[1] Although known as the "master servant" for Freddy Maertens, the powerful Demeyer was able to win 60 professional road races.

He signed the contract while resting it on a car beside the start of Dwars door België, which he then won.

[6] In January 1982, two weeks after an ambitious-looking Demeyer was presented as the new signing of Splendor, he died of a heart attack.

[7] Demeyer was particularly suited to the cobbled Classics and won the 1976 edition of Paris-Roubaix, famously captured in Jorgen Leth’s film A Sunday in Hell.

[9] A book Marc Demeyer-Een Flandrien uit Outrijve by Eric Demets was published in 2016.