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Quinten Hermans joins Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

Quinten Hermans joins the Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team for the next two seasons. The now 30-year-old Belgian from Tessenderlo-Ham has gradually moved from cyclocross to road racing in recent years but already made head turns in the traditional summer pre-cyclocross races like Tour of Belgium, Tour de Wallonie and Flèche du Sud from 2018 on. These races already showed his road potential while still putting cyclocross first.

A second place in Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 2022 was a breakthrough moment. After that he went on to win stages in the Tour of Belgium and Vuelta al Paìs Vasco and focus more on road cycling.

27 August 2025

“Getting from cyclocross to road racing almost full-time was about stepping out of the comfort zone,” Quinten Hermans said. “That is also the case with joining Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. It’s the first time I am not part of a Belgian team anymore, but after all these years I wanted to have a more international look.

It’s going to be new and inspirational to work with many different nationalities to all become stronger together.” Hermans knows Tom Pidcock from the cyclocross scene racing together between 2020 and 2023. He feels they have the same skillset and can be complementary.

“Tom has always been a special rider knowing exactly what he wants. He has proven quite a lot on the road already. We always had a good connection, are the same kind of rider so I look forward to being on the same team. We both race efficiently in how we move through the peloton, and I feel that we will help each other get better to achieve the team’s goals.”

Hermans knows that in races like Liège-Bastogne-Liège there will be a designated team leader he will help but he looks forward to taking his own opportunities too. “There is still quite some margin to grow, I think,” Hermans reflects. “There is more in me than I have shown so far so I hope that a new team will help me take those steps and realize some of my goals. Doug Ryder, Kurt Bogaerts and I discussed this. We would like to focus on shorter stage races but also on winning a stage in a Grand Tour. But even in the biggest races where Tom is the team leader it’s always good to have multiple cards to play. In races with Tadej Pogačar you just need strength in numbers as a team.”

Having come from the muddy and cold European cyclocross seasons you would think Hermans wouldn’t mind the cold but that’s not the case.

“I don’t even like cold weather,” he smiled. “In cyclocross there simply is no time to feel cold because you race at your limit for an hour. In a road peloton that is different. I know that many in the peloton look at Q36.5 as an innovative brand. You can do all the best preparation with altitude camps, the best coaches or food but if you have three days of rain and you get cold and wet every advantage you got from that preparation is gone. The thing you need most then is to stay warm and dry.

The brand seems very innovative in that temperature control, and I look forward to helping the development of cycling clothing from a rider perspective. The differences in quality are small at this level, so every percent matters,” he concludes.

“We are delighted to welcome Quinten Hermans to Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team. Quinten’s journey from cyclo-cross into the world of road racing over the past five years has shaped him into a rider with incredible resilience, skill, and attention to detail. Those are qualities that stem from his background as a bike mechanic and his natural feel for the peloton.

He has a deep passion for the Ardennes Classics and carries the ambition to win a Grand Tour stage, which perfectly aligns with our team’s vision of racing with purpose and chasing big dreams. We believe Quinten’s versatility and fighting spirit will be a huge asset as we continue to grow and inspire through performance.” – Doug Ryder, General Manager, Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team

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