Coppi's been a while, but a good point. Maybe Aquetil too ?
Difficult to compare cyclists from the 60s and 50s to recent guys....
Seems like everyone seems to agree on Mercks, and most with Hinault......they were both killers, really.
Lots of terrific competitors behind them: Poulidor, Zoetemelk (finished the most tours ever, 1st in 1980), Bjarne Riis (king of EPO, won the tour with the highest hemoglobin count ever, amazing thing he survived), Wiggins (amazing win, well......), Lucien van Impe, 1976 I think (only winner without being ever caught with doping) from his era....