Echoes' Cycling Biography #4: Jean-Pierre Monseré
September 08, 2013, 14:12 Introduction This biography is meant to be published on September 8 2013 for the 65th anniversary of Jean-Pierre Monseré's birth. His pro career being brutally shortened by tragedy it looks as if this biography might be very short, but there was a life before the World title, the "default" Lombardy victory and the tragic crash at the kermess of Retie. Mark Van Hamme already made a great biography in Dutch of the former World Champion called "Jean-Pierre Monseré: voor altijd 22" (Roularta Books, 2010), one of the best cycling biography that there is, on which this one is mainly based (though information from other sources is added). He was born in a factory worker's house to a poor factory working district of Roeselare that the richer merchants from downtown sarcastically called 'Krottegem'. The district is famous for a bitter beer called Rodenbach (usually drunk with grenadine) and for the impressive number of cycling...