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Who is the biggest pro cyclist?

The tallest rider on record is Marcel Sieberg at 1.98 meters (6' 6'), who rode in the Tour de France nine times between 2007 and 2018.

In this article, we're going to go over some of the best climbers of all time. Riders with an immense power-to-weight ratio who specialize in climbing mountains at breathtaking speed. (Booming) We went out of our way to make a list of the seven greatest climbers of all time, but as you can imagine, cutting it down to that number is pretty difficult.

Before we start, I have a disclaimer that I'm about to read out loud about fantastic racing, exceptional endurance and athletic vigor. If we stick to seven drivers, some great drivers will inevitably be left out. In addition, generational comparisons are a minefield.

It's impossible to know how Chris Froome would fare against Eddy Merckxor if Pantani Coppi dropped out - gear has changed, racing has changed, roads have changed and the surfaces are often much better than the gravel roads today 1920s. Also for a large chunk of sports history there has been no drug sting. Once the disclaimer is done, let's get started. (upbeat music) Number one on our list is Marco Pantani.

One of the most extraordinary climbers of his generation. Now the Italians have a word for climber and that is Scallatore, another name for climbers like Pantani, that is Scatista. This is a term for climbers who can accelerate again and again even on the steepest slopes and basically decimate their rivals.

Now Pantani was always immediately recognizable by the bald head or the headscarf, the earring in the ear and this goatee and his appearance earned him a nickname, el pirata or the pirate. He was also well known for his style of climbing, almost always from the saddle and in the drops. But it wasn't his looks or his climbing style.

What made him so great was the fact that he could climb mountains like a shovel. And it was this ability that enabled him to win the rare achievement, the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, at the same time, back in 1998. The following year, in 99, he again dominated the Giro d'Italia, won four stays and was in the lead of the race but then when a blood doping trial returned his hematocrit was too high and he was kicked out of the race Pantani was never quite the same rider again and very sadly he died 2004 acute cocaine poisoning. (upbeat music) In modern times, Chris Froom has dominated the Grand Tours.

So far he has won the Tour de France four times, won the Giro d'Italia in 2018 and won the Vuelta a Espana, now twice. As soon as things go up, Chris Froome seems to have an advantage. It was in Kenya that Froome first learned from his climbing talent, who says he spent a lot of time in the Nairobi Mountains.

Occasionally he also camped there. But his commitment and stubbornness could not only be seen on the bike, but also off it. Apparently at one point he used the Kenyan Cycling Association's Hotmail account to email the sports association, the UCI, informing them that Kenya would be sending an U23 team to the World Championships.

Now I can safely say that Froome's style of climbing with his head bowed and elbows outstretched is not particularly elegant. This first became known at the Vuelta a España in 2011, where he initially finished second but was recently promoted to the winner of that race. The following year he helped Bradley Wiggin win the 2012 Tour de France title, finishing second in the process, but it was in 2013 that he really made a name for himself.

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He just couldn't stop winning the tour of Oman from earlier this year. He was at the Critérium International, the Tour de Rome and did the Critérium du Dauphiné and of course the Tour de France. Indeed, if you take Lance Armstrong out of the equation, the following year he became the first rider to successfully defend his title since Miguel Indurain in 1995.

He has since won two more tours from Fra nce, and last year became the first rider to hold all three Grand Tour titles at the same time since Bernardino 1983. (upbeat music) Couldn't possibly have a list of the world's best climbers without this man Federico Bahamontes. He became the first rider in history to achieve the career triplein, winning the King of the Mountains competition and all three Grand Tours.

He won the Tour de France in 1959, of course he won the King of the Mountains, and in fact he won the overall King of the Mountains prize no less than six times in the Tour de France alone. He had a nickname, and that was the Toledo Eagle. Toledo is the small province in central Spain where an eagle comes from because every time the road went uphill he would fly like an eagle.

There is also a monument to the Bahamontes in Toledo, donated by the Fundacion Sulest to depict and honor everything he achieved on a bike. It's still going uphill to this day. What an absolute climbing legend. (upbeat music) Only two riders in cycling history have won the King of the Mountains classification on all three Grand Tours, so it would make a lot of sense to have them both here.

Step forward, Luis Lucho Herrera. He was able to outperform some of the greats of the time, including Sean Kelly, Bernardino and Laurent Fignon. And in 1984 he took what was almost undoubtedly the most important win for Colombian cycling, it was his first Tour de France, it was the 17th stage and it ended in Alp d'Huez.

