He said in an interview with the Dutch magazine Wielerrevue that his racing career had been undermined by drug-taking and what he described as the witch-hunt conducted in the first years of drug-testing in the 1960s.Te Fanatiek, Wielersport, Holland, undated cutting
As a professional he won 11 races, of which the Ronde van Vlaanderen in 1971 is the best remembered.