Bas Tietema

Bas Tietema (born 29 January 1995) is a Dutch former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2017 to 2018 and again from 2022 to 2023. He runs the Tour de Tietema YouTube channel and founded UCI ProTeam in 2023.

Career Tietema originally played football in his childhood, but began cycling in 2010. After a fairly successful junior and under-23 career, Tietema retired from competition in 2019 due to skin allergies and loss of motivation. He then started a YouTube channel known as Tour de Tietema, where he uploads cycling videos with friends Josse Wester and Devin van der Wiel. As of May 2022, the channel has more than 250,000 subscribers. In 2021, the group started an amateur team known as the Tour de Tietema Cycling Team, as a challenge to attempt to win local races. Tietema gained back his desire to race, and then came in contact with UCI ProTeam after reportedly seeing improvements in his fitness. In February 2022, he returned to professional cycling after officially joining .

Founding of

In 2023, Tietema founded his own UCI Continental team, , partnering with Unibet. Tietema competed for the team in its inaugural year and served as Assistant Sports Director during the 2023-2024 seasons. The team remained under the same name in 2024, and was elevated to the UCI ProTeam ranking. In 2025, the team name was changed to . In the announcement video, Tietema expressed, "We strongly believe that we do sports for the fans," emphasizing that establishing "The Rockets" as a franchise name aimed to create a lasting identity for supporters. The Tour de Tietema YouTube channel produced a few documentaries following the team at races including Amstel Gold race. A second channel Unibet Tietema Rockets was built to highlight the cycling team and its riders, and to provide fans with behind-the-scenes experiences.

Major results

2013 Keizer der Juniores 1st Mountains classification 1st Stage 1 4th Overall Ronde des Vallées 1st Stage 2 (ITT) 6th Overall Driedaagse van Axel 7th Grand Prix Bati-Metallo 2014 3rd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 2015 10th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs 2016 8th Overall Tour de Berlin 1st Prologue (TTT) 2017 Tour Alsace 1st Points classification 1st Combativity classification 1st Km 70 classification 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships 2024 1st Turbo Cross Diegem