There he attacked and dropped some of the greats of the time. Vignon, Ena, and Robert Miller too, and basically they never saw him again. In 1987, however, he cemented his status as a legendary mountaineer by becoming the first South American to win a Grand Tour which was the Vuelta.

Although he was three minutes against Sean. Kelly lost in the individual time trial. However, as soon as the road sloped up, he would never look back and attack his rivals at almost every opportunity, even on the 11th stage that Lagos de Covadonga finished.

There he attacked his rivals again, won the stage and also took enough time to become the first Colombian rider to take the lead on a Grand Tour. It's really hard to overestimate how important Herrera was to Colombian cycling. Essentially, the current group of Colombian climbing talents is following the path he took for them in the 1980s. (upbeat music) This man might be a good argument for being the best Spanish cyclist of all time, but it's not for his 1973 Tour de France wins or the 1970 Vuelta that Ocana made our list.

More because of his exploits when he attacked with Jose Manuel Fuente over the Col du Galibier and the Col du Télégraph and got seven minutes on their fiercest rivals. For me, however, it was in 1971 that he cemented his status as a climbing legend. In the end, he had to break away in the yellow jersey.

But his exploits did not begin until the eighth stage, which ended the Puy de Dôme. There he sensed something that most other drivers rarely saw, that Eddy Merckx was vulnerable. He attacked and went on the Windsor stage, and although he only finished 15 seconds in Merckx, that was basically a sign of the future.

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However, it was on stage 11 where he really showed his class. A short 134-kilometer mountain stage. First ascent of the day, by Joaquim Agostinho.

Amazingly, they were able to drop Eddy Merckx almost immediately. But one Ocana was not satisfied with that, attacked again and drove alone 60 kilometers from the finish. At the top of the penultimate climb of the day, his lead over the next rider on the road was four minutes and it was six to the finish.

Three-time Tour de France winner Louison Bobet claimed that his exploits on this stage are just about as good as any of Fausto Coppi's legendary solo raids. This is a decent climber now. (upbeat music) In my opinion, every rider who deserves the nickname 'Angel of the Mountains' deserves a spot on this list.

Charly Gaul was a cyclist from Luxembourg who rode in the mountains for the first time in 1950 on the Tour of Austria. He was only 17 but he won a stage on the Grossglockner is really going according to plan, he let most of them down, but it was 1955 when he put the cat among the pigeons. He wasn't great at the apartment, partly because of a pretty weak team, but once he went to the mountains and the Alps he really came to his advantage.

There was a stage that went over the Galibier and the Col Du Télégraphe, and there he drove 14 minutes and 47 seconds on all of his rivals. That brought him from 37th GC to third place. And when the race hit the Pyrenees, started attacking again and won the 17th.

The winner Louis Bobet. Those accomplishments earned him overall victory in the King of the Mountains competition and third step on the podium, and that was really just one example of how Charly Gaul would make a big comeback as he went to the mountains record for the climb of Mont Ventoux, an hour two minutes and nine seconds, and considering the surface wasn't great at the time, it's pretty incredible that it took Jonathan Vaughters 31 years to break that time We have a driver, who has won the mountain classification three times at the Gira Rosa and has also won the Grand Booke and is by far the fastest GCN presenter of all time. Of course, I'm talking about Emma Pooley.

Now one of her most impressive climbing successes at the Giro Rosa 2014 came back. There were three mountainous stages this year, including consecutive summit arrivals on stages eight and nine, and Emma won all of them. She has also won the Taiwan KOM Challenge twice, which ends at 3,275 meters above A level on the Wuling Pass.

And in 2017 she put 16 minutes on her closest rival and 20 minutes on Si 'Richardson, although that doesn't necessarily make you a fantastic climber. She's pretty darn good at cycling too, she regularly competes in mountain triathlons and has a history of winning the Alpe d'Huez long distance running and also competes in mountain running events. Well, as we said in the disclaimer at the beginning of this article, it's very hard to put together a list of the seven best climbers of all time.

I'm sure we left out some of your favorites and if we get the chance, let us know in the comments below. But it's just very difficult to compare drivers from different eras. However, we now have GPS data.

In 50 years we can probably compare all drivers for the next 50 years, which would be nice. Okay, if you like the style of this Spanish-inspired sweatshirt I'm wearing right now, you can pre-order it now via atshop.globalcyclingnetwork.com There is a link to it in the description just below this article and if you'd like to learn how to do it You can learn how to climb much better yourself from Emma Pooley! Your article is right down here.

Who is the greatest cyclist ever?

Who is the famous cyclist?

