Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe has managed to secure the services of two great talents from the Visma | Lease a Bike…the twins Tim et Mick van Dyke. They will notably join the Classiques Flandriennes squad, which has been considerably strengthened with a view to 2025 and where they hope to have their own opportunities. This spring, the two 24-year-old Dutchmen had this chance when Wout van Aert was the victim of his serious fall on Across Flandersleaving Visma without an obvious leader for the great classics.
Video – Across Flanders and the fall of Wout Van Aert
“I was able to follow van der Poel, Philipsen and Pedersen into the Arenberg forest…”
Tim van Dyke attributes a large part of this opportunity to this incident, believing that it allowed them to stand out and gain more visibility, which led to their transfer to the team Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe. “If this hadn't happened, we would never have been able to show what we did this year. It was an eye opener for me.”confides the young Dutchman in the podcast The Red Lanternwhere the twins were invited. “We were able to make a good decision because people were interested in us. That was the main reason for leaving the team. At Visma, we were a bit in competition with each other. Tim and I we were always fighting for last place, it was just complicated”adds Mick.
The brothers particularly shone during Paris-Roubaixwhere they finished 16th and 19th. Tim actually crossed the line in 8th place, but an illegal maneuver on the Roubaix velodrome demoted him to 16th place. However, this did not detract from their impressive performance, which was decisive for their future. “In Roubaix, the cameras capture everything. I was able to follow Mathieu van der Poel, Jasper Philipsen and Mads Pedersen in the Arenberg forest. We were present in the finale in Roubaix with these guys, and we managed to following them into the forest was incredible, and it attracted the attention of several teams.”explain Mick. “Our dream is to one day win a cobbled classic. Preferably the Ronde or Roubaix. But it's a dream, and a lot of people have that dream. It became a possibility when I played 8th in Roubaix “concludes Tim.
