Bike Upgrades From The Tour de France We’d Actually Buy…

The Tour de France tech that we’d actually buy. The 2025 Tour de France is full of some of the best road bikes, carbon fibre bike wheels and road bike upgrades in the world but it’s also got plenty of road bike equipment that’s only being used because of sponsorships…

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Here’s our picks of the road bike, road bike wheels and road bike upgrades that pro cyclists like Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard use that we’d actually spend our own money on from the 2025 Tour de France, let us know any that we’ve missed in the comments below!

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The Tour to France is absolutely filled to the brim with very cool but very expensive tech. There’s also a lot of kit out there that teams are definitely only using because they’re getting paid to do so. So, after a few days scouring the team setups, here’s seven tour of France products that I’d actually spend my own money on. When it comes to bikes, there’s some absolute stunners in the World Tour Pelaton, but for my riding, I think I’d have to choose an allrounder bike rather than one of the pure climbing or a steeds. Having used bikes such as the S Works Tarmac SL8 and the Trekone, you might think that I’d go for one of those, but when you take value for money into account, I think I’d have to go for ine cube C68X Lightning Air. That is a bit of a mouthful, isn’t it? There’s just too many words in that sentence. It is a brilliant bike and it’s almost half the price of some of its World Tour competition. For example, this Dura Ace build with Newman carbon spoke wheels and a very similar setup to the ones being used by the pros has an RRP of £7,499 or $8,500. That makes it the cheapest bike in the Pro Pelaton. I’ve used one and it is very good and it can also be built up easily under the 6.8 kilo UCI weight limit. However, I’m a bit of a bike nerd and so I probably wouldn’t keep the wheels that come on the bike on the bike and instead try and make it my own by switching out the wheel sets. So, which wheels from the Tour of France Pelaton would I go for? Well, probably none of them to be honest, but I have sat down and kicked some ideas around with Andy, Cycling Weekly’s tech editor, and we’ve come up with some sort of conclusions. We were in agreement that when spending our own money, we want something around 50 mil deep, fairly wide, and preferably with hooked rims. That discounts quite a lot of the options, especially as we then decided that for UK riding, we’d probably forgo carbon spokes due to their increased price for only a small weight advantage. The only wheel set that we could agree on that weren’t ridiculous money are the reserves that are dawn team Vizma Lisa bike steeds. The 5263 wheel set can be speced with multiple sets of DT Swiss hubs. we’d probably go for the 240 option for the best mix of reliability, weight, and price. And yes, the team do use those, not just the 180s. We found them to be properly stable, and at £1,999, they’re about half the price of Pagatcha’s new Envys. Not everything that the Pros use is financially out of reach, and one of the products that I absolutely swear by features on many of the team’s bikes. These Superleggera bottle cages have an RRP of $23.99 and in my opinion outperform most of the much more expensive options. We’ll pop the link to some deals on all of the products featured here down in the description below. And make sure you’re subscribed to the channel if you want to see lots more of the latest bike tech. It also helps get me out to the tour of France. So, please do. There is loads of nice tires being used here at the 2025 Tour to France. There’s the new 30 mil only Continental archetype. There’s Hutchinson’s Blackbirds and even funky arrow tires. The pick of the bunch for me though is probably the Pirelli PZ race TLR RS pictured here on Matio Vanderpole’s Canyon Aero CFR. For me, they just narrowly edge out Continental’s GP5000 STRs and Victoria Courses because despite their name, they’re actually slightly harder wearing than many of the tires here at the tour thanks to a slightly deeper tread. And trust me, if I’m spending to France level money on tires, I want them to last more than a,000K. When thinking of which to France helmet I’d buy with my own money, it was probably the easiest decision of the lot. I like the look of plenty of helmets. The Uvex lid on Binium GMI is tempting, as is the Specialized Evade 3, but only one helmet makes commercial sense to me. The Van Rezel RCRF. This is a helmet being raced at the highest level, being worn by some of the world’s fastest, and yet it costs a third of the price of nearly everything else at the Tour to France. It’s also received some great reviews, so it’s pretty easy to recommend. To complete the look, there are a few other things being used in the 2025 Toyota to France, which I’d be tempted to purchase. A set of funky tubeless valves from Mukoff, for example, the same ones that EF Education first use on their Vision wheels. You can get them in all kinds of colors, and I think it’s one of the classier ways of adding a bit of bling to your bike. One product that we would spend our own money on, though, is the Spat over shoes as worn by Matthew Vanderpole. They’re fast, they stay up, and they’re not ludicrously expensive. And in fact, for the aero advantage that they’ll give you, they’re probably one of the better value upgrades that you can make to your bike and clothing as a whole. When it comes to most bike components, I’d usually recommend not going for Shimano’s top tier option, Durace, for the simple reason that it rarely offers much more than a few gram saving for quite a lot more money over the Altegra or, for example, 105D2. Don’t get me wrong, Shimano’s Durase pedals don’t come cheap, but it is actually something that I would spend my money on. Maybe. You see, Durase pedals do actually have some advantages over the lower tier options. They’ve got a really low stack height. They’ve got a really low weight. They last for ages and have an additional set of needle bearings when compared to the Altegra ones. For once, this isn’t just a few expensive materials with no noticeable gain. If I had to choose one set of pedals from the Tour to France, then it would undoubtedly be these. So, if you want the ultimate pedals for your bike, then this prolevel option is well worth a look. Let us know if there’s any that you think we’ve missed in the comments below. As always, make sure you subscribe to the channel for lots more bike tech and taller France stuff, and check out some deals in the description below.