He wants to do something For one hundred percent Yes Bas, just say it: You are the best It was always a very good u23 Looking up to him is perhaps a big word But he was one of the better juniors in the Netherlands And now to try again to become a professional is really not going to be easy I really don't feel well This is his only chance to realize his dream it's still his boyhood dream I think it's going to be tough with the pros But it won't be for your motivation I have a flat band If you don't try you don't know where you will end up So I think it's very brave that you try anyway You have to perform It is top sport Top sport is about one thing It has to be great, and if it's not great it is exit We were also a bit surprised by his level It is of course not going to be easy Anyway, that's part of it I just suffered really hard A sports class rider normally doesn't become a professional That's very simple Did you beat everyone? Amai, amai If you are realistic that chance is almost zero percent He may surprise me If he goes for it, then he goes all out I am Bas Tietema And I am going to become a professional cyclist Plan Bas Fortunately there are still dreams In the last race I raced in the series Josse goes for gold Since we started racing again I am really enjoying it again And that I plan to continue training troughout his whole winter To then see what we are going to do next year I've got the feeling of, there might be something in it I think you are going to scare a lot of people with this At least I am The most surprised I was when he said: 'I'm going to do it' And that he didn't said to me, I'd like to pick it up again Just pick up the cup and then we'll see for next year When he was on the podium I asked: Do you like it? I didn't get an answer to that If you ride 50 or 60 kilometers in the Tour of Hank in the sport class Even if it that's at the super lowest level I felt that I was becoming a cyclist That is completely different from a classic where you ride more than 200/250 kilometers When Bas has that mischievous twinkle in his eye, he is always up to something First conversation with the professional team We are now in the car to Manage 4.
5 hours drive for me I am curious what will come out of that - Are you tense? It could have a huge impact on my life I understand very well that I am not going to be told: Boy, you're going to ride Paris-Roubaix I get that But I just hope he thinks it's cool To watch me all the way from here to there To to see how far we can get It remains just a team of 16 riders They all have a programme, they all have a contract That is the influence, when I join it, that's one rider more One less spot for others I just want to see how far I can get, I also think I can get there But I have to convince him of that - Good day Maybe now is the time to do a test in Leuven That would be an interesting basis To see how fast you can go We are just leaving the office where we had the conversation with the team manager The manager of the team I am Christoph Brandt, I am the team manager of team 'Bingoal Pauwels Sauces' The complete name is Bingoal Pauwels Sauces WB Wb for Wallonie Bruxelles, is an abbreviation Now it is suddenly very real, very quickly - Jo Bas has to tell you something They want to start the plan with me He proposed to us his idea to become a rider again He literally said, if Bas can prove himself sportively Sure, why not - Yes, that seems more than logical It would be crazy if Bas could be there as a clown And now the game has started I'm going to say He no longer really has the figure of a cyclist This is intense though He has always kept moving Which means that the damage has not been that big that everything is gone from the past It will not make you a better cyclist in those two years But I certainly don't think any worse The beginning of the end I am Hans Tietema, father of Bas As a father I have spent a lot of time and miles and hours with my children Bas wanted to become a footballer When he went to football there were two football clubs next to each other I preferred ZAC But he thought green with white stripes was more beautiful So you guessed it, it became Zwolsche boys, with green and white stripes From there he was scouted and he ended up at Pec Zwolle Unfortunately he gets torn cruciate ligaments there And so he went cycling I don't think he really broke through as a professional footballer I won several races International and national And everyone around me said, you just have to ride really fast Then all the teams come up to you and they want to offer you a contract So I really thought, wow, that's going well. One driver Judging by the attitude, Bas Tietema Looking up may be a big word, but he belonged to one of the better juniors in the Netherlands at the time Yes, Bas Tietema He wins here Congratulations, nice victory I'm Hartthijs de Vries 25 years old I am a cyclist at Metec I became Dutch champion in the U23, in the time trial Everything out, that's so beautiful When I came to the U23, at the Rabobank, Bas was riding at BMC in the meantime, Then of course we met each other more often I heard others around me, 'I am going to the Rabobank training team', but no one came to me He really wanted to go to.
