50 Greatest Bikes of all time in the comic

[john]

Anyone see the 50 greatest bikes of all time article in this weeks Cycling Weekly? Looks a fairly good read with some classic inclusions

*Moser's Hour Bike
*Ocana's Speedwell
*Saronni's mexico
*Lance's OCLV
*Tomac's 'Yeti'
*Zoetemelk's SBDU Raleigh 753

and so on.

As you can guess the article seems based almost as much around rider as bike.....

 

[David B]

Anyone see the 50 greatest bikes of all time article in this weeks Cycling Weekly? Looks a fairly good read with some classic inclusions

*Moser's Hour Bike
*Ocana's Speedwell
*Saronni's mexico
*Lance's OCLV
*Tomac's 'Yeti'
*Zoetemelk's SBDU Raleigh 753

and so on.

As you can guess the article seems based almost as much around rider as bike.....

The Speedwell is justified, as it was extremely innovative if notoriously whippy; as well as the Ti frame Ocana's bike also used Ti parts such as BB spindles.
Trek OCLV? Seems like that one's there more for the rider than the bike itself, after all carbon was old news by the time of Armstrong's first TdF win 1999 and had already been used in Grand Tour-winning bikes (and indeed specifically TdF-winning ones - wasn't Lemond on TVT carbon in 1989?).
Speaking of the 1989 Tour, if it hadn't been for a near miss in the podium places that year, then there would be less justification for including Zoetemelk's bike as the sole UK-made TdF winning machine to date (Ocana's Speedwell frame was only used for some stages rather than the whole event so doesn't strictly count). Apparently some folks at Triumph Road were relieved about Fignon's runner up spot as it allegedly saved some expensive post-Tour press advertising from being run had Raleigh produced a winner.

David

 

[Midlife]

I was trying to read this over someone's shoulder at work............the Paris Roubaix bike with a huge wheelbase and sloping back seat tube looked a bit tricky to ride LOL

Note to self to buy it tomorrow

Shaun

 

[vivelesalpes]

Bought a copy this evening on the strength of this thread.

(Hardly ever by magazines as I'm tight and most stuff can be read on the net).

 

[foz]

that's be this one then?

I can't get the comic down here, and scanning and posting on the site is probably not on, but would anyone be willing to scan me a copy of this article and email me it?

thanks, Andy

 

[firedfromthecircus]

Holy moly batman. :shock:

Sloping seat tube tastic. :roll:

You might just have boosted cycling weeklys figure to a record high John.

 

[Rich34]

Here's the survey:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/greatestbikes

Bit of an odd selection I think, with no clear criteria, but then I suppose they are asking people to say why they choose the bike they do. I'd have thought an early mountain bike (Potts, Ritchey, Fisher etc.) would have been in there, for the impact on cycling as a whole. The Colnago Mexico is as iconic as any on there too.

Of this selection though I'm always in awe of bikes like the 1912 Tour De France bike - when you look at what those blokes did to finish the race... But as John says, it's as much about the rider as the bike.