Have you caught your breath yet? It felt like an unusually frantic Tour de France this year, with outright favourite Tadej Pogačar in seemingly unbeatable form in the early stages of the race before being dethroned in the high mountains by a dominant team performance by Jumbo-Visma and the eventual winner Jonas Vingegaard.
As always the racing provides the main headlines, but in the background, there are trends, winners and losers aside from the crop of riders. Disc brakes finally put rim brakes to the sword, and tubeless tyres made big in-roads too against their established rivals.
As well as the nerdy tech trends there was the standard menu of new bikes, strange tech, and special edition kit and paint jobs to gawp at as you imagine yourself as part of the peloton for three weeks.
Stage | Winner (Team) | Bike | Wheels | Tyres | Tyre technology | Groupset | Brakes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Yves Lampaert (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) | S-Works Shiv TT | Roval |
S-Works (Unreleased) |
Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
2 | Fabio Jakobsen (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) |
S-Works Tarmac SL7 |
Roval |
S-Works (Unreleased) |
Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
3 |
Dylan Groenewegen (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) |
Giant Propel | Cadex | Vittoria Corsa | Tubular | Shimano | Disc |
4 | Wout van Aert (Team Jumbo-Visma) | Cervélo S5 | Shimano |
Vittoria Corsa TLR |
Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
5 | Simon Clarke (Israel-Premier Tech) | Factor Ostro | Black Inc | Maxxis | Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
6 | Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) | Colnago V3Rs | Campagnolo |
Pirelli P Zero Race |
Inner tubes | Campagnolo | Disc |
7 | Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) | Colnago V3Rs | Campagnolo |
Pirelli P Zero Race |
Inner tubes | Campagnolo | Disc |
8 | Wout van Aert (Team Jumbo-Visma) | Cervélo S5 | Shimano |
Vittoria Corsa TLR |
Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
9 | Bob Jungels (AG2R Citroën Team) |
BMC Teammachine SLR |
Campagnolo |
Pirelli P Zero Race |
Inner tubes | Campagnolo | Disc |
10 | Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost) | Cannondale SuperSix EVO | Vision | Vittoria Corsa | Tubular | Shimano | Disc |
11 | Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma) | Cervélo R5 | Shimano | Vittoria Corsa | Tubular | Shimano | Disc |
12 | Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) |
Pinarello Dogma F |
Shimano |
Conti GP5000 S TR |
Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
13 | Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) | Trek Madone | Bontrager |
Pirelli P Zero Race |
Inner tubes | SRAM | Disc |
14 | Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) | Giant Propel | Cadex | Vittoria Corsa | Tubular | Shimano | Disc |
15 | Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) | Canyon Aeroad | Shimano |
Vittoria Corsa TLR |
Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
16 | Hugo Houle (Israel-Premier Tech) | Factor Ostro | Black Inc | Maxxis | Tubeless | Shimano | Disc |
17 | Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) | Colnago V3Rs | Campagnolo |
Pirelli P Zero Race |
Inner tubes | Campagnolo | Disc |
18 | Jonas… |
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