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Tour de France Femmes bikes 2023: who’s using what?
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The penultimate stage finishes atop the Col du Tourmalet. All eyes shall be on Annemiek van Vleuten of Movistar to see if she will be able to obtain her intention of finishing the Vuelta-Giro-Tour treble in 2023, previous to her retirement later this yr.
Learn on for a whole listing of the bikes on this yr’s Tour de France Femmes, together with the groupsets, tyres and different elements they’re fitted with. We additionally serve up our choose of a few of the new bikes and tech to maintain an eye fixed out for on the 2023 Tour de France Femmes.
Tour de France Femmes 2023 bike manufacturers
There are 22 groups competing within the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Many are homologues of the lads’s groups, in order that they have virtually the identical bikes and gear, even when the sponsor names are barely completely different.
That quantity contains the 15 Girls’s WorldTour groups and 7 invited groups from the second tier of ladies’s professional racing.
Learn on for extra particulars of every crew’s bikes, wheels and different equipment.
Bike manufacturers represented on the Tour de France Femmes
- Bianchi (Arkéa Professional Biking Group)
- Cannondale (EF Schooling-Tibco-SVB, St Michel-Mavic-Auber93)
- Canyon (Canyon//SRAM Racing, Fenix-Deceuninck, Movistar Group)
- Cervélo (Group Jumbo-Visma)
- Colnago (UAE Group ADQ)
- Dare (Uno-X Professional Biking)
- Felt (Human Powered Well being)
- Issue (Israel Premier Tech Roland)
- Big (Group Coop-Hitec Merchandise)
- Lapierre (FDJ-Suez)
- Liv (Liv Racing TeqFind, Group Jayco AlUla)
- Look (Cofidis Girls Group)
- Orbea (Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking Group)
- Ribble (Lifeplus-Wahoo)
- Scott (Group DSM-Firmenich)
- Specialised (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal-QuickStep Group, Group SD Worx)
- Trek (Lidl-Trek)
What’s new in Girls’s WorldTour tech?
The Tour de France Femmes is arguably the game’s major store window.
With that in thoughts, we will you should definitely see the groups and riders utilizing the newest and best equipment accessible from their sponsors.
By way of new bikes, we count on to see the Cofidis Girls Group aboard the lately launched Look 795 Blade RS, and the fourth-generation Cannondale SuperSix Evo LAB71 being raced by EF Schooling-Tibco-SVB.
Israel Premier Tech Roland riders is perhaps aboard the brand new Issue 02 VAM, which is being utilized by Israel-Premier Tech’s Simon Clarke within the males’s race.
Whether or not this counts as a brand new bike is debatable, however we’re additionally intrigued to see whether or not final yr’s yellow jersey winner, Annemiek van Vleuten of Movistar Group, shall be racing the up to date Canyon Aeroad CFR that Mathieu van der Poel has been utilizing this season.
Elsewhere, we hope Lidl-Trek riders shall be handled to equally outlandish customized paintjobs as the lads’s crew obtained for the Tour.
Is there any probability we would see a brand new Specialised Tarmac SL8 break cowl on the Tour de France Femmes?
With footage purportedly displaying the brand new highway bike having leaked from a Soudal-QuickStep crew camp in current days, AG Insurance coverage-Soudal-QuickStep or Group SD Worx (each Specialised-sponsored groups) may very well be set to provide it a race debut.
As all the time, we’ll preserve our eyes peeled.
A uncommon Ultegra look
All of the groups are on their manufacturers’ top-tier groupset, excluding Group Coop-Hitec Merchandise, who seem like using Shimano Ultegra. As we identified in our Shimano Ultegra evaluation, it’s not a lot of a sacrifice as a result of the internals are the identical, Ultegra simply weighs a bit of extra.
There’s no pro-level 54/40t choice for Ultegra chainrings both, however Dura-Ace chainrings are interchangeable.
SRAM dominates
It’s additionally notable that no girls’s groups are utilizing Campagnolo groupsets or wheels. AG2R Citroen Group, the one males’s WorldTour crew utilizing Campagnolo this yr, has no equal girls’s outfit and if there are girls’s groups within the decrease echelons using Campagnolo, they haven’t been invited to the Tour de France Femmes.
Regardless of this, Shimano is much less dominant within the girls’s Tour than within the males’s. Nevertheless, that free area is taken up by SRAM, with six girls’s groups utilizing Crimson AXS, versus three males’s groups.
SRAM makes its presence felt within the girls’s race greater than within the males’s with its different manufacturers, Time pedals and Hammerhead computer systems, being extra extensively represented within the Tour de France Femmes. Wahoo Speedplay pedals are used extra within the girls’s peloton too.
There’s additionally room for two-wheel manufacturers that don’t make a males’s Tour de France look: Hunt and Mavic.
Tour de France Femmes 2023 bikes
All 15 Girls’s WorldTour groups journey the Tour de France and each one in every of them will get the choose of one of the best bikes from their sponsors’ ranges. That features all groups utilizing 12-speed wi-fi/semi-wireless digital groupsets on their highway bikes and a selection of top-spec carbon wheels.
The seven invited Girls’s Continental-level groups too are virtually all on range-topping bikes and gear.
Learn on for a breakdown of who’s using what.
