Top 10 current cyclists

[The Hitch]

First things first, IMO, anyone who doesn't have Contador as their top pick for the last three years is either an ignorant fool, brainless, a stupid hater or someone who has spent the entire past three years with the Hutus in Africa/somewhere in the desert in Mongolia.

After RVV PR double I was thinking that it was close between Cancellara and Contador, and before the Geelong road race I thought that if Cancellara did something good there he would become better than Contador.

This year Albert has created a gap between the 2.

 

[Moondance]

Based on the past few seasons, with the most recent season most heavily weighted:

1. Gilbert
2. Contador
3. Cadel Evans
4. Fabian Cancellara
5. Mark Cavendish
6. Joaquin Rodriguez
7. Andy Schleck
8. Samuel Sanchez
9. Vincenzo Nibali
10. Tony Martin

 

[Havetts]

First things first, IMO, anyone who doesn't have Contador as their top pick for the last three years is either an ignorant fool, brainless, a stupid hater or someone who has spent the entire past three years with the Hutus in Africa/somewhere in the desert in Mongolia.

Do you really expect people to take this statement seriously if they read your signature afterwards ?

 

[Angliru]

1 Evans
2 Gilbert
3 Contador
4 ASchleck
5 Cancellara
6 FSchleck
7 Martin
8 Purito
9 Goss
10 Wiggins/Cavendish

a)Stage wins are worthless imo no matter if flat or MTF or TT, the point of a stage race is to be win at the end. b)Whoever wins the Tour is King.

So this must be your best of 2011 and not the past 3 years?

My list is as follows:
1. Contador
2. Gilbert
3. Cancellara
4. Evans
5. Cavendish
6. Purito
7. Nibali
8. Samu
9. Thor
10. (tie) Menchov and Basso

 

[maltiv]

I don't agree with you about Tony Martin, but I do agree with Edvald Boasson Hagen. So far he has never been close to winning a Monument or prestigious one week race.

Wonder what The Hitch's reaction will be when he realizes that you're implying that Tour of Poland is not a prestigious one week race!

 

[Kvinto]

There’s a lot of different rankings which would easily determine the best riders over the last three years (seriously, if you want to do this – check the CQ), so I would like to use the different approach. As Maya Angelou once said (i’ve found this quote several years ago by chance and since that i like it very much): “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” My ranking is not about results only but also about the spirit of the champion which the rider can have or have not regardless of his results.

1. Fabian Cancellara
2. Alberto Contador
3. Philippe Gilbert
4. Cadel Evans
5. Alexandre Vinokourov
6. Mark Cavendish
7. Tom Boonen
8. Bradley Wiggins
9. Michele Scarponi
10. Alejandro Valverde

In fact I was thinking about the other #1 but felt a sudden desire to enrol myself in the very honourable list as “either an ignorant fool, brainless, a stupid hater or someone who has spent the entire past three years with the Hutus in Africa/somewhere in the desert in Mongolia.”. Yep, it’s all about me

 

[The Hitch]

Wonder what The Hitch's reaction will be when he realizes that you're implying that Tour of Poland is not a prestigious one week race!

EBH won Eneco not TDP

 

[Richeypen]

EBH won Eneco not TDP

EBH came within 11 seconds of winning Poland in 2009. Thats pretty damn close

 

[The Hitch]

EBH came within 11 seconds of winning Poland in 2009. Thats pretty damn close

Oh yeah, misread the "come close" bit.

Guess El Pistolero is talking crap again then

 

[Zoncolan]

EBH came within 11 seconds of winning Poland in 2009. Thats pretty damn close

Poland isn't exactly won by minutes usually
Rather, it is usually under 30".

 

[El Pistolero]

There’s a lot of different rankings which would easily determine the best riders over the last three years (seriously, if you want to do this – check the CQ), so I would like to use the different approach. As Maya Angelou once said (i’ve found this quote several years ago by chance and since that i like it very much): “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” My ranking is not about results only but also about the spirit of the champion which the rider can have or have not regardless of his results.

1. Fabian Cancellara
2. Alberto Contador
3. Philippe Gilbert
4. Cadel Evans
5. Alexandre Vinokourov
6. Mark Cavendish
7. Tom Boonen
8. Bradley Wiggins
9. Michele Scarponi
10. Alejandro Valverde

In fact I was thinking about the other #1 but felt a sudden desire to enrol myself in the very honourable list as “either an ignorant fool, brainless, a stupid hater or someone who has spent the entire past three years with the Hutus in Africa/somewhere in the desert in Mongolia.”. Yep, it’s all about me

And yet you pick Cancellara as your first guy? No offence to him, but his interviews are borderline stupid and that's something that's hard to forget

 

[Kvinto]

And yet you pick Cancellara as your first guy? No offence to him, but his interviews are borderline stupid and that's something that's hard to forget

If i would have taken interviews into account i guess i wouldn't have known whom to pick when it's going to an interview they're all silly.

