Your 10 favourite riders of all time

[sienna]

In no particular order:
Phil Anderson
Jacky Durand
Viatcheslav Ekimov
Djamolidine Abdujaparov
Miguel Indurain
Peter Sagan
Robbie McEwan
Laurent Fignon
Johan Museeuw
Eddie Merckx

 

[ferryman]

First off, ask the mods to rectify the thread name to ten And then maybe qualify what you mean e.g. in your lifetime?

Anyhoo, assuming that's what you meant, and showing my age (I don't have ten unfortunately tho) my personal favs are, again in no particular order after Millar:

Millar, Robert
Fignon
JF Bernard
Sastre
Schleck, Andy
Cunego
Contador
Ullrich

 

[SHAD0W93]

No order
Ullrich
Klöden
Contador
Cavendish
Cunego
Valverde
Kreuziger
Menchov
A Schleck
Cancellara

 

[Sciocco]

Only riders I've seen:
Armstrong
Contador
Sagan
Vino
Pirazzi
Majka
Kwiatkowski
Betancur
Valverde
Gilbert

Some young riders could easily move into the list such as Alaphilippe but it's just too soon to know.

 

[chiocciolis_calves]

Sean Kelly
Gilberto Simoni
Andy Hampsten
Felice Gimondi
Roberto Heras
Marco Pantani
Tom Boonen
Andre Greipel
Eddy
Dave Stoller

 

[cellardoor]

Miguel Indurain
Mauricio Fondriest
Jan Ullrich
Ivan Basso
Paolo Bettini
Juan-Antonio Flecha
Tom Boonen
Denis Menchov
Alberto Contador
Alain Prost

 

[ppanther92]

Hm...

Andy Schleck
Thomas Rohregger
Georg Preidler
Peter Sagan
Philippe Gilbert
Paolo Savoldelli
Oscar Sevilla
Oscar Freire
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Matti Breschel

 

[Alexandre B.]

Peter Van Petegem
Robbie McEwen
Haimar Zubeldia
Damiano Cunego
Cadel Evans
Thor Hushovd
Sylvain Chavanel
André Greipel
Peter Sagan
Romain Bardet

 

[Tych23]

off my head I go with

Olaf Ludwig
Djamolidine Abduzhaparov
Thor Hushovd
Carlos Sastre
Jan Ullrich
Edvald Boasson Hagen
Jens Heppner
Alejandro Valverde
Jose Maria Jimenez
Joseba Beloki

 

[Eric_R]

Lance Armstrong
Marco Pantani
Claudio Chiapucci
Joop Zoetemelk
Hennie Kuiper
Jan Raas
Ivan Basso
Alberto Contador
Gert-Jan Theunisse
Greg Lemond

 

[saganftw]

Ricco
Pantani
Sagan
Armstrong
Contador
Vino
Durand
Ulrich

cant remember anyone else

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Briek Schotte
Tom Boonen
Sep Vanmarcke
Domenico Pozzovivo
Paolo Savoldelli

I have about 50 years left, so I'll get to the next five in those years.

 

[phanatic]

Horner
Andy Schleck
Basso
Cance
Sagan
Vino
Voeckler
Tony Martin
Moreno Moser
Nibali

 

[HelloDolly]

Sean Kelly
Peter Sagan
Tom Boonen
Stephen Roche
Gregg Le Mond
Lauren Fignon
Roger de Vlaeminck
Alberto Contador
Bradley Wiggins
Robert MIllar

 

[Oliwright]

Horner
Andy Schleck
Basso
Cance
Sagan
Vino
Voeckler
Tony Martin
Moreno Moser
Nibali

I struggle with Horner!

 

[Oliwright]

Only followed in detail since 2012.

Contador
Cav
Sagan
Boonen
A Yates
Chaves
Chris Juul Jenson
Valverde
Froome
Cancelara

 

[hrotha]

Oscar Camenzind
Frank Vandenbroucke
Ángel Madrazo
Damiano Cunego
Vincenzo Nibali (wavering)
Taylor Phinney
Wilfried Nelissen
Georg Totschnig
Niki Aebersold
(Young) Davide Rebellin

Unsure about many of these. I was much quicker to pick favourites when I was a kid.

 

[cellardoor]

Re:

Sean Kelly
Peter Sagan
Tom Boonen
Stephen Roche
Gregg Le Mond
Lauren Fignon
Roger de Vlaeminck
Alberto Contador
Bradley Wiggins
Robert MIllar

Come on....there must be someone from the 90s!

 

[Valv.Piti]

Valverde
Mayo
Rasmussen
Sami Sanchez
Klöden
Quintana
Ricco
Landa
I. Izagirre
Heras

 

[DBotero]

Santiago Botero
Roberto Heras
Oscar Sevilla
Aitor Gonzalez
Alejandro Valverde
Jan Ullrich
Alexandre Vinokourov
Richard Virenque
Thor Hushovd
Christopher Froome

 

[gunara]

Abdoujaparov
Indurain
Pantani
Zubeldia
Mayo
Freire
Flecha
Contador
Paolini
Sagan

in no particular order and without much thinking

 

[Jakub]

Alberto Contador
Michael Rogers
Haimar Zubeldia
Andreas Klöden
Peter Sagan
Steven Kruijswijk
Tom Dumoulin
Joseba Beloki
Roberto Heras
Zdeněk Štybar

 

[Walter Morgan]

Armstrong
Heras
Basso
Salvodelli
Cancellara
Nibali
Avermaet
Stuyven
Degenkolb

 

[Pantani_lives]

Completely subjective, the riders I liked most since watching from the early eighties:

1. Marco Pantani
2. Bernard Hinault
3. Fabian Cancellara
4. Sean Kelly
5. Greg Lemond
6. Eddy Planckaert
7. Pedro Delgado
8. Philippe Gilbert
9. Alberto Contador
10. Mario Cippolini

If Quintana destroys the field this week he'll enter this top 10, but I don't think it's going to happen.

 

[hrotha]

Some people really like winning.