTwin]

I find it amazing that anyone would rank Gilbert over Cancellara. They are close in the classics, but Spartacus is a freakin 4-time TT World Champion and Olympic Champion in addition to his 4 W's @ 3 monuments. Phil over Boonen is also a joke.

 

[will10]

All the talk of Cav not being worthy of being on these lists....

Where would you have put Cipo in the early 2000s?

 

[Bernie's eyesore]

All the talk of Cav not being worthy of being on these lists....

Where would you have put Cipo in the early 2000s?

Let's not forget that Cav is also a two time world madison champion, have any of the others mentioned achieved this?

 

[FF'Wilco]

Cav above Valverde Evans Gilbert and Menchov????

Yes but mostly because he's a sprinter so he will never win a GT.

 

[El Pistolero]

Let's not forget that Cav is also a two time world madison champion, have any of the others mentioned achieved this?

As if the others give a ****. I bet Boonen is so jealous about Geraint Thomas right now.

Road cycling.

 

[The Hitch]

As if the others give a ****. I bet Boonen is so jealous about Geraint Thomas right now.

Road cycling.

Stop your irrational gerraint hatred. I thought it was ott when you said he was a ***** for not riding the classics, ignorant of the fact that he was winning a world championships.

And now you hijack your own thread with this crap.

 

[Michielveedeebee]

top10 was very easy for me, so why not try top20...

11. Cunego (multiple Monument winner, GT winner)
12. Basso (2x GT winner)
13. Vinokourov (2x Monument winner, GT winner)
14. Di Luca (Monument winner, GT winner)
15. Ballan (World Champion, Monument winner)
16. Nibali (GT winner, GT top3, Monument top3)
17. S. Sanchez (Olympic Champion, Monument top3, GT top3)
18. J. Rodriguez (multiple GT stage winner, Monument top3, World Champion medalist)
19. A. Schleck (Monument winner, GT top3)
20. Hushovd (multiple GT stage winner, World Champion, Monument top3)

I miss Rebellin there, I rate him higher than Hushovd for an example, he won a monument(podiumed 5) and some other classics (also he completed the Ardennes triple, gotta give him credit for that).

 

[El Pistolero]

I was putting it on rails actually. No track results in the road race section.

 

[The Hitch]

Yes but mostly because he's a sprinter so he will never win a GT.

Right, but still compare Cavs achievements to Cadel and Valverde who admitedly are a bit older, but still he doesnt really come close. Particularly to Valverde who has won a gt 2 monuments dozens of stage races, 1 day races, gt points jerseys, season after season ranked world number 1.

 

[The Hitch]

I was putting it on rails actually. No track results in the road race section.

So you admit the Thomas snipe was off topic?

Good.

Back on topic, i do think its worth taking into account if a road cyclist has had success in other sports too.

 

[El Pistolero]

I miss Rebellin there, I rate him higher than Hushovd for an example, he won a monument(podiumed 5) and some other classics (also he completed the Ardennes triple, gotta give him credit for that).

3x FW, CSS and 2x Zurich I think. So yeah, he definitely deserves a spot in the top 20. But it's easy to forget him given the circumstances.

 

[nobilis]

1. Contador
2. Valverde
3. Cancellara
4. Boonen
5. Freire
6. Gilbert
7. Evans
8. Cavendish
9. Menchov
10. Vinokourov