Eddy Merckx (1965-1978)

Simply put, Eddy Merckx is the greatest cyclist of all time. The man nicknamed The Cannibal dominated professional cycling like no one else and won every important race there is to win.

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Are the best cyclists tall?

Lance Armstrong is, without a doubt, one of the most famous cyclists of all time with seven Tour de France victories, which have since been removed due to doping controversy which has probably increased his fame nonetheless.

Professional cyclists spend thousands of hours on their bikes every year, so having the right bike is essential. So today I'm going to ask some of the pros whether they had a bike fit or not, whether they followed the recommendations, and some more detailed answers as well. I'm looking forward to this one because I think you will have a lot to say, come on. (soft hip-hop beats) Have you ever had a bike fit? - I did.- And did you stick to it? - Yes. - Did you? - Yes, you have to go to someone you believe in.

Who you trust and believe in their theory, so if you just call someone up and go, oh, I want a bike that might fit, if you are not a professional cyclist you would be willing to try, but if you have that many Ks drive like we do, if you just put your hands on someone else's theories that you don't really know and you're doing the amount of Ks we do, it's hard to convince yourself you have to stick to all of them Keep changes they make. So you really need to get to know the person who suits you and understand their theories and how they position you. So you can understand when they are making an adjustment, why they are doing it, and what information they are using to make that adjustment - out of interest, out of sheer interest, was it made visual, or was it like electronic with laser sand and all the pads and everything.- Lasers and the sensor stickers are all the rage now.

The latest technology I've used a lot of pressure pad. So we built pressure pads on the side of the shoes and on the saddle, and so you can get information from these pressure sensors in the insole about whether you are pressing in the middle of the shoe, or when the cleats are pushed too far forwards or backwards, and so they can place the cleat, not necessarily in the middle of the shoe, but in the middle where you're pressing. It's interesting. - Okay right, so you stuck with the bike fit changes.

Was that a big change or not? - No, no - I really care. - No, I haven't changed my position much in the last almost 10 years. It's all within small limits. - Yes, a couple of millimeters. - Yes. (smooth hip-hop beats) - Have you ever had a bike fit? - Yes, I did.- On both wheels? - On both wheels, yes- Did you stick to the recommendations? - It has changed a bit over the years but it was very minimal change to be honest.

It was a professional bike kit from when I was a bit younger. I haven't grown so if the results come with this bike fit why change? - what were those for changes? - The TT bike, the only thing I've really changed since 2012 was my arms up instead of flat. Nothing else.- And do you usually have a bike at the start of each season or not just to be sure, no? -No We just scan each bike and make sure it's the same as last year.

If I change teams, it's the same as last year's bike and that's it. Try to make minimal changes, a millimeter or nothing is our business.- I'm here with Rolf Aldag, the manager of the performance department at Team Dimension Data, and we're going back a little, right? Probably too long, but you don't really seem to be shaking me off.

I have to ask, do all of your riders have bike passages? - Yes, they do, in different ways, of course. One of them all, like racing bikes and TT bikes, that we really have to split up. And yes, they do and bike fitting is of course a very mental thing because you have to believe in it, because cycling always hurts, and you know, you want to put this pain in the category of something like that, something positive, and not something because i sit my bike incorrectly - years ago when we started cycling our bike adjustments were likely made by the team's mechanic or a local ex-pro or something like that, who does your bike fit or vary now? - it's a lot more more scientific than in the past.

You're 100% right, I mean Team Terrabasically's chief mechanic sent me into my car room when I was downstairs to tell him, 'Look, the new handlebar shape doesn't work for me', can I go back to the old one? ' His only comment was like, 'Not working for you?' Then you have to stop. ' So that was the end of the story you know - No option to go back - About 30 years ago, and now of course you're trying to find a solution, and there are a lot of people involved in bike fitting, so this is a physical therapist, because you have to understand the flexibility of the body, the limits of the body. The mechanics are still a big part of it because ultimately it has to be physically doable or people have to figure it out and then we have the UCI routes which have also gotten tighter and tighter, how far you can sit back and how long it can be and stuff like that, so it's a pretty complex thing that a lot of experts have out there and we keep it a bit flexible so that we generally don't force it on them, especially on the road bike.

It's more obvious on the TT bike, it's more numerical. You know that you go on a track, let them drive around, you go through the wind tunnel, you let them sit there and then you find out what is best and then you have to make it drivable for them, so field mechanics play still a big part. And do you find that most of the drivers stick to the changes? that are made, isn't it, it's really tough, isn't it? You've already said it's a very big mental thing and some riders believe that I don't think they'll ever feel comfortable on a bike.

