Nowadays you would be hard pressed to find a mullet as sensational as the one Gert-Jan Theunisse rocked in the late 80s and early 90s, certainly not in the peloton and only slightly less likely in everyday life. Unless you’re from Rooty Hill, the Hutt, or maybe Shane Archbold, who gives it a pretty good go.

GJT made the business-up-front, party-in-the-back coif his own at the time (although he had an able sidekick in one Phil Anderson). Points also need to be given for the amount of luft he ran in his cap, the shameless donning of a Bjorn Borg-like headband, and a jawline that would make Roger Ramjet envious. He was also one of the pioneers who laid down the blueprint for the phenomenon of Dutch flatlanders able to ride very fast up alpine passes with the best climbers in the world, somehow. I guess we’ll never know…