 

[sky forever]

Just to let everyone know, EBH has won a big one classic. 2009 Gent–Wevelgem.

My last 3 year list:

1) Alberto Contador.
2) Fabian Cancellara.
3) Mark Cavendish.
4) Philippe Gilbert.
5) Denis Menchov.
6) Thor Hushovd.
7) Frandy.
8) Cadel Evans.
9) Samuel Sanchez.
10) Joaquim Rodriguez

This year:

1) Philippe Gilbert.
2) Alberto Contador.
3) Cadel Evans.
4) Mark Cavendish.
5) Tony Martin.
6) Edvald Boasson Hagen.
7) Matthew Goss.
8) Bradley Wiggins.
9) Peter Sagan.
10) Marcel Kittel.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

1. Marianne Vos
2. Alberto Contador
3. Philippe Gilbert
4. Zdeněk Štybar
5. Mark Cavendish
6. Fabian Cancellara
7. Jorge Lorenzo
8. Emma Pooley
9. Cadel Evans
10. Thomas Voeckler

 

[LaFlorecita]

Do you really expect people to take this statement seriously if they read your signature afterwards ?

Maybe... But I'm not entirely biased.

 

[theyoungest]

First things first, IMO, anyone who doesn't have Contador as their top pick for the last three years is either an ignorant fool, brainless, a stupid hater or someone who has spent the entire past three years with the Hutus in Africa/somewhere in the desert in Mongolia.

Being quite partial to Contador myself I can say that you're quite annoying. In my book he's the best rider in the world (by quite a margin) but if, say, you're a big fan of classics, and not so much of GTs, I can imagine you'd think otherwise.

 

[Havetts]

Maybe... But I'm not entirely biased.

Just a little bit to your favourite rider .

 

[LaFlorecita]

Being quite partial to Contador myself I can say that you're quite annoying. In my book he's the best rider in the world (by quite a margin) but if, say, you're a big fan of classics, and not so much of GTs, I can imagine you'd think otherwise.

Yes, but I think that everyone with common sense can see he's the best. Maybe not this year, but definitely of the last three, four years. Again, that is my opinion. And I'm sorry for being annoying because I'm just a tiny bit biased.

 

[LaFlorecita]

Just a little bit to your favourite rider .

Hmm... a little bit, yes.

 

[El Pistolero]

Being quite partial to Contador myself I can say that you're quite annoying. In my book he's the best rider in the world (by quite a margin) but if, say, you're a big fan of classics, and not so much of GTs, I can imagine you'd think otherwise.

I'm a big fan of classics(more so then GTs), but that would only work if there was someone who won 2 Monuments each season. Or the WC and a Monument.

 

[Siriuscat]

On the basis that we're concentrating on the mens elite group -
In the last three seasons.......easy

1) Alberto Contador
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Yes Thats how big the gap is
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2) Fabian Cancellara
3) Mark Cavendish
4) Philippe Gilbert
5) Cadel Evans
6) Thor Hushovd
7) Ivan Basso
8) Vincenzo Nibali
9) Samuel Sanchez
10) Joaquim Rodriguez


This year:

1) Philippe Gilbert
2) Alberto Contador
3) Cadel Evans
4) Mark Cavendish
5) Peter Sagan
6) Thomas Voeckler
7) Tony Martin
8) Bradley Wiggins
9) Vincenzo Nibali
10) EBH

 

[Kvinto]

I'm a big fan of classics(more so then GTs), but that would only work if there was someone who won 2 Monuments each season. Or the WC and a Monument.

If you rate a GT as equal to the two monuments (how pathetic ) then no way you're a big fan of classics

 

[El Pistolero]

If you rate a GT as equal to the two monuments (how pathetic ) then no way you're a big fan of classics

Only the Tour.

I don't rate the Vuelta at all. Giro is still bigger than a Monument though. Though winning all the Ardennes classics in one season is more impressive than a Giro win(unless you do the Trifecta or something).

 

[Captain_Cavman]

1. Cancellara
2. Gilbert
3. Evans
4. Cavendish
5. A. Schleck
6. Hushovd
7. Menchov
8. Basso
9. Nibali
10. J. Rodriguez

 

[Angliru]

EBH came within 11 seconds of winning Poland in 2009. Thats pretty damn close

In a weeklong stage race 11 seconds really is more than it seems.