The Hottest Tour de France 2025 Bikes

Get an exclusive look at the hottest bikes of the 2025 Tour de France! From cutting-edge aero frames to next-gen drivetrains, we break down the top rides powering the peloton this year. Whether you’re a cycling fanatic or tech lover, this is your ultimate bike tech fix. Don’t miss the most innovative road bikes of the Tour!

The Last ‘Fast’ Tour de France?

We are here at the Tour of France with some of the hottest bikes in the world. And the brands really do pull out all of the stops for this race. And we’re starting with this, the Sevel R5. This is brand new for the race. We actually saw it at the Doofen, but this thing is lighter. It comes in at 6.8 kilos as you see it. So, this 58 6.8 kilos with the Garmin with the pedals. That is fantastic. Not all brands have done that as we’ll see later. So, they’ve done some interesting things. First up, up here, you’ll see this. This is a brand new one piece integrated cockpit, and it’s quite a slim design. Weight is the focus here. There’s not so many arrow things going on, but as we go down here, we do see some kind of camtailish design tubes. So, these have the flat back profiles, but really this is all about weight saving. In here are titanium parts in this section for the clamp. That’s gorgeous. And then down here with the front brake, we’ve got a whole new design to weigh the way that this clamps on. That is really, really nice. These seat stays are super skinny. Now, the R5 has always been a skinny bike, but these are ridiculously thin. And then that might look like the old seat post, but apparently we’ve been told it’s not brand new one. Really, really thin down, lightened bike. I really like this. Tell you who’s got swanky things is Tad Pagatcha. Two bikes for this year’s race. He’s got the Y1 RS, which is his aero bike, and he’s got the V5 RS, which is his kind of general climbing bike. Both of them very interesting, but the V5 RS caught my eye because it’s got new Envy wheels on it. And these aren’t really what anyone would expect from a new wheel or even Envy because Envy are very progressive. They’ve gone wider with their internal whips. And these ones, well, they’re a pro version. They are for Pagatcha. Basically, it’s what he wanted. He wanted narrower. So, these are narrower internally. What it does, and this is probably the entire reason that they’re doing this, is it allows them to use Continental’s GP5000 TT tire. So, these are 28 mm, and technically under the ETRTO rules, you can’t use those tires on Envy’s normal rims. The cockpit is fully integrated. So, Visma and UAE are really like matching on these things now. and Cole Margo kind of both giving their riders Finger Garden and Pagatcha an aerobike and a lightweight climbing bike. We haven’t been able to weigh Pagatcha’s climbing bike, but apparently it sits right under under just fractionally under the UCI’s minimum weight limit of 6.8 kilos. So, I will be wondering what the uh UAE mechanics will be doing to bring that bike up to weight. If one new bike from Sevel wasn’t enough, how about two? This is the new S5. So, we’ve seen this a little bit more than the R5. Certainly a bit more than the R5, but there’s still so much going on here. This is Yonas Finger’s bike as well. So, this bike could be winning the tour to France. They’ve added mass to the nose cone and they’ve added mass to the trailing edge of this head tube. That isn’t as noticeable though as these fork legs which are now well they’re just as wide in the widest place as the old fork legs but they kind of continue down as a kind of a straight piece. So they’re visually much much wider. Now, there’s a real asymmetric rear end to this bike, which looks very odd when you view it from the front, but SEL have been just telling us that these reserve wheels have been designed and the frames have been designed with the wheels to work in sync. So, it’s a full aero package. I think it looks sensational. And then there are two more weight saving measures up front. The fork, I think, saves about 24 g over the old model, but also the bar. They’ve trimmed some weight out of there because if you look in here, there’s no uh bolts or anything like that. So, it used to be a two-piece system with this kind of V section then joined onto the bar. And I’ve also been asking the team about those UCI rule changes. Now, the bars here look super narrow, but actually these are going to be legal. The team says next year. Also, the wheels that they have here, I believe they are 64 mm deep. So, they are 1 mm under the new restrictions. The gearing, we’re not too sure. There is a Stram representative here, but they can’t really say much more than they’re talking with the UCI. In terms of what practical measures the team will be taking, I would suspect that they will have to lock off that 10 to the bottom end. But one of the key figures that I’ve been saving right until the end. Do you want to guess how much this bike weighs? Full arrow bike in this setup, 7.2 kilos. That is fantastic. That means that Yonas can switch on to the R5 for the super hilly days. But for the rest, he can save all of those aero savings and all of that energy by going with the R5. R5 S5. Got them wrong. There’s two things here on Sauron Wearing Skull’s bike. Butchered his name, I apologize. It