Best rider never to win a Monument?

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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,310
    :lol:

    Really thought this would be a more straightforward thread.....
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Dave_1 wrote:
    Phil Anderson? I define "best" by how
    they did in the grand tours...hence we must
    look back to an era where all rounders
    existed...it cannot be anybody in last 20
    years as no grand tour winners do
    cobbled classics. Anderson 2nd 1988 Flanders
    and Fignon 3rd Paris Roubaix 1988. Lemond
    has a 4th or 5th place at Paris Roubaix...
    Disagree with a lot of what Rich says esp the weird
    way he defines best and ignores the greats of a bygone
    era...but Freddy Maertens is a fair pick

    This is very confusing. OK, using the Dave_1 system, I'll go for Indurain. Won 7 Grand Tour and was 4th in Liege Bastogne Liege in 1991. :D
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    TailWindHome wrote:
    :lol:

    Really thought this would be a more straightforward thread.....

    It is... for most of us :roll:
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • Tom Dean
    Tom Dean Posts: 1,723
    Surprising that Maertens never got one, but yes - Maertens, Lemond, Indurain.

    Contador will be up there if he carries on as he has so far.
  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    Lester Piggot
    it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,563
    Tom Butcher wrote:
    Lester Piggot

    Very good sir.
  • Abdoujaparov
    Abdoujaparov Posts: 642
    RichN95 wrote:
    Probably Freddie Maertens.

    You can say the likes of Indurain and LeMond but they weren't as prolific performers in the classics.

    Edit: In his career Maertens came top five in all of the monuments and won the Worlds twice, Gent Wevelgem twice, Het Volk twice, Amstel, E3, Paris Tours, Paris Brussels, Brab Pijl, Zurich and Scheldeprijs. (And the Vuelta and about 15 Tour stages and a couple of Green jerseys)

    Good answer. Tough era to win one-dayers.

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