. . Axeon, that is a American team of Axcel Mercx Or BMC Because it just seemed very cool to me in terms of adventure to go to But we don't come from cycling, so we have no idea how that works Then he managed to find out about Rik Verbrugge On Twitter I sent a message, almost spamming him And then there was a race in South Limburg And there was that bus from BMC I said you have to walk there And Rik Verbrugghe said: 'I still have one spot available' But who are you anyway?
Send something to me I only found out later, they get hundreds of e-mails a month Then we were like, how do you get anywhere at all? Getting started This weekend is all about endurance training I have two long rides, today I'm going to do 4. 5-5 hours The first hour I am on my own Then I join a group Because four and a half hours is a long time at your own I now have 90 kilometers and I wanted 120, so I will continue on my own later Tomorrow another training day, tomorrow again endurance training That's how we arrive at those hours It actually went quite well actually Yesterday was with the juniors/newcomers, today with the elite team of the Hanzerenners cyclists It is going a bit faster, but today again three/four hours I notice that yesterday still hurts a bit It was the first time in a long time that I did two long endurance rides in a weekend I noticed yesterday, in the evening I get tired, I fall asleep quickly I'm really hungry, almost binge eating, because I burn a lot in one go I'll make sure I'm healthy and eating well, I'm really binge eating, I I'm really hungry On this rest day Rest days can be quite boring, so I secretly rode for 45 minutes, sorry Wilbert I'm Wilbert Broekhuizen, I'm from Zwolle I've known Bas for five years, he came to train with me five years ago, when Bas came to ride with BEAT cycling But to the question, are you ready?
- Yes We're on our way to a podiatrist I'm going there because I've always had a problem with my left hip When I apply force my ankle sinks like that Then I throw my hip in and it becomes some kind of sore point When I Bas started working together I thought: 'What a stubborn figure' He is both the trainer, the team leader, the bike fitter The manager, the PR man, but the thing is: Can you also let go of things This one always goes in if I don't do anything Then it goes like this, and then it comes out at those points It goes like this With my heel I think I miss a lot I can also lift it like this then I have here Here I have quite a lot of space If I have to draw, then right there My story of my foot is quite complex It is really extreme how crooked my foot is I do have the feeling that we are really on the right track, there are still a few small areas for improvement - Do you feel a lot of difference? Yes, you notice a lot of difference I have raced for a long time, those criteria That depends on perseverance You constantly feel a kind of kink That is because you are tired of the wattages But simply because your tendons are tired of constantly Making that movement That black is the basic sole That is quite thick If this is good then it will be woven into one sole Then you do not have such a work of art How do you put it in? That kink is gone But you do have your shoe so that you rotate with your heel inward But when I ride I've got the feeling I ride like this To the outside When I compare it to when you came in And I look now, then see I that the rotation of your foot is almost gone You already called it very beautiful, the kink is out of your foot But the chain up, your knee and your hip They are also in a much nicer line This feels a lot better too I have almost the feeling that the right also.
. . No, you are fantastic on the right Now I can win Paris-Roubaix I actually assume that A dream is shattered s Then there was a two/three day race, Keizer des Juniores in Belgium With Mathieu van der Poel, Nathan van Hooydonck and other guys And he won the first stage That stage, I crossed the finish line, and later in the hotel Then he got a message, and he didn't respond to anything Then the dinner was over, then he said he: 'Daddy, come with me' Then we walked outside, then he had received a message from Rik Verbrugghe, saying call back And at that moment, I still see us standing at the car, then he called That he can come by in Eken, at the BMC development team To have a conversation That was only super late in the season So everyone ended up asking me how did you do that?
