Hailing from New South Wales, Caleb Ewan is one of Australia’s all-time most accomplished sprinters. In fact, with stages at the Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia, the Vuelta a España, as well as the one-day classic Milan-San Remo and a bucketload of others, you’d be hard-pressed to keep him off a list of the best worldwide.
Ewan started out his professional life with the Aussie WorldTour team Orica GreenEdge in 2014, better known in 2023 as Jayco AlUla.
He currently rides for Lotto-Dstny, the Belgian ProTeam outfit formerly known as Lotto Soudal, a team he’s called home since joining in 2019.
2023 marks Ewan’s first season outside the WorldTour since that debut season, after his team was relegated from the WorldTour at the end of the 2022 season following the controversial implementation of the UCI Points system.
He’s already back to winning ways, though, having sped to victory at the Tour Down Under warm-up criterium, the Schwalbe Classic, this weekend.
What is Caleb Ewan’s bike for 2023?
For 2023, Ewan’s bike will come courtesy of Belgian brand Ridley, and in most cases he will ride the brand‘s aero bike, the Noah Fast.
Despite losing Soudal as a sponsor – who incidentally moved to the other side of Belgian pro cycling to form Soudal-QuickStep – the team retains its partnership with bike sponsor Ridley, and it’s their Noah Fast that Caleb Ewan has preferred ever since he joined.
There have been various component swaps, but the bike itself has remained unchanged in his entire tenure at the team.
What size is Caleb Ewan’s bike?
At 5ft 5in tall, Caleb Ewan is one of the peloton’s shorter riders, and as such his bike is among the smallest of the bunch.
At face value, his 2023 bike looks exactly like the size XS he rode in 2022, 2021 and 2020, but given we’re total nerds here at Cyclingnews, we’ve spotted a few minute differences that suggest he’s changed size in recent years.
Given the tighter angle at the head tube, the shorter seat tube, extra seatpost showing and lower seat stays, we believe Ewan has actually gone for a smaller frame in 2023 than he did before.
In 2020 he was riding a size XS, so we believe he’s now aboard the smallest model in the Ridley lineup, an XXS.
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