There have been many notable bad barnet's in cycling over the years. Cippolini's lion king mane, Laurent Brochard's power mullet and Eric Zabel's spikey flattop are three that immediately spring to mind and would no doubt make it to the quarter final stage.
But when you start to get down to the bad of the bad it is hard to split two absolute shockers, both ironically belonging to pint sized climbers. Lucian Van Impe and Robert Miller and towering examples of why young men should not try and blindly follow the latest fashions and why perms are inherently bad.
How the hell are you meant to climb the Tourmelet with a head of hair that looks like it belongs on the shoulders of Barbara Streisand??? Well these two bone heads plummeted down this slippery slope, and rather than a quick concession that they had made a mistake, both laboured on manfully with their look for some time in spite of relentless piss taking. Van Impe even becoming known as "The Woman". This must have been heartbreaking for a Belgian who surely spent his childhood dreaming that he would one day be the "Lion of Flanders".
So while its hard to split, I have to give Van Impe the edge. If you see pictures of him now he is actually quite a good looking guy, who is clearly suited to the short back and sides look. Miller on the other hand would have looked like a dill no matter what type of hairstyle he had and is quite possibly a contender for a spot in a future blog about great ugly men in cycling.
So the winner is Van Impe. To illustrate the point I have chosen a picture after he has succumbed to mounting pressure and clearly "trimmed" the perm. Lucian, you were not fooling anyone.
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