And super cool, because it was the highest you could have as a u23 And whether it was because of the victory in the Kaiser des Juniores, or whether they followed him from that moment on, or if someone else didn't come or whatever Sometimes things just go like they do You may not have as much influence on that as you would like At BMC I thought, becoming a pro is a possibility And in the first years I rode really well Then I thought I have to keep this up and then it will be fine I rode every year at Paris-Roubaix, third, tenth, I rode top ten every year Those were really the races I wanted to focus on I was always aware of, if it continues like this, it's really possible to make the step to the pros in the third or fourth year I ended up in the Brussels-Opwijk race I crashed I am in the hotel in Overijsse, because tomorrow we have our very first race Brussels-Opwijk I thought I had a flat tire , so I bounced a bit on my front wheel So I pulled my wheel up, and my wheel fell out I landed on my front fork, I broke my collarbone I didn't sleep very well Here you see the bulge Then I went to the hospital for recovery You often get medication injected during an operation for recovery, pain relief and things like that That is the first time for me that I was aware That my skin got bumps, red spots and itching I suffered from it for a long time, even until the beginning of 2021 But the fact was that Bas was very busy with that at the time And that is my private opinion That's where it went wrong That he was too busy with the peripheral matters and not with the things he had to do, Do his training well If you ask me very personal, he won't like to hear this But it was not because of the skin problems And that was very difficult for him to accept I think that the skin problems, I am 99% convinced, it was the cause of Bas not having succes No, I didn't stop because of my skin problems I think it was more the reason You can look up the results, it was one DNF after the other, did not finish There are a few exceptions, at ANpost he won three jerseys in one race And again with NK time trial u23 he came third I am very happy with my third place But after that it was instead of in front of the peloton, in the peloton In the end it was behind the peloton Now the last six months, three quarters of the year it's really well Bas Tietema, Leo Alkemade here, Hey Bas ! Our friend Bas still wants to become a pro Can't you put in a good word for me, I also want to become a pro Now you have dropped Josse a few times, and have won a few premiums in the sports class And then the gentleman immediately thinks he can be a pro? I saw him cycling in the Glazen Huis, there is so much power in it, so much passion If you decide to become a professional cyclist, there is a good chance that you will also succeed too In 2016 we did an trainingcamp together with the BMC development team That hasbeen a while, and the level in the pack has improved since then.
Will he succeed? On paper you should say no The bar is now quite high in the Netherlands It will be a very difficult challenge anyway I think he is also a bit underestimated in the rest of the peloton Because people think, ah, Bas Tietema Of those YouTube videos Then he cycles past, and then he wins I believe, Paris-Roubaix for promises, podium once? I could be wrong I am convinced that you will make it again I do remember that he was dropped in the final I really hope that you will make it and I wish you the best of luck I wish you good luck with it Live for it one hundred percent and make the most of it Success!
Goodluck Bassie! Good luck! Good luck with it Bass!
I hope to hear a lot more from you! Good luck! I'm 40 now, what do you think, can I still be a pro?
I stopped when I was 40, but if Bas Tietema can still turn pro I think it will work for you too The first pro test We are on our way back to Belgium Today is one of the big test moments We have the physical test at the university today in Belgium Today we are going to see for the first time to what extent it is realistic that I can participate in the training sessions and training camps The training sessions went quite well this week Last week I did a few long endurance training sessions That went well, that went really well Where are we? I thought we were in Leuven, but then the French Leuven But it's called Louvain, it's a different place This is where all the Bingoal riders do their tests So now I do too On the one hand, training went pretty well this week So that gave me motivation But a test is always exciting They were exciting with Wilbert, but now there is also a kind of pressure to be allowed to go to the training camps and team training sessions If it's really just bad, bad, then they may say we are going to pull the plug, it won't work While we are lost in Belgium you can take a look at our new online community platform The Tour de Tietema Club A place where you can ask us all your questions Where you can meet other cyclists Find top routes and as a Super Domestique you also receives exclusive updates Sign up quickly at club. tourdetietema.
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