Re: [CR] THE Best Road Riders IN History

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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:14:31 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] THE Best Road Riders IN History
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Ray green wrote:
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> Incidentally in Daniel Marszalek's "THE Best Road Riders IN History" Moser comes fifth and first Italian. Before you ask Coppi is ninth. This excellent list does, reasonably, reward a long career and Coppi didn't earn any points while a POW.

Perfect example of why these lists are always flawed. You just can't compare riders of different eras in my opinion. To me it is enough to show the dominate rider of the different eras, but to try to pick one rider as the best rider in history? Compare the top rider from one era to the top rider from another? Silly...

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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