Temperatures hovered at around 30°C as the peloton rolled out for stage one of the Women’s Tour Down Under on Saturday. The heat of the Australian summer seems to perfectly mirror the blast furnace that is the WorldTour peloton. Despite it being January and the very first race of the season, no quarter will be given amongst the women’s and men’s pelotons.
A new season means a wave of new bikes, new components, and new paint jobs to pore over, inspect and analyse; that’s exactly what we have done in our first race tech gallery of the 2026 season at the Tour Down Under.
This is Noemi Rüegg’s Cannondale SuperSix, and it appears to be a new model for 2026. There are a lot of images and chat circulating online right now about the new bike, and we expect to hear details soon since the bike is being raced on, but this one, especially the seatpost, looks different.
It’s marked as a SuperSix Evo and shares the frame design with the current model. A different-shaped seatpost seems to be a key difference.
EF have also switched to SRAM from Shimano for 2026. Ruegg’s bike was fitted with a 52T 1x SRAM Red AXS power meter chainset.
This bike belongs to the current world road race champion, Magdeleine Vallieres, who also rides for EF. We couldn’t snap the whole rainbow-painted bike, but the handlebar appears to have a different carbon fibre finish.
Rüegg appears to have her SRAM shifters set at quite a jaunty angle, which takes me back to the mid 2000’s trend for it. Is this a new handlebar from Cannondale?
Red, white, and blue nearly always work well together, and Lidl-Trek’s colour scheme looks pretty well put…
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