For about 25 years I have been working on a classification according to cycling. I used data from books like "Velo", "Wielerjaarboek", "Nashua Guide de Tour de France", "World Championships", "De wielerklassiekers tot 2000", and recently the "Mémoire du Cyclisme" and several other specific publications. The first data I could find and processed in my classification is dated back to 1869 and I try to keep up with the most recent results. The classification consists mainly of a ranking per annum and I combined these seperate rankings to an overall ranking of the best cyclist over the period 1869 till now. Beside these two main parts I also constructed several other rankings based on countries, teams and averages.