kind of proves that Arrow is everything, but it also isn’t everything. So, up at here, we’ve got the Concental Arrow 111 tire. That’s a very aerodynamic tire. It’s got some profiling on the shoulder to help the tire cut through the air. I also think it’s quite narrow. The only ones I’ve seen of these are about 26 mm wide, which by today’s standards, very, very skinny. But then you come up to the front end and you can see a massive stack of spacers under the stem. Now, all that’s telling me is that Saurin is a very big guy, but he needs to put out a lot of power, and he can’t maybe do that in a super slammed position. So, they do this to make sure that he’s comfortable on the bike, and therefore, he can put out all this power. So, it is a balance. Okay. Two very special bikes right here. We’ve got Matu Vanderpol’s Aero and right beside me, Yasper Philipsson’s Aros. These pretty much are matchy matchy. Only a few differences. Obviously, Vanderpole has a lovely white with little speckly gold finish. Interestingly for me, these bikes are fully set up for Arrow, both of them. So, we’ve both got the C60 wheels with Pirelli P 0 Race TLR RS tires. In terms of tire size, interestingly, I would have thought these riders for the opening stages of the tour to France, where the roads are relatively good around here, would be on 28s. They’re both on 30s, which is quite a nice little touch. There’s nothing too different setupwise about Vanderpole’s bike. His bar width is relatively standard. His hood angle is relatively standard as well. I don’t think he’ll have to do too much to make that UCI compliant next year. Also, with the C60s, they won’t have to change those rim depths. Another key detail about both bikes is that they both feature waxed chains. Now, these look like they’ve been immersion waxed to me, properly stripped, properly waxed. My old colleague, Simon von Romley, would be very pleased with one of them. And to finish up, I want to ask you a question cuz Yasper Philipsson has a beautiful kind of marly effect. But which one you would you go for? Black or white? So, we’re here with the Picnic Post NL bikes. And what I love about these bikes is that they are well very standard looking. And that’s one thing I want to talk about because if you look down this line of bikes next year with the UCI’s changes to the equipment regulations, probably all of these are going to be illegal, which is ridiculous in my mind because if we come over here, Kai, come this way. Come and look at Oscar Onley’s bike. There is nothing unusual about this front end. It’s a relatively, you know, sensible setup. It’s not particularly narrow. His hoods are a relatively sensible angle, but I can bet you that the gap between there and there is going to be something in the region of 28 30 cm, and that will be illegal. So, how these pros are actually going to make their bikes legal for next year is beyond me. Okay, this is a bit of a treat. I’m joined by Mikey, head of equipment here at Intermaret OneT team. Next year, UCI have have swung the banhammer at quite a bit of the things on this bike. Starting with the handlebars.
Yeah, I can confirm 100% of our handlebar positions are non-compliant for for next year. So, that’s that’s a massive thing, but it’s not only in our team, it’s in all teams like that. Yeah.
And then on your rear wheel. Yeah, we have different wheel set options. Of course, this wheel set is our sprint wheel set. It’s 60 mm in front and 66 mm in the rear. So, 1 mm non-compliant, but it’s not really realistic at this point. UCI, they they set up a commission and they think that we are well represented in this commission, but it’s not really the case. It’s only a fraction of the teams. I think we need more input from experienced riders. Now we have two near identical Specialized Tarmac S Works SL8 bikes. The key difference here between this one, which is Red Bulls, and the Sudell bikes that we’re going to see in a moment, is with the group sets. So, we’re going to start with Primos Road Glitches. This bike is set up with the Stram Red Access. It is a beautiful bit of kit and the team has special edition paint jobs just for the race. We’ll start down at the wheels because these are the new Roal Rapid CLX 3s. They’re newish. So, they’ve got the carbon spokes and they’ve got a slightly new hub, but Roal is really sticking with a rim shape that it knows works. And these ones have just been lightened a little bit from the old wheels that we saw previously. Interestingly for me though isn’t the wheels, it’s what’s on the wheels because Specialized has long been producing tubeless tires, but a lot of its teams still stuck with its kind of old uh cotton clincher tires, but these ones look like they’ve got a nice cotton sidewall, but this valve here gives the game away. This is a tubeless tire and this would be the new Specialized Turbo Cotton TLR which is tubeless up here. I think it’s really interesting to see that Roglitch is not going with one of those super short saddles. This is an S Works Phenom which is quite a long traditional model. But if you want to come down with me here because this is the main part of the difference between this and the Sudell bikes. So this is the Stram red access group set and Roglitch is pretty traditional really. He’s going for a pretty pro- standard