Hi,

I though that I'd start an argument

Here are my top 5:

1) Freddy Spencer

2) Jarno Saarinen

3) Doctor Rossi

4) Jim Redman

5) Kenny Roberts (Snr)

Let's rumble :roll:

Sheene

Swantz

Rainey

Hailwood

Agostini

Doohan

And thats off the top of my head!

Kenny Roberts (Sr.)

Freddie Spencer

Mike Hailwood

Giacomo Agostini

Valentino Rossi

Difficult to narrow it down to only 5..........been soooo many good one's :wink:

Valentino Rossi

Freddie Spencer

Agostini

Kenny Roberts

And I have to say Toseland because he's the only one I've ever met and when I met him he convinced me to start motorcycling in the first place!

Mmmm, now the same name's are coming up all the time!

Not that many really good riders I thought. I had to make 5 and I could only think of Freddy Spencer and Kenny Roberts because I'd just read them

One man....light years ahead of the rest!

1. Jarno Saarinen

2. Mike Hailwood

3. Kenny Roberts

4. Mick Doohan

5. Valentino Rossi

1. Rossi

2. Rainey

3. Schwantz

4. Foggy

5. Spencer

my fav racers of all time- road and track-

sheene

hislop

haslam

foggy

hailwood

Have you told the old man that you haven't listed Saarinen Alan?

Please go tell him now and get ready to duck! 8)

i´ll list Saarinen

i´ve got an old poster of him (posters got to be at least 20years old), where his riding his black and red painted RD350 with matching leathers.

ill list:

Rossi

Saarinen

Roberts

Doohan

Rainey

Saarinen is top of any list mate! 8)

But again it's a generation thing. If you're not old enough to remember The Baron then you have no means of evaluation.

But I tell you something...next to Saarinen....Hailwood was the man.

He'd have destroyed them all....Rossi is very good indeed, but he's no Hailwood. And he's certainly no Saarinen.

Hailwood was great. But, as you will recall, he couldn't cope with the first Honda 500. Redman went straight out on this bucking bronco of a bike and won. Honda, as is their way, inexplicably stopped Redman racing 500s after this. I've always remembered this, which is why I rate Redman so highly. + of course his 6 world championships and 6 TT wins.