You are already beaten.
How is it that the greatest cyclist would be so handsome? When the stars lined up with Mr Merckx, they all lined up. Cycling does seem to produce a lot of handsome athletes but really Eddy, didn’t you already have it all? He was already the most driven, most meticulous, the hardest and the fastest. Shouldn’t he have at least looked more like Buddy Holly than Elvis Presley?
One has to admire a person who was given a gift and then did every possible thing to maximize that gift. He left no stone unturned, including Looking Fantastic, even when inspecting the newspaper.
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I wonder if I stopped using Eddie and started using Eddy, if I would get handsomer - on AND off the bike.
Great photo! Eddy with always be the coolest. Followed a close second by RDV.
Eddy's first appearance in "The Hell of the North" is very much "Elvis has entered the building". Powdered blue leisure suit, if memory serves. Awesome.
@EBruner
That's got to be one of my favorite shots of all time. I really hope someone kept that leather trench, presumably made of the human bodies Eddy and RdV left in the gutters of Paris-Roubaix.
I don't think Eddy Merckx is the Elvis of cycling. Elvis didn’t write his own songs. Merckx did. I like to see him as the Beatles of cycling. That does him more justice.
@Ed Broyles
No.
@litvi
But worth a try. Let us have some feedback in due course . . .
@Ed Broyles
I have considered the exact same thing. Eddie Bruner - Eddy Bruner. Done.
Talk about a man crush. Get a room!
Seems that they are more popular abroad than in Belgium. Specialy RdV, known for his somewhat 'strange' (ehum) quotes...