Clark W. Griswold
Join Date: Mar 2014
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Bikes: Foundry Chilkoot Ti W/Ultegra Di2, Salsa Timberjack Ti, Cinelli Mash Work RandoCross Fun Time Machine, 1x9 XT Parts Hybrid, Co-Motion Cascadia, Specialized Langster, Phil Wood Apple VeloXS Frame (w/DA 7400), R+M Supercharger2 Rohloff, Habanero Ti 26
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Eddy Merckx...525 Career victories did fewer tours than Cavendish to get his tour victories (though congrats to Cav on what he has accomplished), he also has the Hour Record pretty well in hand and not on some fancy new aero bike on an indoor track with all the optimization (granted he did have a lot of drillium and some new fangled parts on his rig but not to the level of some of this modern stuff). He dominated everywhere and won just about all the races from the Grand Tours, Monuments, one day races and more. Shoot he got 8 minutes ahead of the rest of the peloton in the freakin' mountains, and won that tour with a total of 18 minutes ahead of second place and got all the dang jerseys. Shoot I bet if mountain biking was a real thing back then he would have been able to dominate that as well.