Welcome to the Cyclingnews WorldTour bikes guide for 2024, a complete and comprehensive round-up of the bikes and tech used by the men’s UCI WorldTour Teams for the upcoming cycling season. A separate guide to the Women’s WorldTour Bikes will follow soon.
The offseason seems to get shorter and shorter each year, we’ve barely had a chance to draw breath here at Cyclingnews. If you fancy a recap of 2023’s tech happenings before we go again for 2024, head over to our roundup of the most interesting tech stories of the year, but we’re already looking ahead, planning for January’s early-season kick off at the Tour Down Under in Australia.
As such, we’ve been doing our homework on all the team kit changes, sponsors and technical partners for the 2024 season as news and announcements begin to gather pace. We probably won’t have the complete picture until early January after all the official team launches, but we’ve rounded up everything we know – or can deduce with confidence – below.
The sheer speed WorldTour road races are run off at these days is astounding. With racing action opening up from further and further out during races it seems. Advances in training science and power meter technology also mean there is an incredible strength in depth within the men’s WorldTour peloton.
Any team or rider not using optimised bikes and equipment is going to be at a disadvantage given the high level and as such more and more teams are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to bikes and kit. Losing a handful of watts due to exposed cabling or slow tyres isn’t an option for WorldTour racers, just see Ineos Grenadiers’ aero transponder hack for proof.
We saw bikes got heavier when teams first switched to disc brakes several years ago. In 2023 however, it felt like several brands got a lot closer to the UCI 6.8kg weight limit again with lightweight, disc-equipped, aero-optimised bikes. If you believe all of the tech info and marketing news, today’s race bikes are just as, if not more aero than the hyper aero race bikes of only a handful of years ago, but they are one again right on the nose of the UCI minimum weight limit.
Couple this with aero-optimised everything, waxed drivetrains, 1x chainsets for road stages not to mention some of the most aerodynamic cycling kit on the market and you get incredibly fast average speeds for most races these days.
We expect 2024 to build on these tech trends and expect teams to keep up their unrelenting quest for the best…
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