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This is great ....

All the stages results of each tour and GC .... brilliant

http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/eta_tdf/presentation_tdf.php

In french, but doesn't take a genius to work out ....

Great site!
Now when talking to someone i dont like i will be able to announce who won the fifth stage of the 1973 Tour de France and they will shut up and leave me alone

I like these too:

http://www.grenoblecycling.com/index.htm
Full of info on those alpine cols - photos, rides etc. Hats off to Russell for maintaining this comprehensive site.

http://www.climbbybike.com/index.asp
Excellent climbing info - profiles, personela stories etc

Cool sites too BG!

Great sites, any way to make this post thread a sticky so that its up towards the top all the time? Smile

I like this one because it's quite controversial - sure someone's already posted this but it it useful to have a thread like this where we cahttp://justcycling.myfastforum.org/about936.html
justcycling.myfastforum.org :: Great websiten get all the good links together:

http://www.cyclingranking.com/?http://www.cyclingranking.com/home.php
Current top 5 - Merckx, Bartali, Kelly, Moser, Jalabert

Thanks BG - you have enabled me to do something I've been wanting to do for a long time ... compare Bartali with Merckx, adjusting for the 6 years Bartali lost between 1939 and 1945!

Merckx - points accumulated between ages 20-24 and 32-33 is 5565

Bartali - points accumulated between ages 21-24 and 32-33 is 6089

For fairness, I have not included the 5908 points Bartali accumulated aged 34 and over as Merckx retired at 33.

Means nothing ... but interesting nevertheless!

Glad to be of help! I'm glad to see Jalabert rated so highly - after all, he is the only rider except Merckx to take all 3 jerseys - overall, points and KoM - in a GT

Yeah .... I think hughly under-rated because he never held the jersey in Paris.

What I like is that the rankings aren't all about how many times someone won the TdF - except for Merckx there's not a 5+ times winner in that top 5

there was another one, I can´t remember it right now,

little old Ireland ranked 15th best country, i wanna see us break the top 10 by 2010!!

found it!!!!

http://www.cycling4all.com/

This ranking is the one that really matters

source www.cycling4all.com

Top 25 Best Professional riders of all time
Eddy Merckx (Bel)
Bernard Hinault (Fra)
Sean Kelly (Irl)
Jacques Anquetil (Fra)
Francesco Moser (Ita)

Gino Bartali (Ita)
Felice Gimondi (Ita)
Joop Zoetemelk (Ned)
Fausto Coppi (Ita)
Roger De Vlaeminck (Bel)

Rik Van Looy (Bel)
Raymond Poulidor (Fra)
Miguel Indurain (Spa)
Laurent Jalabert (Fra)
Lance Armstrong (Usa)

Tony Rominger (Swi)
Alfredo Binda (Ita)
Louison Bobet (Fra)
Giuseppe Saronni (Ita)
Ferdi Kübler (Swi)

Freddy Maertens (Bel)
Jan Ullrich (Ger)
Herman Van Springel (Bel)
Alex Zülle (Swi)
Greg Lemond (Usa)

I have a great deal of respect for Bartali - he was helping the Italian resistance to ship out Jewish Italians by transporting documents whilst out training and eventually guiding Jewish refugees to Switzerland himself. This at great personal risk. An extraordinary story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Bartali