After a whole career with Lotto, the big Belgian from Beveren jumped to this team for 2026, saying 'it felt like it was time for the next step' and a free role in the classics. Van Moer is a pure breakaway diesel — his 2021 Dauphiné stage win came from a marathon escape — and on Barcelona's flat and windy days he becomes Pidcock's bodyguard. Third Tour start, first with a wildcard team hungry to animate every stage.
Palmarès
- Critérium du Dauphiné stage 1 winner from the breakaway (2021)
- U23 world time trial silver medallist (2018)
- Belgian U23 time trial champion (2019)
- Tour de France stage 4 combativity award (2021)
- 3rd overall, Tour de Wallonie (2023)
Cut-out factAt the 2021 Tour he escaped solo on stage 4 and was agonizingly swallowed by the sprinters' trains only in the final 150 metres — the combativity prize was scant consolation.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Tom Pidcock, Xabier Mikel Azparren, Fred Wright, Quinten Hermans, Xandro Meurisse, Chris Harper, Damien Howson — see the full Pinarello–Q36.5 team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick, license: CC BY-SA 3.0.
A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.
.JPG){kind=link}