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 cyc...