AG Insurance coverage-Soudal-QuickStep Group (AGS)
- Bikes: Specialised S-Works Tarmac SL7/Roubaix/Shiv (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Roval
- Ending equipment: Roval, Specialised, CeramicSpeed, Tacx, Garmin
Arkéa Professional Biking Group (ARK)
- Bikes: Bianchi Specialissima/Oltre RC/Aquila (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Shimano
- Ending equipment: Bianchi, Continental, Selle Italia, Elite, Wahoo
Canyon//SRAM Racing (CSR)
- Bikes: Canyon Aeroad CFR/Speedmax CF SLX (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson AXS
- Wheels: Zipp 303 Firecrest
- Ending equipment: Canyon, Schwalbe, Ergon, Elite, Hammerhead, Time
Ceratizit-WNT Professional Biking Group (WTN)
- Bikes: Orbea Orca Aero/Ordu (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace/FSA chainset
- Wheels: Imaginative and prescient Metron
- Ending equipment: Orbea, Prologo, Wolfpack, Wahoo
Cofidis Girls Group (COF)
- Bikes: Look 795 Blade RS/796 Monoblade RS (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Corima
- Ending equipment: Look, SRM, Michelin, Selle Italia, Elite, Wahoo
EF Schooling-Tibco-SVB (TIB)
- Bikes: Cannondale LAB71 SuperSix EVO/SuperSlice (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace/FSA cranks and chainrings
- Wheels: Imaginative and prescient Metron
- Ending equipment: FSA, Wahoo Speedplay, 4iiii, Vittoria, Prologo, Tacx, Wahoo
FDJ-Suez (FST)
- Bikes: Lapierre Aircode DRS/Aérostorm DRS (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Shimano Dura-Ace/PRO
- Ending equipment: PRO, Continental, Prologo, Elite, Garmin
Fenix-Deceuninck (FED)
- Bikes: Canyon Aeroad CFR/Final CFR/Speedmax CFR Disc (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Ending equipment: Canyon, Vittoria, Selle Italia, Elite, Wahoo
Human Powered Well being (HPW)
- Bikes: Felt FR/AR/DA (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson AXS
- Wheels: Imaginative and prescient
- Ending equipment: Imaginative and prescient, Wahoo Speedplay, Goodyear, Selle Italia, Arundel, Wahoo
Israel Premier Tech Roland (CGS)
- Bikes: Issue Ostro VAM/O2 VAM/Slick (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace/Rotor Aldhu chainset
- Wheels: Black Inc 30/45 /60
- Ending equipment: Black Inc, Shimano, Maxxis, Selle Italia, Elite, Hammerhead
Lifeplus-Wahoo (DRP)
- Bikes: Ribble Endurance SL R/Extremely TT (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Mavic Cosmic SLR
- Ending equipment: PRO, Continental, Selle Italia, Elite, Hammerhead
Lidl-Trek (LTK)
- Bikes: Trek Madone SLR/Émonda SLR/Domane/Velocity Idea (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson AXS
- Wheels: Bontrager Aeolus
- Ending equipment: Bontrager, Time, Pirelli, Wahoo
Liv Racing TeqFind (LIV)
- Bikes: Liv Langma Superior SL/Enviliv Superior Professional/Avow Superior Professional (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson AXS
- Wheels: Cadex
- Ending equipment: Cadex, Big
Movistar Group (MOV)
- Bikes: Canyon Aeroad CFR/Speedmax CF SLX (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson AXS
- Wheels: Zipp 303 Firecrest
- Ending equipment: Canyon, Look, Continental, Fizik, Elite, Garmin
St Michel-Mavic-Auber93 (AUB)
- Bikes: Cannondale SuperSix EVO/SuperSlice (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Mavic Cosmic SLR
- Ending equipment: Cannondale, Phases, Look, Michelin, Prologo, TA
Group Coop-Hitec Merchandise (HPU)
- Bikes: Liv Langma Superior SL/Avow Superior Professional (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Ultegra
- Wheels: Hunt 44 Aerodynamicist
- Ending equipment: Wahoo Speedplay, Schwalbe, Wahoo
Group DSM-Firmenich (DSM)
- Bikes: Scott Foil RC/Plasma RC (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Ending equipment: Syncros, Vittoria, Elite, Wahoo
Group Jayco AlUla (JAY)
- Bikes: Liv Enviliv Superior SL / Langma Superior SL / Avow Superior Professional (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: Cadex 36, 42, 65
- Ending equipment: Cadex, Shimano, Vittoria, Cadex, Big
Group Jumbo-Visma (TJV)
- Bikes: Cervélo R5 Disc/S5/Caledonia/P5 (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson eTap
- Wheels: Reserve 52/63
- Ending equipment: Cervélo/FSA, Wahoo, Vittoria, Fizik, Tacx, Garmin
Group SD Worx (SDW)
- Bikes: Specialised S-Works Tarmac SL7/Shiv (TT)
- Groupset: SRAM Crimson AXS
- Wheels: Roval Rapide CLX II
- Ending equipment: Roval, Time, Specialised, Tacx, Garmin
UAE Group ADQ (UAD)
- Bikes: Colnago V4Rs/Okay.one (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: ENVE
- Ending equipment: Colnago, Favero, Continental, Prologo, Eite, Wahoo
Uno-X Professional Biking (UXT)
- Bikes: Dare VSRu/TSRf (TT)
- Groupset: Shimano Dura-Ace
- Wheels: DT Swiss
- Ending equipment: Dare, Schwalbe, Professional, CeramicSpeed, Elite, Garmin