Tuesday, March 04, 2008
The Mount Rushmore of Cycling
The retirement of Brett Favre today prompted a few of those typical greatest of all-time conversations, but one conversation had a unique twist that made me want to apply it to cycling. In essence, it's a top four list. The Mount Rushmore of Cycling, who would be on it?
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I'll get the ball rolling with:
Marshall Walter (Major) Taylor
"It is my thought that clean living and a strict observance of the golden rule of true sportsmanship are foundation stones without which a championship structure cannot be built." — Marshall Taylor in The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
I second that ^^^^^
The Cannibal Eddy Merckx, he took them all on and beat them all, by himself.
merckx
that guy from britian that broke the hour record on a homemade bike.
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i'm not very good at this...
If there's something to not be good at, this may be it. I'm just a geek.
Taylor
Merckx
Furtado
Overend
Beryl Burton
I do not know the history of cycling well enough to give a top four
but I think that
cyrstal meth, EPO, anabolic steroids, and synthetic testosterone would be in there somewhere
that was road cycling
now cycling as a whole
Tomac
Overend
Stamstad
Fisher
check the mountain bike hall of fame for a better list to select from
http://www.mtnbikehalloffame.com/
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