[Closed] Who is the greatest UK cyclist?

Elbry.

38 seconds - you're slacking.

Can we define the nationality requirements to start with? Do they have to have ever lived here? 😈

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Been eligible to compete for these islands in an international event.

Beaten to it!!
2nd Beryl Burton

Steve Peat

GW obviously. 🙂

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Burton obviously and clearly

Me

B.B. no one can hold a candle to her. Not Wiggins not Froome none of them fit to lace her shoes.

Burton again.

Burton head and shoulders above the rest.

Tommy Godwin?

I'd never heard of Beryl Burton.
Serious question, what makes her the best?

World champion 951 times (estimate). Beryl Burton. Nobody else is close and probably ever will be.

'd never heard of Beryl Burton.

Olympic gold, TdF and multiple top international races in 1 year. I don't see that getting beat any time soon, and it hasn't been bettered previously.

Reg Harris and Beryl Burton tied for second.

BB

i've very little interest in road or track cycling, so it's unlikely i'd have heard of someone who was competing way back then.

I looked on Wiki and it says "She dominated women’s cycle racing in the UK, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records."

Which didn't seem as impressive as some of the more recent men's and women's road and track cycling achievements.

Beryl Burton

[url= http://lmgtfy.com/?q=beryl+burton ]here[/url]

All this she managed to fit around her shifts at a rhubarb farm and bringing up her daughter, Denise, who went on to be a top cyclist too.

Shouldn't forget Rachel Atherton as well, got to be a contender.

Beryl Burton, without a doubt.

Though I did an audax to the Tom Simpson memorial at Harworth last weekend. You forget how influential he was for the sport in this country at the time, 30 years before Boardman got it starting again. Impressive palmares, and I loved the fact that they included "BBC Sports Personality 1965" on it!

Tracey Moseley won everything In a fiercely competitive era
and still is

looked on Wiki and it says "She dominated women’s cycle racing in the UK, winning more than 90 domestic championships and seven world titles, and setting numerous national records."
Which didn't seem as impressive as some of the more recent men's and women's road and track cycling achievements.

7 world titles is not that impressive?
1967, she set a new 12-hour time trial record of 277.25 miles[4] – a mark that surpassed the men’s record of the time by 0.73 miles and was not superseded by a man until 1969.[5] While setting the record she caught and passed Mike McNamara who was on his way to setting the men's record at 276.52 miles and winning that year's men'sBritish Best All-Rounder. She is reputed to have given him a liquorice allsort as she passed him.[6] Apparently, McNamara ate the sweet.

Rachel Atherton is certainly a contender. As mentioned before I'm not that interested in track cycling, but Chris Hoy has that many world and olympic medals that he must be considered as one of the best.

Me.

Eod

Well I'm with the choir here, even if you are including plastic Brits.

[quote=muggomagic ]Chris Hoy has that many world and olympic medals that he must be considered as one of the best.

If the criteria is Olympic success then Wiggo is the best, and also did some other things...

Then again Wiggins has 7 World titles, has won the TdF and 4 olympic gold medals, plus he holds the hour record.

EDIT: beaten to it. It took me a while to add up the world champs in between the other stuff he'd won on Wiggins wiki page.

''Beryl Burton of Morley, who for two glorious years in the 1960s held the men's world 12-hour time trial record.

In 1967 she pedalled 277.25 miles in 12 hours, famously overtaking Mike McNamara, her male rival, and giving him a liquorice allsort as she passed. It wasn't until 1969 that a man went faster. No woman has ever bettered her time.

She was also five-times world champion over 3,000 metres, 13-time national champion and the British best all-rounder champion for an incredible 25 successive years.''

You're all wrong - it's George Berwick.

http://www.owenphilipson.com/blog/2010/09/09/scottish-cyclist-george-berwick/

He's well into his 70s now and completed yet another 24hr TT last week.

Beryl again here.

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I'm going with Percy Stallard, he never won much, but he was instrumental in getting road racing going again on these shores, and he was from my neck of the woods, and i have one of his frames!!

great reading... http://classicvikingcycles.com/articles/percy-stallard/

Geraint Thomas. For no other reason than he is my man crush.

George berwick no doubt.

Some of his rides are epic.... Such as snapping his frame downtube mid ride on a bloody long audax- repairing i with zipties and finishing.

Rode with him on a 300k round durness once- he was riding a raleigh 20 3 speed in his 60s and still taking the piss out of us younger riders with his turns on the front.

And then theres his 24 hr rides

I'm gonna go:

1 Beryl Burton.
2 Bradley Wiggins.
3 Mark Cavendish.

If the criteria is Olympic success then Wiggo is the best, and also did some other things...

That would be Hoy, no? 1 more gold medal and same number total on the track. He also had something like 11 world championships in different disciplines.

How you can even try and name the best cyclist when comparing different events across different times I don't know. Things are so different it makes it impossible to compare imo.

When I saw the thread title the first name that came to mind was Beryl Burton.

Absolutely amazing person.

Next to mind was Graeme Obree.

Got to be Beryl for me too. Riding a hundred miles to races because the car broke down then smashing an international field is one particular highlight.

Beryl and Tommy all the others so far mentioned don't come anywhere their accomplishments