This image would have been taken around 1990 or 1991. Just look at that sneer. I can’t imagine the man was much afraid of anything.
Wilfried Nelissen was a baller.
Image source: http://cyclisme-cb.blogspot.com/2009_06_01_archive.html.
His career was cut short in a horrific crash. I’ll not post the pics, gruesome stuff. Bottom line is that he never really recovered. And that was that. I read an interview, somewhere, in print, years ago, where he said the crash injured a tendon in his knee. When his knee healed up, it was never the the same. He said he didn’t even ride any more, he was eight years a pro and he’d go out on the bike he’d get passed by these duffers. He just couldn’t take it. Can’t say I blame him.
A bit about it here: http://www.dailypeloton.com/displayarticle.asp?pk=3132.
Wiki says his nickname was “Jerommeke-Woefi.” I have no idea what that means in English. Perhaps one of you out there can tell us in the comment section? I’ve heard he was called “The Bulldog.” Seems fitting. Dude looks like a brick house.
Check the science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfried_Nelissen.
Those Weinmann Merckx frames were the shit!
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uh oh! Right down the street from casa de Dirty…i’ll bring the beers
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Dude looks like he ate Bob Roll.
is that a mustache? kinda looks like the guy Jaws from the Bond films
…he ain’t real purty but like the comment sez “He will ride straight through you.” !!!…
…& enjoy it…
….when men were men, bikes were steel and micro-dosing was for midgets…
That dude is hipster as fuck.
Cept maybe the orthodontist!
Jerommeke is a beefy Belgian comic strip character. It’s like calling someone a muscle-man.
BEEFCAKE!
Thanks drkRides! I found this image of Jerommeke:
I still have no idea what “Woefi” means. Anyway, dude is large and in charge.
Video of Nelissen taking the yellow in Stage 2 of the 1993 Tour de France:
Notice the scrappy young Lance Armstrong in the mix too.
Interview with Nelissen in yellow at beginning of the next stage:
That’s him!
“Woef” is the sound a dog makes, like “woof” and woefie is a common name for a dog or puppy.
Maybe it ties into the bulldog thing?
BEEFCAKE PUPPY!