Unrealised? That might sound harsh, seeing as Thurau won Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1979, spent 15 days in the yellow jersey and was best young rider during his Tour de France debut in 1977. Dietrich Thurau is the first unrealised talent in this list. Style is no guarantee of success, although it is always a sign of talent. Clad in yellow, blue and red, and on one of those bikes, Theunisse looked like Lego on wheels. TVM even made the style mistake of riding moulded magnesium girder-like Kirk Precision frames for a while.
Theunisse started wearing hideous headbands, probably to cover the Euro-mullet haircut he adopted. But the wings melted and so did his style when he joined TVM. Theunisse had wings that day, his lean frame seemed inexhaustible. > Alpe d'Huez: Classic climbs of the Tour de France Clad in the polka-dot jersey, he took flight on the Galibier and rode alone over the Croix de Fer and up to Alpe d’Huez to win.
His elegance peaked with PDM, on a stage during the 1989 Tour de France. Actually, thinking about it, we reckon that Theunisse spanned the border between elegance and awful, and eventually he crossed it. Theunisse’s long, lank hair, his piercing eyes and long, skinny limbs gave the flying Dutchman an otherworldly appearance but he could really make a bike move.
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