I have to look around here this morning and the number of riders who are still adjusting their saddle height, cleats, etc. I think part of your job is probably also to reassure them that everything is okay to say fair? - Yeah right, give them a little confidence when that's done you don't have to play around with it, but for some it's like ticking a box. So they take an Allen key in the morning and they open a screw and tighten it and that's it.

We just have to make sure they are maintaining the correct torque range and e just that they don't mess up the bike, but at the end of the day when someone sits 80 cm high in the center of the top of the saddle and lowers the saddle by a millimeter, that is, try You, yesterday calculating 0.12% .0.12%, so that's not that relevant.

Of course you get a different feeling. Imagine we have a transfer in the car for the start of the 140K race and you know you kept kinking your legs the whole time. Of course, when you get on the bike for the first time, you feel too high because you can no longer stretch your legs.

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It's a natural thing, you just can't overstate it, and get out, be confident in what you are doing and that's for the best - Thank you very much. (soft chill step) - Right Adam, I have to ask, have you ever had a bike fit? I've had a lot of bike customizations over the years, I think we all have them. Yes, it's very subjective, I actually did a bike fit course.

So I wanted to know more about it because every bike fit is done according to the bike fitter's opinion - How was yours made, forget my words, was it done? Motion sensors and lasers or was it just wow, that looks good - Well, a lot - Because so many bike adaptations were made years ago - Right, the traditional way of bike adapting was just above your kneecap sure it goes through the ball of the foot and through the pedal axis and it's a bit different now, you have pressure sensors in your foot, and the obvious idea is to maximize the amount of force over time so that's one thing, me often use a LEOMO device that measures your leg angles, your foot angles and everything else. At the training camp we usually have a lot of drivers who work with it. We do a lot of tests because it also measures your pelvic rocks, so we did a lot of tests with rides in training camp, you know which seat is better for you and also to maximize your leg angle range to get the most performance, and the LEOMO -Device does it very well. -And then with the feedback you get from the fact that you could possibly change your position easily, i Is that something the drivers did? - Oh sure, for example when I jump on my spare bike I don't even need to look at the position, and I can only see the data from the fact that my legs don't go up and down as high as I did on my previous racing bikes , and then I can check and see that my seat is actually lower.

So yeah, you can use it - and that's something you subconsciously think about when you drive too and try to adjust your driving style when you start to get tired. - Yeah, the weird thing is when you do a bike customization, you do it in a controlled environment, you do it in a lab, and you sit very well in the seat where you move a lot further forward in a race, and if you move much further forward you are actually sitting close to the bottom bracket, i.e. the distance between you.

The seating position from moving forward to the bottom bracket is shorter. So your leg angle actually changes as you get more forward with the LEOMO, it's pretty good because then you can actually set your position in more racing mode and then you know you can get out in the real world and test the climbs and everything . Because what other people fear too is when you ride your bike uphill.

It changes, and it changes you too, everything. So it also compares it to the center of gravity. It's a German company, geobiMized, they do a lot of their bike customizations based on the center of gravity because, if you are, they set them up with their mountain bikes for example, mostly because they want the maximum power when going uphill. - Because it's interesting, isn't it, sometimes when you start climbing you end up falling back on the saddle just to try and get that extra leverage.

Had some adjustments after fitting a bike and you thought I just can't drive like that or do you give him a lot of time? - Oh sure because you know, back to what I said, a bikefit is usually a company that have their theories, but it's really up to the bike fitter and how he wants you to be on the bike and that is his theory, but often you just can't ride it.- I think you're right, you need someone who understands the cyclists and their physiology. I mean, you world tourists, are completely different from the average cyclist because you ride a lot more, aren't you.

So you may be able to ride in a more extreme position and ultimately suffer a lot from the pain more as well.- Exactly, you know there is a balance. If you're in a good position and it's not that comfortable when you get the strength out of it and can hold that strength for six hours, so okay you want the strength gains if you can handle the pain. - Now you've done a bike fitting course.

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Are you tempted to outfit one of your teammates or not? - Well, I had them on the LEOMO device and they I changed their position in the training camp based on that, but you know, I'll give you some advice, it's a sensitive subject, you know? Everyone is very individual, so I'll just pass on a few words, that's enough, I don't like playing around with others that much - No, no, you might not be that popular if you (laughs) do too much. Here we are, bike fitting as told by the pros. Let me know, did you have a bike customization done? Was it done the old fashioned way, just well thought it looks good, or did you use motion sensors and lasers and the latest in technology.

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