these days 5441 to chain ring. Out at the back he has a super wide range cassette that I would imagine is a 10 to 36 to model and you’ve obviously got the red rear derailia. [Music] Okay, as you can see, this is the bike of Tim Meria, but as you can also see, we can’t actually get at it. We were having lunch, so had to nip in here. A few things that are different about this bike, the Jura Ace Di2 group set. Now, that means the shifters up here, they have a bit less reach, which means that next year under the new UCI rules, Shimano riders might just be able to count their levers just a little bit more in. That might be a fraction of a watt saved. I also want to have a look at this. These are the same wheels that Robitch had, but he’s got the Rapid Air TLR tires. They look quite wide. They look like at least 28 mm wide, but they haven’t actually got any markings on, so I can’t actually tell. Then down here on the chain rings, Malia is a sprinter and will be going for yellow in the first stage. He’s running a 5644 to chain ring setup which is absolutely huge. Then out at the back there looks to be an 11 to 30 to cassette. Final details are Malia is actually running the Specialized Phenom Mimic saddle and I believe that’s a women’s edition and then up at the front they’ve got a Kage computer mount. But we’re not just done yet with Sudal Quick set cuz I want to take a look at this. Look at that jazzy little saddle design. It’s a completely open structure, which is very, very nice. But it looks to be 3D printed from definitely a different material to the other saddles. It’s got a very jazzy red base. I like that. Let’s see if we can get one. Next up is the new lightweight climbing bike of Julian Alice. Although, is it actually that lightweight? Well, word on the street is in this kind of build with the Wahoo up there, it’s just over 7 kilos, which means that the new Sevel R5 in race build is actually lighter than this thing. They’ve got the Stram red. Obviously, this is a top end stuff and they have the prolevel gearing. That right there is a 5239. So, this isn’t currently, I don’t think, UCI illegal next year. Everything this week seems to have been quite aerodynamic. So, I love to see a nice lightweight bike, but what do you think of this thing? Let me know in the comments. [Music] And here it is. So, this one, the Y1 RS, was released in by Karago, end of last year. And this thing, well, it’s meant to be Arrow. And I was quite surprised with some of the tube shapes that they did, especially down at the back end. But the result is that they said that this is 20 watts faster than the old V4 RS. Now, obviously, they updated the V4 RS to make the V5 RS faster. I’m saying a lot of numbers and letters. I think you should just look at it cuz this is very nice. One thing to note on this is new Continental tires. These came out a few weeks ago. These are the archetype tires. They’re 30 mm wide, which means that they are legal on these rims by the ETRTO guidelines, but also they sit kind of between the GP5000 uh TT and the GP5000 TR. So, I don’t really know whether these tires have been made basically just to fit these rims, I would kind of suspect they have been. Other nice little notes on this, the One Piece cockpit very sleekly integrated with the Wahoo computer and Tad’s got his kind of like bullish Hulk fighter bloke up here. We’ve seen a lot of pedal power over the last couple of days, but to make the race happen, you need some horsepower. So, these are the official motorbikes of a lot of like the race referees and general other officials on the race. Those red ones over there, they’re the ones you want to watch out for. If you get approached by one of those motorbikes, you’ve been a very naughty cyclist and they’re going to give you a yellow card or something. I don’t know anything about these cuz I don’t know anything about motorbikes. So, if you’re a motorbike fan, tell me what they are apart from motorbikes. [Music] Behind me is a very special bike. That is Tad Paga’s TT bike, but we don’t know whether he’s going to use it. He will definitely be using it for the flat time trial, but we don’t know whether he’ll be using for the mountains time trial. So, this thing has a few really interesting features. Those tires there are the Continental GP5000 TT tires, but they’re in a size 25. So, it’s going pretty narrow with these things. Got the same kind of silver hubs and spokes as we saw earlier on in the video, but that rim is so much deeper. that looks like, well, it’s easily an 80. Could even be a 100 mil. His front end is incredible. Uh, really well tuned to him. And he’s got the skateboard grip tape down on the base bar, which means he won’t be spending much time down there cuz his hands or gloves would get shredded. The final thing that I love about this, and I would like to finish the video on this, is the size of that chain ring. Now, UAE couldn’t tell me exactly what it is, but it is dinner plate sized, and I’m off to get a pizza of that size. Thank you very much for watching. If you like our Torance content, then make sure that you do subscribe cuz it does help us to make it. Remember to like this video and if you want to see more Torance content, there will be a video floating around above me somewhere. Might be up here. Who knows? Time for pizza.