Team

We work with a young and passionate team and we all love cycling. Whether on a road bike, MTB, gravel bike or fixie. Kaptein’s team members introduce themselves below.

Jeffrey Goudswaard

Which bikes are there in your shed?
An S-Works Venge road bike, S-Works Allez aluminum road bike, Specialized Epic MTB, Specialized CruX crosser (which I usually use as a gravel bike), a Schindelhauer Gustav city bike and my old school steel Concorde fixie.

How many kilometers do you approximately cycle per year?
About 6000 kilometers.

What is your favourite discipline?
I like mountain and gravel biking most because you feel more at one with nature and it all depends on yourself.

What is your most epic ride?
A day on the mountain bike in Morocco where I had to reach the end of the stage of that day with food poisoning and fever.

Which professional cyclist would you compare yourself to and why?
To Daniel Oss. A tall Italian who can put you in the lead for a long time.

What do you like most about working in a bicycle shop?
That there is nothing more fun than to be active in your own hobby and to convey this passion to our customers gives me a lot of energy. The positive feedback I get from people I have measured during a bikefitting makes me happy.

Miel Barkmeijer

Which bikes are there in your shed?
A Specialized Allez Sprint disc road bike, S-Works Epic MTB and a Gazelle Primeur city bike.

How many kilometers do you approximately cycle per year?
Between 4000 and 5000 kilometers.

What is your favourite discipline?
MTB cross country.

What is your most epic ride?
The Grand Raid Cristalp (147 km / 4600 hm) on the MTB.

Which professional cyclist would you compare yourself to and why?
To Peter Sagan, just like me a wizard on the bike with a stunning final sprint.

What do you like most about working in a bicycle shop?
Sharing knowledge and passion!

Erik Ligthart

Which bikes are there in your shed?
A Principia Rex Ellipse Project road bike, a Scott Expert Racing MTB, a Kona Jake the Snake all-rounder, a De Wafel (old school steel) and finally a Hopmans Scorpione (steel single speed).

How many kilometers do you approximately cycle per year?
About 5000 kilometers.

What is your favourite discipline?
Time trialling and climbing.

What is your most epic ride?
Cycling to Moscow on a highway in Russia (M145).

Which professional cyclist would you compare yourself to and why?
To Tom Dumoulin: the same qualities.

What do you like most about working in a bicycle shop?
To convey the love for cycling.

Christoff van Heerden

Which bikes are there in your shed?
A Specialized CruX Cyclocross bike, Specialized Chisel MTB and a Curve Belgium Titanium road bike.

How many kilometers do you approximately cycle per year?
About 10000 kilometers.

What is your favourite discipline?
Everything what involves cycling! Racing on Sloten, with the City Slickers on Tuesday evening, mountain biking and gravelling on the Utrechtse Heuvelrug and of course cross! I love bikepacking and can’t wait for my next trip. Then you are in nature and it comes more to yourself.

What is your most epic ride?
When I became national road champion in South Africa in 2010. It was the perfect day. I was in an early breakaway of 190 kilometers. We stayed away and I rode to the finish with 3 guys and won the sprint!

Which professional cyclist would you compare yourself to and why?
With Philippe Gilbert, a smart rider who always rides at the front of the race and makes the winning move at the right time. He is a reliable teammate who keeps fighting to the end.

What do you like most about working in a bicycle shop?
To make everyone enthusiastic about cycling, just like me. And by putting our customers better on a bike with the Retül fits that I do. Of course also to be the first to see the latest stuff!

Tijmen van Kuilenburg

Which bikes are there in your shed?
In my shed is a Sensa Umbria racing bike. My first bike that is still loyal to me.

How many kilometers do you approximately cycle per year?
I cycle around 3000 kilometers a year.

What is your favourite discipline?
Although I don’t have a mountain bike, this is my favorite discipline. You are really free on a mountain bike and that makes it more adventurous than cycling on the road.

What is your most epic ride?
On a poorly maintained MTB cycling through the nature of Laos.

Which professional cyclist would you compare yourself to and why?
I would compare myself to Bauke Mollema. A climber and general classification cyclist with a nice personality.

What do you like most about working in a bicycle shop?
Sharing my hobby with customers from all over the world.