In the Netherlands in the 1930s, girls riding racing bikes was not considered respectable, but Mien van Bree didn't like that.

[5] The outbreak of the Second World War and her recall to Holland in 1940 to care for her ill mother marked the end of her cycling career.

She worked as a psychiatric nursing assistant and was later a patient in the same institution for a time when she was left and betrayed by a girlfriend.

[5] In 2015 (her hundredth year of birth), the municipality of The Hague named a cycle path in Loosduinen after her: the "Mien van Breepad".

On March 24, 2016 a book Mien – A forgotten history was published by writer Mariska Tjoelker.